Environmental conditions and geomorphologic changes during the Middle-Upper Paleolithic in the southern Iberian Peninsula

Geomorphology

Volumn 180-181, Issue , 2013, Pages 205-216

  Jiménez Espejo, Francisco J ^a,b   Rodríguez Vidal, Joaquín ^c   Finlayson, Clive ^d,e   Martínez Ruiz, Francisca ^a   Carrión, José S ^f   García Alix, Antonio ^a   Paytan, Adina ^g   Giles Pacheco, Francisco ^d   Fa, Darren A ^d   Finlayson, Geraldine ^d   Cortés Sánchez, Miguel ^h   Rodrigo Gámiz, Marta ^a   González Donoso, José M ⁱ   Linares, M Dolores ⁱ   Cáceres, Luis M ^c   Fernández, Santiago ^f   Iijima, Koichi ^b   Martínez Aguirre, Aranzazu ^h  

^a INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^d Gibraltar Museum   (Gibraltar)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gorham's Cave; Homo neanderthalensis; Homo sapiens; Middle Upper Paleolithic transition; Southern Iberia

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; CAVE SYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HEINRICH EVENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOLITHIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMOTECTONICS; STALACTITE;

GIBRALTAR; GORHAMS CAVE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

HOMO SAPIENS; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS;

EID: 84870242836     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.10.011     Document Type: Article

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