New dates and palaeoenvironmental evidence for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic occupation of Higueral de Valleja Cave, southern Spain

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 9-10, 2009, Pages 830-839

  Jennings, R P ^a   Giles Pacheco, F ^b   Barton, R N E ^a   Collcutt, S N ^c   Gale, R ^d   Gleed Owen, C P ^e   Gutierrez Lopez J M ^f   Higham, T F G ^a   Parker, A ^g   Price, C ^a   Rhodes, E ^h   Santiago Perez A ⁱ   Schwenninger, J L ^a   Turner, E ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Museo Arqueológico de El Puerto de Santa Maria   (Spain)

^c Oxford Archaeological Associates Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^e Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust   (United Kingdom)

^f Museo Histórico Municipal de Villamartín   (Spain)

^g OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Museo Municipal   (Spain)

^j Forschungsbereich Altsteinzeit   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; MAMMALS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; HABITAT TYPES; HUMID ENVIRONMENTS; KEY FACTORS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUMS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MICROTUS; RADIOCARBON DATES; RESEARCH PROGRAMME; SMALL MAMMALS; SOUTHERN SPAIN; TREE COVERS;

CAVES;

CAVE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTINCTION; GRASSLAND; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; SMALL MAMMAL; SURVIVAL;

ANDALUCIA; CADIZ [ANDALUCIA]; EURASIA; EUROPE; HIGUERAL DE VALLEJA CAVE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS DUODECIMCOSTATUS;

EID: 62949127206     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Alexandre A., Vincens A., and Schwartz D. Phytoliths: indicators of grassland dynamics during the late Holocene in intertropical Africa. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 136 (1997) 213-229
2. Arnold E.N., and Ovenden D. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain and Europe (2002), Collins, London
3. Bard E., Rostek F., and Ménot-Combes G. Radiocarbon calibration beyond 20,000 14C yr B.P. by means of planktonic foraminifera of the Iberian Margin. Quaternary Research 61 (2004) 204-214
4. Bard E., Rostek F., and Ménot-Combes G. A better radiocarbon clock. Science 303 (2004) 178-179
5. Barton R.N.E. Mousterian hearths and shellfish: late Neanderthal activities in Gibraltar. In: Stringer C.B., Barton R.N.E., and Finlayson J.C. (Eds). Neanderthals on the Edge: 150th Anniversary Conference of the Forbes' Quarry Discovery, Gibraltar (2000), Oxbow Books, Oxford 211-220
6. Beck J.W., Richards D.A., Edwards R.L., Silverman B.W., Smart P.L., Donahue D.J., Hererra-Osterheld S., Burr G.S., Calsoyas L., Jull A.J.T., and Biddulph D. Extremely large variations of atmospheric 14C concentration during the last glacial period. Science 292 (2001) 2453-2458
7. Bouzouggar A., Barton N., Vanhaeren M., d'Errico F., Collcutt S., Higham T., Hodge E., Parfitt S., Rhodes E.J., Schwenninger J.-L., Stringer C.B., Turner E., Ward S., Moutmir A., and Stambouli A. 82,000-Year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern behaviour. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (2007) 9964-9969
8. Bronk Ramsey C., and Hedges R.E.M. Hybrid ion sources: radiocarbon measurements from microgram to milligram. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 123 (1999) 539-545
9. Bronk Ramsey C., Pettitt P.B., Hedges R.E.M., Hodgins G.W.L., and Owen D.C. Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: archaeometry datelist 30. Archaeometry 42 (2000) 459-479
10. Carrión J.S. Late quaternary pollen sequence from Carihuela Cave, southeastern Spain. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 71 (1992) 37-77
11. Carrión J.S. The use of two pollen records from deep sea cores to frame adaptive evolutionary change for humans: a comment on "Neanderthal extinction and the millennial scale climate variability of OIS 3" by F. d'Errico and M.F. Sánchez Goñi. Quaternary Science Reviews 23 (2004) 1217-1219
12. Coplen T.B. Reporting of stable hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen isotopic abundances. Pure and Applied Chemistry 66 (1994) 273-276
13. Cortés Sánchez M. El tránsito Paleolítico Medio-Superior en la última frontera: Neandertales y humanos modernos en el sur de la Península Ibérica. Pliocénica 3 (2003) 107-116
14. Corbet G., and Ovenden D. The Mammals of Britain and Europe (1980), Collins, London
15. Crespo E.G., and Oliveira M.E. Atlas da distribuição dos anfíbios e répteis de Portugal continental (1989), Serviço Nacional de Parques, Reservas e Conservação da Natureza, Lisbon
16. d'Errico F., and Sánchez Goñi M.F. Neandertal extinction and the millenial scale variability of OIS 3. Quaternary Science Reviews 22 (2003) 769-788
17. Diester-Haas L., Schrader H.J., and Thiede J. Sedimentological and palaeoclimatological investigations of two pelagic ooze cores off Cape Barbas, North-West Africa. Meteor, Forsche-Ergebnisse C 16 (1973) 19-66
18. Finlayson C. Late Pleistocene human occupation of the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Iberian Archaeology 1 (1999) 59-68
19. Finlayson C., Fa D., Finlayson G., Giles Pacheco F., and Rodríguez Vidal J. Did the moderns kill off the Neanderthals? A reply to F. d'Errico and Sánchez Goñi. Quaternary Science Reviews 23 (2004) 1205-1216
20. Finlayson J.C., Giles Pacheco F., Roríguez-Vidal J., Fa D., Gutierrez López J.-M., Santiago Pérez A., Finlayson G., Allue E., Baena Preysler J., Cáceres I., Carrión J., Fernández Jalvo Y., Gleed-Owen C., Jimenez Espejo F., López P., López Sáez J.-A., Riquelme Cantal J.-A., Sánchez Marco A., Giles Guzman F., Brown K., Fuentes N., Valarino C., Villalpando A., Stringer C.B., Martinez Ruiz F., and Sakamoto T. Late survival of Neanderthals at the southernmost extreme of Europe. Nature 443 (2006) 850-853
21. Giles Pacheco F., Gutiérrez López J.M., Santiago Pérez A., and Mata Almonte E. Avance al estudio sobre poblamiento del Paleolítico superior en la cuenca media y alta del Río Guadalete. In: Sanchidrián Torti J.L., and Simón Vallejo M.D. (Eds). Las culturas del Pleistoceno Superior en Andalucía (1998), Patronato de la Cueva de Nerja, Málaga 111-140
22. Gleed-Owen C.P. A preliminary report on the late Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles from Gorham's Cave and Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar. Herpetological Journal 11 (2001) 167-170
23. Hewitt G.M. The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages. Nature 405 (2000) 907-913
24. 14C activity and global carbon cycle changes over the past 50,000 years. Science 303 (2004) 202-207
25. Jennings, R.P., 2006. Neanderthal and Modern Human Occupation Patterns in Southern Iberia during the Late Pleistocene Period. Unpublished D.Phil thesis, University of Oxford.
26. Kitagawa H., and van der Plicht J. Atmospheric radiocarbon calibration to 45,000 yr B.P.: late glacial fluctuations and cosmogenic isotope production. Science 5354 (1998) 1187-1190
27. Madella M., Jones M.K., Goldberg P., Goren Y., and Hovers E. The exploitation of plant resources by Neanderthals in Amud Cave (Israel): the evidence from phytolith studies. Journal of Archaeological Science 29 (2002) 703-719
28. Mellars P. A new radiocarbon revolution and the dispersal of modern humans in Eurasia. Nature 439 (2006) 931-935
29. Mitchell-Jones A.J., Amori G., Bogdanowicz W., Krysufek B., Reijnders P., Spitzenberger F., Stubbe M., Thissen J., Vohralik V., and Zima J. The Atlas of European Mammals (1999), Poyser, London
30. Pons A., and Reille M. The Holocene and upper Pleistocene pollen record from Padul (Granada, Spain): a new study. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 66 (1988) 243-263
31. Stringer C., Pälike H., van Andel T.H., Huntley B., Valdes P., and Allen J.R.M. Climatic stress and the extinction of the Neanderthals. In: van Andel T.H., and Davies W.D. (Eds). Neanderthals and Modern Humans in the European Landscape of the Last Glaciation - Archaeological Results of the Stage 3 Project (2003), The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge
32. Twiss P.C. Grass-opal phytoliths as climatic indicators of the Great Plains Pleistocene. In: Johnson W.C. (Ed). Quaternary Environments in Kansas. Kansas Geological Survey Guidebook vol. 5 (1987) 179-188
33. van der Plicht, J., 2004. Calibration at all ages? In: Higham, T., Bronk Ramsey, C., Owen, C. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium, 14C and Archaeology, 2002, Oxford, Oxbow Books, Oxford.
34. Vega Toscano L.G. El Paleolítico medio del sureste español y Andalucía oriental (1988), Universidad Complutense, Madrid
35. Villaverde V., and Dídac R. Avance al studio de los niveles Gravetienses de la Cova de las Cendres. Resultados de la excavacíon en el contexto delGravetiense Medierráneo Ibérico. Arcivo de Prehistoria Levantina 25 (2004) 19-59
36. Zilhão, J., 2000. The Ebro Frontier: a model for the late extinction of Iberian Neanderthals. In: Stringer, C.B., Barton, R.N.E., Finlayson, J.C. (Eds.), Neanderthals on the Edge. Oxford, Oxbow Books.