DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.03.020
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84927748475
论文题名: Semi-open environmental conditions during phases of hominin occupation at the Eemian Interglacial basin site Neumark-Nord 2 and its wider environment
作者: Pop E. ; Bakels C.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2015
卷: 117 起始页码: 72
结束页码: 81
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Eemian Interglacial
; Environmental tolerances
; Large herbivores
; Neandertals
; Vegetation openness
Scopus关键词: Animals
; Water
; Climatic conditions
; Eemian Interglacial
; Environmental conditions
; Environmental records
; Forest environments
; Interglacial periods
; Large herbivores
; Neandertals
; Vegetation
; archaeological evidence
; Eemian
; environmental constraint
; herbivore
; hominid
; interglacial
; paleoenvironment
; Europe
英文摘要: Neandertal occupation of Eemian environments in Europe is well attested by several archaeological sites dating to this interglacial period. Does this mean that Neandertals were living in closed forest environments? Due to the potential variability of Eemian environments in space and time, it is necessary to study environmental records that can be correlated with phases of hominin presence, as reflected in the archaeological record. Such a perspective can be obtained from the small basin locality Neumark-Nord 2, as it contains an extensive and detailed environmental record, as well as a large archaeological record consisting of several distinct find levels. Analysis shows that hominin presence is predominantly associated with semi-open environmental conditions. A review of the data from the neighbouring Neumark-Nord 1 basin shows that semi-open environments were also characterizing the wider environment during phases of hominin presence at both basin localities. Large herbivores attracted to the water in these basins may have played an important role in the vegetation openness, probably in conjunction with (local) climatic conditions. The relationship between hominin presence and semi-open environments is explained as Neandertals exploiting the large herbivores aggregating around these freshwater localities, while the more varied vegetation would also have provided them with edible plant foods. Other Eemian sites from freshwater contexts provide evidence for semi-open conditions as well. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59940
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作者单位: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9514, Leiden, Netherlands
Recommended Citation:
Pop E.,Bakels C.. Semi-open environmental conditions during phases of hominin occupation at the Eemian Interglacial basin site Neumark-Nord 2 and its wider environment[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2015-01-01,117