Esquemas operativos laminares en el Musteriense final de la cueva de El Castillo (Puente Viesgo, Cantabria)

Valdés, Victoria Cabrera; Quirós, Federico Bernaldo de; Fernández, José Manuel Maíllo

doi:10.5944/etfi.13.2000.4694

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“…The lack of any human skeletal remains in this transitional period has prevented further interpretations relative to the makers of this technocomplex, who remain unknown today in Spain, in contrast to the French Châtelperronian levels at Saint‐Césaire and Grotte du Renne, where Neanderthal skeletal remains were found. In Level 18B of El Castillo Cave, classified as ‘Transitional Aurignacian’ (Wood et al ., 2018), there are several isolated deciduous teeth, with advanced states of wear that prevent a diagnostic species attribution, although some authors propose similarities in size and morphology with Neanderthals (Cabrera et al ., 2005; Garralda, 2006).…”

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What Neanderthals and AMH ate: reassessment of the subsistence across the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region of SW Europe

Marín-Arroyo

Sanz-Royo

2021

J Quaternary Science

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Recent research in northern Spain has revealed the disappearance of Neanderthal populations in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region a few millennia earlier than in eastern and southern Iberia and discovered a short period of overlap with modern humans, at least, in terms of radiocarbon dates. However, the causes of Neanderthal decline understood as a regional and temporal process remain open. Despite the abundance of technological studies, modern‐quality chronological dating, and the availability of archaeofaunal and palaeoenvironmental data, there is a lack of consensus about how climatic and environmental conditions could have affected ungulate prey and, therefore, Neanderthal subsistence strategies. In this paper, an analytical summary of the archaeofaunal and taphonomic data available for the Vasco‐Cantabrian region, combined with the most recent chronological evidence, present general knowledge about animal biogeography and ecology during the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition, and provides an interpretation of the behaviour of both human species in the region. This work reviews the palaeomammal community of animals represented in the record as exploited by human groups in several caves and rock shelters and pointing to continuing lacunae in knowledge. Further research is needed to verify and potentially explain the apparent hominin population gap and the ultimate fate of the Neanderthals.

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What Neanderthals and AMH ate: reassessment of the subsistence across the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region of SW Europe

Marín-Arroyo

Sanz-Royo

2021

J Quaternary Science

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“…Apart from a lithic collection attributed to the Mousterian and a brief mention of an Aurignacian flint point found among remains of cave bears (Carrión Santafé & Baena Preysler 1998; Ochoa 2017, 298), the lack of materials attributable to the Magdalenian suggests that it may not have been habitually occupied when its art was created. Archaeological deposits may be present under the calcite floor in the entrance hall (García-Diez et al 2021, 311) but it remains possible that, given the proximity of La Pasiega and El Castillo, and the late Upper Palaeolithic deposits in the latter (Cabrera Valdés 1984), these nearby caves were the places of residence (Ortega Martínez & Ruiz-Redondo 2018, 804).…”

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Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of Las Monedas and La Pasiega (Cantabria, Spain)

Wisher,

Pettitt,

Kentridge

2023

CAJ

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The influence of pareidolia has often been anecdotally observed in examples of Upper Palaeolithic cave art, where topographic features of cave walls were incorporated into images. As part of a wider investigation into the visual psychology of the earliest known art, we explored three hypotheses relating to pareidolia in cases of Late Upper Palaeolithic art in Las Monedas and La Pasiega Caves (Cantabria, Spain). Deploying current research methods from visual psychology, our results support the notion that topography of cave walls played a strong role in the placement of figurative images—indicative of pareidolia influencing art making—although played a lesser role in determining whether the resulting images were relatively simple or complex. Our results also suggested that lighting conditions played little or no role in determining the form or placement of images, contrary to what has been previously assumed. We hypothesize that three ways of artist–cave interaction (‘conversations’) were at work in our sample caves and suggest a developmental scheme for these. We propose that these ‘conversations’ with caves and their surfaces may have broader implications for how we conceive of the emergence and development of art in the Palaeolithic.

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“…(For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.) older than the rest of the dates, given that level 8 of El Castillo, attributed to the Initial/Lower Magdalenian (Utrilla, 1981;Cabrera Valdés, 1984), yielded an uncalibrated AMS age of 16,850 ± 220 years BP (Barandiarán, 1988). However, level 8 is about 2 m thick and, in the absence of 3D provenance data, this date would have been excluded from our analysis.…”

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New Insights into the Use and Circulation of Reindeer Antler in Northern Iberia During the Magdalenian (Ca. 21-13 cal Ka BP)

Lefebvre

Pétillon²,

Cueto

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SSRN Journal

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Esquemas operativos laminares en el Musteriense final de la cueva de El Castillo (Puente Viesgo, Cantabria)

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

What Neanderthals and AMH ate: reassessment of the subsistence across the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region of SW Europe

What Neanderthals and AMH ate: reassessment of the subsistence across the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region of SW Europe

Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of Las Monedas and La Pasiega (Cantabria, Spain)

New Insights into the Use and Circulation of Reindeer Antler in Northern Iberia During the Magdalenian (Ca. 21-13 cal Ka BP)

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