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The earliest European Acheulean: new insights into the large shaped tools from the late Early Pleistocene site of Barranc de la Boella (Tarragona

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    Identificador:  imarina:9321999
    Autores:  Olle, Andreu; Lombao, Diego; Asryan, Lena; Garcia-Medrano, Paula; Arroyo, Adrian; Fernandez-Marchena, Juan Luis; Yesilova, Görkem C; Caceres, Isabel; Huguet, Rosa; Lopez-Polin, Lucia; Pineda, Antonio; Garcia-Tabernero, Antonio; Fidalgo, Dario; Rosas, Antonio; Saladie, Palmira; Vallverdu, Josep
    Resumen:
    Since the oldest known Acheulean lithic techno-typological features in Europe were reported at the site of Barranc de la Boella (Tarragona, Spain), continuous fieldwork has been conducted there in archeological deposits of the late Early Pleistocene age (0.99-0.78 Ma). As a result, excavations in two of the three open-air localities have significantly expanded the collection of lithic and faunal remains, allowing us to make progress in the interpretation of the hominin behaviors in an open-air fluvial-deltaic sedimentary environment. This includes examples of cumulative palimpsests, such as those found at the locality of La Mina, in which hominins only had a minimal role as modifying agents, as well as the extraordinary mammoth butchery site recorded at the Pit 1 locality. The aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive update of the collection of large shaped tools and to assess its significance in the framework of the earliest occurrence of the Acheulean in Europe. This cultural entity is increasingly well-documented for the early Middle Pleistocene, but very little is known about its presence in Europe before the Brunhes-Matuyama boundary. Large shaped tools appear in the three localities explored in the Unit II of Barranc de la Boella, including choppers (unifacial and bifacial) and standard Acheulean forms, such as picks, knives, and cleaver-like forms. Techno-typological and morphometrical analyses revealed a basic heavy-duty component obtained through simple shaping sequences coupled with significantly more elaborate tools produced on various large blanks (cobbles, slabs, or flakes). The complete bifacial and bilateral shapings have yet to be documented, but the present specific tool assemblage attests to the Early Acheulean technological threshold. Hence, the archaeological data from Barranc de la Boella provide insights into the first appearance of the Acheulean technology in Europe and add critical information to the debate on the technological variability of the Early Pleistocene hominin occupation of the continent. The results of this study revealed a technological assemblage unique in the known late Early Pleistocene archeological record from Europe, different from the rest of ancient Acheulean sites in this continent, which are dated at the Middle Pleistocene. This lends support to the hypothesis that Barranc de la Boella may represent a previously unrecognized Early Acheulean dispersion out of Africa connected to its first evidence at the gates of Eurasia, potentially moving over the northern Mediterranean coastal road to reach Western Europe.
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    Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2023.1188663/full
    Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Olle, Andreu; Lombao, Diego; Asryan, Lena; Garcia-Medrano, Paula; Arroyo, Adrian; Fernandez-Marchena, Juan Luis; Yesilova, Görkem C; Caceres, Isabel; (2023). The earliest European Acheulean: new insights into the large shaped tools from the late Early Pleistocene site of Barranc de la Boella (Tarragona, Spain). Frontiers In Earth Science, 11(), 1188663-. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2023.1188663
    Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Frontiers In Earth Science. 11 1188663-
    DOI del artículo: 10.3389/feart.2023.1188663
    Año de publicación de la revista: 2023
    Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Fecha de alta del registro: 2025-03-22
    Autor/es de la URV: Cáceres Cuello de Oro, Isabel / Fernández Sáez, José / Huguet Pàmies, Rosa / Lombao Vázquez, Diego / López-Polin Dolhaberriague, Lucía / Ollé Cañellas, Andreu / Saladié Ballesté, Palmira / Vallverdú Poch, Josep
    Departamento: Història i Història de l'Art
    URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
    Autor según el artículo: Olle, Andreu; Lombao, Diego; Asryan, Lena; Garcia-Medrano, Paula; Arroyo, Adrian; Fernandez-Marchena, Juan Luis; Yesilova, Görkem C; Caceres, Isabel; Huguet, Rosa; Lopez-Polin, Lucia; Pineda, Antonio; Garcia-Tabernero, Antonio; Fidalgo, Dario; Rosas, Antonio; Saladie, Palmira; Vallverdu, Josep
    Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Áreas temáticas: Interdisciplinar, Geosciences, multidisciplinary, Geociências, General earth and planetary sciences, Engenharias iii, Engenharias ii, Engenharias i, Earth and planetary sciences (all), Ciências ambientais, Biodiversidade
    Direcció de correo del autor: jose.fernandezs@urv.cat, josep.vallverdup@urv.cat, lucia.lopezpolin@urv.cat, jose.fernandezs@urv.cat, diego.lombao@estudiants.urv.cat, palmira.saladie@urv.cat, palmira.saladie@urv.cat, rosa.huguet@urv.cat, rosa.huguet@urv.cat, isabel.caceres@urv.cat, andreu.olle@urv.cat, andreu.olle@urv.cat
  • Palabras clave:

    Trihedral pick
    Technological-change
    Predators
    Large shaped tool
    Iberian peninsula
    Evolution
    Early europeans
    Early acheulean
    Dispersals
    Danjiangkou reservoir region
    Basin
    Barranc de la boella
    Atapuerca
    Assemblages
    Archaeology
    Geosciences
    Multidisciplinary
    Interdisciplinar
    Geociências
    General earth and planetary sciences
    Engenharias iii
    Engenharias ii
    Engenharias i
    Earth and planetary sciences (all)
    Ciências ambientais
    Biodiversidade
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