Author, as appears in the article.: de Lombera-Hermida, Arturo; Rodriguez-Alvarez, Xose-Pedro; Ameijenda Iglesias, Alicia; Diaz Rodriguez, Mikel; Rey-Rodriguez, Ivan; Valverde Tejedor, Irene; Perez-Alberti, Augusto; Cunha, Pedro P.; Bal Garcia, Hugo; Aldea Moreira, Xes; Lorenzo Salgueiro, Cristian; Mosquera Castro, Tania; Fabregas Valcarce, Ramon;
Department: Història i Història de l'Art
URV's Author/s: Rodríguez Álvarez, José Pedro
Keywords: Zooarchaeology Vegetation Southwestern europe Site Quartz industries Paleolithic Northwestern iberia North Neanderthal Mousterian Millennial-scale variability Middle-upper palaeolithic transition Iberian peninsula Holocene Gran-dolina Chronology Cave Behaviors Aurignacian
Abstract: Iberia, a natural cul-de-sac peninsula, plays a major role in the study of the Neanderthals demise and its eventual relationship with the spread of Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH) in Europe. The site of Cova Eiros (Galicia, Spain), located in NW Iberia, contains Middle and Upper Palaeolithic levels, based on the cultural remains recovered at the site. No human remains directly associated with those levels were discovered yet. The available radiocarbon dates from the levels 2 (c. 35 ka cal BP, Early Upper Paleolithic) and 3 (c. 41 ka cal BP, Late Middle Paleolithic), point to a late survival of Neanderthal groups in North Iberia and to a relative quick arrival of the AMH, c. 35-36 ka cal BP, with respect to other territories of the Iberian Peninsula. The archaeological record shows clear differences between the Middle and the Upper Palaeolithic occupations, regarding raw-material acquisition, lithic technology and subsistence strategies. The location of Cova Eiros in the westernmost margin of the Cantabrian Rim and in the Atlantic Facade, makes this site a key place to understand the spread of the first AMH and the progressive demise of Neanderthal populations.
Thematic Areas: Paleontology Geociências Ciências biológicas i Biodiversidade
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Author's mail: josepedro.rodriguez@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-1852-2283
Record's date: 2024-07-27
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Comptes Rendus Palevol. 20 (42): 859-886
APA: de Lombera-Hermida, Arturo; Rodriguez-Alvarez, Xose-Pedro; Ameijenda Iglesias, Alicia; Diaz Rodriguez, Mikel; Rey-Rodriguez, Ivan; Valverde Tejedor, I (2021). Between two worlds: Cova Eiros and the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in NW Iberia. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 20(42), 859-886. DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2021v20a42
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2021
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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