Refining upon the climatic background of the Early Pleistocene hominid settlement in western Europe: Barranco León and Fuente Nueva-3 (Guadix-Baza Basin, SE Spain)
We thank the journal editor Prof. Danielle Schreve (Royal Holloway University of London) and the two reviewers Prof. David J. Horne (Queen Mary University of London) and Dr. Angela A. Bruch (Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Frankfurt) for their comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. Some of the ideas of the present manuscript have been presented during the International ROCEEH Conference on Human Expansions ("Expansions 2015", July 13-17, 2015) at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). We are grateful to the audience for their questions and constructive comments and especially to the organizers Angela A. Bruch, Christine Hertler and Miriam Haidle for their invitation. We are particularly grateful to Jesús Rodríguez (CENIEH, Spain) for the constructive discussion during that meeting in Frankfurt and for the suggestion of the "new name" for our quantitative climate reconstruction method. This paper is part of projects B120489SV18BC "Presencia humana y contexto paleoecológico en la Cuenca continental de Guadix-Baza. Estudio e interpretación a partir de los depósitos plio-pleistocenos de Orce (Granada, España)" (Junta de Andalucía), CGL2012-38358, GCL2011-28681 and CGL2010-15326 (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad), and SGR2014-416, SGR2014-901 (Generalitat de Catalunya) and HUM-607 (Junta de Andalucía). I. Lozano-Fernández was the beneficiary of a pre-doctoral subsidy from the Fundación Atapuerca assigned to the IPHES. H.-A. Blain is grateful to Sébastien Joannin (CNRS, Montpellier) for supplementary information about Early Pleistocene orbital parameters.
IPHES, Institut català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, c/ Marcelli Domingo s/n (Edifici W3), Campus Sescelades, Tarragona, Spain; Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Avinguda de Catalunya 35, Tarragona, Spain; ICREA, Institut Català de Recerca i Estudi Avançat (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain; Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique, UMR 7194, Sorbonne Universités, MNHN, CNRS, 1 rue René Panhard, Paris, France; Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: sociétés, pratiques, environnements, UMR 7209, Sorbonne Universités, MNHN, CNRS, 55 rue Buffon, CP 55, Paris, France; Departamento de Ecología y Geología (Áreas de Paleontologia y Estratigrafia), Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Universitario de Teatinos, Málaga, Spain; Museo de Prehistoria y Paleontología de Orce, Spain; Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Granada, Campus Universitario de Cartuja C.P, Granada, Spain; Instituto Universitario de la Paz y los Conflictos, Universidad de Granada, c/Rector López Argüeta s/n, Granada, Spain; Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zürich, Switzerland; Museo Arqueológico de Granada, Carrera del Darro 41-43, Granada, Spain
Recommended Citation:
Blain H.-A.,Lozano-Fernández I.,Agustí J.,et al. Refining upon the climatic background of the Early Pleistocene hominid settlement in western Europe: Barranco León and Fuente Nueva-3 (Guadix-Baza Basin, SE Spain)[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2016-01-01,144