title: Combining Small-Vertebrate, Marine and Stable-Isotope Data to Reconstruct Past Environments.
abstract: Three very different records are combined here to reconstruct the evolution of environments in the Cantabrian Region during the Upper Pleistocene, covering ~35.000 years. Two of these records come from Antoliñako Koba (Bizkaia, Spain), an exceptional prehistoric deposit comprising 9 chrono-cultural units (Aurignacian to Epipaleolithic). The palaeoecological signal of small-vertebrate communities and red deer stable-isotope data (δ(13)C and δ(15)N) from this mainland site are contrasted to marine microfaunal evidence (planktonic and benthic foraminifers, ostracods and δ(18)O data) gathered at the southern Bay of Biscay. Many radiocarbon dates for the Antoliña's sequence, made it possible to compare the different proxies among them and with other well-known North-Atlantic records. Cooling and warming events regionally recorded, mostly coincide with the climatic evolution of the Upper Pleistocene in the north hemisphere.
authors.affiliation: Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique : Sociétés, pratiques et environnements (UMR 7209), Sorbonne Universités, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, CP56, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rofes
authors.affiliation: UPV-EHU, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Apartado 644, E-48080 Bilbao, Spain.|UPV-EHU, Facultad de Letras, Departamento de Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología, c/Tomás y Valiente s/n, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
authors.forename: Naroa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Garcia-Ibaibarriaga
authors.affiliation: UNED, CA Bergara, San Martin Agirre Plaza 4, E-20570 Bergara, Spain.
authors.forename: Mikel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aguirre
authors.affiliation: UPV-EHU, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Apartado 644, E-48080 Bilbao, Spain.
authors.forename: Blanca
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Martínez-García
authors.affiliation: UPV-EHU, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Apartado 644, E-48080 Bilbao, Spain.
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ortega
authors.affiliation: UPV-EHU, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Apartado 644, E-48080 Bilbao, Spain.
authors.forename: María Cruz
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Zuluaga
authors.affiliation: UMR 7209-UMR 7194, CNRS Départament Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité (EGB), Sorbonne Universités, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, CP55, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Salvador
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bailon
authors.affiliation: UPV-EHU, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Apartado 644, E-48080 Bilbao, Spain.
authors.forename: Ainhoa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alonso-Olazabal
authors.affiliation: UPV-EHU, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Apartado 644, E-48080 Bilbao, Spain.
authors.forename: Jone
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Castaños
authors.affiliation: UPV-EHU, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Apartado 644, E-48080 Bilbao, Spain.
authors.forename: Xabier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Murelaga
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D059001:Aquatic Organisms; D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D004777:Environment; D007554:Isotopes; D009587:Nitrogen Isotopes; D055110:Radiometric Dating; D013030:Spain; D014714:Vertebrates
chemical_list: D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D007554:Isotopes; D009587:Nitrogen Isotopes