@misc{10481/93963,
year = {2024},
month = {3},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/93963},
abstract = {The scarcity of pictorial reconstructions focusing on Quaternary flora and vegetation prompts a reevaluation of
traditional zoocentrism in future paleoartistic research. Here we present paleoartistic renderings depicting
vegetation landscapes around the Orce Archaeological Zone (OAZ), encompassing sites dating from 1.6 to 1.2
million years ago during the Early Pleistocene of the Guadix-Baza Basin in southern Spain. Four pieces are based
on fossil pollen data from Venta Micena 1 (VM1), Barranco Le´on (BL), and Fuente Nueva 3 (FN3). The artwork
considers altitudinal belt distribution, taxonomic and structural diversity, extinct taxa in the Iberian Peninsula
post-Early Pleistocene, and those previously extinct at higher latitudes in Europe. This essay visually represents
the coexistence of mesophytic, thermophytic, and xerophytic plant communities within a glacial refugium of
woody species. Lastly, employing a non-conventional iconographic approach, we portray a female Homo individual
in the forest refugium to draw up on possible adaptive traits of these early Europeans.},
organization = {projects HOMEDSCAPE,
PID 2022-136832NB-100, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación,
Spain},
organization = {SUBSILIENCE Call H2020-ERC-2018. CoG N. 818299, SUMHAL},
organization = {Conservation of plant diversity in the Betic ranges, LifeWatch FEDER,
and LWE 2021-03-033},
organization = {Consejería
de Turismo, Cultura y Deporte (Junta de Andalucía, Spain) through the
General Research Project (2023–2026) “Evolución humana y paleoecología
a partir de los yacimientos pleistocenos de la Zona Arqueológica ‘Cuenca de Orce’. Retos y desafíos” (Ref: SIDPH/DI/
MCM)},
organization = {project PID 2021.125098NB.I00
funding by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by FEDER, UE},
organization = {ProyExcel_00274 funding by Direcci´on General de Planificaci´on de
la Investigaci´on (Consejería de Universidad, Investigaci´on e Innovaci´on,
Junta de Andalucía)},
publisher = {Elsevier},
keywords = {Paleoart},
keywords = {Paleoecology},
keywords = {Paleontology},
title = {Greening a lost world: Paleoartistic investigations of the early Pleistocene vegetation landscape in the first Europeans’ homeland},
doi = {10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100185},
author = {Carrión, José and Amorós, Gabriela and Sánchez-Giner, María Victoria and Amorós, Ariadna and Ochando, Juan and Munuera, Manuel and Marín-Arroyo, Ana Belen and Jiménez Arenas, Juan Manuel},
}