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dc.contributor.authorHerrejón Lagunilla, Ángela 
dc.contributor.authorVillalaín Santamaria, Juan José 
dc.contributor.authorPavón Carrasco, Francisco Javier
dc.contributor.authorSerrano Sánchez-Bravo, Mario
dc.contributor.authorSossa-Ríos, Santiago
dc.contributor.authorMayor, Alejandro
dc.contributor.authorGalván, Bertila
dc.contributor.authorHernández, Cristo Manuel
dc.contributor.authorMallol, Carolina
dc.contributor.authorCarrancho Alonso, Ángel 
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-05T10:09:45Z
dc.date.available2025-02-05T10:09:45Z
dc.date.issued2024-06
dc.identifier.issn0028-0836
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10259/10172
dc.description.abstractResolving the timescale of human activity in the Palaeolithic Age is one of the most challenging problems in prehistoric archaeology. The duration and frequency of hunter-gatherer camps reflect key aspects of social life and human–environment interactions. However, the time dimension of Palaeolithic contexts is generally inaccurately reconstructed because of the limitations of dating techniques1, the impact of disturbing agents on sedimentary deposits2 and the palimpsest effect3,4. Here we report high-resolution time differences between six Middle Palaeolithic hearths from El Salt Unit x (Spain) obtained through archaeomagnetic and archaeostratigraphic analyses. The set of hearths covers at least around 200–240 years with 99% probability, having decade- and century-long intervals between the different hearths. Our results provide a quantitative estimate of the time framework for the human occupation events included in the studied sequence. This is a step forward in Palaeolithic archaeology, a discipline in which human behaviour is usually approached from a temporal scale typical of geological processes, whereas significant change may happen at the smaller scales of human generations. Here we reach a timescale close to a human lifespan.en
dc.description.sponsorshipWe thank J. A. Espinosa for his help during the first sampling season in 2014 and everyone who participated in the excavation seasons. Thanks also to A. Dinckal for his advice. A.H.-L. thanks the Junta de Castilla y León and the European Regional Development Fund (postdoctoral contract project BU037P23), the Spanish Ministry of University and European Union-NextGenerationEU (Margarita Salas grants 2022–2024) and Junta de Castilla y León and European Social Fund, (predoctoral contracts’ programme—ORDEN EDU/310/2015, de 10 de abril; 2015–2019) for financial support. S.S.-R. is grateful for the support of a Generalitat Valenciana predoctoral contract (ACIF/2021/407 2021–2025). A.M. is thankful for a Universitat d’Alacant predoctoral contract (UAFPU2018-049 2019–2022). M.S.S.-B. acknowledges with thanks the support of contract CT36/22-16-UCM-INV (European Union-Next Generation EU). The support of the projects HAR2015-68321-P and CGL2016-77560-C2 (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and European Regional Development Fund), BU235P18 (Junta de Castilla y León and European Regional Development Fund), BU037P23 (Junta de Castilla y León and the European Regional Development Fund), PID2019-107113RB-I00, PID2019-105796GB-I00, PID2019-108753GB-C21 and PID2020-113316GB-I00 (Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Spain; AEI /10.13039/501100011033), PALEOCHAR–648871 (ERC Consolidator Grant) and Neandertal Fire Technology Project (The Leakey Foundation, Neandertal Fire Technology Project) is also appreciated. We also thank Museu Arqueòlogic Municipal Camil Visedo Moltó, Ajuntament d’Alcoi, Direcció General de Patrimoni de la Generalitat Valenciana.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherNature Researches
dc.relation.ispartofNature. 2024, V. 630, p. 666–670es
dc.subject.otherArqueologíaes
dc.subject.otherArchaeologyen
dc.subject.otherPrehistoriaes
dc.subject.otherPrehistoric peoplesen
dc.subject.otherPaleomagnetismoes
dc.subject.otherPaleomagnetismen
dc.titleThe time between Palaeolithic hearthsen
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07467-0es
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41586-024-07467-0
dc.identifier.essn1476-4687
dc.journal.titleNatureen
dc.volume.number630es
dc.issue.number8017es
dc.page.initial666es
dc.page.final670es
dc.type.hasVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersiones


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