Earliest known use of marine resources by neanderthals
Author
Cortés-Sánchez, Miguel; Morales Muñiz, Arturo
Entity
UAM. Departamento de BiologíaPublisher
Public Library of ScienceDate
2011-09-14Citation
10.1371/journal.pone.0024026
Plos One 6.9 (2011): e24026
ISSN
1932-6203 (online)DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0024026Funded by
The results presented derive from research carried out under the sponsorship of the Fundação para a Ciencia e a Tecnología (Portugal) and the European Science Foundation (III Community Support Framework). F. J. Jiménez-Espejo acknowledges funding from the Institute of Optics (CSIC) ‘‘JAE-Doc’’ postdoctoral program. This work also was funded by Projects CGL2009-07603, CTM2009-07715, CSD2006-00041, CGL2010-15810 (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación), 200800050084447 (MARM), Project RNM 05212, and Research Groups HUM-143 and RNM-0179 (Junta de Andalucía). This work is a contribution to the IGCPs 526 (Risks, Resources, and Record of the Past on the Continental Shelf) and 567 (Earthquake Arqueology and Palaeoseismology)Subjects
Archaeology; Geologic Sediments; Neanderthals; Pollen; Radiometric Dating; Shellfish; Antropología; Arqueología; Biología y Biomedicina / BiologíaRights
© 2011 Cortés-Sánchez et al.Abstract
Numerous studies along the northern Mediterranean borderland have documented the use of shellfish by Neanderthals but none of these finds are prior to Marine Isotopic Stage 3 (MIS 3). In this paper we present evidence that gathering and consumption of mollusks can now be traced back to the lowest level of the archaeological sequence at Bajondillo Cave (Málaga, Spain), dated during the MIS 6. The paper describes the taxonomical and taphonomical features of the mollusk assemblages from this level Bj 19 and briefly touches upon those retrieved in levels Bj 18 (MIS 5) and Bj 17 (MIS 4), evidencing a continuity of the shellfishing activity that reaches to MIS 3. This evidence is substantiated on 29 datings through radiocarbon, thermoluminescence and U series methods. Obtained dates and paleoenvironmental records from the cave include isotopic, pollen, lithostratigraphic and sedimentological analyses and they are fully coherent with paleoclimate conditions expected for the different stages. We conclude that described use of shellfish resources by Neanderthals (H. neanderthalensis) in Southern Spain started ~150 ka and were almost contemporaneous to Pinnacle Point (South Africa), when shellfishing is first documented in archaic modern humans
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Morales Muñiz, Arturo
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Simón Vallejo, María D.
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Lozano-Francisco, María Carmen
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Vera-Peláez, José Luis
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Finlayson, Clive J.
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Rodríguez-Vidal, Joaquín
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Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco J.
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Martínez Ruíz, Francisca C.
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Martínez-Aguirre, M. Aranzazu
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Granged, Arturo J P
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Bergadà-Zapata, M. Mercè
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Gibaja, Juan F.
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Riquelme Cantal, José Antonio
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López-Sáez, José Antonio
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Rodrigo-Gámiz, Marta
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Sakai, Saburo
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Sugisaki, Saiko
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Finlayson, Geraldine
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Fa, Darren
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Bicho, Nuno Ferreira
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