Autor según el artículo: Juan Manuel López-García; Gloria Cuenca-Bescós; Hugues-Alexandre Blain; Juan Rofes; Iván Lozano-Fernández; Julia Galán; Carmen Núnez-Lahuerta

Departamento: Història i Història de l'Art

Autor/es de la URV: LÓPEZ GARCÍA, JUAN MANUEL; Gloria Cuenca-Bescós; Hugues-Alexandre Blain; Juan Rofes; Iván Lozano-Fernández; Julia Galán; Carmen Núnez-Lahuerta

Palabras clave: small mammals Quaternary Atapuerca

Resumen: The Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain) contains the most comprehensive archaeological and paleontological evidence of human evolution in Europe during the Quaternary. The time scale based on the microfossil content of the sedimentary infillings of the caves of Atapuerca has been used to attribute relative ages to the various paleontological and archaeological levels and correlate amongst the different sites. Microfossils are particularly significant as they are the dominant constituents of the caves from the Pleistocene to the Holocene of the Sierra de Atapuerca. The microfossils of the Atapuerca sites are mainly composed of isolated bones and teeth from small vertebrates, and the hard tissue of the vertebrate skeleton can be taxonomically classified. In revisiting the distribution and the classification of the small-mammal taxa along five of the main stratigraphic sequences from Atapuerca (Sima del Elefante, Gran Dolina, Galería-Zarpazos, Sima de los Huesos, and Portalón), we apply a new method, the "Unitary Associations" method, in order to refine the existing biozones, adding five new Faunal Units, and interpret their relative age. Finally, we correlate Atapuerca with other Pleistocene sites of Europe.

Áreas temáticas: History Historia Història

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 1631-0683

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Fecha de alta del registro: 2016-07-29

Página final: 634

Volumen de revista: 15

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631068315002055

DOI del artículo: 10.1016/j.crpv.2015.09.006

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2016

Página inicial: 621

Tipo de publicación: Article Artículo Article