Jone Castaños

University of the Basque Country

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Xabier Murelaga

University of the Basque Country

Pedro Castaños

Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée

María Cruz Zuluaga Ibargallartu

University of the Basque Country

Aitziber Suárez-Bilbao

University of the Basque Country

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Luis Ángel Ortega Cuesta

University of the Basque Country

Ainhoa Alonso Olazabal

University of the Basque Country

Juan Rofes

Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique

María José Iriarte Chiapusso

University of the Basque Country

Salvador Bailón

Institut de Paléontologie Humaine

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Álvaro Arrizabalaga Valbuena

University of the Basque Country

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University of the Basque Country

Universidad de Zaragoza

Instituto Geológico y Minero de España

Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle

Universitat de València

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Ikerbasque

Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales

Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Imanolen Arrobia: A New Late Pleistocene Carnivore Den from the North of the Iberian Peninsula (Deba, Spain)

Ameghiniana (2016)

Jone Castaños Pedro Castaños Xabier Murelaga

A taphonomic and systematic study of an assemblage of large mammals preserved in an early Upper Pleistocene deposit in Imanolen Arrobia (Deba, northern Spain) is hereby reported. Skeletal profiles, long bone fragmentation and tooth marks reveal that carnivores transported wild goats and chamois carcasses to the cave for their consumption. The abundance of juvenile remains suggests that these carnivores preferentially preyed on immature individuals. After considering the frequencies of different carnivores in the assemblage and other taphonomic and neo-taphonomic features and, even though the wolf (Canis lupus) cannot be completely discarded, the leopard (Panthera pardus) is proposed as the plausible responsible for the hunting and transport of the ungulate remains to the cave. The bones were subsequently probably modified by foxes (Vulpes vulpes) that used the cave as a breeding den. By way of comparative data from the Cantabrian region and especially from the Basque Country, a metric study drawing comparisons between the most frequent species (Capra pyrenaica, Rupicapra pyrenaica, Panthera pardus and Vulpes vulpes) evinces that the Imanolen Arrobia measurements are within the range of variation of fossil species in the northern Iberian Peninsula.

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10.5710/amgh.08.12.2016.3042

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Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes of bone collagen of large herbivores from the Late Pleistocene Kiputz IX cave site (Gipuzkoa, north Iberian Peninsula) for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction

Quaternary International (2013)

Jone Castaños María Cruz Zuluaga Ibargallartu Luis Ángel Ortega Cuesta Xabier Murelaga Ainhoa Alonso Olazabal

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Cervus

10.1016/j.quaint.2013.10.006

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Kiputz IX: Un Conjunto Singular de Bisonte Estepario (Bison priscus Bojanus, 1827) del Pleistoceno Superior de la Península Ibérica

Ameghiniana (2012)

Jone Castaños Pedro Castaños

KIPUTZ IX: A UNIQUE ASSEMBLAGE OF STEPPE BISON (BISON PRISCUS BOJANUS, 1827) REMAINS FROM THE UPPER PLEISTOCENE OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA. Kiputz IX is an upper Pleistocene site that has provided the richest set of steppe bison remains in the Iberian Peninsula. This paper provides a metric study of the postcranial skeleton of 18 individuals that conform this tafocenosis. The comparison with other European sets, near in space and time, allows the attribution of this material to the subspecies Bison priscus mediator Hilzheimer. The robustness index of the metacarpus diaphysis indicates the existence of a clear sexual dimorphism and a balance between sexes within the sample. The stage of dental substitution makes evident that the sample is dominated by juvenile and subadult specimens, with a low proportion of adult individuals. The absolute chronology of the remains and its association with an important sample of reindeer confirm that the preferential biotope of this species was the steppe. The bison sample from Kiputz IX constitutes a good basis for comparative studies of large bovid populations from middle and upper Pleistocene of Europe.

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10.5710/amgh.v49i2(529)

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New Trends in Iberian Zooarchaeology

Naroa García-Ibaibarriaga Jone Castaños Aitziber Suárez-Bilbao Pedro Castaños Salvador Bailón

In recent decades, there have been great developments in the study of past human-animal interactions, clearly demonstrated by the influx of researchers to the Meeting of Iberian Zooarchaeology (EZI, or Encontro de Zooarqueologia Ibérica), held April 2017 in Faro, Portugal.Its organisation was a joint effort of three Portuguese Research & Development Units in Archaeology -CEAACP 1 , ICArEHB 2 and UNIARQ 3and was hosted by the University of Algarve.This volume, entitled New Trends in Iberian Zooarchaeology, is the final product of that meeting.One of the highlights of EZI 2017 was the closing keynote given by Arturo Morales, Full Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and a researcher with vast experience.That keynote serves as the basis for the first text of this volume.Here, Morales leads the reader on a brief yet motivating chronological journey through the development of zooarchaeology as a discipline in the Iberian Peninsula from 1975 to the present day, following his personal experiences in the field.After this introduction, the articles begin with a set dedicated to prehistory.Naroa Garcia-Ibaibarriaga and colleagues summarise what is known for the Praileaitz I, a cave located in the Basque Country, throughout the Solutrean to the Epipaleolithic sequence.Esteban Álvarez-Fernández and colleagues review zooarchaeological materials (both molluscs and vertebrates) from an intervention carried out in the 1930s at Cova del Solà del Pep and give us a glimpse into the final phase of the Mesolithic period in Catalonia.The paper presented by Nelson Almeida and colleagues focus on two cave assemblages located in central Portugal dominated by leporid remains.Their article explores the possibility that such remains were accumulated by non-anthropogenic agents, namely carnivores, despite the well-documented human occupations in the caves.Carlos Pimenta and colleagues analyse the small vertebrates from the Chalcolithic site of Penedo do Lexim, located in Portuguese Estremadura.Using the Habitat Weighting Method, and comparing its results with other Chalcolithic sites in the region, they were able to identify the coexistence of two bioclimatic domains (Atlantic and Mediterranean).

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10.51427/10451/54939

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Estudio de la fauna de macromamíferos del yacimiento de Praileaitz I (Deba, Gipuzkoa)

Munibe Monographs Anthropology and Archaeology Series (2017)

Pedro Castaños Jone Castaños

Pedro CASTAÑOS (1) , Jone CASTAÑOS (2) RESUMENSe estudia la fauna de macromamíferos del yacimiento de Praileaitz I (Deba, Gipuzkoa) en los distintos sectores del yacimiento.Se discute el origen de la tafocenosis a partir de la fragmentación y marcas de los huesos así como de la proporción de carnívoros y representación anatómica de algunas especies.Se atribuye la mayor parte de la muestra a la actividad depredadora de varios carnívoros entre los que destaca el lobo.Se establece una hipótesis sobre la secuencia temporal de la ocupación del yacimiento.Se ofrece un estudio métrico y su correspondiente discusión para diferenciar especies de úrsidos (oso pardo y oso de las cavernas), félidos (lince nórdico y lince de las cavernas) y cánidos (cuon y lobo).Se confirma la importancia de las muestras de las dos últimas especies en la Región Cantábrica. LABURPENAPraileatz I (Deba, Gipuzkoa) aztarnategiko makrougaztun-fauna ikertzen da sektoreka.Tafozenosiaren jatorria eztabaidatzen da hezurren zatiketaren eta marken proportzioan oinarrituta, baita haragijaleen eta espezie batzuen irudikapen anatomikoenean ere.Laginaren zati handiena egozten zaio hainbat haragijaleren predatzaile-jarduerari, batez ere otsoari.Hipotesi bat zabaltzen da aztarnategiaren okupazioaren denbora-sekuentziari buruz

10.21630/mmaas.2017.1.08

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Contenidos de CaCO3 en los pares marga-caliza del Maastrichtiense y Daniense en Sopelana, Arco Vasco: facies grises frente a facies rojas

Geogaceta (2007)

Juan Sebastián Grillo Santander Aitor Sopelana Jorge Amílcar Rodríguez I. García Peregrina Jone Castaños

The Sopelana sea-cliff section exposes a continuous marl-limestone alternation from the Lower Maastrichtian to the Danian, in the deep Basque Arc domain. The high-resolution analysis (% CaCO3) of the Lower- Upper Maastrichtian couplets confirms a simple and regular layout versus a more complex behaviour of the Danian couplets. The marl and limestone mean values of the Upper Maastrichtian point out a continental debris enrichment. The early entry of deep, cold, oxygenated water produces a gradual (grey/ yellowgreenish/ red) change of coloration in the Lower Maastrichtian couplets. It is the beginning of the Cretaceous oceanic red beds (CORB´s). The �bleaching� around macrofossil nucleus and small fractures in the red facies shows a small diagenetic stage due to the influx of reducing fluids.

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IMANOLEN ARROBIA: A NEW UPPER PLEISTOCENE CARNIVORE DEN IN THE NORTH OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA (DEBA, SPAIN) --- Preprint doi: 10.5710/AMGH.08.12.2016.3042

Ameghiniana (2014)

Jone Castaños Pedro Castaños Xabier Murelaga

A taphonomic and systematic study of a large mammals assemblage preserved in an early Upper Pleistocene deposit at Imanolen Arrobia (Deba, northern Spain) is offered in this report. Skeletal profiles, long bone fragmentation and tooth marks shows that wild goat and chamois carcasses were transported and consumed in the cave by carnivores. The abundance of juvenile remains indicates a selection of prey by carnivores that preferentially killed immature individuals. After considering the frequencies of different carnivores in the assemblage and other taphonomic and neo-taphonomic features, the leopard (Panthera pardus) is proposed as possibly responsible for the hunting and transport of the ungulate remains to the cave, though the wolf (Canis lupus) cannot be completely discounted. Subsequently, the bones were probably modified by foxes (Vulpes vulpes) that used the cave as a breeding den. A metric study compares the most frequent species (Capra pyrenaica, Rupicapra pyrenaica, Panthera pardus and Vulpes vulpes) using comparative data from the Cantabrian region and especially from the Basque Country. It shows that the Imanolen Arrobia measurements are within the range of variation of fossil species in the northern Iberian Peninsula.

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Crocuta crocuta

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A new Late Pleistocene non-anthropogenic vertebrate assemblage from the northern Iberian Peninsula: Artazu VII (Arrasate, Basque Country)

Comptes Rendus Palevol (2016)

Aitziber Suárez-Bilbao Naroa García-Ibaibarriaga Jone Castaños Pedro Castaños María José Iriarte Chiapusso

Mammal

Peninsula

Paleoecology

Early Pleistocene

Faunal assemblage

10.1016/j.crpv.2016.05.002

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Combining Small-Vertebrate, Marine and Stable-Isotope Data to Reconstruct Past Environments

Scientific Reports (2015)

Juan Rofes Naroa García-Ibaibarriaga Mikel Aguirre Ruiz de Gopegui Blanca Martínez‐García Luis Ángel Ortega Cuesta

Abstract Three very different records are combined here to reconstruct the evolution of environments in the Cantabrian Region during the Upper Pleistocene, covering ~35.000 years. Two of these records come from Antoliñako Koba (Bizkaia, Spain), an exceptional prehistoric deposit comprising 9 chrono-cultural units (Aurignacian to Epipaleolithic). The palaeoecological signal of small-vertebrate communities and red deer stable-isotope data (δ 13 C and δ 15 N) from this mainland site are contrasted to marine microfaunal evidence (planktonic and benthic foraminifers, ostracods and δ 18 O data) gathered at the southern Bay of Biscay. Many radiocarbon dates for the Antoliña’s sequence, made it possible to compare the different proxies among them and with other well-known North-Atlantic records. Cooling and warming events regionally recorded, mostly coincide with the climatic evolution of the Upper Pleistocene in the north hemisphere.

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10.1038/srep14219

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The Late Pleistocene avifauna from Artazu VII (Basque Country, northern Iberian Peninsula)

Historical Biology (2018)

Aitziber Suárez-Bilbao Mikelo Elorza Jone Castaños Álvaro Arrizabalaga Valbuena María José Iriarte Chiapusso

This study is a contribution to the knowledge of ancient avifauna in the Iberian Peninsula. 1,786 bird bones have been recovered from Artazu VII (Arrasate, northern Iberian Peninsula), with 239 remains identified to Order/Family and 519 to Genus/Species level, belonging to, at least, 12 taxa: Buteo lagopus, Aquila chrysaetos, Perdix perdix, Coturnix coturnix, Alectoris sp., Lyrurus tetrix, Crex crex, Bubo cf. bubo, Corvus monedula, Pica pica, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax and Pyrrhocorax graculus. The best represented taxa are corvids, followed by L. tetrix. The most significant finding is the presence of B. lagopus, which represents the second fossil record in the Iberian Peninsula. The morphometric analyses performed for C. coturnix and L. tetrix contribute to the knowledge of those taxa measurements, due to the Artazu VII assemblage being one of the best samples of these taxa in the Iberian Peninsula for the late Pleistocene. All the measurements of B. lagopus and C. coturnix have been analysed statistically. A brief taphonomic study has been carried out to identify the bird accumulation agent. Finally, a palaeoenvironmental analysis is based on the bird assemblage and ecology, and this new information is compared to palaeoenvironmental data inferred from vertebrates at Artazu VII in previous studies.

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Accipitridae

Early Pleistocene

10.1080/08912963.2018.1491566

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