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| Página principal > Artículos > Artículos publicados > Arid, mosaic environments during the Plio-Pleistocene transition and early hominin dispersals in northern Africa |
| Fecha: | 2024 |
| Resumen: | The earliest archaeological evidence from northern Africa dates to ca. 2. 44 Ma. Nevertheless, the palaeoenvironmental setting of hominins living in this part of the continent at the Plio-Pleistocene transition remains poorly documented, particularly in comparison to eastern and southern Africa. The Guefaït-4 fossil site in eastern Morocco sheds light on our knowledge of palaeoenvironments in northern Africa. Our study reveals the oldest known presence of C plants in the northern part of the continent in a mosaic landscape that includes open grasslands, forested areas, wetlands, and seasonal aridity. This diverse landscape and resource availability likely facilitated the occupation of the region by mammals, including potentially hominins. Our regional-scale study provides a complementary perspective to global-scale studies and highlights the importance of considering the diversity of microhabitats within a given region when studying species-dispersal dynamics. The palaeoenvironmental context for early hominins in northern Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene transition is poorly documented. Here, the authors present multiproxy palaeoecological evidence for heterogeneous open grasslands, forested areas, wetlands, and seasonal aridity from Guefaït-4. 2 in Morocco. |
| Ayudas: | Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2021-123092NB-C21 Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2021-122355NB-C33 Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2021-122533NB-I00 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2021/SGR-01238 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2021/SGR-01237 |
| Nota: | Altres ajuts: Funding for this research was provided by: Funding for this research was provided by: Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport (Ref: 40-T002018N0000042853 & 170-T002019N0000038589), Faculty of Sciences (Mohamed 1r University of Oujda, Morocco), Palarq Foundation, Direction of Cultural Heritage (Ministry of Culture and Communication, Morocco), Faculty of Sciences (Université Mohammed Premier of Oujda, Morocco), INSAP (Institut National des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine). C.T. is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the "Ramón y Cajal" (RYC2020-029404-I). A.R.-H. is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities through the "Ramón y Cajal" (RYC2022-037802-I).P.P. is supported by the "Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación" contract (grant IJC2020-044108-I) funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and "European Union Next Generation EU/PRTR". C.S.-B. is supported by a FPI Predoctoral Scholarship (PRE2020-094482) associated with project CEX2019-000945-M-20-1 with the financial sponsorship of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. P.R. and D.K.J. would like to thank the Max Planck Society for funding and support. The Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) has received financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the "María de Maeztu" program for Units of Excellence (CEX2019-000945-M). R.S.-R., M.G.C.H., F.R., I.E., P.P. and H.-A.B. research is funded by CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. |
| Nota: | Altres ajuts: 2023PFR-URV-01238 (URV)i 2023PFR-URV-01237 (URV) |
| Derechos: | Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, i la comunicació pública de l'obra, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. No es permet la creació d'obres derivades. |
| Lengua: | Anglès |
| Documento: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Materia: | Palaeoecology ; Palaeoclimate ; Archaeology ; Palaeontology |
| Publicado en: | Nature communications, Vol. 15, art. 8393 (october 2024) , ISSN 2041-1723 |
15 p, 1.8 MB |