WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE DURING THE LATE QUATERNARY USING SMALL-MAMMAL ASSEMBLA

Abstract

The knowledge of palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate during the late Pleistocene and the beginning of the Holocene is one of the main studied topics of the last decades by multitude of disciplines, including the research on small mammals. Moreover, the environmental and climatic data obtained using the small-mammal assemblages allow us to observe how our ancestors lived, showing for example that independently of climatic fluctuations Neanderthals and Anatomic Modern Humans (AMH) inhabited, in general, in landscapes surrounded by forest formations.