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标题：Early Pleistocene hominin dispersals in Eurasia: East-West or North-South? The small vertebrate approach
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作者：Jordi AGUSTÍ et al.
期刊名称：Communication on Contemporary Anthropology
印刷版ISSN：1939-0580
电子版ISSN：1936-4458
出版年度：2010
卷号：4
页码：184-185
DOI：10.4236/coca.2010.41031
出版社：Hans Publishers
摘要：In addition to Dmanisi in Georgia and the Atapuerca karstic complex in central Spain, the Guadix-Baza Basin (Granada, SE Spain) plays an outstanding role in the understanding of the how and when of the early human settlement of Europe. This basin records the oldest presence of early Pleistocene hominids in Western Europe, as evidenced by the thousands of Mode 1 lithic tools from the sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3. Moreover, as a difference with the Atapuerca karstic complex, the Guadix-Baza Basin is composed of a complete sequence of fluviatile and lacustrine sediments that ranges from the latest Miocene to the late middle Pleistocene. Particularly significant is the Pliocene-Pleistocene record in the Baza sub-basin, composed of fluviatile and lacustrine sediments which have yielded dozens of large and small vertebrate fossiliferous levels, including amphibians, squamates, insectivores, rodents and lagomorphs.