Mammalian turnover as an indicator of climatic and anthropogenic landscape modification: A new Meghalayan record (Late Holocene) in northern Iberia Alvarez Vena, Adrian Ballesteros Posada, Daniel Climatic change Chalcolithic Bronze age Iron age Micromys minutus Mus musculus Acknowledgements AB.M-A. developed part of this research as part of the ERC Consoli- dator Grant (SUBSILIENCE ref. 818299). We thank J.A. Delgado for his technical work on studying macromammal assemblage. Financial sup- port was provided by the Bilbao Port Authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) within the project “Estabilizaci´on del sector occidental de la Cantera de Punta Lucero en el Puerto de Bilbao”. We are also grateful to Juan Manuel L´opez-García and the anonymous reviewer for their sug- gestions and comments that strongly improved the manuscript. Supplementary data to this article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111476 The Punta Lucero III cave is a natural trap where abundant vertebrate remains were accumulated during the Meghalayan (Late Holocene). To better understand the paleoenvironmental conditions in which this record was accumulated, the micromammal assemblage, comprising a minimum number of 1396 individuals belonging to 19 taxa, was studied using the Mutual Ecogeographic Range and the Habitat Weighting Method. Throughout ~2600 years, the micromammal community's quick turnover reflected a shift from patchy forests and humid meadows to open, shrubbier grasslands. The Late Holocene Thermal Maximum's humid and mild climatic conditions underwent a cooling and aridification phase, coeval with the Iron Age Cold Epoch. These concluded in a slight temperature rising, coeval with the Roman Warm Period. Macromammals experienced a shift from wild populations to domestic herds. Therefore, this work discusses a broader context for this mammalian turnover from a human cultural perspective 2023-06-15T11:42:27Z 2023-06-15T11:42:27Z 2023-03-01 journal article A. Álvarez-Vena et al. Mammalian turnover as an indicator of climatic and anthropogenic landscape modification: A new Meghalayan record (Late Holocene) in northern Iberia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 616 (2023) 111476[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111476] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/82508 10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111476 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Elsevier