Climate and landscape during Heinrich Event 3 in south-western Europe: the small-vertebrate association from Galls Carboners cave (Mont-ral, Tarragona, north-eastern Iberia)

  1. López García, Juan Manuel 7
  2. Blain, Hugues Alexandre 12
  3. Bennàsar Serra, Maria 12
  4. Alcover, Josep Antoni 6
  5. Bañuls Cardona, Sandra 3
  6. Fernández García, Mónica 2
  7. Fontanals i Torroja, Marta 12
  8. Martín Rodríguez, Patricia 12
  9. Morales Hidalgo, Juan Ignacio 12
  10. Muñoz Encinar, Laura 4
  11. Pedro Pascual, Mireia 5
  12. Vergès Bosch, Josep Maria 12
  1. 1 IPHES; Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social; Tarragona Spain
  2. 2 Àrea de Prehistòria; Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV); Tarragona Spain
  3. 3 Sezione di Scienze Preistoriche e Antropologiche, Dipartamento di Studi Umanistici; Università degli Studi di Ferrara; Ferrara Italy
  4. 4 Área de Historia Contemporánea, Departamento de Historia, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres; Spain
  5. 5 SERP, Seminari d'Estudis i Recerques Prehistòriques, Departament de Prehistòria, Història Antiga i Arqueologia; Universitat de Barcelona; Barcelona Spain
  6. 6 Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats; CSIC-UIB; Esporles Mallorca Spain
  7. 7 Sezione di Scienze Preistoriche e Antropologiche, Dipartamento di Studi Umanistici; Università degli Studi di Ferrara; Ferrara, Italy
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Journal of Quaternary Science

ISSN: 0267-8179

Year of publication: 2014

Volume: 29

Issue: 2

Pages: 130-140

Type: Article

DOI: 10.1002/JQS.2687 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Heinrich Event 3 (H3) is well documented in the North Atlantic Ocean as a cooling event that occurred ca. 31 000 years ago. Deep-sea cores around the Iberian Peninsula coastline have been analysed to characterize the H3 event, but there are no data on the terrestrial response to this event. Here we present for the first time an analysis of terrestrial proxies for characterizing the H3 event, using the small-vertebrate assemblage (comprising small mammals, squamates and amphibians) from the Galls Carboners cave, an archaeo-palaeontological deposit located in the Prades mountain range in the north-eastern Iberian Peninsula. This assemblage shows the H3 event to be characterized in north-eastern Iberia by harsher and drier terrestrial conditions than today. Our results were compared with the small-vertebrate assemblage data recovered from present-day Strix aluco pellets available from this site, as well as with the general H3 event fluctuations and with other sites where the previous Heinrich events (H5 and H4) and subsequent Late Glacial Maximum have been detected in the Mediterranean and Atlantic regions of the Iberian Peninsula. Terrestrial proxies seem to follow the same climatic pattern as detected in the deep-sea cores at NorthGRIP and the Iberian margins.

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  • European Union through the Marie Curie Actions of the 7th Framework Program for R+D. J.I.M.
  • AGAUR (Generalitat de Catalunya)
  • European Social Fund.
    • CGL2012-38358
    • SGR2009-324

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