A MIS 15-MIS 12 record of environmental changes and Lower Palaeolithic occupation from Valle Giumentina, central Italy

作者：Villa Valentina; Pereira Alison; Chausse Christine; Nomade Sebastien; Giaccio Biagio; Limondin Lozouet Nicole; Fusco Fabio; Regattieri Eleonora; Degeai Jean Philippe; Robert Vincent; Kuzucuoglu Catherine; Boschian Giovanni; Agostini Silvano; Aureli Daniele; Pagli Marina; Bahain Jean Jacques; Nicoud Elisa

来源：Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016, 151: 160-184.

DOI：10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.09.006

• Middle pleistocene
• Palaeoenvironment
• Ar-40/Ar-39 dating
• Tephrostratigraphy
• Central Italy
• Lower Palaeolithic

An integrated geological study, including sedimentology, stable isotope analysis (delta O-18, delta C-13), geochemistry, micromorphology, biomarker analysis, Ar-40/Ar-38 geochronology and tephrochronology, was undertaken on the Quaternary infill of the Valle Giumentina basin in Central Italy, which also includes an outstanding archaeological succession, composed of nine human occupation levels ascribed to the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic. Ar-40/Ar-38 dating, and other palaeoenvironmental and tephrochronological data, constrain the sedimentary history of the whole succession to the MIS 15-MIS 12 interval, between 618 +/- 13 ka and 456 +/- 2 ka. Palaeoenvironmental proxies suggest that over this time interval of about 150 ka, sedimentary and pedogenic processes were mainly influenced by climatic changes, in particular by the pulsing of local mountain glaciers of the Majella massif. Specifically, the Valle Giumentina succession records glacio-fluvial and lacustrine sedimentation during the colder glacial periods and pedogenesis and/or alluvial sedimentation during the warmer interglacial and/or interstadial periods. During this interval, tectonics played a negligible role as a driving factor of local morphogenesis and sedimentation, whereas the general regional uplift experienced in the Middle Pleistocene led to capture of the basin and its definitive extinction after MIS 12. These data substantially improve previous knowledge of the chronology and sedimentary evolution of the succession, providing for the first time, a well constrained chronological and palaeoenvironmental framework for the archaeological and human palaeoecological record of Valle Giumentina.

• 出版日期2016-11-1