Mobility and the use of littoral resources in the Late Mesolithic of Northern Spain: the case of La Chora cave (Voto, Cantabria, N Spain)
Alejandro León-Cristóbal,
Asier García-Escárzaga,
Miguel Ángel Fano
et al.
Abstract:Littoral resources have been consumed by humans since at least the Middle Palaeolithic. Examples of the use of molluscs have been documented along the shores of Europe during that period but it was not until many millennia later that European hunter-fisher-gatherer societies exploited those resources intensively—see the case of Nerja cave during the Younger Dryas. This economic activity caused the accumulation of shells at archaeological sites during the Mesolithic, resulting in the formation of the so-called … Show more
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