Vitrina CERO: Dama celiae. El gamo que habitó el valle del Manzanares (Madrid) hace 300.000 años entre cazadores achelenses
Loading...
Download
Full text at PDC
Publication date
2024
Advisors (or tutors)
Editors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Ministerio de Cultura
Citation
Abstract
En esta ocasión el espacio museográfico Vitrina CERO presenta al público el reciente descubrimiento de Dama celiae, un cérvido con dos únicas puntas en cada asta, que aporta nueva
información fósil acerca de la evolución de los gamos durante el Pleistoceno. Las especies de este género se diversificaron en dos linajes: uno, extinto, redujo el número de puntas en sus astas, mientras que el segundo conduce a los gamos actuales con astas con varias puntas y una palmación. Dama celiae es el último representante del linaje de gamos sin astas palmeadas. Junto con otra especie de ciervo, hasta ahora desconocido en el resto de Europa, estas especies documentadas en el valle del río Manzanares (Madrid) hace 300 000 años son posiblemente el resultado de adaptaciones endémicas a un medio ambiente singular debido a la exposición de depósitos de yeso y una vegetación adaptada a este ambiente. La nueva especie ha sido reconocida en los sitios de Pedro Jaro I y Orcasitas. La presencia de herramientas líticas en depósitos fluviales próximos a los que preservaron los restos de estos gamos, junto a la existencia de marcas de corte en algunos huesos, implica que fueron consumidos y posiblemente cazados por especies humanas anteriores a los neandertales.
On this occasion, the space called ZERO Showcase was used to present Dama celiae to the museum visitors, a recently discovered cervid with only two points on each antler, that provides unprecedented fossil information about the evolution of fallow deer during the Pleistocene. The species of this genus gave rise to two different lineages: one, now extinct, reduced the number of antler points, while the second one led to the modern fallow deer with palmated antlers. Dama celiae is the end member of the non-palmated lineage. Various species of cervids are documented in the Manzanares valley (Madrid) of 300 000 years ago, but are unknown from the rest of Europe and are possibly the result of endemic adaptations to a particular environment, with abundant outcrops of Miocene gypsum deposits and a gypsophile vegetation. The new species of fallow deer has been recognised in the sites of Pedro Jaro I and Orcasitas (Dama celiae). The presence of lithic tools in fluvial deposits close to the ones that preserved the remains of these deer lived, combined with the existence of cut marks on certain bones, suggests that they were consumed and possibly hunted by human species that pre-dated the Neanderthals.
On this occasion, the space called ZERO Showcase was used to present Dama celiae to the museum visitors, a recently discovered cervid with only two points on each antler, that provides unprecedented fossil information about the evolution of fallow deer during the Pleistocene. The species of this genus gave rise to two different lineages: one, now extinct, reduced the number of antler points, while the second one led to the modern fallow deer with palmated antlers. Dama celiae is the end member of the non-palmated lineage. Various species of cervids are documented in the Manzanares valley (Madrid) of 300 000 years ago, but are unknown from the rest of Europe and are possibly the result of endemic adaptations to a particular environment, with abundant outcrops of Miocene gypsum deposits and a gypsophile vegetation. The new species of fallow deer has been recognised in the sites of Pedro Jaro I and Orcasitas (Dama celiae). The presence of lithic tools in fluvial deposits close to the ones that preserved the remains of these deer lived, combined with the existence of cut marks on certain bones, suggests that they were consumed and possibly hunted by human species that pre-dated the Neanderthals.