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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106278
	Exploring the landscape and climatic conditions of Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans in the Middle East: the rodent assemblage from the late Pleistocene of Kaldar Cave (Khorramabad Valley; Iran)
	Rey-Rodríguez I.; López-García J.-M.; Blain H.-A.; Stoetzel E.; Denys C.; Fernández-García M.; Tumung L.; Ollé A.; Bazgir B.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0277-3791
卷号	236
英文摘要	The Middle East, specially the Zagros region, lies in a strategic position as a crossroads between Africa, Europe and eastern Asia. The landscape of this region that prevailed around the Neanderthal and anatomically modern human occupations is not well known. Only a few sites have been studied in detail in this area, often providing only a faunal list. These reveal that Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans lived in a landscape mainly composed of dry steppes. Here we extend the data obtained from Kaldar Cave through a systematic study of the rodent assemblage. The site provided evidence of a Pleistocene occupation attested by lithic tools associated with the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, but it was also occupied during the Holocene, as evidenced by Neolithic artefacts. First excavations have revealed small vertebrates in Layer 4 (sub-layer 5 and 5II), belonging to the Upper Palaeolithic, and Layer 5 (sub-layers 7 and 7II), belonging to the Middle Palaeolithic. The rodent assemblage of Kaldar Cave is mainly composed of six arvicoline, two cricetine, one glirid, one dipodid, one gerbilline and two murine species. This assemblage shows that during the Late Pleistocene the environment around the site was mainly composed of open dry steppes, as indicated by the most abundant taxa, Microtus, Ellobius and Meriones. However, murine species indicate the presence of a vegetation cover. The palaeoclimatic conditions are characterized by lower temperatures and also less precipitation than at present. The results obtained with the rodent assemblages show that there is no major palaeoenvironmental or palaeoclimatic change that would explain the cultural shift between Layer 5 (Middle Palaeolithic) and Layer 4 (Upper Palaeolithic). © 2020
英文关键词	Human occupations; Middle east; Palaeoecology; Rodentia; Taxonomy
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Employment; Session Layer; Taxonomies; Transport Layer; Climatic conditions; Human occupations; Lower temperatures; Middle East; Palaeoecology; Rodentia; Systematic study; Vegetation cover; Caves; anatomy; climate conditions; exploration; fossil assemblage; landscape change; Neanderthal; Neolithic; occupation; paleoclimate; paleoecology; paleoenvironment; Pleistocene; rodent; steppe; taxonomy; vegetation cover; Africa; Asia; Europe; Iran; Khorramabad; Lorestan; Zagros; Dipodidae; Ellobius; Meriones; Microtus; Murinae; Myoxidae; Rodentia; Vertebrata
来源期刊	Quaternary Science Reviews
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/151499
作者单位	HNHP UMR 7194, CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, UPVD, Sorbonne Universités, Musée de l'Homme, Palais de Chaillot, 17 place du Trocadéro, Paris, 75016, France; Sezione di Scienze Preistoriche e Antropologiche, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, C.so Ercole I d'Este, Ferrara, 32 - 44121, Italy; Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES). Zona Educacional 4, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), Tarragona, 43007, Spain; Área de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Facultat de Lletres, Avinguda Catalunya 35, Tarragona, 43002, Spain; ISYEB UMR 7205, CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, UPMC, EPHE, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rey-Rodríguez I.,López-García J.-M.,Blain H.-A.,et al. Exploring the landscape and climatic conditions of Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans in the Middle East: the rodent assemblage from the late Pleistocene of Kaldar Cave (Khorramabad Valley; Iran)[J],2020,236.
APA	Rey-Rodríguez I..,López-García J.-M..,Blain H.-A..,Stoetzel E..,Denys C..,...&Bazgir B..(2020).Exploring the landscape and climatic conditions of Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans in the Middle East: the rodent assemblage from the late Pleistocene of Kaldar Cave (Khorramabad Valley; Iran).Quaternary Science Reviews,236.
MLA	Rey-Rodríguez I.,et al."Exploring the landscape and climatic conditions of Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans in the Middle East: the rodent assemblage from the late Pleistocene of Kaldar Cave (Khorramabad Valley; Iran)".Quaternary Science Reviews 236(2020).