Journal
QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
Volume 433, Issue -, Pages 50-63Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.020
Keywords
Neanderthal; Lithic technology; Middle Paleolithic; Iberian Peninsula; Levallois; Quina
Funding
- Basque Government [BF107.67]
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This paper explores the nature of the variability noted in the Late Middle Paleolithic lithic technology of the Eastern Cantabrian Region. The sequence at Axlor exemplifies this variability revealing important changes in technology from ca. 55-45 ka BP. A major shift from stable occupations with a Levallois-based technology to shorter occupations with a Quina-based technology is observed. The critical analysis of the available information for the Middle Paleolithic assemblages in the region reveals six major phases: an Early Middle Paleolithic (170-100 ka BP), an undefined Middle Paleolithic (90-60 ka BP), a Vasconian (Discoid technology with cleavers e 60-50 ka BP), a Levallois Mousterian (55-50 ka BP), a Quina Mousterian (50-45 ka BP) and a Late Mousterian (45-40 ka BP). Although the Levallois and Quina Mousterian phases seem to be adaptations to the rapid environmental changes happening during the first phases of MIS3 (between DO16-17 and DO12), there are other factors that also influenced the configuration of these different technological systems, such as the modification of settlement systems or changes in Neanderthal group organization, and the resulting transformation of social needs. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
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