Search

Submitted by André Pereira (andrepereira@letras.ulisboa.pt) on 2020-04-22T10:09:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Patterns of variation in Microtus arvalis and Microtus agrestis populations from Middle to Late Pleistocene in southwestern Europe.pdf: 1905697 bytes, checksum: c02a7bc885cdbf35e3da5547472a68b7 (MD5) Approved for entry into archive by Manuel Moreno (manuelmoreno@campus.ul.pt) on 2020-04-23T08:56:10Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Patterns of variation in Microtus arvalis and Microtus agrestis populations from Middle to Late Pleistocene in southwestern Europe.pdf: 1905697 bytes, checksum: c02a7bc885cdbf35e3da5547472a68b7 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2020-04-23T08:57:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Patterns of variation in Microtus arvalis and Microtus agrestis populations from Middle to Late Pleistocene in southwestern Europe.pdf: 1905697 bytes, checksum: c02a7bc885cdbf35e3da5547472a68b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2019 info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

The sites of Barranco Leon D (BL-D) and Fuente Nueva 3 (FN-3) in the Guadix-Baza Basin (Granada, Spain), together with the site of Sima del Elefante in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain), constitute one of the oldest records of the earliest hominid population in the European continent west of Dmanisi (Georgia, Lesser Caucasus). In the Guadix-Baza Basin, evidence of human occupation has been found to date in the form of lithic industry (Mode 1) and cut marks in large-mammal fossil remains (mainly of hippopotamuses and elephants), and recently a human tooth considered as the oldest in Europe has been discovered. Although in the case of Sima del Elefante there is unanimity among the scientific community regarding the chronology of the unit in which the hominid remains were found (Unit TE9c, 1.22 Ma), there is continuing debate on the chronology of the sites of the Guadix-Baza Basin (FN-3 and BL-D). This applies especially to BL-D, as the numerical datings published for this site have a very high error r...

The study of small mammals may provide important chronological and paleoenvironmental information in the archaeological context of a particular geographic region. Few specific studies have been conducted on fossil small mammals in North Africa, especially for the late Quaternary period. However, the Holocene site of the Guenfouda Cave, situated in the region of Oujda (Eastern Morocco), provides new data on the chronology and the paleoecology of this period. The small-mammal association from Guenfouda comprises at least 12 taxa: two soricomorphs (Crocidura russula and C. whitakeri), one macroscelian (Elephantulus rozeti), two bats (Myotis blythii and Rhinolophus hipposideros) and seven rodents (Mus spretus, Meriones shawii, Apodemus sylvaticus, Dipodillus campestris, Eliomys sp., Atlantoxerus getulus and Ctenodactylus sp.). The absence in our assemblage of species recently introduced to Morocco, such as Mus musculus and Rattus spp. (R. rattus and R. norvegicus), allows us to establish relative data for the...

In this paper are described the arvicolines from El Chaparral site (Villaluenga del Rosario, Cádiz, Southwestern Spain). Due to their wide geographical distributions and rapid evolutionary rates, arvicolines are especially useful for biostratigraphical purposes. The stratigraphic layers of El Chaparral have yielded arvicolines remains of the genera Allophaiomys, Iberomys, Pliomys, and Terricola. The presence of these rodents together the other vertebrates recovered allows to determinate the age of the El Chaparral site and compare our data with other Iberian Pleistocene sites, such as of the Sierra de Atapuerca. El Chaparral site ranges between the Jaramillo Subchron (1.07-0.99 Ma) and shortly after the Brunhes-Matuyama transition at 0.78 Ma covering a important time span for the knowledge of the earliest humans occupations in western Europe. © 2012 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

The site of Guenfouda, located 30 km South of Oujda in the Jebel Metsila, which forms part of the Monts d'Oujda, was discovered in 2003. The site is of significant archaeological importance and sys...