Cargando…
Early evidence of fire in south-western Europe: the Acheulean site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal)
The site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal), with evidence of human occupancy dating to ca. 400 ka (Marine Isotope Stage 11), is one of the very few Middle Pleistocene localities to have provided a fossil hominin cranium associated with Acheulean bifaces in a cave context. The multi-analyt...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Nature Publishing Group UK
2020
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7374095/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32694542 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68839-w |
_version_ | 1783561622183215104 |
---|---|
author | Sanz, Montserrat Daura, Joan Cabanes, Dan Égüez, Natalia Carrancho, Ángel Badal, Ernestina Souto, Pedro Rodrigues, Filipa Zilhão, João |
author_facet | Sanz, Montserrat Daura, Joan Cabanes, Dan Égüez, Natalia Carrancho, Ángel Badal, Ernestina Souto, Pedro Rodrigues, Filipa Zilhão, João |
author_sort | Sanz, Montserrat |
collection | PubMed |
description | The site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal), with evidence of human occupancy dating to ca. 400 ka (Marine Isotope Stage 11), is one of the very few Middle Pleistocene localities to have provided a fossil hominin cranium associated with Acheulean bifaces in a cave context. The multi-analytic study reported here of the by-products of burning recorded in layer X suggests the presence of anthropogenic fires at the site, among the oldest such evidence in south-western Europe. The burnt material consists of bone, charcoal and, possibly, quartzite cobbles. These finds were made in a small area of the cave and in two separate occupation horizons. Our results add to our still-limited knowledge about the controlled use of fire in the Lower Palaeolithic and contribute to ongoing debates on the behavioural complexity of the Acheulean of Europe. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-7374095 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2020 |
publisher | Nature Publishing Group UK |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-73740952020-07-22 Early evidence of fire in south-western Europe: the Acheulean site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal) Sanz, Montserrat Daura, Joan Cabanes, Dan Égüez, Natalia Carrancho, Ángel Badal, Ernestina Souto, Pedro Rodrigues, Filipa Zilhão, João Sci Rep Article The site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal), with evidence of human occupancy dating to ca. 400 ka (Marine Isotope Stage 11), is one of the very few Middle Pleistocene localities to have provided a fossil hominin cranium associated with Acheulean bifaces in a cave context. The multi-analytic study reported here of the by-products of burning recorded in layer X suggests the presence of anthropogenic fires at the site, among the oldest such evidence in south-western Europe. The burnt material consists of bone, charcoal and, possibly, quartzite cobbles. These finds were made in a small area of the cave and in two separate occupation horizons. Our results add to our still-limited knowledge about the controlled use of fire in the Lower Palaeolithic and contribute to ongoing debates on the behavioural complexity of the Acheulean of Europe. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7374095/ /pubmed/32694542 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68839-w Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Sanz, Montserrat Daura, Joan Cabanes, Dan Égüez, Natalia Carrancho, Ángel Badal, Ernestina Souto, Pedro Rodrigues, Filipa Zilhão, João Early evidence of fire in south-western Europe: the Acheulean site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal) |
title | Early evidence of fire in south-western Europe: the Acheulean site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal) |
title_full | Early evidence of fire in south-western Europe: the Acheulean site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal) |
title_fullStr | Early evidence of fire in south-western Europe: the Acheulean site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal) |
title_full_unstemmed | Early evidence of fire in south-western Europe: the Acheulean site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal) |
title_short | Early evidence of fire in south-western Europe: the Acheulean site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal) |
title_sort | early evidence of fire in south-western europe: the acheulean site of gruta da aroeira (torres novas, portugal) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7374095/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32694542 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68839-w |
work_keys_str_mv | AT sanzmontserrat earlyevidenceoffireinsouthwesterneuropetheacheuleansiteofgrutadaaroeiratorresnovasportugal AT daurajoan earlyevidenceoffireinsouthwesterneuropetheacheuleansiteofgrutadaaroeiratorresnovasportugal AT cabanesdan earlyevidenceoffireinsouthwesterneuropetheacheuleansiteofgrutadaaroeiratorresnovasportugal AT egueznatalia earlyevidenceoffireinsouthwesterneuropetheacheuleansiteofgrutadaaroeiratorresnovasportugal AT carranchoangel earlyevidenceoffireinsouthwesterneuropetheacheuleansiteofgrutadaaroeiratorresnovasportugal AT badalernestina earlyevidenceoffireinsouthwesterneuropetheacheuleansiteofgrutadaaroeiratorresnovasportugal AT soutopedro earlyevidenceoffireinsouthwesterneuropetheacheuleansiteofgrutadaaroeiratorresnovasportugal AT rodriguesfilipa earlyevidenceoffireinsouthwesterneuropetheacheuleansiteofgrutadaaroeiratorresnovasportugal AT zilhaojoao earlyevidenceoffireinsouthwesterneuropetheacheuleansiteofgrutadaaroeiratorresnovasportugal |