“…Recently, other research approaches have been applied to charcoal analysis from a palaeoeconomical point of view based on experimentation, observation of microanatomical features due to biological or mechanical processes, dendrological studies or spatial analysis of anthracological remains (Carrión, 2007;Caruso et al, 2014;Henry and Théry-Parisot, 2014;Marguerie and Hunot, 2007;Théry-Parisot and Costamagno, 2005;Théry-Parisot and Henry, 2012;Vidal-Matutano, 2017;Vidal-Matutano et al, 2017a;Vidal-Matutano et al, 2017b). Nevertheless, despite the great advances made in anthracology, there are still very few published studies in Middle Palaeolithic contexts from Iberia (Allué et al, 2017;Allué et al, 2018;Badal et al, 2012a;Daura et al, 2015;Gale and Garruthers, 2000;Ros, 1985;Uzquiano, 1992Uzquiano, , 2005Uzquiano et al, 2008;Uzquiano et al, 2012;Vidal-Matutano, 2017;Vidal-Matutano et al, 2015;Vidal-Matutano et al, 2017a;Vidal-Matutano et al, 2017b;Vidal-Matutano et al, 2018;Zilhao et al, 2016) (Badal and Heinz, 1991;Chabal, 1992Chabal, , 1997, many wood charcoal assemblages are recovered still today by hand-picking sampling leading to biased results. In addition, another difficulty found in some published charcoal analyses has been the non-mention of the recovery method applied, which may hinder interpretation of data.…”