The sensitive adaptation of the small mammals to habitats and climates make them an optimum material for the study of palaeoenvironmental changes. Moreover, in the Cova Colomera’s case, that its records goes from Late Pleistocene to Bronze Age, it allows us to see the climatic and landscape evolution that happened during these periods in the occidental limit of northwestern Catalonia. We have achieved this by applying the Habitat Weigthings method in our sample. That is, the distribution of the species represented in relation to their optimum habitat as well as the distribution of these same species in each archaeological level. This has permitted us to observe the differences between the species of the Pleistocene and those of the Holocene, showing the change from rigorous climatic conditions at the end of the Pleistocene to more mild ones during the Holocene.

Análisis de los cambios paleoambientales del Pleistoceno superior final-Holoceno a partir del estudio de micromamíferos en la cova Colomera (Sant Esteve de la Sarga, Lleida)

BANULS CARDONA, Sandra
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2009

Abstract

The sensitive adaptation of the small mammals to habitats and climates make them an optimum material for the study of palaeoenvironmental changes. Moreover, in the Cova Colomera’s case, that its records goes from Late Pleistocene to Bronze Age, it allows us to see the climatic and landscape evolution that happened during these periods in the occidental limit of northwestern Catalonia. We have achieved this by applying the Habitat Weigthings method in our sample. That is, the distribution of the species represented in relation to their optimum habitat as well as the distribution of these same species in each archaeological level. This has permitted us to observe the differences between the species of the Pleistocene and those of the Holocene, showing the change from rigorous climatic conditions at the end of the Pleistocene to more mild ones during the Holocene.
2009
978-84-7956-094-2
978-84-7956-094-2
La sensible adaptación de los micromamíferos a los hábitats y a los climas, hacen de ellos un material óptimo para el estudio de los cambios paleoambientales. Además en nuestro caso, la Cova Colomera, al poseer un registro que abarca desde el Pleistoceno Superior a la Edad del Bronce, nos permite ver la evolución tanto climática como paisajística durante estas cronologías en el límite occidental de Cataluña. Esto lo hemos conseguido aplicando sobre nuestra muestra el método conocido como Habitat Weigthings, es decir la distribución de las especies representadas en función a su hábitat óptimo y la distribución de estas mismas especies por niveles, lo que nos ha permitido observar diferencias entre las especies del Pleistoceno y las del Holoceno, viendo como se pasó de unas condiciones climáticas rigurosas durante finales del Pleistoceno a otras más benignas durante el Holoceno.
small mammals, Cova Colomera, palaeoenvironmental and Habitat Weigthings
micromamíferos, Cova Colomera, paleoambiente y Habitat Weigthing
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