The environmental contexts of early human occupation of northwest Europe: The British Lower Palaeolithic record
The environmental contexts of early human occupation of northwest Europe: The British Lower Palaeolithic record
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DOI：
10.1016/j.quaint.2011.10.022
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发表时间：
2012-08-31
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2.2
通讯作者：
Lewis, Simon G.
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作者：
Ashton, Nick;Lewis, Simon G.
现在有越来越多的网站与一系列的代理，使重建的早期和中期更新世遗址在北方欧洲的人类栖息地。本文回顾了这些时期的英国记录，并得出结论，人类能够在一系列的气候和植被带中生存，从最早的占领在早期和早期中更新世。在南欧的殖民人口可能的来源地区和可能的栖息地，他们在这些来源地区进行了适应讨论。有人认为，殖民人口将需要新的战略，以成功地科普北方纬度，与技术创新，如服装，住房和可能的火，更有可能比季节性迁移或身体适应。最后，它建议，最早的证据之前500 ka反映了开拓性的人口，也许是人的祖先，只有零星的占领北方欧洲。然而，到了500 ka，新技术和其他适应性策略使海德堡人在北方纬度有了更持久的占有。(C)2011 Elsevier Ltd和INQUA。All rights reserved.
There are now a growing number of sites with a range of proxies that enable a reconstruction of the human habitats of Early and Middle Pleistocene sites in northern Europe. This paper reviews the British record from these periods and concludes that humans were able to survive in a range of climatic and vegetational zones from the earliest occupation in the Early and early Middle Pleistocene. The likely source areas for colonising populations in southern Europe and the probable habitats to which they were adapted in these source areas is discussed. It is argued that colonising populations would need new strategies to cope successfully with northern latitudes, with technological innovations, such as clothing, shelter and possibly fire, being more likely than seasonal migration or physical adaptation. Finally, it is suggested that the earliest evidence prior to 500 ka reflects pioneering populations, perhaps of Homo antecessor, with only sporadic occupation of northern Europe. However, by 500 ka new technologies and other adaptive strategies enabled Homo heidelbergensis to have a more sustained occupation in northern latitudes. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.