Author, as appears in the article.: Morales, Juan I.; Cebria, Artur; Burguet-Coca, Aitor; Fernandez-Marchena, Juan Luis; Garcia-Argudo, Gala; Rodriguez-Hidalgo, Antonio; Soto, Maria; Talamo, Sahra; Tejero, Jose-Miguel; Vallverdu, Josep; Maria Fullola, Josep;
Department: Història i Història de l'Art
URV's Author/s: BURGUET COCA, AITOR / Vallverdú Poch, Josep
Keywords: Tooth marks Subsistence strategies Species model Radiocarbon Percussion marks Labeko koba Bone Aurignacian Anatomically modern humans Abric-romani
Abstract: The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe covers the last millennia of Neanderthal life together with the appearance and expansion of Modern Human populations. Culturally, it is defined by the Late Middle Paleolithic succession, and by Early Upper Paleolithic complexes like the Chatelperronian (southwestern Europe), the Protoaurignacian, and the Early Aurignacian. Up to now, the southern boundary for the transition has been established as being situated between France and Iberia, in the Cantabrian facade and Pyrenees. According to this, the central and southern territories of Iberia are claimed to have been the refuge of the last Neanderthals for some additional millennia after they were replaced by anatomically Modern Humans on the rest of the continent. In this paper, we present the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition sequence from Cova Foradada (Tarragona), a cave on the Catalan Mediterranean coastline. Archaeological research has documented a stratigraphic sequence containing a succession of very short-term occupations pertaining to the Chatelperronian, Early Aurignacian, and Gravettian. Cova Foradada therefore represents the southernmost Chatelperronian-Early Aurignacian sequence ever documented in Europe, significantly enlarging the territorial distribution of both cultures and providing an important geographical and chronological reference for understanding Neanderthal disappearance and the complete expansion of anatomically Modern Humans.
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licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: josep.vallverdup@urv.cat aitor.burguet@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3177-3263 0000-0002-1866-816X
Record's date: 2024-01-13
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0215832
Papper original source: Plos One. 14 (5):
APA: Morales, Juan I.; Cebria, Artur; Burguet-Coca, Aitor; Fernandez-Marchena, Juan Luis; Garcia-Argudo, Gala; Rodriguez-Hidalgo, Antonio; Soto, Maria; Tal (2019). The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition occupations from Cova Foradada (Calafell, NE Iberia). Plos One, 14(5), -. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215832
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215832
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2019
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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