PMID- 29044215
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190701
LR  - 20190701
IS  - 2045-2322 (Electronic)
IS  - 2045-2322 (Linking)
VI  - 7
IP  - 1
DP  - 2017 Oct 18
TI  - New magnetostratigraphic evidence for the age of Acheulean tools at the 
      archaeo-palaeontological site "Solana del Zamborino" (Guadix - Baza Basin, S 
      Spain).
PG  - 13495
LID - 10.1038/s41598-017-14024-5 [doi]
LID - 13495
AB  - The sedimentary record in the Guadix-Baza Basin (southern Spain) has proved to be 
      a great source of information for the Miocene through the Pleistocene periods, 
      due to the abundant faunal remains preserved, in some cases associated with 
      lithic tools. The Solana del Zamborino (SZ) section has been the subject of 
      controversy ever since a magnetostratigraphic analysis resulted in an age of 
      750-770 Kyr for Acheulean tools, a chronology significantly older than the 
      ~600 Kyr established chronology for the first Acheulean record in Europe. 
      Although recent findings at the "Barranc de la Boella" site (north-east of the 
      Iberian Peninsula) seem to indicate that an earlier introduction of such 
      technique in Europe around 0.96-0.781 Ma is possible, the precise age of the 
      classical site at SZ is still controversial. The aim of this paper is to 
      constrain the chronology of the site by developing a longer magnetostratigraphic 
      record. For this purpose, we carried out an exhaustive sampling in a new 
      succession at SZ. Our results provide a ~65 m magnetostratigraphic record in 
      which 4 magnetozones of normal polarity are found. Our new magnetostratigraphic 
      data suggest an age range between 300-480 Kyr for the lithic tools, closer to the 
      age of traditional Acheulean sites in Europe.
FAU - Alvarez-Posada, C
AU  - Alvarez-Posada C
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0472-8544
AD  - Geochronology Program, CENIEH, Paseo Sierra de Atapuerca 3, 09002, Burgos, Spain. 
      claudiaalvarezposada@gmail.com.
FAU - Pares, J M
AU  - Pares JM
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8237-6869
AD  - Geochronology Program, CENIEH, Paseo Sierra de Atapuerca 3, 09002, Burgos, Spain.
FAU - Sala, R
AU  - Sala R
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7168-824X
AD  - IPHES (Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social). Area de 
      Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Campus Sescelades-URV, Edifici W3, 
      43007, Tarragona, Spain.
FAU - Viseras, C
AU  - Viseras C
AD  - Dpto. Estratigrafia y Paleontologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de 
      Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain.
FAU - Pla-Pueyo, S
AU  - Pla-Pueyo S
AD  - Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20171018
PL  - England
TA  - Sci Rep
JT  - Scientific reports
JID - 101563288
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Anthropology/*methods
MH  - Biodiversity
MH  - Geologic Sediments/chemistry
MH  - Hominidae/anatomy & histology/*physiology
MH  - Magnetic Phenomena
MH  - Spain
MH  - *Tool Use Behavior
PMC - PMC5647401
COIS- The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
EDAT- 2017/10/19 06:00
MHDA- 2019/07/02 06:00
PMCR- 2017/10/18
CRDT- 2017/10/19 06:00
PHST- 2017/05/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/10/02 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/10/19 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2017/10/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/07/02 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/10/18 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1038/s41598-017-14024-5 [pii]
AID - 14024 [pii]
AID - 10.1038/s41598-017-14024-5 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Sci Rep. 2017 Oct 18;7(1):13495. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-14024-5.