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Climate, environment and human behaviour in the Middle Palaeolithic of Abrigo de la Quebrada (Valencia, Spain): The evidence from charred plant and m…
2019
Abstract The Abrigo de la Quebrada rock shelter was occupied by Neanderthal groups during the early Upper Pleistocene, yielding evidence for their subsistence practices and local resource exploitation. This paper focuses on the plant macroremains and the micromammals, which provide information about occupation patterns, the surrounding landscape, the use of resources, and the environment. Mountain pine forests and permanent grass formations containing humid zones and open spaces that would have harboured an eurythermal microfauna were the dominant landscape type. Cold-climate pines provided most of the firewood. The data are consistent with a recurrent, seasonal occupation pattern, in which…
Aprovechamiento de las calizas en el Paleolítico medio del Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Valencia)
2012
Se estudian las cadenas operativas líticas realizadas sobre calizas del nivel III del yacimiento del Paleolítico medio del Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Valencia). Se caracterizan las calizas locales e identifican las fuentes de aprovisionamiento. Asimismo, se comparan los distintos sistemas operativos utilizados para tallar este material con los de las otras materias primas (sílex y cuarcita), para evaluar el grado de similitud y diferencia en la gestión de esta materia prima. Los datos apuntan a una importante variabilidad y un cierto predominio de un sistema expeditivo. FFI 2008-01200/FISO HAR 2008-04273-E/HIST HAR2011-24878 We approach the chaînes opératoires of limestones found in lev…