The Fluvial Archives Group: 20 years of research connecting fluvial geomorphology and palaeoenvironments

Cordier, Stéphane; Briant, Becky; Bridgland, David R.; Herget, Jürgen; Maddy, Darrel; Mather, Anne E.; Vandenberghe, Jef

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.001

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“…The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic archaeological records of these regions have also been reassessed in detail (Shaw, 2012); a brief summary of the repercussions of this new work for the Palaeolithic archives is provided below. Much further west in Turkey, a new artefact discovery has been reported from the River Gediz (Maddy et al, 2015; see below), location of the FLAG plenary meeting of 2006 (Cordier et al, 2017), whereas further south, in the Arabian Peninsula, well-dated Lower and Middle Palaeolithic archaeological assemblages have recently been recovered from sites in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman and the United Arab Emirates (see below).…”

Section: Western Asia: the Levant Turkey And The Arabian Peninsulamentioning

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“…With the cessation of IGCP support in 2007 the compilation of such data has continued within the longer-timescale theme(s) of FLAG (cf. Cordier et al, 2017), with continuing geoarchaeological activity, as has been reflected in the topics covered at FLAG meetings and in special issues during the interim period. The present paper seeks to summarize the advances in the understanding of the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic during the 20-year life of FLAG, with emphasis on those made since the previous (IGCP 449) review by Mishra et al (2007).…”

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“…The FLAG organizers encouraged multi-disciplinary participation in the activities of the group from its outset; archaeologists were present at the inaugural meeting in Durham and Palaeolithic localities and assemblages have been included in many FLAG meetings (e.g., those based on Cheltenham, Clermont Ferand, Siena and Castelo Branco: see Cordier et al, 2017). In the early years of FLAG, and under the auspices of the group, those interested in longer (glacialeinterglacial) timescale fluvial archives established a project within the UNESCO-sponsored International Geological Correlation Programme (later International Geocience Programme) entitled 'Global Correlation of Late Cenozoic Fluvial Deposits: Project IGCP 449, which ran for the five calendar years 2000e2004 (Bridgland et al, 2007).…”

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Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity: Progress during the 20 years of the Fluvial Archives Group

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Fluvial sedimentary archives are important repositories for Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts throughout the 'Old World', especially in Europe, where the beginning of their study coincided with the realisation that early humans were of great antiquity. Now that many river terrace sequences can be reliably dated and correlated with the globally valid marine isotope record, potentially useful patterns can be recognized in the distribution of the find-spots of the artefacts that constitute the large collections that were assembled during the years of manual gravel extraction. This paper reviews the advances during the past two decades in knowledge of hominin occupation based on artefact occurrences in fluvial contexts, in Europe, Asia and Africa. As such it is an update of a comparable review in 2007, at the end of IGCP Project no. 449, which had instigated the compilation of fluvial records from around the world during 2000e2004, under the auspices of the Fluvial Archives Group. An overarching finding is the confirmation of the well-established view that in Europe there is a demarcation between handaxe making in the west and flakeecore industries in the east, although on a wider scale that pattern is undermined by the increased numbers of Lower Palaeolithic bifaces now recognized in East Asia. It is also apparent that, although it seems to have appeared at different places and at different times in the later Lower Palaeolithic, the arrival of Levallois technology as a global phenomenon was similarly timed across the area occupied by Middle Pleistocene hominins, at around 0.3 Ma.

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“…Os sedimentos acumulados respondem à forma do transporte de sedimento, aumento ou diminuição de erosão mecânica e alterações de descarga (PRINCE et al, 2011). Por essa gama de fatores os sedimentos, podem ser considerados registros paleoambientais, uma vez que permitem a reconstrução de mudanças ambientais passadas, assim como a explicação dessas mudanças (CORDIER et al, 2017).…”

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“…(SUGUIO e BIGARELLA, 1990;VANDENBERGUE, 2008VANDENBERGUE, , 2015GAO et al, 2016;CORDIER et al, 2017). Vandenberghe (1995Vandenberghe ( , 2008Vandenberghe ( , 2015 Vandenbergue (1995Vandenbergue ( , 2001Vandenbergue ( , 2003 explica que a sazonalidade e a intensidade dos eventos de precipitação têm mais relevância, assim como os eventos extremos, do que a precipitação anual total, para a entrada de sedimento nos sistemas fluviais.…”

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Indicadores paleombientais para a avaliação dos processos de capturas fluviais em meio tropical úmido

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The research aimed to evaluate the capture of the Guaratuba River, located on the reverse side of the Serra do Mar in tropical humid environment. Morphometric aspects, the sedimentary and organic materials of the dry valley superficial cover were used as paleoenvironmental indicators to explain the capture. Samples were collected in the basin division between the upper Guaratuba and river Claro, for the integrated evaluation of macromorphological, granulometric, morphological, mineralogical, geochronological and palynological data. Samples of sandy material were subjected to absolute dating by the method of Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL), while those of organic material were submitted to absolute dating of 14C via Mass Spectrometry by Accelerators (MSA). The superficial cover materials were classified in macromorphological analysis as Gleisols, Spodosols and Cambisols which contained gravels up to 75 cm layer thick. The Spodosol represents a paleosol and the ortstein horizon as a lithostratigraphic indicator. In the granulometric analysis the predominance of the sandy fraction occurred in all the horizons described, as well as quartz and mica in the mineralogical analysis. In the morphoscopic analysis of the sand fraction there was a wide rounding of the gravels and quartz grains in all the horizons, indicating that these sediments suffered in the past mechanical erosion by current flow or torrent deposition indicating paleoclimate and water conditions different from the current. The morphometric characteristics of the basins attest to rejuvenation of the Guaratuba basin in response to capture. The dates indicate specific periods of the Holocene, Pleistocene and Late Glacial Maximum, mostly linked to precipitation conditions in the Southeast region. The surface cover materials of the dry valley as well as the hydrodynamics of the river channels are being worked by the humidity cycles in the system for at least 36,500 years. It is possible to link the change of the base level between the rivers and the consequent capture of the Guaratuba to the Last Glacial Maximum, to approximately 25,000 years A.P. The taxon assembly formed by Podocarpus sp, Ilex sp, Symplocus sp, Weinmannia sp, Myrsine sp, Alchornea sp, Mytenyus sp, Hedyosmum sp, Myrtaceae, Poaceae and Asteraceae families respond as indicators of wet and / or flooded paleoflorests and cold and humid paleoclimates. The taxon found, mostly adapted to cold and humid and constantly or seasonally flooded forest environments indicate an ancient marshy region in the present dry valley. In a scenario with elevation of precipitation, would be resume the increase erosion in areas near the back of the escarpment would be resumed, which would promote the retraction of the dividers, escarpment and new captures. The captures are essential for the evolution of the Serra do Mar and the coastal plain in the Southeast of Brazil, with a moist regional climatic condition as the driving force. The responses suggest that in the Quaternary the wetter phases were marked by th...

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The Fluvial Archives Group: 20 years of research connecting fluvial geomorphology and palaeoenvironments

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Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity: Progress during the 20 years of the Fluvial Archives Group

Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity: Progress during the 20 years of the Fluvial Archives Group

Indicadores paleombientais para a avaliação dos processos de capturas fluviais em meio tropical úmido

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