“…Another interesting question arises when analysing the data by area and chronology. In the Portuguese area, a good number of the sites are dated around the recent MIS 5 and present strategies that, as we have explained, are more elaborate and require a greater degree of technical knowledge (Raposo, 1995; Chacón and Raposo, 2001; Benedetti et al , 2009; Haws et al , 2020). In the Iberian plateau and Cantabrian region, the sites are dated in relatively older chronologies, and technologically, a marked archaic character in their industries can be observed (simple, bifacial, multifacial, tested nodules, indeterminate, etc.)…”