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T1 Age and date for early arrival of the Acheulian in Europe (Barranc de la Boella, la Canonja, Spain)
A1 Vallverdú, Josep
A1 Saladie, Palmira .
A1 Rosas, Antonio .
A1 Huguet, Rosa .
A1 Cáceres, Isabel .
A1 Mosquera, Marina .
A1 Garcia Tabernero, Antonio
A1 Estalrrich, Almudena
A1 Lozano Fernández, Iván
A1 Pineda Alcalá, Antonio .
A1 Carrancho Alonso, Ángel
A1 Villalaín Santamaria, Juan José
A1 Bourlès, Didier .
A1 Braucher, Régis .
A1 Lebatard, Anne
A1 Vilalta, Jaume
A1 Esteban Nadal, Montserrat
A1 Lluc Bennàsar, Maria
A1 Bastir, Marcus
A1 López Polín, Lucía
A1 Ollé, Andreu .
A1 Vergés, Josep Maria .
A1 Ros Montoya, Sergio
A1 Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido
A1 García, Ana
A1 Martinell, Jordi
A1 Expósito, Isabel .
A1 Burjachs, Francesc .
A1 Agustí, Jordi
A1 Carbonell, Eudald
K1 Paleontología
K1 Paleontology
AB The first arrivals of hominin populations into Eurasia during the Early Pleistocene are currently considered to have occurredas short and poorly dated biological dispersions. Questions as to the tempo and mode of these early prehistoric settlementshave given rise to debates concerning the taxonomic significance of the lithic assemblages, as trace fossils, and thegeographical distribution of the technological traditions found in the Lower Palaeolithic record. Here, we report on theBarranc de la Boella site which has yielded a lithic assemblage dating to ,1 million years ago that includes large cuttingtools (LCT). We argue that distinct technological traditions coexisted in the Iberian archaeological repertoires of the lateEarly Pleistocene age in a similar way to the earliest sub-Saharan African artefact assemblages. These differences betweenstone tool assemblages may be attributed to the different chronologies of hominin dispersal events. The archaeologicalrecord of Barranc de la Boella completes the geographical distribution of LCT assemblages across southern Eurasia duringthe EMPT (Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition, circa 942 to 641 kyr). Up to now, chronology of the earliest European LCTassemblages is based on the abundant Palaeolithic record found in terrace river sequences which have been dated to theend of the EMPT and later. However, the findings at Barranc de la Boella suggest that early LCT lithic assemblages appearedin the SW of Europe during earlier hominin dispersal episodes before the definitive colonization of temperate Eurasia tookplace.
PB Public Library of Science
SN 1932-6203
YR 2014
FD 2014-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4241
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4241
LA eng
NO The research at Barranc de la Boella has been carried out with the financial support of the Spanish Ministerio de Economı´a y Competitividad (CGL2012-36682; CGL2012-38358, CGL2012-38434-C03-03 and CGL2010-15326; MICINN project HAR2009-7223/HIST), Generalitat de Catalunya, AGAUR agence (projects2014SGR-901; 2014SGR-899; 2009SGR-324, 2009PBR-0033 and 2009SGR-188) and Junta de Castilla y Leo´n BU1004A09. Financial support for Barranc de la Boellafield work and archaeological excavations is provided by the Ajuntament de la Canonja and Departament de Cultura (Servei d’Arqueologia i Paleontologia) de laGeneralitat de Catalunya. A. Carrancho’s research was funded by the International Excellence Programme, Reinforcement subprogramme of the Spanish Ministryof Education. I. Lozano-Ferna´ndez acknowledges the pre-doctoral grant from the Fundacio´n Atapuerca. The funders had no role in study design, data collectionand analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 18-abr-2024