1. The Cueva del Angel (Lucena, Spain) - An Acheulean hunters habitat in the South of the Iberian peninsula
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Cecilio Barroso Ruiz, Dominique Cauche, Thibaud Saos, Ian Hedley, Luis Verdú Bermejo, Salah Abdessadok, Abderrezak Djerrab, Constance Hanquet, Olivier Notter, N. Boulbes, Anne-Marie Moigne, Antonio Cabral Mesa, Sophie Grégoire, María Isabel Carretero León, Arnaud Filoux, José Antonio Riquelme Cantal, José Moutoussamy, Deborah Barsky, Salvador Bailon, Nicolas Astier, Samir Khatib, Agnès Testu, Vincenzo Celiberti, Daniel Botella Ortega, Gérard Batalla I Llasat, Elena Rossoni, Miguel Caparrós, Laeticia Bertin, Guadalupe Monge Gómez, Henry de Lumley, Manuel Rodriguez, Christelle Milizia, José Antonio García Solano, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Centre européen de recherches préhistoriques de Tautavel, Institut Catala Paleoecolgia humana q& evolucio social (IPHES), IPHES, Departemento de Prehistoria y Arqueologia. Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de Granada (UGR), Laboratoire Départemental de Préhistoire du Lazaret (LDPL), Département des Alpes-Maritimes, Archéozoologie, archéobotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements (AASPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Université de Genève (UNIGE), Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), Archéologie des milieux et des ressources, Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes (ASM), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UM3)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UM3)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UM3)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Paléontologie Humaine (IPH), Fondation I.P.H-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD) more...
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010506 paleontology ,Pleistocene ,[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory ,Sud de l'Espagne ,01 natural sciences ,Paleontology ,Cave ,Peninsula ,Chasseur ,Assemblage (archaeology) ,0601 history and archaeology ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Earth-Surface Processes ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,060102 archaeology ,biology ,Mousterian ,06 humanities and the arts ,biology.organism_classification ,Archaeology ,Equus ,Habitat ,Cueva del Angel ,Acheuléen ,Geology ,Acheulean ,Faunal assemblage - Abstract
International audience; The Cueva del Angel archaeological site is an open-air sedimentary sequence, remnant of a collapsed cave and part of a karst complex. The faunal assemblage dominated by Equus ferus, large bovids and cervids has been subjected to intense anthropic actions reflecting selective predation. The fauna may be correlated with European faunistic associations of the end of the Middle Pleistocene to the beginning of the Upper Pleistocene. The Cueva del Angel lithic assemblage (dominated by non-modified flakes and abundant retouched tools with the presence of 46 handaxes) appears to fit well within the regional diversity of a well developed non-Levallois final Acheulean industry. A preliminary 230Th/234U age estimate, the review of the lithic assemblage and faunal evidence would favour a chronological positioning of the site in a period stretching from the end of the Middle Pleistocene to the beginning of the Upper Pleistocene (MIS 11-MIS 5). The Acheulean lithic assemblage found at the Cueva del Angel fits very well with the hypothesis of a continuation of Acheulean cultural traditions in the site, distinct from the contemporaneous uniquely Mousterian complexes witnessed in other parts of the Iberian Peninsula, and Western Europe. more...
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- 2011
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