Artículos (Prehistoria y Arqueología)

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Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene climate history in the Guadix-Baza Basin, and the environmental conditions of early Homo dispersal in Europe
(Elsevier Science, 2021) Saarinen, Juha; Oksanen, Otto; Žliobaitė, Indrė; Fortelius, Mikael; DeMiguel, Daniel; Azanza, Beatriz; Bocherens, Hervé; Luzón, Carmen; Solano García, José Antonio; Courtenay, Lloyd A.; Blain, Hugues-Alexandre; Sánchez-Bandera, Christian; Serrano-Ramos, Alexia; Rodríguez-Alba, Juan José; Viranta, Suvi; Barsky, Deborah; Tallavaara, Miikka; Oms, Oriol; Agustí, Jordi; Ochando, Juan; Carrión, José S.; Jiménez-Arenas, Juan Manuel; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología; Junta de Andalucía; Academy of Finland; European Commission (EC). Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER); Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICIN). España; Fundación Séneca; Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO). España; Generalitat de Catalunya
The Guadix-Baza Basin (GBB) in Andalucía, Spain, comprises palaeontological and archaeological sites dating from the Early Pliocene to the Middle Pleistocene, including some of the earliest sites with evidence for the presence of early humans (Homo sp.) in Europe. Thus, the history of climate and environments in this basin contributes significantly to our understanding of the conditions under which early humans spread into Europe during the Early Pleistocene. Here we present estimates of precipitation and primary productivity in the GBB from the Pliocene to the Middle Pleistocene based on dental ecometrics in fossil communities of large herbivorous mammals, and perform an ecometrics-based distribution modelling to analyse the environmental conditions of Early and Middle Pleistocene human sites in Europe. Our results show that Early Pleistocene humans generally occupied on average relatively diverse habitats with ecotones, such as woodlands and savannas, but avoided very open and harsh (cool or dry) environments. During the Middle Pleistocene in Europe, humans occupied a comparatively much broader range of environments than during the Early Pleistocene, but were on average more concentrated in environments where the dental ecometric of mammals indicate wooded palaeoenvironments. In the earliest human occupation sites of the GBB, Barranco Leon and Fuente Nueva 3, the mean annual precipitation and net primary production estimates indicate climatic conditions close to modern Mediterranean sclerophyllous woodland environments, but with slightly higher primary productivity, basin indicating some similarity with East African woodlands. On the other hand, the environments did not resemble African grassland savannas. The browse-dominated diets of ungulates from Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 further suggest palaeoenvironments where grasses were a minor component of the vegetation. In the slightly older site of Venta Micena that has no evidence for the presence of hominins, dental ecometric estimates indicate climate and environments similar to Mediterranean “forest steppe” environments existing in the surroundings of Baza today. Grasses were prevalent in the diet of some taxa, especially equids, in Venta Micena, but most of the species show browse-dominated diets even there.
Taphonomic and spatial analyses from the Early Pleistocene site of Venta Micena 4 (Orce, Guadix‑Baza Basin, southern Spain)
(NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2021) Luzón González, Carmen; Yravedra Sainz de los Terreros, José; Courtenay, Lloyd A.; Saarinen, Juha; Blain, Hugues‑Alexandre; DeMiguel, Daniel; Viranta, Suvi; Azanza, Beatriz; Rodríguez-Alba, Juan José; Herranz Rodrigo, Darío; Serrano Ramos, Alexia; Solano García, José Antonio; Oms, Oriol; Agustí, Jordi; Fortelius, Mikael; Jiménez Arenas, Juan Manuel; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología
Venta Micena is an area containing several palaeontological sites marking the beginning of the Calabrian stage (Early Pleistocene). The richness of the fossil accumulation including species of Asian, African and European origin, makes Venta Micena a key site for the the palaeoecological and palaeoenvironmental study of southern Europe during the Early Pleistocene. Thus, research has been focused on Venta Micena 3, which was originally interpreted as a single palaeosurface associated with a marshy context, in which most of the fauna was accumulated by Pachycrocuta brevirostris. Recent excavations have unearthed a new site, Venta Micena 4, located in the same stratigraphic unit (Unit C) and in close proximity to Venta Micena 3. Here we show the first analyses regarding the taphonomic and spatial nature of this new site, defining two stratigraphic boundaries corresponding to two different depositional events. Furthermore, the taphonomic analyses of fossil remains seem to indicate a different accumulative agent than Pachycrocuta, thus adding more complexity to the palaeobiological interpretation of the Venta Micena area. These results contribute to the discussion of traditional interpretations made from Venta Micena 3
Use of meat resources in the Early Pleistocene assemblages from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain)
(Springer, 2021) Yravedra, José; Solano García, José Antonio; Courtenay, Lloyd A.; Saarinen, Juha; Linares-Matás, Gonzalo; Luzón, Carmen; Serrano-Ramos, Alexia; Herranz-Rodrigo, Darío; Cámara, José Miguel; Ruiz, Auxiliadora; Titton, Stefania; Rodríguez-Alba, Juan José; Mielgo, Clara; Blain, Hugues-Alexandre; Agustí, Jordi; Sánchez-Bandera, Christian; Montilla, Eva; Toro-Moyano, Isidro; Fortelius, Mikael; Oms, Oriol; Barsky, Deborah; Jiménez-Arenas, Juan Manuel; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología; Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades; Ministerio de Ciencia e Inovación
Over the last few decades, several types of evidence such as presence of hominin remains, lithic assemblages, and bones with anthropogenic surface modifcations have demonstrated that early human communities inhabited the European sub continent prior to the Jaramillo Subchron (1.07–0.98 Ma). While most studies have focused primarily on early European lithic technologies and raw material management, relatively little is known about food procurement strategies. While there is some evidence showing access to meat and other animal-based food resources, their mode of acquisition and associated butchery processes are still poorly understood. This paper presents a taphonomic and zooarchaeological analysis of the Fuente Nueva-3 (FN3) (Guadix-Baza, Spain) faunal assemblage, providing a more in-depth understanding of early hominin subsistence strategies in Europe. The present results show that hominins had access to the meat and marrow of a wide range of animal taxa, including elephants, hippopotami, and small- and medium-sized animals. At the same time, evidence of carnivore activity at the site suggests that these communities likely faced some degree of competition from large predators when acquiring and processing carcasses.

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