Age and Date for Early Arrival of the Acheulian in Europe (Barranc de la Boella, la Canonja, Spain)

[EN] The first arrivals of hominin populations into Eurasia during the Early Pleistocene are currently considered to have occurred as short and poorly dated biological dispersions. Questions as to the tempo and mode of these early prehistoric settlements have given rise to debates concerning the tax...

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Autores: Vallverdú Poch, Josep, Saladié Ballesté, Palmira, Rosas González, Antonio 1960-, Huguet i Pàmies, Rosa, Cáceres Cuello de Oro, Isabel, Mosquera Martínez, Marina, García Tabernero, Antonio, Estalrrich Albo, Almudena, Lozano Fernández, Iván, Pineda Alcalá, Antonio, Carrancho Alonso, Ángel, Villalaín Santamaria, Juan José, Bourlès, Didier, 1955-2021, Braucher, Régis, Lebatard, Anne-Elisabeth, 1979-, Vilalta Mouriz, Jaume, Esteban Nadal, Montserrat, Bennàsar Serra, Maria Lluc, Bastir, Markus, López Polín, Lucía, Ollé Cañellas, Andreu, Vergès Bosch, Josep Maria, Ros Montoya, Sergio, Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido. 1964-, García, Ana, Martinell, Jordi, 1948-, Expósito Barea, Isabel, Burjachs, Francesc, Agustí, Jordi, 1954-, Carbonell, Eudald 1953-
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad de León
Repositorio:BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
OAI Identifier:oai:buleria.unileon.es:10612/26897
Acceso en línea:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0103634
https://hdl.handle.net/10612/26897
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Antropología física
Arqueología
Paleontología
Acheulian industry
Early Pleistocene
Large Cutting Tools
Lower Palaeolithic
Barranc de la Boella
Hominin dispersal
5505.01 Arqueología
2409.99 Otras (Evolución Humana)
2416.99 Otras (Paleontología Humana)
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Sumario:[EN] The first arrivals of hominin populations into Eurasia during the Early Pleistocene are currently considered to have occurred as short and poorly dated biological dispersions. Questions as to the tempo and mode of these early prehistoric settlements have given rise to debates concerning the taxonomic significance of the lithic assemblages, as trace fossils, and the geographical distribution of the technological traditions found in the Lower Palaeolithic record. Here, we report on the Barranc de la Boella site which has yielded a lithic assemblage dating to ∼1 million years ago that includes large cutting tools (LCT). We argue that distinct technological traditions coexisted in the Iberian archaeological repertoires of the late Early Pleistocene age in a similar way to the earliest sub-Saharan African artefact assemblages. These differences between stone tool assemblages may be attributed to the different chronologies of hominin dispersal events. The archaeological record of Barranc de la Boella completes the geographical distribution of LCT assemblages across southern Eurasia during the EMPT (Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition, circa 942 to 641 kyr). Up to now, chronology of the earliest European LCT assemblages is based on the abundant Palaeolithic record found in terrace river sequences which have been dated to the end of the EMPT and later. However, the findings at Barranc de la Boella suggest that early LCT lithic assemblages appeared in the SW of Europe during earlier hominin dispersal episodes before the definitive colonization of temperate Eurasia took place

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