Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies in the Basque Country (Iberian Peninsula) in the light of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the last Glacial Period: cultural adaptations and the use of biotic resources
Upper Palaeolithic archaeological sites in the Basque Country have been excavated for over a century. They have yielded a rich palaeoenvironmental record with zoological and botanical remains that have been obtained in stratigraphic series dated precisely by radiocarbon. This information reveals cyc...
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| author | Maria-Jose Iriarte-Chiapusso Miren Ayerdi Naroa Garcia-Ibaibarriaga Arantzazu J. Pérez-Fernández Aritza Villaluenga Jon Arrizabalaga-Iriarte Lide Lejonagoitia-Garmendia Alvaro Arrizabalaga |
| author_facet | Maria-Jose Iriarte-Chiapusso Miren Ayerdi Naroa Garcia-Ibaibarriaga Arantzazu J. Pérez-Fernández Aritza Villaluenga Jon Arrizabalaga-Iriarte Lide Lejonagoitia-Garmendia Alvaro Arrizabalaga |
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| description | Upper Palaeolithic archaeological sites in the Basque Country have been excavated for over a century. They have yielded a rich palaeoenvironmental record with zoological and botanical remains that have been obtained in stratigraphic series dated precisely by radiocarbon. This information reveals cyclical environmental changes from climates similar to today to drier and extremely cold conditions, when species in current boreal biomes and others now extinct but with similar ecological preferences were present in the region. Moreover, the archaeological sites have provided high-resolution information about the resilience mechanisms of the communities of our own human species. This information allows us to increase the corpus of palaeoclimate data regarding the Marine Isotopic Stage (MIS) 2 and MIS 3 for a critical region within the human population of Eurasia. The aim of this paper is to show how an extraordinary capacity for adaptation to drastic climate changes Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies displayed, even though their subsistence depended on biotic resources that alter rapidly. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f9b99a22721a412092f83ffc186271402023-10-27T08:52:22ZengCambridge University PressAnnals of Glaciology0260-30551727-564411210.1017/aog.2023.60Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies in the Basque Country (Iberian Peninsula) in the light of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the last Glacial Period: cultural adaptations and the use of biotic resourcesMaria-Jose Iriarte-Chiapusso0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4409-2408Miren Ayerdi1Naroa Garcia-Ibaibarriaga2Arantzazu J. Pérez-Fernández3Aritza Villaluenga4Jon Arrizabalaga-Iriarte5Lide Lejonagoitia-Garmendia6Alvaro Arrizabalaga7Department of Geography, Prehistory and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Spain Basque Foundation for Science (IKERBASQUE), Bilbao, Bizkaia, SpainDepartment of Geography, Prehistory and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, SpainDepartment of Geography, Prehistory and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, SpainDepartment of Geography, Prehistory and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, SpainDepartment of Geography, Prehistory and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, SpainDepartment of Geography, Prehistory and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, SpainDepartment of Geography, Prehistory and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, SpainDepartment of Geography, Prehistory and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, SpainUpper Palaeolithic archaeological sites in the Basque Country have been excavated for over a century. They have yielded a rich palaeoenvironmental record with zoological and botanical remains that have been obtained in stratigraphic series dated precisely by radiocarbon. This information reveals cyclical environmental changes from climates similar to today to drier and extremely cold conditions, when species in current boreal biomes and others now extinct but with similar ecological preferences were present in the region. Moreover, the archaeological sites have provided high-resolution information about the resilience mechanisms of the communities of our own human species. This information allows us to increase the corpus of palaeoclimate data regarding the Marine Isotopic Stage (MIS) 2 and MIS 3 for a critical region within the human population of Eurasia. The aim of this paper is to show how an extraordinary capacity for adaptation to drastic climate changes Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies displayed, even though their subsistence depended on biotic resources that alter rapidly.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0260305523000605/type/journal_articleClimate changegeomorphologypalaeoclimate |
| spellingShingle | Maria-Jose Iriarte-Chiapusso Miren Ayerdi Naroa Garcia-Ibaibarriaga Arantzazu J. Pérez-Fernández Aritza Villaluenga Jon Arrizabalaga-Iriarte Lide Lejonagoitia-Garmendia Alvaro Arrizabalaga Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies in the Basque Country (Iberian Peninsula) in the light of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the last Glacial Period: cultural adaptations and the use of biotic resources Annals of Glaciology Climate change geomorphology palaeoclimate |
| title | Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies in the Basque Country (Iberian Peninsula) in the light of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the last Glacial Period: cultural adaptations and the use of biotic resources |
| title_full | Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies in the Basque Country (Iberian Peninsula) in the light of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the last Glacial Period: cultural adaptations and the use of biotic resources |
| title_fullStr | Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies in the Basque Country (Iberian Peninsula) in the light of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the last Glacial Period: cultural adaptations and the use of biotic resources |
| title_full_unstemmed | Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies in the Basque Country (Iberian Peninsula) in the light of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the last Glacial Period: cultural adaptations and the use of biotic resources |
| title_short | Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies in the Basque Country (Iberian Peninsula) in the light of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the last Glacial Period: cultural adaptations and the use of biotic resources |
| title_sort | upper palaeolithic hunter gatherer societies in the basque country iberian peninsula in the light of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the last glacial period cultural adaptations and the use of biotic resources |
| topic | Climate change geomorphology palaeoclimate |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0260305523000605/type/journal_article |
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