Human forager response to abrupt climate change at 8.2 ka on the Atlantic coast of Europe.
Authors
García-Escárzaga, Asier
Gutiérrez-Zugasti, Igor
Marín-Arroyo, Ana B
Fernandes, Ricardo
Núñez de la Fuente, Sara
Cuenca-Solana, David
Iriarte, Eneko
Simões, Carlos
Martín-Chivelet, Javier
González-Morales, Manuel R
Roberts, Patrick
Publication Date
2022-04-20Journal Title
Sci Rep
ISSN
2045-2322
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Volume
12
Issue
1
Language
en
Type
Article
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García-Escárzaga, A., Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I., Marín-Arroyo, A. B., Fernandes, R., Núñez de la Fuente, S., Cuenca-Solana, D., Iriarte, E., et al. (2022). Human forager response to abrupt climate change at 8.2 ka on the Atlantic coast of Europe.. Sci Rep, 12 (1) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10135-w
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Funder: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004189
Funder: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (2)
Abstract
The cooling and drying associated with the so-called '8.2 ka event' have long been hypothesized as having sweeping implications for human societies in the Early Holocene, including some of the last Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Atlantic Europe. Nevertheless, detailed 'on-site' records with which the impacts of broader climate changes on human-relevant environments can be explored have been lacking. Here, we reconstruct sea surface temperatures (SST) from δ18O values measured on subfossil topshells Phorcus lineatus exploited by the Mesolithic human groups that lived at El Mazo cave (N Spain) between 9 and 7.4 ka. Bayesian modelling of 65 radiocarbon dates, in combination with this δ18O data, provide a high-resolution seasonal record of SST, revealing that colder SST during the 8.2 ka event led to changes in the availability of different shellfish species. Intensification in the exploitation of molluscs by humans indicates demographic growth in these Atlantic coastal settings which acted as refugia during this cold event.
Keywords
Article, /704/106/413, /631/158/856, /631/181/27, article
Sponsorship
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (HAR2016-75605-R)
Hezkuntza, Hizkuntza Politika Eta Kultura Saila, Eusko Jaurlaritza (POS_2020_2_0032)
HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council (SUBSILIENCE ERC-CoG project (grant agreement No. 818299))
Identifiers
s41598-022-10135-w, 10135
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10135-w
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/336690
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