A revised, Last Interglacial chronology for the Middle Palaeolithic sequence of Gruta da Oliveira (Almonda karst system, Torres Novas, Portugal)

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Zilhao, Joao^1,2,3  Angelucci, Diego E.^3,4  Arnold, Lee J.^5,6  Demuro, Martina^5,6  Hoffmann, Dirk L.^7,8  Pike, Alistair W. G.⁹ 

[1] Inst Catalana Recerca & Estudis Avancats ICREA, Passeig Lluis Co 23, Barcelona 08010, Spain

[2] Univ Barcelona, Fac Geog & Hist, Dept Hist & Arqueol, C Montalegre 6, Barcelona 08001, Spain

[3] Univ Lisbon, UNIARQ Ctr Arqueol, Fac Letras Lisboa, Alameda Univ, P-1600214 Lisbon, Portugal

[4] Univ Trento, Dipartimento Lettere & Filosofia, Via Tommaso Gar 14, I-38122 Trento, Italy

[5] Univ Adelaide, Inst Environm, Dept Earth Sci, Sch Phys Sci, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

[6] Univ Adelaide, Inst Photon & Adv Sensing IPAS, Dept Earth Sci, Sch Phys Sci, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

[7] Univ Gottingen, Isotope Geol Div, Geosci Ctr, Goldschmidtstr 3, D-37077 Gottingen, Germany

[8] Max Planck Inst Evolutionary Anthropol, Deutsch Pl 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany

[9] Univ Southampton, Dept Archaeol, Ave Campus,Highfield Rd, Southampton SO17 1BF, Hants, England

关键词: Pleistocene;    Palaeogeography;    Western Europe;    Optically stimulated luminescence dating;    Radiocarbon;    Speleothems;    U-series;    Neandertals;    Middle Palaeolithic;    Vasconian;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106885

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Based on previous radiocarbon and U-series (Diffusion/Adsorption) dating of bone samples, the Middle Palaeolithic has been thought to persist at Gruta da Oliveira until-37 thousand years (ka) ago. New U series ages for stratigraphically constraining speleothems, coupled with new luminescence ages for sediment infill, show that the site's-6 m-thick archaeological stratigraphy dates entirely within a < 30 ka interval spanning substages 5a-5b of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5. Significant technological change is observed across the sequence, akin to that seen in the Upper Palaeolithic over similar timescales. Flake cleavers and bifaces, normatively definitional of the Vasconian facies, are restricted to a short interval correlated with Greenland Stadial (GS) 22, 85.1-87.6 ka ago. In cave and rock-shelter sites of southern and western Iberia, intact archaeological deposits securely dated to the-37-42 ka interval remain elusive. Geological dynamics (e.g., erosion, sedimentation hiatuses, palimpsest formation) and human adaptive responses to climate-driven environmental change (e.g., abandonment of now forest-covered low-and mid-altitude karst areas, concentration of settlement in alluvial plains and coastal settings) are possible explanations for this pattern. (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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