The Cueva del Camino site (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid) represents the most complete MIS 5
record from the Iberian Peninsula (away from the Mediterranean margin), including a large …

According to pollen analysis and the 18O-isotope curve, the first part of the Late Pleistocene
(ca 128–30 ka) is mainly characterized by a dynamic that alternates cold phases (Heinrich …

This paper provides a background to Neanderthal presence in Western Mediterranean
Europe. Habitual tool-use underpinned human survival in late Early Pleistocene western …

We describe the human remains (three fragments of humerus) found in the southeast of the
Iberian Peninsula sites,(Venta Micena and Cueva Victoria) which confirm the existence of …

Considerations of Neandertal geographical variation have been hampered by the dearth of
remains from Mediterranean Europe and the absence there of sufficiently complete …

New findings and evidence which suggest that the first arrival of hominids in Europe and
Asia took place at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene or even earlier, during Lower …

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 …

The Garba IV mandible from Melka Kunture was found in Level E (see Piperno et al. in this
volume) during the 1981-82 excavations, while opening an area of 2 square metres. Level E …

Abstract The site of Riparo Broion (Vicenza, northeastern Italy) preserves a stratigraphic
sequence documenting the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition, in particular the final …

Study of the Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic began in the 1870s with excavations by Marcelino
Sanz de Sautuola in the caves of El Pendo, Camargo, and especially Altamira, where, in …