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- Title
Neanderthal Survival in the North of the Iberian Peninsula? Reflections from a Catalan and Cantabrian Perspective.
- Authors
Garcia Garriga, Joan; Martínez Molina, Kenneth; Baena Preysler, Javier
- Abstract
In the debate over Western Europe's Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition we need to consider the importance of both the chronology and the ecological context of the different techno-complexes, as well as the organization of production and consumption activities. In this article we study the adaptative strategies of Middle Palaeolithic human communities based on the information obtained from archaeological sites north of the river Ebro. This transition in the northern part of the peninsula presents a chronological and geographic dichotomy, with the appearance of the Upper Palaeolithic and survival of the Middle Palaeolithic. The geographic distribution appears to indicate intergroup competition and the existence of contact, albeit of an unverified nature. This competition would explain the time that elapsed before one of the cultural, and perhaps biological, groups triumphed over the other in a process culminating in the expansion of Upper Palaeolithic technology.
- Subjects
EBRO River (Spain); SPAIN; IBERIAN Peninsula; NEANDERTHALS; PREHISTORIC peoples; CATALANS; CANTABRIANS; PALEOLITHIC Period
- Publication
Journal of World Prehistory, 2012, Vol 25, Issue 2, p81
- ISSN
0892-7537
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10963-012-9057-y