RT Journal Article
T1 On the age of the hominid fossils at the Sima de los Huesos, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain: paleomagnetic evidence
A1 Parés, J. M.
A1 Pérez González, Alfredo José
A1 Weil, A. B.
A1 Arsuaga Ferreras, Juan Luis
AB We report new paleomagnetic data for the Middle Pleistocene hominid-bearing strata in the Sima de los Huesos, North Spain. Sediments (brown muds with human and bear fossils and the underlying sterile clayey and sandy unit) preserve both normal and reversed magnetic components. The sterile unit has exclusively reversed magnetization, dating back to the Matuyama Chron, and thus is Lower Pleistocene in age. The overlying fossiliferous muds have a dominant normal magnetization that overprints a partially resolved reversed magnetization. These data are compatible with one of the reversal events that occurred during the Brunhes Chron. Combined with the existing U-series dates and evidence from the macro- and microfauna, these paleomagnetic results suggest an age of the hominid fossils between 325 to 205 ka, whereas the underlying sand and silts are older than 780 ka.
PB Wiley
SN 0002-9483
YR 2000
FD 2000
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104784
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104784
LA eng
NO Parés, Josep M., Alfredo Pérez-González, Arlo B. Weil, y Juan Luis Arsuaga. «On the Age of the Hominid Fossils at the Sima de Los Huesos, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain: Paleomagnetic Evidence». American Journal of Physical Anthropology 111, n.o 4 (abril de 2000): 451-61. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(200004)111:4<451::AID-AJPA2>3.0.CO;2-J.
NO DGES
NO Unidad Asociada CSIC-UCM
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025