Combined ESR/U-series chronology of Acheulian hominid-bearing layers at Trinchera Galería site,Atapuerca, Spain |
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| Authors: | Christophe Falguères Jean-Jacques Bahain James L Bischoff Alfredo Pérez-González Ana Isabel Ortega Andreu Ollé Anita Quiles Bassam Ghaleb Davinia Moreno Jean-Michel Dolo Qingfeng Shao Josep Vallverdú Eudald Carbonell Jose María Bermúdez de Castro Juan Luis Arsuaga |
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| Institution: | 1. Département de Préhistoire, Muséum national d''histoire naturelle, UMR7194, 1, rue René Panhard, 75013 Paris, France;2. US Geological Survey, ms/470, 345 Middlefield Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States;3. Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) Paseo Sierra de Atapuerca s/n, 09002 Burgos, Spain;4. Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, C/Marcel·lí Domingo s/n (Edifici W3), Campus Sescelades, 43007 Tarragona, Spain;5. Àrea de Prehistòria, Dept. d''Història i Història de l''Art, Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Fac. de Lletres, Av. Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain;6. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l''Environnement, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France;g GEOTOP, Université de Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8, Canada;h CEA/I²BM, F-91401 Orsay Cedex, France;i Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of Beijing (IVPP), Beijing, China;j Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos Instituto de Salud Carlos III, C/Sinesio Delgado 4, Pabellón 14, 28029 Madrid, Spain |
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| Abstract: | The Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain, is known from many prehistoric and palaeontological sites documenting human prehistory in Europe. Three major sites, Gran Dolina, Galería and Sima del Elefante, range in age from the oldest hominin of Western Europe dated to 1.1 to 1.3 Ma (millions of years ago) at Sima del Elefante to c.a. 0.2 Ma on the top of the Galería archaeological sequence. Recently, a chronology based on luminescence methods (Thermoluminescence TL] and Infrared Stimulated Luminescence IRSL]) applied to cave sediments was published for the Gran Dolina and Galería sites. The authors proposed for Galería an age of 450 ka (thousands of years ago) for the units lower GIII and GII, suggesting that the human occupation there is younger than the hominid remains of Sima de los Huesos (>530 ka) around 1 km away. |
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| Keywords: | Middle Pleistocene Eurasia Gran Dolina Luminescence Bayesian analysis Homo antecessor |
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