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New record of cold-adapted fauna on the Castilian Plateau: Woolly rhinoceros – Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach, 1799) – at La Mina (Burgos, Spain)

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Diego ARCEREDILLO Open the ORCID record for Diego ARCEREDILLO [Opens in a new window] ,
Carlos DÍEZ FERNÁNDEZ-LOMANA Open the ORCID record for Carlos DÍEZ FERNÁNDEZ-LOMANA [Opens in a new window]  and
Jesús Francisco JORDÁ PARDO Open the ORCID record for Jesús Francisco JORDÁ PARDO [Opens in a new window]
Diego ARCEREDILLO*
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Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Isabel I, c. Fernán González 76, 09003, Burgos, Spain.
Carlos DÍEZ FERNÁNDEZ-LOMANA
Affiliation:
Área de Prehistoria, Departamento de Historia, Geografía y Comunicación, Universidad de Burgos, 09001, Burgos, Spain.
Jesús Francisco JORDÁ PARDO
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Estudios Paleolíticos, Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 28040, Madrid, Spain.
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*Corresponding author. Email: diego.arceredillo@ui1.es
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Abstract

La Mina is one of three sites, along with Cueva Millán and La Ermita, located in the middle course of the Arlanza river. La Mina was excavated for the first time in 2006 and three test pits were carried out. In one of them, evidence of two Palaeolithic occupations was identified and several remains of woolly rhinoceros were recovered. Amino acid racemisation dating yielded an age of 52.5 ka BP, the earliest Upper Pleistocene date for Coelodonta antiquitatis on the Iberian Peninsula. This new record may have several implications for understanding the access routes to the Castilian Plateau, together with the definition of a new migratory wave of this species at the end of the Pleistocene. The location of La Mina on the Castilian Plateau may help researchers to complete the movements of this species through the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic on the Iberian Peninsula.

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Iberian PeninsulaMiddle PalaeolithicmigrationteethUpper Pleistocene

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 114 , Special Issue 1-2: 3rd Palaeontological Virtual Congress , July 2023 , pp. 5 - 20
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