Deglacial landscapes and the Late Upper Palaeolithic of Switzerland

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Reade, Hazel¹  Tripp, Jennifer A.^1,7  Charlton, Sophy^2,8  Grimm, Sonja B.^1,3  Leesch, Denise⁴  Mueller, Werner⁴  Sayle, Kerry L.⁵  Fensome, Alex¹  Higham, Thomas F. G.⁶  Barnes, Ian²  Stevens, Rhiannon E.¹ 

[1] UCL Inst Archaeol, 31-34 Gordon Sq, London WC1H 0PY, England

[2] Nat Hist Museum, Dept Earth Sci, Cromwell Rd, London SW7 5BD, England

[3] Fdn Schleswig, Ctr Baltic & Scandinavian Archaeol ZBSA, Holsteinian State Museums Schloss Gottorf, Schlossinsel 1, D-24837 Schleswig, Germany

[4] Univ Neuchatel, Lab Archeozool, Ave Bellevaux 51, CH-2000 Neuchatel, Switzerland

[5] Scottish Univ Environm Res Ctr, Rankine Ave, E Kilbride G75 0QF, Lanark, Scotland

[6] Univ Oxford, Res Lab Archaeol & Hist Art, Dyson Perrins Bldg,South Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3QY, England

[7] Univ San Francisco, Dept Chem, 2130 Fulton St, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA

[8] PalaeoBARN, Sch Archaeol, 1 South Pk Rd, Oxford OX1 3TG, England

关键词: Magdalenian;    Collagen;    Sulphur isotopes;    Nitrogen isotopes;    Carbon isotopes;    Pleistocene;    Palaeogeography;    Europe;    Horse;    Reindeer;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106372

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

The presence of people in Switzerland in recently deglaciated landscapes after the Last Glacial Maximum represents human utilisation of newly available environments. Understanding these landscapes and the resources available to the people who exploited them is key to understanding not only Late Upper Palaeolithic settlement in Switzerland, but more broadly human behavioural ecology in newly inhabited environmental settings. By applying bone collagen stable isotope analysis (delta C-13, delta N-15 and delta S-34) to faunal remains from Late Upper Palaeolithic localities in Switzerland, we investigate animal ecology and environmental conditions during periods of human occupation. High and relatively uniform delta S-34 values indicate that landscapes north of the Jura Mountains provided comparatively stable environmental conditions, while lower and more variable delta S-34 values on the Swiss Plateau suggest a dynamic landscape with diverse hydrological and pedological conditions, potentially linked to regionally different patterns of permafrost thaw. This contrasts with the archaeological record that appears relatively uniform between the two regions, suggesting people were employing similar subsistence behaviours across a range of environmental settings. The pattern of change in delta N-15 across the deglacial period appears consistent between areas that remained ice-free throughout the LGM and those that were glaciated. Most notable is a period of exclusively low delta N-15 values between 15,200 and 14,800 cal. BP, which could relate a regional expansion of floral biomass in response to environmental change. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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