A bunch of refits: 497D blade knapping assemblage of the Early Upper Paleolithic in Cova Gran (Northeast Iberia)

Martínez-Moreno, Jorge; Torcal, Rafael Mora; Benito‐Calvo, Alfonso; Sunyer, Miquel Roy; Sánchez-Martínez, Javier

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“…In the NE of Iberia, isolated Châtelperronian artifacts have been recovered from Ermitons and L’Arbreda, occurring in recurrent centripetal Levallois assemblages, leading them to be defined as Mousterian with Châtelperronian points [129,130]. In addition, a poorly diagnostic early Upper Paleolithic assemblage from layer 497D at Cova Gran de Santa Linya has been cautiously related to the Châtelperronian from other locations [131,132]. 497D overlies the Middle Paleolithic layer 1B characterized by recurrent centripetal Levallois technology.…”

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“…Only eleven lithic remains have been recovered from layer Xa at Ekain, six of these being retouched blades or bladelets. In layer 497D from Cova Gran de Santa Linya the flaking strategies are also strongly blade oriented, and reduction from single and opposed platforms prismatic cores [144] dominates the assemblage, while Discoid or Levallois cores characterizing the underlying Middle Paleolithic occupations are not documented [132]. Châtelperronian assemblages from Aranbaltza and Morin layer 10 are surely the largest well-defined collections available, showing both a preponderance of structured, volumetric laminar strategies, dominated by laminar cores, but with centripetal flake cores and micro-Levallois production also evidenced [36,40].…”

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The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition occupations from Cova Foradada (Calafell, NE Iberia)

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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 is defined by the Late Middle Paleolithic succession, and by Early Upper Paleolithic complexes like the Châ telperronian (southwestern Europe), the Protoaurignacian, and the Early Aurignacian. Up to now, the southern boundary for the transition has been established as being situated between France and Iberia, in the Cantabrian façade and Pyrenees. According to this, the central and southern territories of Iberia are claimed to have been the refuge of the last Neanderthals for some additional millennia after they were replaced by anatomically Modern Humans on the rest of the continent. In this paper, we present the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition sequence from Cova Foradada (Tarragona), a cave on the Catalan Mediterranean coastline. Archaeological research has documented a stratigraphic sequence containing a succession of very short-term occupations pertaining to the Châ telperronian, Early Aurignacian, and Gravettian. Cova Foradada therefore represents the southernmost Châ telperronian-Early Aurignacian sequence ever documented in Europe, significantly enlarging the territorial distribution of both cultures and providing an important geographical and chronological reference for understanding Neanderthal disappearance and the complete expansion of anatomically Modern Humans.

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The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition occupations from Cova Foradada (Calafell, NE Iberia)

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“…These plotted pieces constitute a significant sam-ple to test the occurrence of hiatuses in the vertical distribution of archaeological finds (e.g. Adler et al 2003;Anderson et al 2018;Baena Preysler and Torres Navas 2019;Bargalló et al 2016;Bunn et al 1980;Canals et al 2003;Chadelle 2000;Diez-Martín et al 2014Gravina et al 2018;López-Ortega et al 2017;Machado et al 2013Machado et al , 2019Martínez-Moreno et al 2004, Martínez-Moreno et al 2019Mora et al 2018;Real et al 2018;Sánchez-Romero et al 2017;Sañudo et al 2016;Vaquero 2008;Vaquero et al 2015). The plotted finds, despite their relative high num-ber, do not constitute a dense enough cloud of points suitable to perform the vertical profiles analysis along 25 or 20 cm wide transects.…”

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Climbing the time to see Neanderthal behaviour’s continuity and discontinuity: SU 11 of the Oscurusciuto Rockshelter (Ginosa, Southern Italy)

Spagnolo

Marciani

Aureli

et al. 2020

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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The Oscurusciuto Rockshelter (Ginosa, Southern Italy) is a perfect sample-site for the reconstruction of multiple aspects of the last Neanderthals life. Different settlement strategies are attested in the excavated portion of the stratigraphic sequence, dated between ~ 55 and 43 ka BP. As a first goal, the reconstruction of the site spatial organization across the palimpsest SU 11 was achieved by a high-temporal-resolution approach (assisted by sedimentological analysis), integrating lithic technology, zooarchaeology and spatial analysis (by means of the GIS technology). As a second goal, a diachronic perspective was adopted by comparing results from SU 11 with the previously studied evidence from the underlying SU 13. Results were processed at a diachronic scale, highlighting similarities and differences related both to the type of activities carried out at the site and to their spatial management. This allowed us to recognize discontinuities and, especially, continuities of settlement dynamics, which can be related to phenomena of cultural transmission hinting to a "memory of places". Such results stimulate the debate not only on the necessity to study Middle Palaeolithic contexts at different temporal scales but also on the necessity to develop more refined multidisciplinary analytical protocols. The study of settlement dynamics at high-resolution scales allows to take advantage of the potentialities of contextual analysis i.e. the integration of results from different disciplines and data from the whole range of archaeological evidence in order to reconstruct solid behavioural models.

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“…Regarding the northern part of the Mediterranean region, the Early Aurignacian is documented in L'Arbreda (Wood et al 2014), Romaní (Bischoff et al 1994) and Cova Foradada (Calafell) (Morales et al 2019) in the latter preceded of a Chatêlperronian level, and in other assemblages whose stratigraphies include the Middle Palaeolithic and the EUP, such as Cova Gran (Mora et al 2018;Martínez-Moreno et al 2019). The chronological framework for the end of the Middle Palaeolithic north of the Ebro River is dated between 43.8 and 41.8 ka cal BP, and the Protoaurignacian/Early Aurignacian of L'Arbreda and Romaní is dated between 42.3 and 41 ka cal BP (Morales et al 2019).…”

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Cova de les Malladetes (Valencia, Spain): New Insights About the Early Upper Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula

Bonilla

Sanchís²,

Badal

et al. 2021

J Paleo Arch

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New excavations carried out at Cova de les Malladetes confirm and improve previous information on the archaeological sequence of this site. A total of 29 new dates allow to specify the chronology of the Aurignacian (levels XIVA–XII) and Gravettian (levels XI–VII). Furthermore, concerning the results obtained during the 1970 excavation, three new levels were identified: level XIVB, which represents a short temporal human occupation hiatus, and levels XV and XVI with some hearths and anthropic evidence, although the lithic material does not permit a cultural attribution. This paper presents data obtained from the analysis of archaeobotanical, micro- and macrofaunal assemblages and lithic and osseous industry. Results are relevant concerning the palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental characterisation of the Early Upper Palaeolithic, as well as for assessing the human occupation patterns during the Gravettian and Aurignacian. Moreover, we evaluate the chronological implications of the basal levels (XIVB, XV and XVI), drawing attention to the absence of an important temporal gap between this phase and the start of the Early Upper Palaeolithic at the site. Finally, our new data extend the information provided by other sites in the Spanish Mediterranean region, allowing a more defined characterisation of the Early Upper Palaeolithic, especially regarding the Evolved Aurignacian chronology and its techno-typological structure, with the presence of Roc-de-Combe subtype Dufour bladelets.

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A bunch of refits: 497D blade knapping assemblage of the Early Upper Paleolithic in Cova Gran (Northeast Iberia)

Cited by 11 publications

References 46 publications

The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition occupations from Cova Foradada (Calafell, NE Iberia)

The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition occupations from Cova Foradada (Calafell, NE Iberia)

Climbing the time to see Neanderthal behaviour’s continuity and discontinuity: SU 11 of the Oscurusciuto Rockshelter (Ginosa, Southern Italy)

Cova de les Malladetes (Valencia, Spain): New Insights About the Early Upper Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula

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