[HTML][HTML] Reassessing palaeoenvironmental conditions during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Cantabrian region (Southwestern Europe)

M Fernández-García, M Vidal-Cordasco… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climatic and environmental changes have been commonly proposed as driving factors
behind the decline of Neanderthals in Europe. The Cantabrian region, in northern Iberia, is a …

Neanderthal coexistence with Homo sapiens in Europe was affected by herbivore carrying capacity

M Vidal-Cordasco, G Terlato, D Ocio… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
It has been proposed that climate change and the arrival of modern humans in Europe
affected the disappearance of Neanderthals due to their impact on trophic resources; …

[HTML][HTML] Ecosystem productivity affected the spatiotemporal disappearance of Neanderthals in Iberia

M Vidal-Cordasco, D Ocio, T Hickler… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
What role did fluctuations play in biomass availability for secondary consumers in the
disappearance of Neanderthals and the survival of modern humans? To answer this, we …

[HTML][HTML] Competing forces: Subsistence strategies and human-carnivore interactions during the middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Northern Iberia

GJ Linares-Matás, J Yravedra - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The comparative assessment of dietary choices as part of landscape use strategies
deployed by Neanderthal and Anatomically Modern Human populations in Eurasia …

[HTML][HTML] Applying the UDA-ODA discrimination technique to a herpetological association: the case of the Middle Palaeolithic site of El Salt (Alcoi, Spain)

R Marquina-Blasco, A Fagoaga, VD Crespo… - Archaeological and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract El Salt (Middle Palaeolithic; Alcoi, Spain) is a key site for understanding the
disappearance of Neanderthals in the eastern Iberian Peninsula, a process that is observed …

Late Pleistocene Neanderthal exploitation of stable and mosaic ecosystems in northern Iberia shown by multi-isotope evidence

S Pederzani, K Britton, JR Jones, LA Pérez… - Quaternary …, 2023 - cambridge.org
During the last glacial period, rapidly changing environments posed substantial challenges
to Neanderthal populations in Europe. Southern continental regions, such as Iberia, have …

New insights into upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic occupations in Les Pedroses cave (Asturies, north Spain)

A Martínez-Villa, E Álvarez-Fernández… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The archaeological site of Les Pedroses Cave and its parietal art have been studied and
reappraised during the last three years. The cave was excavated in 1956 but the materials …

[HTML][HTML] Mammalian turnover as an indicator of climatic and anthropogenic landscape modification: A new Meghalayan record (Late Holocene) in northern Iberia

A Álvarez-Vena, AB Marín-Arroyo… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Punta Lucero III cave is a natural trap where abundant vertebrate remains were
accumulated during the Meghalayan (Late Holocene). To better understand the …

Small mammals of the Holocene sequence of Postes Cave (SW Spain): biogeographic and palaeoenvironmental implications for southwestern Iberia

ÁC Domínguez-García, C Laplana, P Sevilla… - Historical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Postes Cave in SW Spain (Extremadura) displays a Holocene
archaeostratigraphic sequence radiocarbon-dated to between c. 8.5–4 cal kyr BP …

Mid-Late Pleistocene glacial dynamics in the Valira valleys (Principality of Andorra). Asymmetries within the Pyrenees and correlation across the westernmost …

V Turu - 2023 - diposit.ub.edu
[eng] Many sediment-covered mountain areas affected by the growth of Pleistocene glaciers
are over-consolidated. Palaeoglacial conditions are deduced from glacial consolidation and …