ISBN-13: 978-84-692-5903-0 DEPÓSITO LEGAL: GR 2957-2009 2009 SEQS CONFERENCE, ORCE AND LUCENA, SPAIN INQUA-SEQS Subcommission on European Quaternary Stratigraphy First Circular The Quaternary of southern Spain: a bridge between Africa and the Alpine domain September 28th-October 3rd, 2009 Orce and Lucena, Spain 2009 annual meeting SEQS ABSTRACT VOLUME and FIELDTRIPS GUIDE Edited by: Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro Isidro Toro Moyano Paul Palmqvist Jordi Agustí 1 2009 SEQS CONFERENCE, ORCE AND LUCENA, SPAIN PRESIDENT OF THE CONGRESS Ms. Rosa Torres Ruiz Consejera de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucía INQUA-SEQS HONORAY COMMITTEE Prof. Pascual Rivas Universidad de Granada, Spain Prof. Henry de Lumley Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Paris, France Prof. Eudald Carbonell IPHES, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain 2 2009 SEQS CONFERENCE, ORCE AND LUCENA, SPAIN ORGANIZING COMMITEE ORGANIZER OF THE SEQS MEETING Dr. Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro SECRETARY Dr. Florent Rivals Dr. Beatriz Fajardo Ms. Mª Patrocinio Espigares Mr. Sergio Ros-Montoya SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE Prof. Mauro Coltorti Università di Siena, Italy, President of the SEQS Prof. Teresa Bardají Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain, President of the AEQUA Prof. Caridad Zazo MNCN, Madrid, Spain, President of the Spanish Committee of INQUA Dr. Guzel Danukalova Institute of Geology USC Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia Dr. Wim Westerhoff TNO-Geological Survey of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands Prof. Philip Gibbard Cambridge University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Prof. Eric Delson CUNY & American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA Prof. Thijs van Kolfschoten University of Leiden, The Netherlands Dr. Jean-Philippe Brugal CNRS, Université Aix en Provence, France Prof. Maria Rita Palombo University of Rome ―La Sapienza‖, Rome, Italy Prof. Lorenzo Rook University of Florence, Italy Prof. Gloria Cuenca-Bescós Universidad de Zaragoza Pedro Cerbuna, Zaragoza, Spain Prof. Alfredo Pérez González CENIEH, Burgos, Spain 3 2009 SEQS CONFERENCE, ORCE AND LUCENA, SPAIN Prof. Robert Sala Universitat Rovira i Virgili, IPHES, Tarragona, Spain Dr. Isidro Toro Museo Arqueológico y Etnológico de Granada, Spain Dr. Jordi Agustí ICREA, IPHES, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain Prof. Paul Palmqvist Universidad de Málaga, Spain Prof. Oriol Oms Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain Prof. Miquel de Renzi Universidad de Valencia, Spain Prof. Maite Alberdi Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain Dr. Enrique Baquedano Museo Arqueológico Regional de la Comunidad de Madrid Dr. Alfonso Arribas Museo GeoMinero, IGME, Madrid, Spain Prof. César Viseras Universidad de Granada, Spain Prof. Elvira Martín-Suárez Universidad de Granada, Spain Dr. Cecilio Barroso Cueva del Ángel and Zafarraya Project, Málaga, Spain Dr. Francisco Giles Museo del Puerto de Santa María, Spain Dr. José Antonio Riquelme Universidad de Granada, Spain Prof. Juan Antonio Pérez-Claros Universidad de Málaga, Spain INSTITUTIONS SUPPORTING THE CONFERENCE INQUA-SEQS Consejería de Cultura, Junta de Andalucía Diputación de Granada Ayuntamiento de Orce Delegación de Patrimonio Histórico, Ayuntamiento de Lucena Ayuntamiento de Padul Institut Català de Paleoecología Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES) Asociación Bética de Paleoecología Humana 4 2009 SEQS CONFERENCE, ORCE AND LUCENA, SPAIN INDEX ABSTRACTS………………………………………………………………………….11 Lecture: Evolutionary response of mammalian fauna to climate change over the Late Cenozoic. Prof. María Rita Palombo..............................................................................12 Origin of the apparent inconsistencies observed in the distribution of the Pleistocene raised and submerged beaches dated in and off Brittany (France). Lefort, J.P., Danukalova, G.A………………………………………………………………………..14 The Effects of Geological Formation on Quality of Quaternary Aquifers. Khaksar, K., Rahmati, M………………………………………………………………………………16 The effects of tectonic on quaternary stratigraphy of Iran. Khaksar, K., Manoochehr, F………………………………………………………………………………..……….17 Tectonics Vs. Climate driven sedimentation: the Pleistocene record of Central Italy. Coltorti, M………………………………………………………………………………18 Controversial dating of Late-Middle Pleistocene key deposits of Sardinia (Italy). Coltorti, M., Frechen, M., Thyel, C., Tsukamoto, S……...………………………….....20 The Early Pleistocene fluvial system of key reference sites in the Tegelen-Maalbeek area (The Netherlands). Westerhoff, W…………………………………………………21 The geology of Dmanisi, the earliest occupation of Eurasia. Ferring, R., Oms, O., Lordkipanidze, D., Berna, F…………….……………………………………………...22 The Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene succession in the Guadix-Baza Basin (sector of Baza). Oms, O., Agustí, J…………………………...…………………………………..23 ESR dating of the Lower Pleistocene sites of Orce (Guadix-Baza basin, Andalusia, Spain): Fuente Nueva III, Barranco León and Venta Micena. Duval, M. Falguères, C., Bahain, J.J. Voinchet, P., Grün, R., Aubert, M., Agustí, J., Martínez-Navarro, B., Toro, I…………………………………………………………………………………..……..24 5 2009 SEQS CONFERENCE, ORCE AND LUCENA, SPAIN Pedo-sedimentary fingerprints of recurrent exceptional events during the Early Pleistocene at Barranco León (Orce basin, Granada, Spain). Courty, M.A., Federoff, N. Rodríguez, J., Vallverdu, J………………………………………………………….…..25 The age of the Orce sites, a magnetostratigraphic perspective. Scott, G., Gibert, L………………………………………………………………………………………...28 The Brunhes-Matuyama Boundary in the Guadix-Baza Basin. Gibert, L., Scott, G., Martin, R……………………………………………………………………………..…29 The Early-Middle Pleistocene faunal turnover and the arrival of the Acheulian culture into Europe. Martínez-Navarro, B., Madurell, J., Ros-Montoya, S., Espigares, M.P………………………………………………………………………….…………..30 Evaluating the texitural discontinuity hyphothesis and ecosystem convergence: a case study of Plio-Pleistocene mammalian fauna from the Italian Peninsula. Palombo, M.R., Giovinazzo, C……………………………………………………………………...……32 Amphibians and reptiles from the early Pleistocene of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Granada, Sapin): systematic, paleobiogeography and paleoecology. Bailon, S., Blain, H………………………………………………………………………………..……….33 Small mammals from Gorham‘s Cave (Gibraltar, UK). López-García, J.M., Cuenca- Bescós, G………………………………………………………………………………..34 Palynological study of the Early Pleistocene Bogatyry/Sinyaya Balka and Rodniki sites (Taman Peninsula, Russia). Simakova, A……………..………………………………..36 Vegetation context and climatic limits for the Early Pleistocene Hominid presence in Europe. Leroy, S., Arpe, K…………………………...…………………………………38 A new, recently discovered, Early Pleistocene mammal fauna from Tegelen-Maalbeek (The Netherlands). Van Kolfschoten, T., Field, M., Sier, M., Langereis, C., Vasiliev, I., Westerhoff, W., Meijer, T., Wallinga, J………………………………...……………….39 Large deer from the Villafranchian of Eastern Europe (Sea of Azov Region): evolution and paleoecology. Baigusheva, V., Titov, V…………………………………..………...41 6 2009 SEQS CONFERENCE, ORCE AND LUCENA, SPAIN The Early Pleistocene (Late Villafranchian) carnivores (Mammalia) from Pirro Nord (Apulia, Italy). Petrucci, M., Cipullo, A., Martínez-Navarro, B., Rook, L., Sardella, R……………………………………………………………………………………...…44 Small and/to Large Canids in South-Western Europe: taxonomic status and biochronological contribution. Brugal, J.P., Boudadi-Maligne, M……...……….…….46 A new Pleistocene paleontological site from Southwesten Iberia, Sierra del Chaparral, Villaluenga del Rosario, Cádiz, Spain: Preliminary data. Giles, F., Santiago Pérez, A., Gutiérrez Gómez, J.M., Riquelme, J.A., López-Garcia, J.M., Blain, H.A., Cuenca- Bescós, G, Cáceres, I., Rodríguez Vidal, J……………………………………………..47 Correlation between the Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene sequences of Caucasus (Georgia) and Iberian Peninsula (Guadix-Baza Basin). Agustí, J., Vekua, A., Oms, O., Lordkipanidze, D…………………………………………………………...…………...49 Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene evolution of the western Eurasian rodent communities. Agustí, J………………………………………………………………………………………......50 Mole Voles (Ellobiusini, Arvicolinae) as markers of Early Pleistocene Eurasian-African biotic connections. Tesakov, A., Geraads, D…………………..……………………….52 The archaic stone-tool industry from Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3, Orce, Spain. An evidence of the oldest presence of hominins in southern Europe. Toro Moyano, I., de Lumley, H., Barsky, D., Barrier, P., Cauche, D., Celiberti, V., Grégoire, S., Lebègue, F., Moncel, M.-H…………………………………………………………………...…...54 Evaluating patterns of cranial morphological disparity in early Homo and inferences on the taxonomic affinities of the first human population that dispersed out of Africa. Jiménez-Arenas, J.M., Pérez-Claros, J.A., Palmqvist, P……………….………………56 VM-0, a hominin skull fragment 1.3 My old from Venta Micena. Ribot, F., Gibert, L., Ferràndez, C…………………………………………………………………………….59 On the ecological context of the first human dispersal in Europe and the scavenging niche available to the hominins: reconstructing de ecophisiology of the earl Pleistocene large mammals and predator-prey relationships in the paleocommunity. Paul Palmqvist, P., Pérez Claros, J.A., Espigares, M.P., Ros-Montoya, S., Figueirido, B., Torregrosa, V., Jiménez-Arenas, J.M., Martín Serra, A., Serrano Alarcón, F., De Renzi, M., Martínez-Navarro, B………………………….………………………………………...60 7 2009 SEQS CONFERENCE, ORCE AND LUCENA, SPAIN On the bone-cracking behavior and scavenging abilities of the giant, short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris: a dual approach combining taphonomy