Abstract
Twelve pollen-inferred aridity major and minor events (S1 to S12) have been identified at Salines playa lake (SE Iberian Peninsula, 475 m asl, 38° 30′ 02″ N 00° 53′ 18″ W) from the Lateglacial to the Early Holocene (Boreal). These dry events consist of an increase in the aridity quotient calculated as a function of selected pollen taxa at 13.4, 13, 12.55, 12.2, 11.9, 11.45, 11, 10.6, 10.3, 10, 9.5 and 8.3 ka cal BP. These dry events correspond to the previous identified cold spells such as the Younger Dryas, as well as the 8, 7, 6 and 5 Bond events, and 11.4 and 9.3 events. This climate record highlights the complex glacial-interglacial transition in extra-tropical latitudes, with centennial-scale abrupt climate fluctuations, a signature scarcely recorded in other palaeoecological records of the SE Iberian Peninsula. This work has major implications for the study of human socio-ecological systems and resilience in SE Iberia during the Epipaleolithic and Mesolithic periods.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 187-200 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Quaternary International |
Volume | 403 |
Early online date | 25 Dec 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2016 |
Bibliographical note
We thank Spanish MINECO (HAR2013-41197-P), European Union (EV5V-CT91-0037), Generalitat de Catalunya (2014 SGR 900) projects; Ramón y Cajal – grant number: RYC-2011-09363 and Marie Curie Actions — Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) Grant number: 628589 for supporting this project. We would also like to acknowledge the work undertaken by V.E. Gutiérrez-Díaz.Keywords
- arid events
- pollen analysis
- mineralogy
- Mesolithic-Epipaleolithic
- Lateglacial-Holocene
- SE Iberian Peninsula