dc.contributor.author | Serrano, Enrique | |
dc.contributor.author | Gómez Lende, Manuel | |
dc.contributor.author | González Amuchastegui, María José | |
dc.contributor.author | González-García, María | |
dc.contributor.author | González Trueba, Juan José | |
dc.contributor.author | Pellitero, Ramón | |
dc.contributor.author | Rico Lozano, Ibai | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-09T13:19:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-02-09T13:19:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-10-14 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Quaternary International 364 : 22-34 (2015) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1040-6182 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1873-4553 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/65930 | |
dc.description.abstract | Interest in the evolution of Pleistocene glaciers, environmental change and human occupation in southern
Europe is now growing thanks to the availability of fresh dating in different mountains. The demise of Neanderthals
in the north of the Iberian Peninsula and the expansion of anatomicallymodern humans took place
between 40 and 30 ka (MIS3) under cold and wet climatic conditions. Hypotheses differ regarding the
migration and demise of Neanderthals, relating to environmental, human or cultural factors. The aim of this
study is to establish glacial evolution in the eastern Cantabrian Mountains related to environmental changes
and climatic evolution during theMIS3 and MIS2 and human occupation including the Neanderthals' demise.
The study is based on glaciomorphology by glacial reconstructions, morphostratrigraphic sequences, equilibrium
line altitude estimation, numerical dating (14C, AMS, and OSL), palaeoclimate sequences and human
occupation.
Three glacial stages during MIS3 and MIS2 have been established. S-I took place during MIS3 in a cold
and wet environment associated with snowfall coming from cold, humid masses from the N, NWand SW
and available dates place S-I at 42e31 ka. S-II was characterised by shorter and thicker glaciers, which
point to a cold, dry and more stable climate, and this is coetaneous with the European Last Glacial
Maximum. S-III was a brief period, still poorly dated but attributed to the Late Glacial, characterised by
small glaciers housed at altitude and absent from lower mountains.
A lack of harmony has been detected between environmental cooling and population and this may
have been a response to environmental changes in N and NW Europe. Neanderthals disappeared from
the Cantabrian region at the time of the S-I glacial advance during a cold and wet period at the end of the
MIS3. If they had adapted to environmental changes, including abrupt cold events (H6, H5) with
important environmental consequences, factors other than environmental ones may have been the
cause. The weight of the cultural hypothesis seems more likely in view of the environmental changes,
glacial evolution and the continuity of oceanic climates. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | This study was supported by research funds from R þ D Pro-
gramme of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (project
CGL-2010-19729), and the Spanish Ministry of the Environment
(project OAPN-053/2010 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICIN/CGL-2010-1972 | |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MARM/OAPN-053/201 | |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | glaciations | es_ES |
dc.subject | Late Quaternary | |
dc.subject | MIS3 | |
dc.subject | human occupation | |
dc.subject | Cantabrian Mountains | |
dc.title | Glacial chronology, environmental changes and implications for human occupation during the upper Pleistocene in the eastern Cantabrian Mountains | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | © 2014 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA under CC BY-NC-ND
license | |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618214006910 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.09.039 | |
dc.departamentoes | Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología | |
dc.departamentoeu | Geografia, Historiaurrea eta Arkeologia | |