75764 20200922122722.0 doi 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.11.006 sideral 102735 ART-2018-102735 eng Alday, Alfonso The silence of the layers: Archaeological site visibility in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition at the Ebro Basin 2018 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The Ebro Basin constitutes one of the most representative territories in SW Europe for the study of prehistoric societies during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. The correlation of palaeoenvironmental and geomorphological proxies obtained from sedimentary records with chronologically well-constrained reference archaeological sites has allowed defining this time frame precisely, such that three main pilot areas haven been broadly depicted: the Alavese region, the Pre-Pyrenees and the Bajo Aragón. Overall, the human imprint in the Ebro Basin was rare during the Upper Palaeolithic, but more visible from the Upper Magdalenian (14500–13500 cal BP) to Neolithic times (up to 5500 cal BP). Local environmental resources were continuously managed by the prehistoric communities in the different areas of study. In fact, the Ebro Basin acted during those millennia as a whole, developing the same cultural trends, industrial techniques and settlement patterns in parallel throughout the territory. However, some gaps exist in the 14C frequency curve (SCDPD curve). This is partially related to prehistoric sites in particular lithologies and geological structures that could have partly been lost by erosional processes, especially during the Early Holocene. In addition, this gap also parallels the reconstructed climate trend for the Pre-Pyrenean and the Bajo Aragón areas, which are defined by high frequencies of xerophilous flora until ca. 9500 cal BP, suggesting that continental climate features could have hampered the presence of well-established human communities in inland regions. The interdisciplinary research (archaeology, geomorphology and palaeoclimatology) discussed in this paper offers clues to understand the existence of fills and gaps in the archaeological record of the Ebro Basin, and can be applied in other territories with similar geographic and climate patterns. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H07 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S97-PALEOQ info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2015-69160-R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/HAR2014-59042-P info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/RYC-2013-12613 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 4.641 2018 GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL 5 / 50 = 0.1 2018 Q1 T1 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 13 / 195 = 0.067 2018 Q1 T1 2.786 2018 Archeology 2018 Q1 Archeology (arts and humanities) 2018 Q1 Global and Planetary Change 2018 Q1 Geology 2018 Q1 Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2018 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion (orcid)0000-0003-3894-7112 Domingo, Rafael Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-7646-0826 Sebastián, María Universidad de Zaragoza Soto, Adriana Aranbarri, Josu González-Sampériz, Penélope Sampietro-Vattuone, María Marta (orcid)0000-0002-9181-9833 Utrilla, Pilar Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-0628-2582 Montes, Lourdes Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-4067-8222 Peña-Monné, José Luis Universidad de Zaragoza 4006 210 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Didác.Leng.y CC.HH.y SS. Área Didáctica Ciencias Socia. 3006 430 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Geograf. Ordenac.Territ. Área Geografía Física 3000 695 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Antigüed. Área Prehistoria 184 (2018), 85-106 Quat. sci. rev. Quaternary Science Reviews 0277-3791 1543634 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/75764/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 66868 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/75764/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:75764 articulos driver 2020-09-22-12:19:08 ARTICLE