TY - JOUR
T1 - Lateglacial to Early Holocene recursive aridity events in the SE Mediterranean Iberian Peninsula
T2 - The Salines playa lake case study
AU - Burjachs, Francesc
A2 - Jones, Samantha E
A2 - Giralt, Santiago
A2 - Fernandez Lopez de Pablo, Javier
N1 - 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.
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - arid events
KW - pollen analysis
KW - mineralogy
KW - Mesolithic-Epipaleolithic
KW - Lateglacial-Holocene
KW - SE Iberian Peninsula
U2 - 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.117
DO - 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.117
M3 - Article
VL - 403
SP - 187
EP - 200
JO - Quaternary International
JF - Quaternary International
SN - 1040-6182
ER -