Abstract In the Franco-Cantabrian region and Catalonia, the Upper Palaeolithic begins with
three assemblage-types found in stratigraphic order through the interval between 45,000 …

The late persistence in Southern Iberia of a Neandertal-associated Middle Paleolithic is
supported by the archeological stratigraphy and the radiocarbon and luminescence dating …

The Iberian Peninsula plays a central role in the current debates on the Middle-Upper
Palaeolithic transition and the Neanderthal extinction. This is largely due to the …

The complex environmental history of Isotope Stage Three carries the implication that cave
and rockshelter sites containing deposits from the time of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic …

Since the late 1980s, northern Iberia has yielded some of the earliest radiocarbon dated
Aurignacian assemblages in Western Europe, probably produced by anatomically modern …

Archaeological evidence for the earliest human presence in western Iberia is summarised
and discussed. Western Iberia is geologically characterised by magmatic and metamorphic …

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 …

Abstract The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Western Europe is a central topic in
current paleoanthropological research. Recently, Neanderthal survival during MIS 3 and the …

It is commonly accepted that some of the latest dates for Neanderthal fossils and Mousterian
industries are found south of the Ebro valley in Iberia at ca. 36 ka calBP (calibrated …

The Tan-Tan figurine was discovered during an archaeological survey by Lutz Fiedler, state
archaeologist of Hessen, Germany (Kuckenburg 2001: 136), in a fluvial terrace deposit on …