RT Journal Article
T1 New interpretation of the Gran Dolina-TD6 bearing Homoantecessor deposits through sedimentological analysis
A1 Campaña Lozano, Isidoro
A1 Pérez González, Alfredo José
A1 Benito Calvo, Alfonso
A1 Rosell Ardèvol, Jordi
A1 Bermúdez de Castro, José María
A1 Carbonell i Roura, Eudald
A1 Arsuaga Ferreras, Juan Luis
A1 Blasco, Ruth
AB Gran Dolina is a cavity infilled by at least 25m of Pleistocene sediments.This sequence contains the TD6 stratigraphic unit, whose records include around 170 hominin bones that have allowed the definition of a new species, Homo antecessor. This fossil accumulation was studied as a single assemblage and interpreted as a succession of several human home bases. We propose a complete stratigraphic context and sedimentological interpretation for TD6, analyzing the relationships between the sedimentary facies, the clasts and archaeo-palaeontological remains. The TD6 unit has been divided into three subunits and 13 layers. Nine sedimentary facies have been defined. Hominin remains appear related to three different sedimentary facies: debris flow facies, channel facies and floodplain facies. They show three kinds of distribution: first a group of scattered fossils, then a group with layers of fossils in fluvial facies, and third a group with a layer of fossils in mixed fluvial and gravity flow facies. The results of this work suggest that some of these hominin remains accumulated in the cave by geological processes, coming from the adjacent slope above the cave or the cave entry, as the palaeogeography and sedimentary characteristics of these allochthonous facies suggest.
PB Nature Publishing Group
SN 2045-2322 ; online Issn: 2045-2322
YR 2016
FD 2016-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18889
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18889
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)/FEDER
NO Generalitat de Catalunya
NO SéNeCa Foundation
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025