000145456 001__ 145456 000145456 005__ 20241030091919.0 000145456 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1016/j.quaint.2024.10.001 000145456 0248_ $$2sideral$$a140300 000145456 037__ $$aART-2024-140300 000145456 041__ $$aeng 000145456 100__ $$aIriarte-Chiapusso, María José 000145456 245__ $$aChanges in pollen and small mammal spectrum compositions and in human-landscape relationships during the last 40,000 years of the Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Cantabrian Spain 000145456 260__ $$c2024 000145456 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000145456 5203_ $$aThe important albeit discontinuous pollen and more complete small mammal microrecords from the long, Late Upper Pleistocene stratigraphic deposit in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain, >47,000–12,000 cal BP) are presented and compared in detail. They describe a sequence of environmental conditions varying from cold and relatively dry to somewhat more temperate and more humid throughout the course of late MIS 3 and MIS 2, and into the early Holocene conditions of MIS 1, with variable intensity and function of human occupation of the cave during late Mousterian, Gravettian, Solutrean, Magdalenian and Azilian cultural periods. In general, the discontinuous palynological record is concordant with the more continuous small mammal sequence in tracing the changes in local climate and landscape within the broader context of the high relief and coastal setting of the Cantabrian region of northern Atlantic Iberia. Shifts in the extent and composition of open versus wooded vegetation in the montane and low valley surroundings of the cave are documented by the analyses detailed here. Some of the environmental fluctuations, namely the Last Glacial Maximum, the Late Glacial and the at the beginning of the Holocene, seem to have had significant effects on the nature of human uses of this cave with short, ephemeral, special/limited-function visits, while Oldest Dryas, despite its still-rigorous conditions but abundant pasture for game species (red deer and ibex), did not prevent the cave from being used as a major, repetitive, long-term base camp for foraging bands, notably during the Cantabrian Lower Magdalenian. 000145456 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2021-126937NB-I00 000145456 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby-nc-nd$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 000145456 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000145456 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-0041-0507$$aAlfaro-Ibáñez, María-Pilar$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000145456 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-5125-9651$$aCuenca Bescós, Gloria$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000145456 700__ $$aGonzález Morales, Manuel Ramón 000145456 700__ $$aStraus, Lawrence Guy 000145456 7102_ $$12000$$2655$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Ciencias de la Tierra$$cÁrea Paleontología 000145456 773__ $$g(2024), [18 pp.]$$pQuat. int.$$tQuaternary International$$x1040-6182 000145456 8564_ $$s10590590$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/145456/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000145456 8564_ $$s2585637$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/145456/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000145456 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:145456$$particulos$$pdriver 000145456 951__ $$a2024-10-30-08:48:51 000145456 980__ $$aARTICLE