2023-05-16 12:19:25
This discovery has allowed us to know the human migratory routes and their way of life in the Iberian Peninsula during the glaciation
The discovery of several dental pieces of the woolly rhino has allowed its dating with an approximate date of 52,500 years, the oldest of this species in the Late Pleistocene, which began 2.5 million years B.C. C. and lasted until 11,700 years BC.
The methodology used to know the period of antiquity has been through the amino acid racemizacina technique that allows the remains to be dated precisely.
An article published by Jess Francisco Jord Pardoresearcher at the National Distance Education University (UNED) in Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edimburg de la editorial Cambridge University Press, details the results obtained from the study paleontolgico made on the remains of woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta of antiquity.
The findings were developed in the cave of La Mina, located in the town of Hortigela, in the province of Burgos. This multidisciplinary research has been carried out together with wildlife experts Diego Arceredillo (UII) and Carlos Dez Fernandez-Lomana (UBU).
This new finding has important implications for understanding the access routes to the Castilian plateau during the glaciacinnot only of this species but also of the different human groups, which until then were unknown. It has also made it possible to define a new migratory wave never before described.
The situation of the La Mina cave in the north of the Castilian plateau It can help researchers to better understand the migratory movements of this species throughout the Middle and Upper Pleistocene and Upper Paleolithic in the Iberian Peninsula.
The Mine is located close to other classic deposits of the prehistory Burgos, like Cueva Milln and La Ermita.
In the archaeological record of this cave, in addition to the woolly rhinoceros, species such as the brown bear, the cave hyena, the chamois or the lynx have been documented. Despite this great wealth, most of the deposit was altered so placing them chronologically has been a challenge.
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