HIATUS LPLEIS IBERIA

Testing population hiatuses in the Late Pleistocene of Central Iberia: a geoarchaeological approach

Coordinatore	STIFTUNG NEANDERTHAL MUSEUM    more  Organization address address: TALSTRASSE 300 city: METTMANN postcode: 40822 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Gerd-Christian Cognome: Weniger Email: send email Telefono: 49210497970 Fax: +49 2104979796
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	161˙968 €
EC contributo	161˙968 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2015
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2015-01-01   -   2016-12-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	STIFTUNG NEANDERTHAL MUSEUM  Organization address address: TALSTRASSE 300 city: METTMANN postcode: 40822 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Gerd-Christian Cognome: Weniger Email: send email Telefono: 49210497970 Fax: +49 2104979796	DE (METTMANN)	coordinator	161˙968.80

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Our project focuses on the Late Pleistocene human settlement of the central area of the Iberian Peninsula. Namely, it deals with the time span between the Late Middle Palaeolithic and the Solutrean (around 60,000 – 20,000 years before present).

For years, it has been assumed that a population hiatus existed in Central Iberia from the Late Middle Palaeolithic to the final stages of the Solutrean. This has been traditionally explained as a consequence of the harsh ecological conditions of the area during the Last Glaciation. However, recent data coming from the South-East foothills of the Iberian Central Range (Northwest of Guadalajara province) have questioned this model.

According to these new data, still scarce and preliminary, we have devised a project aimed to investigate the temporal and geographic extent of the purported Late Pleistocene human hiatus in Central Iberia. We intend to know the nature of this hiatus in terms of human-environment interaction. In order to do that, we propose to conduct new field and laboratory works on three palaeolithic sites located in Northwest Guadalajara. Our methodology will be interdisciplinary, including high-resolution geoarchaeology, lithic technology, and chronometric dating.

Results will be discussed both at the Iberian and European levels. We will investigate if population dynamics in Iberia can be explained in terms of European human mobility in the context of global Late Pleistocene climate change.

The host institution will be the Neanderthal Museum (Germany). Researchers from this institution are currently involved in an interdisciplinary collaborative research project aimed to study human-environment interaction at the European level. Thus, integration of the proposed project within this wider research framework will provide the applicant with an outstanding context for discussing data and proposing new models at a European scale. It will also provide him with an excellent interdisciplinary training.'