Population dynamics between and within Pleistocene groups are vital to understanding
wider behavioural processes like social transmission and cultural variation. The late Middle …

The arrival, occupation, and disappearance of Neanderthals in the Cantabrian region is the
subject of a long-running debate that continues to this day. Knowledge of the evolution of …

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 …

The presence of flake cleavers at the end of the Middle Paleolithic in the Vasco-Cantabria
region (southwestern France and northern Spain) is one element of the variability in …

The use of ranged weapons among Neanderthals is an important issue in
paleoanthropology, due to its implications for understanding the adaptive advantages of …

Rescue archeology operations conducted by INRAP (Institut National de Recherches
Archéologiques Préventives) over the past five years on the eastern plateaus of Bayonne …

This paper focuses on an overview of the sites featuring lithic industries ascribed to Middle
Palaeolithic based upon a raw materials, technological organization and toolkit …

Recent broad-scale comparative studies of Neanderthal lithic assemblages have contrasted
previous views of the Middle Palaeolithic as a period of stasis. Throughout the Middle …

The cave of Abauntz is, since the beginning of fieldwork in the 1970s, one of the major
milestones of the Iberian prehistory. It has yielded thousands of first-level remains that …

The archaeo-sequence of Gatzarria Cave (Ossas-Suhare, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), in
the northwestern foothills of the Pyrenees, records several phases of the Middle Palaeolithic …