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Docta Complutense author Martínez Pillado, Virginia author Aramburu Artano, Arantza author Arsuaga Ferreras, Juan Luis author Ruiz Zapata, María Blanca author Gil García, M. José author Stoll, Heather author Yusta Arnal, Iñaki author Iriarte, Eneko author Carretero, José Miguel author Edwards, R. Lawrence author Cheng, Hai 2023-06-19T15:00:21Z 2023-06-19T15:00:21Z 2014 0392-6672 10.5038/1827-806X.43.1.1 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/35101 http://www.ijs.speleo.it The Cueva Mayor karst system of Atapuerca, in Northern Spain, hosts a highly significant record of human occupation from the Pleistocene. The climatic context of the human activities during the Pleistocene-Holocene for this inland site has not been well constrained, since existing records of the palaeoclimatic evolution of the Northern Iberian Peninsula are from more distal coastal and high-elevation sites. In this study, we interpret the palaeoenvironmental information recorded on the petrography of a stalagmite and the pollen spectra of the Sierra de Atapuerca karst system during the last 20 kyr. The integration of both types of records has allowed us to define four palaeoenvironmental stages. During the Upper Pleistocene and until 12.8 kyr BP, the climate was cold and dry, toward the end of the interval evolving to wetter and warmer conditions. From 12.8 to 7.7 kyr BP, during the Mesolithic-Neolithic, a major erosion event in both records marks the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Around 5.9 kyr BP, the Late Neolithic, environmental conditions indicate a climatic optimum with a marked seasonality. The environmental conditions became drier from 4.2 kyr BP until the present, with a decrease in the woodlands. This aridity signal might be amplified by the impact of a more intense human agricultural activity after 3.1 kyr BP, during the Bronze Age. eng Upper Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoenvironmental records in Cueva Mayor karst (Atapuerca, Spain) from different proxies: speleothem crystal fabrics, palynology, and archaeology journal article URL https://docta.ucm.es/bitstreams/3766f094-23f9-4da9-a303-2088f81d360e/download File MD5 e9b2b5c6124a44e393f8d15468ee184c 9184752 application/pdf Palaeoenvironmental records from different proxies in northern Spain.pdf URL https://docta.ucm.es/bitstreams/37886607-1ad0-47ff-b60b-d106b4676682/download File MD5 e5587cf0cce2d0a16178093b62206599 57741 text/plain Palaeoenvironmental records from different proxies in northern Spain.pdf.txt