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T1 San Quirce (Palencia, Spain): new chronologies for the Lower to Middle Palaeolithic transition of south‐west Europe
A1 Terradillos Bernal, Marcos
A1 Demuro, Martina .
A1 Arnold, Lee J. .
A1 Jordá Pardo, Jesús F.
A1 Clemente Conte, Ignacio
A1 Benito Calvo, Alfonso
A1 Díez Fernández-Lomana, Juan Carlos
K1 Lower to Middle Palaeolithic transition
K1 MIS 8‐7
K1 Open‐air campsite
K1 pIR‐IR dating
K1 TT‐OSL dating
K1 Prehistoria
K1 Prehistoric peoples
K1 Arqueología
K1 Archaeology
K1 Excavaciones arqueológicas
K1 Excavations (Archaeology)
AB San Quirce is an open-air archaeological site situated on a fluvial terrace in the Duero basin (Palencia, northern Iberia). This paper presents new and consistent chronologies obtained for the sedimentary sequence using post-infrared infrared stimulated luminescence (pIR-IR) dating of K-feldspars and single-grain thermally transferred optically stimulated luminescence (TT-OSL) dating of quartz. The new dating results indicate that the sequence is older than ~200 000 years and place San Quirce Level III within marine isotope stages (MIS) 8 and 7, between 274 ± 13 ka and 238 ± 13 ka. The main lithic assemblage at San Quirce comes from Level III. The predominant tool types found in this level are hammerstones, manuports and flakes, with a small proportion of cores and a significant presence of denticulates. Adaptation to local environmental conditions resulted in distinctive cultural habits, which were embedded in the cultural tradition of hominins occupying the site during the final third of the Middle Pleistocene. San Quirce preserves a simple cultural tradition that was employed by local hominins to engage in a diverse array of activities, and highlights the cultural diversity that appears to have been a characteristic feature of the Lower to Middle Palaeolithic transition 300–200 ka.
PB Wiley
SN 0267-8179
YR 2022
FD 2022-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11185
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11185
LA eng
NO This research is part of project Order EDU/940/2009funded by the Castilla y León Regional Education Department. GIRArqueología Prehistórica of Burgos University. M.D. was supported byAustralian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship FT200100816and ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award DE160100743.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 17-abr-2026