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Age and date for early arrival of the Acheulian in Europe (Barranc de la Boella, la Canonja, Spain)
Vallverdú, Josep
Saladie, Palmira .
Rosas, Antonio .
Huguet, Rosa .
Cáceres, Isabel .
Mosquera, Marina .
Garcia Tabernero, Antonio
Estalrrich, Almudena
Lozano Fernández, Iván
Pineda Alcalá, Antonio .
Carrancho Alonso, Ángel
Villalaín Santamaria, Juan José
Bourlès, Didier .
Braucher, Régis .
Lebatard, Anne
Vilalta, Jaume
Esteban Nadal, Montserrat
Lluc Bennàsar, Maria
Bastir, Marcus
López Polín, Lucía
Ollé, Andreu .
Vergés, Josep Maria .
Ros Montoya, Sergio
Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido
García, Ana
Martinell, Jordi
Expósito, Isabel .
Burjachs, Francesc .
Agustí, Jordi
Carbonell, Eudald
The first arrivals of hominin populations into Eurasia during the Early Pleistocene are currently considered to have occurred
as short and poorly dated biological dispersions. Questions as to the tempo and mode of these early prehistoric settlements
have given rise to debates concerning the taxonomic significance of the lithic assemblages, as trace fossils, and the
geographical distribution of the technological traditions found in the Lower Palaeolithic record. Here, we report on the
Barranc de la Boella site which has yielded a lithic assemblage dating to ,1 million years ago that includes large cutting
tools (LCT). We argue that distinct technological traditions coexisted in the Iberian archaeological repertoires of the late
Early Pleistocene age in a similar way to the earliest sub-Saharan African artefact assemblages. These differences between
stone tool assemblages may be attributed to the different chronologies of hominin dispersal events. The archaeological
record of Barranc de la Boella completes the geographical distribution of LCT assemblages across southern Eurasia during
the EMPT (Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition, circa 942 to 641 kyr). Up to now, chronology of the earliest European LCT
assemblages is based on the abundant Palaeolithic record found in terrace river sequences which have been dated to the
end of the EMPT and later. However, the findings at Barranc de la Boella suggest that early LCT lithic assemblages appeared
in the SW of Europe during earlier hominin dispersal episodes before the definitive colonization of temperate Eurasia took
place.
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2016-09-26
2014-07
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1932-6203
http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4241
10.1371/journal.pone.0103634
eng
PLoS ONE. 2014, V. 9, n. 7, e103634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103634
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