The Human Colonization of the High Andes and Southern South America during the Cold Pulses of the Late Pleistocene

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ID20072737
AuthorsStella M Blockley, C Gamble (0000-0002-2897-0485)
Year2016
Pages57-78
Publication date2016-05-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueHunter-Gatherer Behavior (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315427133-8
OpenAlexW2956308927
ISBN9781315427133
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This chapter examines the consequences of the Younger Dryas (YD) in Britain and Europe where its effect on climate was marked; January temperatures were up to 30 to 10 C below current averages, based on the ECHAM3-T42 atmospheric general circulation model. The YD was a major climate event found in a variety of paleoclimate records from Europe and in the Greenland ice cores. However, records from Britain such as the radiocarbon-dated Llanilid Coleoptera, temperature records show potential for an earlier cooling in Britain. Using the dates-as-data approach, the radiocarbon estimates for humans and other species in Europe have been summed to show their probability distributions during the YD period. In the YD, there is a contraction of the animal species consistent with a response to the cold phase that shortened the growing season and so curtailed the opportunities for grazing

Archaeology · Climatology · Colonization · Geography · Physical geography · Pleistocene · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Geology · Oceanography

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