A context for the last Neandertals of interior Iberia: Los Casares cave revisited.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and objectives

Although the Iberian Peninsula is a key area for understanding the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and the demise of the Neandertals, valuable evidence for these debates remains scarce and problematic in its interior regions. Sparse data supporting a late Neandertal persistence in the Iberian interior have been recently refuted and hence new evidence is needed to build new models on the timing and causes of Neandertal disappearance in inland Iberia and the whole peninsula. In this study we provide new evidence from Los Casares, a cave located in the highlands of the Spanish Meseta, where a Neandertal-associated Middle Paleolithic site was discovered and first excavated in the 1960's. Our main objective is twofold: (1) provide an updated geoarcheol

SUBMITTER: Alcaraz-Castano M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5516997 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature