RT Journal Article
T1 Age and Date for Early Arrival of the Acheulian in Europe (Barranc de la Boella, la Canonja, Spain)
A1 Vallverdú, Josep
A1 Saladié, Palmira
A1 Rosas, Antonio
A1 Huguet, Rosa
A1 Cáceres, Isabel
A1 Mosquera, Marina
A1 García-Tabernero, Antonio
A1 Estalrrich, Almudena
A1 Lozano-Fernández, Iván
A1 Pineda-Alcalá, Antonio
A1 Carrancho, Ángel
A1 Villalaín, Juan Jose
A1 Bourlés, Didier
A1 Braucher, Régis
A1 Lebatard, Anne
A1 Vilalta, Jaume
A1 Esteban-Nadal, Montserrat
A1 Lluc-Bennàsar, María
A1 Bastir, Marcus
A1 López-Polin, Lucía
A1 Ollé, Andreu
A1 Vergés, Jose 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 Arqueología - Barranc de la Boella
AB 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.
PB Public Library of Science (PLOS)
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33498
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33498
LA eng
NO Vallverdu´ J, Saladie´ P, Rosas A, Huguet R, Ca´ceres I, et al. (2014) Age and Date for Early Arrival of the Acheulian in Europe (Barranc de la Boella, la Canonja, Spain). PLoS ONE 9(7): e103634.
NO Financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de Espanña (CGL2012- 36682; CGL2012-38358, CGL2012-38434-C03-03 y CGL2010-15326; Proyecto MICINN HAR2009-7223/HIST), Generalitat de Catalunya, AGAUR agence (proyectos 2014SGR-901; 2014SGR-899; 2009SGR-324, 2009PBR-0033 y 2009SGR-188) y Junta de Castilla y León BU1004A09.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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