The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition occupations from Cova Foradada (Calafell, NE Iberia).

Autor: Morales JI; SERP, Departament d'Historia i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain., Cebrià A; SERP, Departament d'Historia i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain., Burguet-Coca A; Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.; Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), Tarragona, Spain., Fernández-Marchena JL; SERP, Departament d'Historia i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain., García-Argudo G; SERP, Departament d'Historia i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain., Rodríguez-Hidalgo A; Complutense University, Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology Department, Madrid, Spain.; IDEA (Instituto de Evolución en África), Madrid, Spain., Soto M; Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada., Talamo S; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Evolution, Leipzig, Germany., Tejero JM; CNRS, ArScan, UMR-7041, Ethnologie préhistorique, Nanterre, France.; SERP, Departament d'Historia i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain., Vallverdú J; Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.; Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), Tarragona, Spain., Fullola JM; SERP, Departament d'Historia i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2019 May 16; Vol. 14 (5), pp. e0215832. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 May 16 (Print Publication: 2019).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215832
Abstrakt: The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe covers the last millennia of Neanderthal life together with the appearance and expansion of Modern Human populations. Culturally, it is defined by the Late Middle Paleolithic succession, and by Early Upper Paleolithic complexes like the Châtelperronian (southwestern Europe), the Protoaurignacian, and the Early Aurignacian. Up to now, the southern boundary for the transition has been established as being situated between France and Iberia, in the Cantabrian façade and Pyrenees. According to this, the central and southern territories of Iberia are claimed to have been the refuge of the last Neanderthals for some additional millennia after they were replaced by anatomically Modern Humans on the rest of the continent. In this paper, we present the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition sequence from Cova Foradada (Tarragona), a cave on the Catalan Mediterranean coastline. Archaeological research has documented a stratigraphic sequence containing a succession of very short-term occupations pertaining to the Châtelperronian, Early Aurignacian, and Gravettian. Cova Foradada therefore represents the southernmost Châtelperronian-Early Aurignacian sequence ever documented in Europe, significantly enlarging the territorial distribution of both cultures and providing an important geographical and chronological reference for understanding Neanderthal disappearance and the complete expansion of anatomically Modern Humans.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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