A study of pollen reconstructs the landscape of Madrid during 400,000 years
May 10, 2018, CENIEH
Susana Rubio, JoaquÃn Panera and Alfredo Pérez González, scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), have published a study in the journal Quaternary International on the changes to vegetation and climate over the last 400,000 years in the region of Madrid, a Mediterranean area subject to an important continental influence key to understanding global climate change, and especially for the Mediterranean region itself, due to its vulnerability
The study, led by the University of Alcalá de Henares, which was based on analyses of the pollen in eight sedimentary sequences associated with archaeological sites, reconstructs the paleoenvironments of the human groups that occupied the banks of the Manzanares and Jarama rivers from halfway through the Middle Pleistocene, and it brings out how the climate around Madrid has changed, as well as the high palynological variability of the zone.
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