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The excavation of buried articulated neanderthal skeletons at Sima de las Palomas, Murcia, SE Spain.

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dc.contributor.authorWalker, Michael J.
dc.contributor.authorLópez Martínez, Mariano V.
dc.contributor.authorOrtega Rodrigáñez, Jon
dc.contributor.authorHaber Uriarte, María
dc.contributor.authorLópez Jiménez, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorAvilés Fernández, Azuzena
dc.contributor.authorPolo Camacho, Juan Luis
dc.contributor.authorCampillo Boj, Matías
dc.contributor.authorGarcía Torres, Jesús
dc.contributor.authorSan Nicolás del Toro, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorRodríguez Estrella, Tomás
dc.contributor.authorCarrión García, José Sebastián
dc.contributor.departmentPrehistoria, Arqueología, Historia Antigua, Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas
dc.coverage.spatialRegión de Murciaes
dc.coverage.temporalPaleolítico Medioes
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-29T11:55:33Z
dc.date.available2025-01-29T11:55:33Z
dc.date.issued2012-05-09
dc.description© 2011 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. This document is the Published Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Quaternary International. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.03.034
dc.description.abstractAt Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo (Murcia, Spain) remains of several Neanderthals have been excavated recently. From about 50,000 years ago articulated parts of 3 adult skeletons (including skulls with mandibles, vertebral column, rib cages, shoulder blades, hip bones, upper and lower limbs, hands and feet, often in anatomical connexion) were excavated from the lower part of a cemented accumulation of scree and large stones (éboulis) sloping downwards and inwards into the cavity, along with burnt bones of large mammals and Mousterian implements. The excavation of the skeletons is the subject of this paper (palaeoanthropological skeletal descriptions are soon to be published elsewhere). Behind the cemented scree there accumulated a layer of finer sediment containing burnt animal bones, followed by more fine sediment that filled the cavity up to the overhanging rock roof and contained isolated teeth and unburnt bone fragments of Neanderthals, including 3 mandibles, as well as Mousterian implements and faunal remains, all dating from before 40,000 years ago. Altogether, at least 9 Neanderthals are represented by finds from the site (including 3 unstratified mandibles), ranging from babies to adults. Dating methods include radiocarbon, uranium-series, and optical luminescence. Pollen analysis implies conditions less severe than those of the Heinrich 4 cold oscillation at 40,000 years ago.es
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dc.identifier.citationQuaternary International, 2012, Vol. 259, pp.7-21
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.03.034
dc.identifier.issnPrint: 1040-6182
dc.identifier.issnElectronic: 1873-4553
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/149600
dc.languageenges
dc.publisherElsevieres
dc.relationExcavation of the articulated Neanderthal skeletons was made possible thanks to financial assistance from the University of Murcia (Proyecto Propio 12441/2009), the Fundación Séneca of the Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia (Proyecto 05584/ARQ/07), the Dirección General de Investigación of the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Proyecto CGL2005-02410/BTE) and the Dirección General de Investigación of the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Proyecto BOS-2002-02375).es
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618211001807
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dc.subjectNeanderthales
dc.subjectSima de las Palomases
dc.subject.otherCDU::9 - Geografía e historia::902 - Arqueología. Prehistoriaes
dc.subject.otherCDU::5 - Ciencias puras y naturales::56 - Paleontologíaes
dc.subject.otherCDU::5 - Ciencias puras y naturales::57 - Biología::572 - Antropologíaes
dc.titleThe excavation of buried articulated neanderthal skeletons at Sima de las Palomas, Murcia, SE Spain.es
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