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The earliest record of human activity in northern Europe 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Parfitt SA Barendregt RW Breda M Candy I Collins MJ Coope GR Durbidge P Field MH Lee JR Lister AM Mutch R Penkman KE Preece RC Rose J Stringer CB Symmons R Whittaker JE Wymer JJ Stuart AJ 《Nature》2005,438(7070):1008-1012
The colonization of Eurasia by early humans is a key event after their spread out of Africa, but the nature, timing and ecological context of the earliest human occupation of northwest Europe is uncertain and has been the subject of intense debate. The southern Caucasus was occupied about 1.8 million years (Myr) ago, whereas human remains from Atapuerca-TD6, Spain (more than 780 kyr ago) and Ceprano, Italy (about 800 kyr ago) show that early Homo had dispersed to the Mediterranean hinterland before the Brunhes-Matuyama magnetic polarity reversal (780 kyr ago). Until now, the earliest uncontested artefacts from northern Europe were much younger, suggesting that humans were unable to colonize northern latitudes until about 500 kyr ago. Here we report flint artefacts from the Cromer Forest-bed Formation at Pakefield (52 degrees N), Suffolk, UK, from an interglacial sequence yielding a diverse range of plant and animal fossils. Event and lithostratigraphy, palaeomagnetism, amino acid geochronology and biostratigraphy indicate that the artefacts date to the early part of the Brunhes Chron (about 700 kyr ago) and thus represent the earliest unequivocal evidence for human presence north of the Alps. 相似文献
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C P Green G R Coope A P Currant D T Holyoak M Ivanovich R L Jones D H Keen D F McGregor J E Robinson 《Nature》1984,309(5971):778-781
In the British Quaternary, two post-Cromerian interglacials, the Hoxnian and the Ipswichian, are recognized. Evidence of additional interglacials in this interval is widely accepted in the oceanic record of Quaternary events, and the possibility that at least one additional interglacial of this age is represented in Britain has been discussed. However, in the absence of datable interglacial deposits which are seen to overlie one another, the issue has remained controversial. We describe here deposits at Marsworth, UK (Fig. 1) where there is evidence of two temperate episodes, and of intervening periglacial conditions. Stratigraphical superposition is established beyond any reasonable doubt. The later deposit relates to the temperate woodland stage of the Ipswichian Interglacial. Dating of the earlier temperate material by the 230Th/234U disequilibrium method indicates an interglacial episode not previously established in the British Quaternary. 相似文献
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