DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.026
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85046702426
论文题名: Early hominins in north-west Europe: A punctuated long chronology?
作者: Hosfield R. ; Cole J.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2018
卷: 190 起始页码: 148
结束页码: 160
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Behavioural plasticity
; Europe
; Life history
; Lower Palaeolithic
; Middle Pleistocene
; Palaeoenvironment
; Punctuated long chronology
Scopus关键词: Geology
; Natural sciences
; Europe
; Life history
; Lower Palaeolithic
; Middle Pleistocene
; Palaeoenvironment
; Punctuated long chronology
; Glacial geology
; Anglian
; behavior
; biochronology
; emergence
; glaciation
; hominid
; life history
; marine isotope stage
; paleoclimate
; paleoenvironment
; Paleolithic
; phenotypic plasticity
; range expansion
; Europe
; Mya
英文摘要: In light of changing views regarding the identity and evolutionary positions of Europe's Lower Palaeolithic hominins, a re-consideration of the hominin occupation of north-west Europe from c. 1 million years ago (mya) to c. 400 thousand years ago (kya) is timely. A change in the scale and character of the overall European Palaeolithic record around c. 800–600 kya has been well documented and argued over since the mid-1990s. Hominin expansion into the European north-west, potentially from southern Europe, Africa or south-western Asia, has been linked to the introduction of a new lithic technology in the form of the biface. We evaluate three potential drivers for this northern range expansion: changing palaeo-climatic conditions, the emergence of an essentially modern human life history, and greater hominin behavioural plasticity. Our evaluation suggests no major changes in these three factors during the c. 800–600 kya period other than enhanced behavioural plasticity suggested by the appearance of the biface. We offer here a model of hominin occupation for north-west Europe termed the ‘punctuated long chronology’ and suggest that the major changes in the European Lower Palaeolithic record that occur at a species-wide level may post-date, rather than precede, the Anglian Glaciation (marine isotope stage (MIS) 12). © 2018
Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/112190
Appears in Collections: 气候减缓与适应
There are no files associated with this item.
作者单位: Department of Archaeology, School of Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Science, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AB, United Kingdom; School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, Cockcroft Building, Lewes Road, Brighton, BN2 4GJ, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Hosfield R.,Cole J.. Early hominins in north-west Europe: A punctuated long chronology?[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2018-01-01,190