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Colocando a los últimos neandertales en un contexto climático
P C Tzedakis1, K A Hughen, I Cacho
1Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. p.c.tzedakis@leeds.ac.uk
Nature
|September 14, 2007
Resumen
Este estudio utiliza una nueva estratigrafía climática de radiocarbono para fechar artefactos neandertales de Gorham.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Paleoclimatología Paleoclimatología
- Arqueología Arqueología.
- Ciencia Cuaternaria La ciencia cuaternaria es la ciencia cuaternaria.
Sus antecedentes:
- La datación climática precisa de los hallazgos paleolíticos es un desafío debido a las incertidumbres de la calibración de radiocarbono y la falta de cronologías climáticas maestras.
- Los métodos existentes luchan por correlacionar los hallazgos arqueológicos con eventos climáticos específicos, lo que complica las interpretaciones de la evolución humana.
- El papel del clima en la extinción de los neandertales sigue siendo objeto de debate, en parte debido a las dificultades para datar con precisión sus ocupaciones finales.
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