Geocronología de los yacimientos achelenses de Pinedo y Cien Fanegas (Valle del Tajo) e implicaciones en la evolución fluvial en el entorno de Toledo (España)

López-Recio, Mario; Silva, Pablo G.; Roquero, Elvira; Cunha, Pedro P.; Tapias, Fernando; Alcaraz‐Castaño, Manuel; Baena, Javier; Cuartero, Felipe; Morín, Jorge; Torres, Trinidad de; Ortíz, José E.; Murray, Andrew; Buylaert, Jan‐Pieter

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“…Within this geographic and chronological context, level PM4 of the Porto Maior site is the only known European example of an LFB Acheulean accumulation with pronounced African affinities. The occupation age range of 293–205 ka for Porto Maior is consistent with that obtained for “non-African” Acheulean assemblages from middle terrace (+40−20 m) sites of the large Iberian rivers 3 , 10 , 62 , 68 . It is apparent, therefore, that different LFB Acheulean assemblages were being simultaneously exploited by different geographic populations of SW Europe during the late Middle Pleistocene.…”

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First evidence of an extensive Acheulean large cutting tool accumulation in Europe from Porto Maior (Galicia, Spain)

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Pérez‐González

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We describe a European Acheulean site characterised by an extensive accumulation of large cutting tools (LCT). This type of Lower Paleolithic assemblage, with dense LCT accumulations, has only been found on the African continent and in the Near East until now. The identification of a site with large accumulations of LCTs favours the hypothesis of an African origin for the Acheulean of Southwest Europe. The lithic tool-bearing deposits date back to 293–205 thousand years ago. Our chronological findings confirm temporal overlap between sites with clear “African” Acheulean affinities and Early Middle Paleolithic sites found elsewhere in the region. These complex technological patterns could be consistent with the potential coexistence of different human species in south-western Europe during the Middle Pleistocene.

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First evidence of an extensive Acheulean large cutting tool accumulation in Europe from Porto Maior (Galicia, Spain)

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“…Gonz alez, 2010;P erez-Gonz alez et al, 2013;Panera et al, 2014;L opez-Recio et al, 2015;Roquero et al, 2015aRoquero et al, , 2015bRubio-Jara et al, 2016). The most complete list of artefacts associated with a warm faunal assemblage was found in the Achaeulian sites of Pinedo and Cien Fanegas (Tagus valley, near Toledo) in the þ25e30 m terrace, with top deposits dated as 226 ± 37 ka (by Amino-Acid Racemization) and the base deposits dated as >280 ka and 292 ± 17 ka (pIR-IRSL) (L opez-Recio et al, 2013(L opez-Recio et al, , 2015. So, this terrace of the Middle Tejo correlates well with the Lower Tejo T4 terrace.…”

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New data on the chronology of the Vale do Forno sedimentary sequence (Lower Tejo River terrace staircase) and its relevance as a fluvial archive of the Middle Pleistocene in western Iberia

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a b s t r a c tThe Vale do Forno archaeological sites (Alpiarça, central Portugal) document the earliest human occupation in the Lower Tejo River, well established in geomorphological and environmental terms, within the Middle Pleistocene. In a staircase of six fluvial terraces, the Palaeolithic sites were found on the T4 terrace (þ24 m, above river bed) which is made of a basal Lower Gravels unit (LG) and an overlying Upper Sands unit (US). Geomorphological mapping, coupled with lithostratigraphy, sedimentology and luminescence dating (quartz-OSL and K-feldspar post-IRIR 290 ) were used in this study. The oldest artefacts found in the LG unit show crude bifacial forms that can be attributed to the Acheulian. In contrast, the US unit has archaeological sites stratigraphically documenting successive phases of an evolved Acheulian. Luminescence dating and correlation with the Marine Isotopic Stages suggest that the LG unit has a probable age of ca. 335 to 325 ka and the US unit an age of ca. 325 to 155 ka. This is in contrast to previous interpretations ascribing this terrace (and lithic industries) to the Last Interglacial and early phases of the Last Glacial. The VF3 site (Milhar os), containing Micoquian (Final Acheulian) industries (with fine and elaborated bifaces), found in a stratigraphic level located between the T4 terrace deposits and a colluvium associated with Late Pleistocene aeolian sands, is younger than 155 ka but much older than 32 ka.© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. IntroductionUnderstanding of the Palaeolithic occupation of Northern Europe has been substantially based on evidence from rivers (e.g. Bridgland et al., 2006). For Western Europe and specifically in Iberia, insights into the Palaeolithic occupation is similarly derived from its major rivers (from north to south: Douro, Tejo/Tagus, Guadiana, Guadalquivir) (e.g. Santonja and Villa, 2006). Within this context, the Vale do Forno archaeological sites (Alpiarça, in central Portugal; Fig. 1) provide the earliest and most well documented human occupation in the Lower Tejo (the Portuguese part of the Tejo basin). Lower Palaeolithic bifacial sites are common, often well represented by lithic industries. Their local stratigraphy and technological characteristics indicate successive phases of what is commonly named as the Acheulian. However, they were chronologically poorly constrained.From the Spanish border to the Atlantic coast, the Tejo crosses major faults which provide a natural geomorphological subdivision of the river into a series of valley reaches (I to V;Cunha et al., 2005). * Corresponding author.E-mail addresses: pcunha@dct.uc.pt (P.P. Cunha), aam@uevora.pt (A.A. Martins), jabu@dtu.dk (J.-P. Buylaert), anmu@dtu.dk (A.S. Murray), 3raposos@sapo.pt (L. Raposo), paolo.mozzi@unipd.it (P. Mozzi), m.stokes@plymouth.ac.uk (M. Stokes).

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“…Las características tecnológicas generales de los conjuntos líticos de los yacimientos achelenses de Pinedo, Cien Fanegas y Tafesa han sido presentados en distintos trabajos (Querol y Santonja, 1979, Baena y Baquedano 2004, Baena et al 2010ay 2010bLópez-Recio et al 2015):…”

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“…Presenta similitudes en la fabricación de macroutillaje, el tipo de bifaces y la presencia de hendedores y picos con respecto a los conjuntos analizados de la cuenca media del Tajo. A nivel regional, son comparables a Pinedo y Cien Fanegas, desde el punto de vista tecnológico, a grandes rasgos los yacimientos achelenses de La Maya II (+34 m del Tormes), El Sartalejo (+26 m del Alagón) o Puente Pino (depósito sobre la t +40m del Tajo) (Santonja 1985;Moloney 1992;Santonja y Pérez-González 1997y 2001aRodríguez de Tembleque et al 2005;López-Recio et al 2015). Aunque estos yacimientos o bien no disponen de dataciones numéricas o bien no son fiables, los datos faunísticos permiten situarlos en la segunda mitad del Pleistoceno Medio .…”

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“…Por lo tanto, en el último tercio del Pleistoceno Medio en la cuenca media del Tajo se da una tradición tecnológica con paralelos en África y que posteriormente se generalizó en el interior de la Península Ibérica durante 600 ka ). En el valle medio del Tajo se da una pervivencia del achelense desde el MIS 11, constatado en conjuntos como Pinedo y Cien Fanegas, al MIS 5, detectado en Arriaga (Silva et al 2012;López-Recio et al 2015;Santonja et al 2016).…”

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La tradición tecnológica achelense en la cuenca media del río Tajo = The Acheulian Technological Tradition in the Middle Basin of the Tagus River

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Preysler

Barroso

2018

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The first Acheulean evidences in the Iberian Peninsula are date approximately 1 Ma before present, although up to MIS 15-13 its presence in the middle basin of the Tagus river does not extend significantly. In this contribution, we present the relevant results of the technological study of the lithic series from Pinedo, Cien Fanegas and Tafesa sites located in the middle basin of the Tagus. This study together with the IRSL (post-Infrared Stimulated Luminiscence) and ESR dates of the terrace 14 MARIO LÓPEz RECIO, JAVIER BAENA PREySLER & PABLO SILVA BARROSO deposits at + 25-30m of the Tagus (Pinedo and Cien Fanegas in the vicinity of Toledo) indicate the perdurance of the Acheulian technological schemes during the late Middle Pleistocene . This circumstance is similar to other places of the Iberian Central Plateau and south-western France. The technological characteristics of these lithic series (composite of pebble tools, bifaces, trihedrals pieces, picks and cleavers) together with a non-standardized flaking systems (centripetal and multipolar) does not have a chronological meaning, but probably responds to technological traditions that can be dated in the final part of the Middle Pleistocene for the inner area of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Geocronología de los yacimientos achelenses de Pinedo y Cien Fanegas (Valle del Tajo) e implicaciones en la evolución fluvial en el entorno de Toledo (España)

Cited by 21 publications

References 28 publications

First evidence of an extensive Acheulean large cutting tool accumulation in Europe from Porto Maior (Galicia, Spain)

First evidence of an extensive Acheulean large cutting tool accumulation in Europe from Porto Maior (Galicia, Spain)

New data on the chronology of the Vale do Forno sedimentary sequence (Lower Tejo River terrace staircase) and its relevance as a fluvial archive of the Middle Pleistocene in western Iberia

La tradición tecnológica achelense en la cuenca media del río Tajo = The Acheulian Technological Tradition in the Middle Basin of the Tagus River

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