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Late Pleistocene (MIS 3–4) climate inferred from micromammal communities and δ18O of rodents from Les Pradelles, France

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Aurélien Royer ,
Christophe Lécuyer ,
Sophie Montuire ,
Gilles Escarguel ,
François Fourel ,
Alan Mann  and
Bruno Maureille
Aurélien Royer
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, UMR CNRS 5276, Université Lyon 1 et Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France EPHE-Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 21000 Dijon, France
Christophe Lécuyer*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, UMR CNRS 5276, Université Lyon 1 et Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
Sophie Montuire
Affiliation:
Biogéosciences, UMR CNRS 6282, Université de Bourgogne, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France EPHE-Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 21000 Dijon, France
Gilles Escarguel
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, UMR CNRS 5276, Université Lyon 1 et Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
François Fourel
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, UMR CNRS 5276, Université Lyon 1 et Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
Alan Mann
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Bruno Maureille
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Populations du Passé, UMR CNRS 5199, Université Bordeaux 1, 33405 Cedex, Talence, France
*
*Corresponding author at: Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, UMR CNRS 5276, Université Lyon 1 et Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France. Fax: + 33472431688.
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Abstract

The middle Paleolithic stratigraphic sequence of Les Pradelles (Charente, France) spans from the end of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 4 until the middle of MIS 3. Micromammal remains are present in all the stratigraphic levels, offering a rare opportunity to address the questions of both environmental and climatic fluctuations throughout this period. Climate modes were studied through the taphonomy, biodiversity and oxygen isotope compositions of phosphate (δ18O p ) from 66 samples of rodent tooth enamel. The δ18O p values from the lower sedimentary levels provide summer mean air temperatures of 19 ± 2°C (level 2/1) and of 16 ± 2°C (levels 2A, 2B and 4A). Within the middle of sequence (level 4B), a paleobiodiversity change can be identified with an increase of Dicrostonyx torquatus, which is associated with the largest amplitude in δ18O p values and the highest maximal δ18O p values. At the top of the sequence (level 5-2), a biodiversity change is observed with the increase of Microtus arvalis, but without any change in δ18O p values. The association of cold rodent species with unexpected high and large amplitudes in the δ18O p values of their teeth, possibly indicative of aridity, suggests their deposition during a Heinrich event.

Keywords

Oxygen isotopePhosphateRodentSmall mammalsPleistoceneClimateLes Pradelles
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Quaternary Research , Volume 80 , Issue 1 , July 2013 , pp. 113 - 124
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