New ESR and U-series dating at Caune de l'Arago, France: A key-site for European Middle Pleistocene

Falguères, Christophe; Shao, Qingfeng; Han, Fei; Bahain, Jean‐Jacques; Richard, Maïlys; Perrenoud, Christian; Moigne, Anne‐Marie; De, H. Lumley

doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2015.02.006

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“…These features are combined with a raised articular eminence, which contrasts with the flatter articular eminence generally seen in the Atapuerca (SH) sample and in the Steinheim cranium. It has been argued that a flattened articular eminence is a feature that appears very early in Neandertal evolution (23,41).…”

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New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal)

Daura

Sanz

Arsuaga

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The Middle Pleistocene is a crucial time period for studying human evolution in Europe, because it marks the appearance of both fossil hominins ancestral to the later Neandertals and the Acheulean technology. Nevertheless, European sites containing well-dated human remains associated with an Acheulean toolkit remain scarce. The earliest European hominin crania associated with Acheulean handaxes are at the sites of Arago, Atapuerca Sima de los Huesos (SH), and Swanscombe, dating to 400–500 ka (Marine Isotope Stage 11–12). The Atapuerca (SH) fossils and the Swanscombe cranium belong to the Neandertal clade, whereas the Arago hominins have been attributed to an incipient stage of Neandertal evolution, to Homo heidelbergensis, or to a subspecies of Homo erectus. A recently discovered cranium (Aroeira 3) from the Gruta da Aroeira (Almonda karst system, Portugal) dating to 390–436 ka provides important evidence on the earliest European Acheulean-bearing hominins. This cranium is represented by most of the right half of a calvarium (with the exception of the missing occipital bone) and a fragmentary right maxilla preserving part of the nasal floor and two fragmentary molars. The combination of traits in the Aroeira 3 cranium augments the previously documented diversity in the European Middle Pleistocene fossil record

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New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal)

Daura

Sanz

Arsuaga

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…The extant samples of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) come from various locations in Canada (Fig. 1 (Behre & van der Plicht 1992); Brown Bank in the North Sea, which dates range from c. 45 to 34 ka BP (Mol et al 2006); Kent's Cavern (Torquay, UK) dated to 47AE3 ka BP (Lundberg & McFarlane 2007); Portel-Ouest (Loubens, France)the sample comes from level F dated to about 45 ka BP (Bahain 2007); Caune de l'Arago (Tautavel, France)the samples come from two stratigraphical units, namely CM2 dated to c. 500 ka and CM3 dated to 438AE31 ka BP (Falgu eres et al 2015). These localities can be arranged in two groups depending on their latitude: (1) southern Europe around 42-43°N (Caune de l'Arago and Portel-Ouest) and (2) northern Europe around 50-52°N (Kent's Cavern, Salzgitter Lebenstedt and Brown Banks in the North Sea).…”

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Latitude matters: an examination of behavioural plasticity in dietary traits amongst extant and Pleistocene Rangifer tarandus

Rivals

Semprebon

2016

Boreas

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The geographical distribution of species affects their dietary traits relative to resources available in different latitudes. Dietary traits of Rangifer tarandus, a species with a wide geographical distribution, were investigated using tooth mesowear and microwear methods in eight extant populations from Canada. The data show a latitudinal shift corresponding to a vegetational gradient from the taiga to the tundra, i.e. an increase of lichen consumption from the low to the high latitudes. This pattern is also evidenced in the Pleistocene fossil record of Europe where R. tarandus populations from low latitude localities show a lower consumption of lichen than at higher latitudes. Florent Rivals

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“…L'ensemble du remplissage, généralement de polarité géomagnétique normale, mises à part quelques inversions, peut-être entièrement attribué à la période de Brunhes et daté de moins de 780 ka (Falguères et al, 2015).…”

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L’homme de Tautavel. Un Homo erectus européen évolué. Homo erectus tautavelensis

Lumley

2015

L'Anthropologie

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New ESR and U-series dating at Caune de l'Arago, France: A key-site for European Middle Pleistocene

Cited by 83 publications

References 27 publications

New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal)

New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal)

Latitude matters: an examination of behavioural plasticity in dietary traits amongst extant and Pleistocene Rangifer tarandus

L’homme de Tautavel. Un Homo erectus européen évolué. Homo erectus tautavelensis

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