Abstract The Tardiglacial of Portugal has been associated with the Magdalenian culture and
lithic industries characterized by tool miniaturization, a diversity of microlith types, and the …

Cultural Heritage objects are frequently unavailable for transportation to laboratory facilities
due to their size, location or local Cultural Heritage preservation regulations. The …

The cave site of Gruta da Oliveira is located in the Almonda karst system, at the interface
between the Central Limestone Massif of Portuguese Estremadura (CLM) and the adjacent …

The SW coast of the Iberian Peninsula experiences a lack of palaeoenvironmental and
archaeological data. With the aim to fill this gap, we contribute with a new palynological and …

The knowledge of where past human populations collected their raw materials to produce
stone-tools is crucial to understand subjects such as their territoriality, mobility, decision …

This analysis focused on one hundred and fifteen lithic arrowheads recovered from the
Zambujeiro and Mitra 2 dolmens, funerary monuments in Évora, Portugal. These were …

Throughout prehistory, landscapes were repeatedly subjected to both global and localized
climatic fluctuations that changed the regional environments where human groups lived …

Kurzfassung Die Periode des Holozäns (11, 7 ka–heute) zeichnet sich durch zahlreiche
Umweltveränderungen aus. Diese Veränderungen weisen auf globaler, regionaler und …

In central-southern Tuscany radiolarite has been used as a lithic raw material throughout
prehistory. During the Copper Age it was selected for the local production of leaf-shaped …

Recent syntheses of the Early Holocene of the Estremadura region of central–southern
Portugal have been pointing to a mosaic of technological and subsistence options which …