The sequence at Carihuela Cave and its potential for research into Neanderthal ecology and the Mousterian in southern Spain

JS Carrión, S Fernández, JM Jiménez-Arenas… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Hitherto unpublished 14 C and 230 Thsingle bond 234 U determinations from Carihuela
Cave (Granada province, Andalusia, Spain) raise a possibility of late survival here of …

Cueva Antón: A multi-proxy MIS 3 to MIS 5a paleoenvironmental record for SE Iberia

J Zilhao, A Ajas, E Badal, C Burow, M Kehl… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Overlying a palustrine deposit of unknown age (complex FP), and protected from weathering
and erosion inside a large cave/rock-shelter cavity, the sedimentary fill of Cueva Antón, a …

The Neanderthal meal: a new perspective using faecal biomarkers

A Sistiaga, C Mallol, B Galván, RE Summons - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Neanderthal dietary reconstructions have, to date, been based on indirect evidence and
may underestimate the significance of plants as a food source. While zooarchaeological and …

Insights into the timing, intensity and natural setting of Neanderthal occupation from the geoarchaeological study of combustion structures: A micromorphological and …

L Leierer, M Jambrina-Enríquez, AV Herrera-Herrera… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Middle Paleolithic lithic and faunal assemblages throughout Eurasia reflect short-term
Neanderthal occupations, which suggest high group mobility. However, the timing of these …

New evidence of early Neanderthal disappearance in the Iberian Peninsula

B Galván, CM Hernández, C Mallol, N Mercier… - Journal of human …, 2014 - Elsevier
The timing of the end of the Middle Palaeolithic and the disappearance of Neanderthals
continue to be strongly debated. Current chronometric evidence from different European …

Dead wood gathering among Neanderthal groups: charcoal evidence from Abric del Pastor and El Salt (Eastern Iberia)

P Vidal-Matutano, A Henry, I Théry-Parisot - Journal of archaeological …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present here a new approach combining the microscopic characterization of fungal
decay features and the fragmentation degree of the charcoal remains from Middle …

The time between Palaeolithic hearths

Á Herrejón-Lagunilla, JJ Villalaín, FJ Pavón-Carrasco… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Resolving the timescale of human activity in the Palaeolithic Age is one of the most
challenging problems in prehistoric archaeology. The duration and frequency of hunter …

Living on the edge: Was demographic weakness the cause of Neanderthal demise?

A Degioanni, C Bonenfant, S Cabut, S Condemi - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The causes of disappearance of the Neanderthals, the only human population living in
Europe before the arrival of Homo sapiens, have been debated for decades by the scientific …

Using lithic assemblage formation to approach Middle Palaeolithic settlement dynamics: el Salt stratigraphic Unit X (Alicante, Spain)

J Machado, FJ Molina, CM Hernández… - Archaeological and …, 2017 - Springer
The superposition of anthropogenic remains usually results in archaeological palimpsests,
hindering an accurate characterization of the behavior underlying such remains. Aimed at …

The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant

E Been, E Hovers, R Ekshtain, A Malinski-Buller… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The late Middle Palaeolithic (MP) settlement patterns in the Levant included the
repeated use of caves and open landscape sites. The fossil record shows that two types of …