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Discontinuity of human presence at Atapuerca during the early Middle Pleistocene: A matter of ecological competition?

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    Identifier:  imarina:5128056
    Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina5128056
    Authors:  Rodriguez-Gomez, Guillermo; Mateos, Ana; Angel Martin-Gonzalez, Jesus; Blasco, Ruth; Rosell, Jordi; Rodriguez, Jesus
    Abstract:
    Increasing evidence suggests that the European human settlement is older than 1.2 Ma. However, there is a fierce debate about the continuity or discontinuity of the early human settlement of Europe. In particular, evidence of human presence in the interval 0.7-0.5 Ma is scarce in comparison with evidence for the previous and later periods. Here, we present a case study in which the environmental conditions at Sierra de Atapuerca in the early Middle Pleistocene, a period without evidence of human presence, are compared with the conditions in the previous period, for which a relatively intense human occupation is documented. With this objective in mind, the available resources for a human population and the intensity of competition between secondary consumers during the two periods are compared using a mathematical model. The Gran Dolina site TD8 level, dated to 0.7-0.6 Ma, is taken as representative of the period during which Atapuerca was apparently not occupied by humans. Conditions at TD8 are compared with those of the previous period, represented by the TD6-2 level, which has yielded abundant evidence of intense human occupation. The results show that survival opportunities for a hypothetical human population were lower at TD8 than they were at TD6-2. Increased resource competition between secondary consumers arises as a possible explanation for the absence of human occupation at Atapuerca in the early Middle Pleistocene

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    Link to the original source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0101938
    APA: Rodriguez-Gomez, Guillermo; Mateos, Ana; Angel Martin-Gonzalez, Jesus; Blasco, Ruth; Rosell, Jordi; Rodriguez, Jesus (2014). Discontinuity of human presence at Atapuerca during the early Middle Pleistocene: A matter of ecological competition?. Plos One, 9(7), e101938-. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101938
    Paper original source: Plos One. 9 (7): e101938-
    Article's DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101938
    Journal publication year: 2014
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Paper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Record's date: 2025-02-08
    URV's Author/s: Rosell Ardévol, Jordi
    Department: Història i Història de l'Art
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
    ISSN: 19326203
    Author, as appears in the article.: Rodriguez-Gomez, Guillermo; Mateos, Ana; Angel Martin-Gonzalez, Jesus; Blasco, Ruth; Rosell, Jordi; Rodriguez, Jesus
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Thematic Areas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros, Sociology, Sociología, Serviço social, Saúde coletiva, Química, Psychology, Psicología, Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia, Odontología, Nutrição, Multidisciplinary sciences, Multidisciplinary, Medicine (miscellaneous), Medicina veterinaria, Medicina iii, Medicina ii, Medicina i, Materiais, Matemática / probabilidade e estatística, Linguística e literatura, Letras / linguística, Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences, Interdisciplinar, Human geography and urban studies, History & philosophy of science, Historia, Geografía, Geociências, General medicine, General biochemistry,genetics and molecular biology, General agricultural and biological sciences, Farmacia, Environmental studies, Ensino, Engenharias iv, Engenharias iii, Engenharias ii, Engenharias i, Enfermagem, Educação física, Educação, Economia, Direito, Demography, Comunicação e informação, Ciências sociais aplicadas i, Ciências biológicas iii, Ciências biológicas ii, Ciências biológicas i, Ciências ambientais, Ciências agrárias i, Ciência política e relações internacionais, Ciência de alimentos, Ciência da computação, Biotecnología, Biology, Biodiversidade, Biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (miscellaneous), Astronomia / física, Arquitetura, urbanismo e design, Archaeology, Antropologia / arqueologia, Anthropology, Agricultural and biological sciences (miscellaneous), Administração, ciências contábeis e turismo, Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo
    Author's mail: jordi.rosell@urv.cat

  • Keywords:

    Time factors
    Population dynamics
    Models
    theoretical
    Humans
    Hominidae
    Fossils
    Food
    Europe
    Ecosystem
    Ecological and environmental phenomena
    Consumer
    Competitive behavior
    Competition
    Comparative study
    Community ecology
    Biomass
    Animals
    Algorithms
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Miscellaneous)
    Biochemistry
    Genetics and Molecular Biology (Miscellaneous)
    Biology
    Medicine (Miscellaneous)
    Multidisciplinary
    Multidisciplinary Sciences
    Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros
    Sociology
    Sociología
    Serviço social
    Saúde coletiva
    Química
    Psychology
    Psicología
    Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia
    Odontología
    Nutrição
    Medicina veterinaria
    Medicina iii
    Medicina ii
    Medicina i
    Materiais
    Matemática / probabilidade e estatística
    Linguística e literatura
    Letras / linguística
    Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences
    Interdisciplinar
    Human geography and urban studies
    History & philosophy of science
    Historia
    Geografía
    Geociências
    General medicine
    General biochemistry
    genetics and molecular biology
    General agricultural and biological sciences
    Farmacia
    Environmental studies
    Ensino
    Engenharias iv
    Engenharias iii
    Engenharias ii
    Engenharias i
    Enfermagem
    Educação física
    Educação
    Economia
    Direito
    Demography
    Comunicação e informação
    Ciências sociais aplicadas i
    Ciências biológicas iii
    Ciências biológicas ii
    Ciências biológicas i
    Ciências ambientais
    Ciências agrárias i
    Ciência política e relações internacionais
    Ciência de alimentos
    Ciência da computação
    Biotecnología
    Biodiversidade
    Astronomia / física
    Arquitetura
    urbanismo e design
    Archaeology
    Antropologia / arqueologia
    Anthropology
    Administração
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