DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.10.031
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85034758901
论文题名: Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis
作者: Muttoni G. ; Scardia G. ; Kent D.V.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2018
卷: 180 起始页码: 1
结束页码: 29
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Early Pleistocene
; Europe
; Galerian mammals
; Hominins
; Migrations
Scopus关键词: Ecosystems
; Geomagnetism
; Glacial geology
; Mammals
; Climate transition
; Controlling agent
; Early pleistocene
; Europe
; Geomagnetic polarity
; Hominins
; Migrations
; Paleogeography
; Ecology
; glacial-interglacial cycle
; grassland
; hominid
; immigrant
; lowland environment
; mammal
; paleogeography
; Pleistocene
; population migration
; Balkans
; Europe
; Mammalia
英文摘要: Our updated review of sites bearing hominin remains and/or tools from Europe, including new findings from the Balkans, still indicates that the only compelling evidence of main hominin presence in these regions was only since ∼0.9 million years ago (Ma), bracketed by the end of the Jaramillo geomagnetic polarity subchron (0.99 Ma) and the Brunhes-Matuyama polarity chron boundary (0.78 Ma). This time window straddled the late Early Pleistocene climate transition (EPT) at the onset of enhanced glacial/interglacial activity that reverberated worldwide. Europe may have become initially populated during the EPT when, possibly for the first time in the Pleistocene, vast and exploitable ecosystems were generated along the eustatically emergent Po-Danube terrestrial conduit. These newly formed settings, characterized by stable terrestrial lowlands with open grasslands and reduced woody cover especially during glacial/interglacial transitions, are regarded as optimal ecosystems for several large Galerian immigrant mammals such as African and Asian megaherbivores, possibly linked with hominins in a common food web, to expand into en route to Europe. The question of when hominins first arrived in Europe thus places the issue in the context of changes in climate, paleogeography and faunal associations as potential environmental drivers and controlling agents in a specific time frame, a key feature of the Galerian migration hypothesis. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/112323
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作者单位: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra ‘Ardito Desio’, University of Milan, via Mangiagalli 34, Milan, I-20133, Italy; Universidade Estadual Paulista, Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas, Rio Claro, SP 13506-900, Brazil; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, United States; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, United States
Recommended Citation:
Muttoni G.,Scardia G.,Kent D.V.. Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2018-01-01,180