Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis

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Autor(a) principal: Muttoni, Giovanni
Data de Publicação: 2018
Outros Autores: Scardia, Giancarlo [UNESP], Kent, Dennis V.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.10.031
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/160065
Resumo: Our updated review of sites bearing hominin remains and/or tools from Europe, including new findings from the Balkans, still indicates that the only compelling evidence of main hominin presence in these regions was only since similar to 0.9 million years ago (Ma), bracketed by the end of the Jaramillo geomagnetic polarity subchron (0.99 Ma) and the Brunhes-Matuyama polarity chron boundary (0.78 Ma). This time window straddled the late Early Pleistocene climate transition (EPT) at the onset of enhanced glacial/interglacial activity that reverberated worldwide. Europe may have become initially populated during the EPT when, possibly for the first time in the Pleistocene, vast and exploitable ecosystems were generated along the eustatically emergent Po-Danube terrestrial conduit. These newly formed settings, characterized by stable terrestrial lowlands with open grasslands and reduced woody cover especially during glacial/interglacial transitions, are regarded as optimal ecosystems for several large Galerian immigrant mammals such as African and Asian megaherbivores, possibly linked with hominins in a common food web, to expand into en route to Europe. The question of when hominins first arrived in Europe thus places the issue in the context of changes in climate, paleogeography and faunal associations as potential environmental drivers and controlling agents in a specific time frame, a key feature of the Galerian migration hypothesis. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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spelling Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesisEarly PleistoceneHomininsGalerian mammalsEuropeMigrationsOur updated review of sites bearing hominin remains and/or tools from Europe, including new findings from the Balkans, still indicates that the only compelling evidence of main hominin presence in these regions was only since similar to 0.9 million years ago (Ma), bracketed by the end of the Jaramillo geomagnetic polarity subchron (0.99 Ma) and the Brunhes-Matuyama polarity chron boundary (0.78 Ma). This time window straddled the late Early Pleistocene climate transition (EPT) at the onset of enhanced glacial/interglacial activity that reverberated worldwide. Europe may have become initially populated during the EPT when, possibly for the first time in the Pleistocene, vast and exploitable ecosystems were generated along the eustatically emergent Po-Danube terrestrial conduit. These newly formed settings, characterized by stable terrestrial lowlands with open grasslands and reduced woody cover especially during glacial/interglacial transitions, are regarded as optimal ecosystems for several large Galerian immigrant mammals such as African and Asian megaherbivores, possibly linked with hominins in a common food web, to expand into en route to Europe. The question of when hominins first arrived in Europe thus places the issue in the context of changes in climate, paleogeography and faunal associations as potential environmental drivers and controlling agents in a specific time frame, a key feature of the Galerian migration hypothesis. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.University of MilanBoard of Governors Professorship of Rutgers UniversityUniv Milan, Dipartimento Sci Terra Ardito Desio, Via Mangiagalli 34, I-20133 Milan, ItalyUniv Estadual Paulista, Inst Geociencias & Ciencias Exatas, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP, BrazilRutgers State Univ, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USAColumbia Univ, Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY 10964 USAUniv Estadual Paulista, Inst Geociencias & Ciencias Exatas, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP, BrazilElsevier B.V.Univ MilanUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Rutgers State UnivColumbia UnivMuttoni, GiovanniScardia, Giancarlo [UNESP]Kent, Dennis V.2018-11-26T15:47:22Z2018-11-26T15:47:22Z2018-01-15info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article1-29application/pdfhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.10.031Quaternary Science Reviews. Oxford: Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, v. 180, p. 1-29, 2018.0277-3791http://hdl.handle.net/11449/16006510.1016/j.quascirev.2017.10.031WOS:000424183200001WOS000424183200001.pdfWeb of Sciencereponame:Repositório Institucional da UNESPinstname:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)instacron:UNESPengQuaternary Science Reviews2,668info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2023-10-12T06:02:43Zoai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/160065Repositório InstitucionalPUBhttp://repositorio.unesp.br/oai/requestopendoar:29462024-08-05T14:39:21.866684Repositório Institucional da UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis
title Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis
spellingShingle Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis
Muttoni, Giovanni
Early Pleistocene
Hominins
Galerian mammals
Europe
Migrations
title_short Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis
title_full Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis
title_fullStr Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis
title_full_unstemmed Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis
title_sort Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis
author Muttoni, Giovanni
author_facet Muttoni, Giovanni
Scardia, Giancarlo [UNESP]
Kent, Dennis V.
author_role author
author2 Scardia, Giancarlo [UNESP]
Kent, Dennis V.
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Univ Milan
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Rutgers State Univ
Columbia Univ
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Muttoni, Giovanni
Scardia, Giancarlo [UNESP]
Kent, Dennis V.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Early Pleistocene
Hominins
Galerian mammals
Europe
Migrations
topic Early Pleistocene
Hominins
Galerian mammals
Europe
Migrations
description Our updated review of sites bearing hominin remains and/or tools from Europe, including new findings from the Balkans, still indicates that the only compelling evidence of main hominin presence in these regions was only since similar to 0.9 million years ago (Ma), bracketed by the end of the Jaramillo geomagnetic polarity subchron (0.99 Ma) and the Brunhes-Matuyama polarity chron boundary (0.78 Ma). This time window straddled the late Early Pleistocene climate transition (EPT) at the onset of enhanced glacial/interglacial activity that reverberated worldwide. Europe may have become initially populated during the EPT when, possibly for the first time in the Pleistocene, vast and exploitable ecosystems were generated along the eustatically emergent Po-Danube terrestrial conduit. These newly formed settings, characterized by stable terrestrial lowlands with open grasslands and reduced woody cover especially during glacial/interglacial transitions, are regarded as optimal ecosystems for several large Galerian immigrant mammals such as African and Asian megaherbivores, possibly linked with hominins in a common food web, to expand into en route to Europe. The question of when hominins first arrived in Europe thus places the issue in the context of changes in climate, paleogeography and faunal associations as potential environmental drivers and controlling agents in a specific time frame, a key feature of the Galerian migration hypothesis. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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http://hdl.handle.net/11449/160065
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WOS:000424183200001
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http://hdl.handle.net/11449/160065
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