DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.023
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84880416165
论文题名: Continuity or discontinuity in the European Early Pleistocene human settlement: The Atapuerca evidence
作者: Bermúdez de Castro J.M. ; Martinón-Torres M. ; Blasco R. ; Rosell J. ; Carbonell E.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2013
卷: 76 起始页码: 53
结束页码: 65
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Atapuerca
; CADE
; Early Pleistocene
; EMPT
; Europe
; Ma
; MIS
; MRCA
; SWA
; TD
; TE
; TE-LRU
Scopus关键词: Atapuerca
; CADE
; Early pleistocene
; EMPT
; Europe
; Ma
; MRCA
; SWA
; TD
; TE-LRU
; Geology
; Management information systems
; Natural sciences
; Tellurium
; Geochronology
; fossil record
; geochronology
; hominid
; human settlement
; paleomagnetism
; paleontology
; Pleistocene
; Burgos [Castilla y Leon]
; Castilla y Leon
; Sierra de Atapuerca
; Spain
英文摘要: The nature, timing, pattern, favourable circumstances and impediments of the human occupation of the European continent during the Early Pleistocene are hot topics in Quaternary studies. In particular, the problem of the (dis) continuity of the settlement of Europe in this period is an important matter of discussion, which has been approached in the last decade from different points of view. The Gran Dolina (TD) and Sima del Elefante (TE) cave sites in the Sierra de Atapuerca, (Spain) include large and quasi-continuous stratigraphic sequences that stretch back from at least 1.2 million years ago (Ma) to the Matuyama/Brunhes boundary. The archaeological and paleontological record from these sites can help to test different hypotheses about the character of the human settlement in this region and period. Furthermore, the TD6 level has yielded a large collection of human fossil remains attributed to Homo antecessor. According to different geochronological methods, as well as to paleomagnetic and biostratigraphical analyses, these hominins belong to an age range of 0.96-0.80Ma. Unfortunately, the finding in 2007 of some human fossil remains in the TE9 level, dated to about 1.22Ma, was not enough to conclude whether H.antecessor had deep roots in the European Early Pleistocene. A set of derived features of H.antecessor shared with both the Neanderthal lineage and modern humans suggests that this species is related, and not far, from the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens. If we assume that there was a lineal biological relationship between the TE9 and TD6 hominins, we should reconsider many of the conclusions achieved in previous paleontological and genetic studies. In addition, we would be obliged to build a highly complicated paleogeographical scenario for the origin of the MRCA. Although continuity in the settlement of Europe during the entire late Early Pleistocene is not discarded (e.g. in refuge areas), it seems that this Western extreme of Eurasia, and the Iberian Peninsula in particular, was occupied by at least two different hominin populations. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/60538
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作者单位: Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Avenida de la sierra de Atapuerca s/n, 09002 Burgos, Spain; The Gibraltar Museum, 18-20 Bomb House Lane, PO Box 93, Gibraltar, United Kingdom; Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Avinguda de Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain; Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, C/ Escorxador s/n, 43003 Tarragona, Spain; Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Beijing, China
Recommended Citation:
Bermúdez de Castro J.M.,Martinón-Torres M.,Blasco R.,et al. Continuity or discontinuity in the European Early Pleistocene human settlement: The Atapuerca evidence[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2013-01-01,76