ATAPUERCA
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PATRONATO / BOARD FUNDACIÓN ATAPUERCA
Presidenta de Honor: Su Majestad la Reina
Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras
José María Bermúdez de Castro Risueño
Eudald Carbonell Roura
Fundación Caja de Burgos
Diario de Burgos
Fundación Cajacírculo
Cerveza San Miguel
Eulen / Fundación David Álvarez
Fundación Repsol
Fundación Iberdrola
Junta de Castilla y León
Diputación Provincial de Burgos
Cámara de Oficial de Comercio e Industria de Burgos
Ayuntamiento de Burgos
Ayuntamiento de Atapuerca
Ayuntamiento de Ibeas de Juarros
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC.
Universidad de Burgos, UBU
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, UCM
Universitat Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona, URV
Commission on First humans in Europe
(Organizers: Jordi Rosell, Alfonso Benito, Jesús Rodríguez)
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while others believe it to be related to S. hundsheimen-sis. The persistence of these forms suggests that TD8 is older than the localities with which it is compared. If that is the case, it is the oldest Middle Pleistocene ungulate fauna. Alternatively, it is a geographic difference and rel-ict forms persisted longer in Spain.
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12. TRACING ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL CHANGES THROUGHOUT THE GRAN DOLINA TD10 MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE SEQUENCE (ATAPUERCA, BURGOS, SPAIN)
Ollé, Andreu (IPHES/URV) [email protected] Palmira Saladié (IPHES/URV) [email protected] Rodríguez, Jesús (CENIEH) [email protected] Mosquera, Marina (URV/IPHES) [email protected] Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Antonio (IPHES/URV)
de Lombera, Arturo (IPHES/URV) [email protected] Campaña, Isidoro (CENIEH) [email protected] Vallverdú, Josep (IPHES/URV) [email protected] Pérez-González, Alfredo (CENIEH) [email protected] Blain, Hugues-Alexandre (IPHES/URV) [email protected] López-García, Juan Manuel (Univ.Ferrara)
Cuenca-Bescós, Gloria (Aragosaurus-IUCA, Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza) [email protected]
Expósito, Isabel (IPHES/URV) [email protected]
Burjachs, Francesc (ICREA/IPHES/URV) [email protected] van der Made, Jan (MNCN)[email protected] García, Nuria (UCM-ISCIII) [email protected] Cáceres, Isabel (URV/IPHES) [email protected]
Mateos, Ana (CENIEH) [email protected]
Rodríguez, Xosé Pedro (URV/IPHES) [email protected] García-Medrano, Paula (IPHES/URV) pgarciamedrano@ gmail.com
García-Antón, M.Dolores (URV/IPHES) lgarciaanton@iphes. cat
López, Esther (ÍPHES/URV) [email protected]
Pedergnana, Antonella (IPHES/URV) apedergnana@iphes. cat
Rosell, Jordi (URV/IPHES) [email protected]
Blasco, Ruth (The Gibraltar Museum) rblascolopez@gmail. com
Falguères, Christophe (MNHN) [email protected]
Moreno, Davinia (MNHN) [email protected] de Torres Pérez-Hidalgo, Trinidad (UPM) trinidad.torres@ upm.es
Ortiz, José Eugenio (UPM) [email protected]
Ortega, Ana Isabel (CENIEH, GEE) [email protected]
Benito-Calvo, Alfonso (CENIEH, GEE) [email protected] Canals, Antoni (IPHES/URV/Equipo de Investigación Prim-eros Pobladores de Extremadura (EPPEX) [email protected] Rosa Ana Obregón (CENIEH) [email protected] Bermúdez de Castro, José María (CENIEH,) [email protected] Carbonell,Eudald (URV, IPHES, IVPP) [email protected]
The Sierra de Atapuerca sites offer a series of chronologi-cal sequences whose correlation allows the paleoenvi-ronmental and cultural evolution during the Early and Middle Pleistocene to be reconstructed. Previous work in these sites showed the difficulties in identifying clear cut-off points separating entirely different environmen-tal episodes along the sequence, which lacks evidences of extremely harsh conditions. Another difficulty was relating the paleo-environmental changes with the cul-tural ones.
Here we present a multiproxy analysis focused on the Middle Pleistocene unit TD10 of Gran Dolina site, which is the richest archaeological unit being excavated in Atapuerca. Our main goal is to describe in detail the 3m thick stratigraphic succession of TD10, and to situate the most significant geological, geochronological, paleoen-vironmental, palaeontological and archaeological infor-mation recovered up to now in the most representative profiles.
The main purposes of such a multidisciplinary presen-tation are to identify specific micro-scale environmental variations through the TD10 sedimentary unit, and to assess how they are reflected in the archaeo-palaeonto-logical record.
A total of twelve “sample units” (layers) have been indi-vidualised in the TD10 succession, from top to bottom: four in sub-unit TD10.1, four in TD10.2, two inTD10.3 and two in TD10.4. One extra control point was taken in level TD9, just to record the differences between these appar-ently so diverse units.
Each of these points has been specifically sampled, and data coming from different fields of study is taken into account separately. Data sources broadly include geol-ogy (sedimentolgeol-ogy, stratigraphic features, soil micro-morphology observations and geochronology), environ-ment (pollen, small and large fossil vertebrate remains) and archaeology (behavioural data coming from tech-nological and zooarchaeological studies).
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proxy data to characterise each of the control points, which will lead us to define hypothetically synchronic and homogeneous associations. This will allow us to draw preliminary hypotheses, which intent to correlate environmental and cultural data for these homogene-ous layers.
A second step involves an analysis of the evolution of the archaeological and palaeontological assemblages from the sucession of TD10, taking into account the evo-lutionary trends of all those features considered signifi-cant, both for environmental and cultural aspects. The excavation and sampling strategy is demonstrated to be fruitful to characterise specific layers in the TD10 sequence. It allows a better description of both environ-mental and cultural aspects than previous studies, which were based on larger units of analysis.
The comparison of the different synchronic associations, which have been observed, is useful from an evolution-ary perspective. In its turn, the diachronic framework proved to be useful to properly contextualise some of the archaeological issues of TD10 already published. In general terms, we can conclude than environmental constraints hardly explain by themselves the identified cultural changes. However, the combined information for each selected layer furnished crucial data to contex-tualise and to improve the characterisation of the var-ied subsistence strategies of the hominins who left their archaeological evidence in TD10 during the late Acheu-lean.
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13. ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS OF MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE FAUNA FROM GRAN DOLINA (SIERRA DE ATAPUER-CA, SPAIN) AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR HOMI-NIN PALEOECOLOGY
García, Nuria (Universidad Complutense De Madrid/Centro Mixto (Ucm-Isciii) De Evolución Y Comportamiento Hu-manos, C/ Monforte De Lemos 5, Pab. 14, 29029 Madrid, Spain) [email protected]
Feranec, Robert S. (New York State Museum, Research And Collections, 3140 Cultural Education Center, Albany, Ny 12230, USA.) [email protected]
Saladié Palmira (IPHES, Institut Català De Paleoecologia Humana I Evolució Social, C/Escorxador S/N, 43003 Tarra-gona, Spain/Área De Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira I Virgili (URV), Avinguda De Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain/
Gqp-Cg, Grupo Quaternário E Pré-História) psaladie@iphes. cat
Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Antonio (IPHES/URV/Equipo de In-vestigación Primeros Pobladores de Extremadura (EPPEX) [email protected]
Ollé, Andreu (IPHES, Institut Català De Paleoecologia Hu-mana I Evolució Social, C/Escorxador S/N, 43003 Tarragona, Spain/Área De Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira I Virgili (URV), Avinguda De Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain) aollé@ iphes.cat
Carbonell,Eudald (Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Avinguda de Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain - IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, C/Escorxador s/n, 43003 Tarragona, Spain, IVPP, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthro-pology of Beijing, China) [email protected]
Bermúdez de Castro, Jose María (Centro Nacional De Inves-tigación Sobre La Evolución Humana, Cenieh, Paseo Sierra De Atapuerca, 309002 Burgos, Spain) [email protected]
Determining the paleoecology and paleoenvironments at fossil localities provides a context in which specific hypotheses can be made about how particular taxa sur-vived and evolved over time. For example, the assump-tion that Neanderthals consumed predominantly meat derived from large game is supported by the abundance of ungulate bones associated with the Mousterian lithic industry. This idea is reinforced by microwear and stable isotope analyses that identify Neanderthals as depend-ent on a high protein diet derived mainly from large and medium-sized herbivores. Conversely, other researchers argue that these humans consumed a more varied diet including smaller game, plants, and marine resources. Exploring the paleoenvironment and availability of re-sources on the landscape would permit a specific test between these different paleodietary proposals (i.e., protein-dominated vs. varied diet) for Neanderthals. This particular study aims to determine the paleoecological conditions present in northernIberiaduring the Middle Pleistocene with the ultimate goal of resolving the re-sources available to the populations of humans within the Neanderthal lineage living there.
Data for this study was obtained from stable isotope analyses of tooth enamel from large mammals (Bison, Cervus, Equus, Panthera) coming from level TD10 of Gran Dolina (Sierra de Atapuerca,Burgos,Spain). TD10 is a layer dated to between 379±57 ka and 418± 63 ka (MIS 11) and shows evidence of humans from the Neanderthal lineage on the landscape. Some of the analyzed remains were consumed by humans and therefore can help de-cipher the subsistence strategies developed by
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