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Recibido el 5 de julio de 2013. Aceptado el 31 de julio de 2013 Resumen. La Cueva de Ambrosio (Vélez-Blanco, Almería, España)

Resumen. Durante el Pleistoceno superior final y el Holoceno inferior y medio se depositó en las salas de la entrada de la Cueva de Nerja (Málaga, Andalucía, España) Greenland (GISP2 and GRIP) and in Alborán Sea (MD95-2043). This has allowed us to verify our previous palaeoclimatological interpretations of the sequence, establish a narrower correlation between the main palaeoclimatological events detected in Alborán Sea and the occupational episodes of the cave, and to advance in the consideration of the archaeological record of the cavity as a unit, in the territorial context of the South of the prehistoric Iberia.

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El Esquilleu cave has one of the most complete Middle Paleolithic stratigraphies of northern Iberia with a complete chronological framework almost continuous from the beginning of MIS3. The complete analysis of the materials including the last section of the sequence corresponding to the last chronological interval of the occupation in the region shows clear evolutionary tendencies by important changes in the composition of the lithic assemblage. Its study confirms a continuous occupation without any gaps during the Mousterian until recent dates but without any Upper Paleolithic presence. This sequence, referenced to the Mousterian settlement of the Picos de Europa mountains, testifies to the existence of a Mousterian presence in northern Iberia with no clear relation to other Cantabrian areas. Consequently, its occupation without a break until the crucial phase of the end of the Middle Paleolithic suggests a non-transitional process in the history of local Neanderthal groups.