Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia

Published:2024-06-28 Issue:26 Volume:10 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
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Author:

Sala Nohemi¹²^ORCID,Alcaraz-Castaño Manuel³^ORCID,Arriolabengoa Martin⁴^ORCID,Martínez-Pillado Virginia¹²^ORCID,Pantoja-Pérez Ana¹²,Rodríguez-Hidalgo Antonio⁵⁶^ORCID,Téllez Edgar¹^ORCID,Cubas Miriam³^ORCID,Castillo Samuel³^ORCID,Arnold Lee J.⁷^ORCID,Demuro Martina⁷^ORCID,Duval Mathieu¹⁸⁹^ORCID,Arteaga-Brieba Andion⁶^ORCID,Llamazares Javier¹^ORCID,Ochando Juan¹⁰¹¹,Cuenca-Bescós Gloria¹²^ORCID,Marín-Arroyo Ana B.¹³^ORCID,Seijo María Martín¹⁴^ORCID,Luque Luis³^ORCID,Alonso-Llamazares Carmen¹⁵,Arlegi Mikel¹⁶^ORCID,Rodríguez-Almagro Manuel¹^ORCID,Calvo-Simal Cecilia¹,Izquierdo Beatriz¹⁷,Cuartero Felipe³,Torres-Iglesias Leire¹³^ORCID,Agudo-Pérez Lucía¹³^ORCID,Arribas Alfonso¹⁸^ORCID,Carrión José S.¹⁰,Magri Donatella¹¹^ORCID,Zhao J.-X.¹⁹^ORCID,Pablos Adrián¹²²⁰²¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Centro Nacional de Investigación Sobre Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain.

2. Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, Madrid, Spain.

3. Área de Prehistoria, Departamento de Historia y Filosofía, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.

4. Departamento de Geología, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain.

5. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Arqueología-Mérida (CSIC-Junta de Extremadura), Mérida, Spain.

6. Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona, Spain.

7. School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Environment Institute, and Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS), University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

8. Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

9. Palaeoscience Laboratories, Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

10. Department of Plant Biology (Botany Area), Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.

11. Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

12. Aragosaurus-IUCA-Departamento Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.

13. Grupo de I+D+i EVOADAPTA (Evolución Humana y Adaptaciones Durante la Prehistoria), Departamento de Ciencias Históricas, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.

14. Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (INCIPIT), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

15. Departamento de Biología Animal, Ecología, Parasitología, Edafología y Química Agrícola, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.

16. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK.

17. Paseo de la Estación, 26. Getafe, Madrid, Spain.

18. Estación Paleontológica Valle del río Fardes, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME), Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain.

19. Radiogenic Isotope Facility, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.

20. Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

21. Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.

Abstract

The Iberian Peninsula is a key region for unraveling human settlement histories of Eurasia during the period spanning the decline of Neandertals and the emergence of anatomically modern humans (AMH). There is no evidence of human occupation in central Iberia after the disappearance of Neandertals ~42,000 years ago until approximately 26,000 years ago, rendering the region “nobody’s land” during the Aurignacian period. The Abrigo de la Malia provides irrefutable evidence of human settlements dating back to 36,200 to 31,760 calibrated years before the present (cal B.P.) This site also records additional levels of occupation around 32,420 to 26,260 cal B.P., suggesting repeated settlement of this territory. Our multiproxy examination identifies a change in climate trending toward colder and more arid conditions. However, this climatic deterioration does not appear to have affected AMH subsistence strategies or their capacity to inhabit this region. These findings reveal the ability of AMH groups to colonize regions hitherto considered uninhabitable, reopening the debate on early Upper Paleolithic population dynamics of southwestern Europe.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.ado3807

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