Descripción del proyecto
Una nueva perspectiva de los primeros humanos modernos en la península ibérica
¿Fue el asentamiento de humanos en el interior de la península ibérica durante el último período de glaciación (hace entre 110 000 y 11 700 años) más estable de lo que se pensaba? ¿Cuáles fueron las implicaciones a escala europea de problemas como la sustitución de los neandertales por los seres humanos modernos, el primer poblado de seres humanos modernos de Europa y el uso de la tierra y los patrones de movilidad durante las etapas más frías de la última glaciación? Para responder a estas preguntas, el proyecto financiado con fondos europeos MULTIPALEOIBERIA investigará la dinámica de la población y las interacciones entre el ser humano y el medio ambiente de los últimos neandertales y los primeros seres humanos modernos en el interior de la península ibérica. Debido al sesgo histórico, estas regiones se han estudiado relativamente poco. El proyecto tiene como objetivo recoger pruebas de campo sin precedentes gracias a un programa de trabajo de campo macrorregional.
Objetivo
The relations between cultural developments and environmental change among hunter-gatherers are crucial for studying population dynamics during the last glaciation (110,000–11,700 years ago). However, proposing solid interpretations on how climate and environment variability affected the social and techno-economic organisation of hominins, requires robust geoarchaeological, chronological, and palaeoecological evidence. In the Iberian Peninsula, a key area for this period due to its geographic position and ecological variability, models on these topics are biased by the poor quality of available evidence for its interior lands. The Iberian interior has been traditionally depicted as a marginal and few populated region due to its harsh ecological conditions compared to the coastal areas. Based on preliminary data suggesting that this picture could be wrong, I hypothesize (1) that the human settlement of interior Iberia during this period was more stable than previously thought and (2) that his has relevant implications at the European scale for problems such as the replacement of Neandertals by modern humans, the first modern human peopling of Europe, and the patterns of land use and mobility during the coldest stages of the last glacial. To test these hypotheses, this project will investigate population dynamics and human-environment interactions of the last Neandertals and first modern humans in interior Iberia based on completely unprecedented evidence gathered by means of a macro-regional and interdisciplinary research project. This involves the participation of a wide team of scholars coordinated by the PI, and a network of methods including field surveys, geoarchaeological excavations and chronometric, paleoecological, zooarchaeological, techno-economic and symbolic studies. The results will significantly change our views on key biocultural and ecological processes of the European prehistory, and the way human societies have dealt with challenging environments.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
28801 Alcala De Henares/Madrid
España