This article undertakes a palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction of the Middle Bronze Age on the basis of a study of the small mammals from level MIR 4 of El Mirador Cave. The chronology of the level under study is 3,720-3,140 cal. yr BP. The palaeoenvironmental analysis indicates that it represents the period of transition between the Subboreal and the Subatlantic, during which prevailed a very humid habitat, dominated by woodland and wet meadows. Otherwise, the palaeoclimatic analysis, carried out using the Mutual Climatic Range method (MCR), reveals that level MIR 4 falls within an interval in which the temperatures were very similar to present-day ones, while mean annual precipitation was notably higher than at present, i.e. 485 mm above the present level for Burgos.
Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic approach of the Middle Bronze Age (level MIR 4) from El Mirador Cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)
BANULS CARDONA, Sandra;
2013
Abstract
This article undertakes a palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction of the Middle Bronze Age on the basis of a study of the small mammals from level MIR 4 of El Mirador Cave. The chronology of the level under study is 3,720-3,140 cal. yr BP. The palaeoenvironmental analysis indicates that it represents the period of transition between the Subboreal and the Subatlantic, during which prevailed a very humid habitat, dominated by woodland and wet meadows. Otherwise, the palaeoclimatic analysis, carried out using the Mutual Climatic Range method (MCR), reveals that level MIR 4 falls within an interval in which the temperatures were very similar to present-day ones, while mean annual precipitation was notably higher than at present, i.e. 485 mm above the present level for Burgos.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
