DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.05.005
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84930626278
论文题名: Dancing to the rhythms of the Pleistocene? Early Middle Paleolithic population dynamics in NW Iberia (Duero Basin and Cantabrian Region)
作者: Sánchez Yustos P. ; Diez Martín F.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2015
卷: 121 起始页码: 75
结束页码: 88
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Cantabrian Region
; Duero Basin
; Iberia
; Middle Paleolithic
; Mousterian
; Population dynamics
Scopus关键词: Climate models
; Dynamics
; Ecology
; Cantabrian Region
; Duero Basin
; Iberia
; Middle Paleolithic
; Mousterian
; Population dynamics
英文摘要: The Northwest of Iberia has yielded one of the most complete European Middle Paleolithic records. Despite this wealth of information, very little is known about population dynamics during this period. For that reason, the main concern of this paper is to provide socio-environmental models that may help explain Early Middle Paleolithic (EMP) population dynamics in NW Iberia, assessing to what extent they were shaped by climate forces. The archaeological record is analyzed on the basis of the heuristics of ecological models, already employed in the European Pleistocene record but never at a regional scale, in order to detect long-term changes in the composition of EMP populations, and the environmental, biological and sociocultural process influencing those changes. According to the models proposed, we have detected a long-term population dynamic between MIS 11 and MIS 6, characterized by low environmental stress, high biological productivity, interaction among populations and sociocultural complexity. Eventually, this population dynamic was broken due to an extreme climate phase in late MIS 6 that had a profound impact on populations and sociocultural structures. As a result, the Upper Pleistocene population of NW Iberia was concentrated in the Cantabrian region. This area became an isolated Neanderthal glacial refugium that hosted a population with different origins and fragile long-term demographic stability. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59897
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作者单位: University of Valladolid, Pza. del Campus s/n, Valladolid, Spain
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Sánchez Yustos P.,Diez Martín F.. Dancing to the rhythms of the Pleistocene? Early Middle Paleolithic population dynamics in NW Iberia (Duero Basin and Cantabrian Region)[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2015-01-01,121