Early human occupation of Iberia: The chronological and palaeoclimatic inferences from Vallparadís (Barcelona, Spain)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 85, Issue , 2014, Pages 136-146

  Martínez, Kenneth ^a,b   Garcia, Joan ^a,b,c   Burjachs, Francesc ^a,b   Yll, Riker ^a,b   Carbonell, Eudald ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Human occupation; Iberomys huescarensis; Late Early Pleistocene; Mimomys savini; Vallparad s

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY;

CHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS; EARLY PLEISTOCENE; HUMAN OCCUPATION; IBEROMYS HUESCARENSIS; MATUYAMA-BRUNHES BOUNDARIES; MIMOMYS SAVINI; STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOCHRONOLOGY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SPAIN;

EID: 84891458534     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.12.002     Document Type: Article

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