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Multi-purpose fossils? The reappraisal of an Elephas antiquus molar from El Pirulejo (Magdalenian; Cordoba, Spain)

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dc.contributor.authorCortés-Sánchez, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorMorales-Muñiz, Arturo
dc.contributor.authorJiménez-Espejo, Francisco
dc.contributor.authorÉvora, Marina
dc.contributor.authorDolores Simón-Vallejo, María
dc.contributor.authorGarcia-Alíx, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorMartínez Aguirre, Aránzazu
dc.contributor.authorAntonio Riquelme-Cantal, José
dc.contributor.authorOdriozola, Carlos P.
dc.contributor.authorParrilla Giráldez, Rubén
dc.contributor.authorÁlvarez-Lao, Diego J.
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-20T15:07:24Z
dc.date.available2019-11-20T15:07:24Z
dc.date.issued2017-09
dc.description.abstractFossil gathering by humans has been rarely documented in the Iberian Peninsula. In the present paper, a multidisciplinary approach has been taken to analyze a straight-tusked elephant (Elephas antiquus) molar retrieved in a Magdalenian deposit at the rock shelter of El Pirulejo in southern Spain. The taphonomical analyses revealed a multifarious use of a tooth that had not only been worked into an anvil-sort-of-tool but also used as a core and partly tainted with a composite pigment. The dating and geochemical analyses further evidenced that the molar derived from an animal that had lived in a rather arid landscape with a temperature range between 12.3 and 14.3 A degrees C coincident with a cold episode within marine isotope stage (MIS) 6.6 and probably fed on herbaceous plants. These analyses evidence the potential fossils from archaeological sites bear for addressing a wide range of issues that include both the cultural and paleoenvironmental realms.
dc.description.sponsorshipSpanish Ministerio de Economia y Competividad [HAR2013-44269-P, HAR 2014-55722-P, HAR2012-34620]
dc.description.sponsorshipPrograma Seneca [19438/PI/14]
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Seville
dc.description.sponsorshipMarie Curie Intra-European Fellowship within the 7th Framework Program for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration (European Commission) [PIEF-GA-2013-623027]
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-016-0324-1
dc.identifier.issn1866-9557
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/13020
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.subjectOxygen isotopes
dc.subjectBone phosphate
dc.subjectMiddle Pleistocene
dc.subjectIberian Peninsula
dc.subjectCave Israel
dc.subjectCollagen
dc.subjectEurope
dc.subjectPreservation
dc.subjectCarbonate
dc.subjectApatite
dc.subjectTooth
dc.subjectTaphonomy
dc.subjectU/Th dating
dc.subjectIsotopes
dc.subjectUpper Paleolithic
dc.subjectFossil gathering
dc.titleMulti-purpose fossils? The reappraisal of an Elephas antiquus molar from El Pirulejo (Magdalenian; Cordoba, Spain)
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage1303
oaire.citation.issue6
oaire.citation.startPage1287
oaire.citation.titleArchaeological and Anthropological Sciences
oaire.citation.volume9
person.familyNameSousa Almeida Évora
person.givenNameGlória Marina
person.identifier.ciencia-id5F1B-2588-1A0E
person.identifier.orcid0000-0003-2422-743X
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