“…After the post-LGM warming until the Middle Holocene forests expanded with an increase of Mediterranean vegetation (Carrión, 2015). At the same time, the proliferation of archaeological sites suggests an increase in population (Thacker, 2002(Thacker, , 2006, of intensity in resource exploitation (Bicho et al, 2011(Bicho et al, , 2000Haws, 2006Haws, , 2003Hockett and Haws, 2009), and the diversity of regional technological traits with rapid but discrete chronological changes (Bicho, 1992;Gameiro, 2012;Gameiro et al, 2020;Holst, 2017;Zilhão, 1997). Precisely during the Early Holocene, the regional toolkits are very similar to the Magdalenian, but already include the introduction of geometrics made on Upper Paleolithic-like bladelets (Araújo, 2012;Bicho, 1998Bicho, , 2002Pereira and Carvalho, 2015).…”