Autor según el artículo: Palmqvist, P; Rodriguez-Gomez, G; de Castro, JMB; Garcia-Aguilar, JM; Espigares, MP; Figueirido, B; Ros-Montoya, S; Granados, A; Serrano, FJ; Martinez-Navarro, B; Guerra-Merchan, A
Departamento: Història i Història de l'Art
Autor/es de la URV: Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido
Palabras clave: Western europe Venta-micena orce Subsistence strategies Population size Oldest human fossil Megantereon-whitei broom Lower paleolithic site Lions panthera-leo Fuente nueva-3 orce Fuente nueva 3 Early-middle pleistocene Early human occupation Early homo Chobe national-park Barranco león African wild dogs
Resumen: The chronology and environmental context of the first hominin dispersal in Europe have been subject to debate and controversy. The oldest settlements in Eurasia (e.g., Dmanisi, similar to 1.8 Ma) suggest a scenario in which the Caucasus and southern Asia were occupied similar to 0.4 Ma before the first peopling of Europe. Barranco Leon (BL) and Fuente Nueva 3 (FN3), two Early Pleistocene archeological localities dated to similar to 1.4 Ma in Orce (Guadix-Baza Depression, SE Spain), provide the oldest evidence of hominin presence in Western Europe. At these sites, huge assemblages of large mammals with evidence of butchery and marrow processing have been unearthed associated to abundant Oldowan tools and a deciduous tooth of Homo sp. in the case of BL. Here, we: (i) review the Early Pleistocene archeological sites of Europe; (ii) discuss on the subsistence strategies of these hominins, including new estimates of resource abundance for the populations of Atapuerca and Orce; (iii) use cartographic data of the sedimentary deposits for reconstructing the landscape habitable in Guadix-Baza; and (iv) calculate the size of the hominin population using an estimate of population density based on resource abundance. Our results indicate that Guadix-Baza could be home for a small hominin population of 350-280 individuals. This basin is surrounded by the highest mountainous reliefs of the Alpine-Betic orogen and shows a limited number of connecting corridors with the surrounding areas, which could have limited gene flow with other hominin populations. Isolation would eventually lead to bottlenecks, genetic drift and inbreeding depression, conditions documented in the wild dog population of the basin, which probably compromised the viability of the hominin population in the medium to long term. This explains the discontinuous nature of the archeological record in Guadix-Baza, a situation that can also be extrapolated to the scarcity of hominin settlements for these ancient chronologies in Europe.
Áreas temáticas: Psicología Medicina ii Interdisciplinar Ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics Ecology Ciências agrárias i Biodiversidade Antropologia / arqueologia
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Direcció de correo del autor: bienvenido.martinez@urv.cat
Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-09-07
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Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Frontiers In Ecology And Evolution. 10
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Palmqvist, P; Rodriguez-Gomez, G; de Castro, JMB; Garcia-Aguilar, JM; Espigares, MP; Figueirido, B; Ros-Montoya, S; Granados, A; Serrano, FJ; Martinez (2022). Insights on the Early Pleistocene Hominin Population of the Guadix-Baza Depression (SE Spain) and a Review on the Ecology of the First Peopling of Europe. Frontiers In Ecology And Evolution, 10(), -. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.881651
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2022
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
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