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A knapping event in the early Upper Paleolithic of the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)

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ID5254356
AuthorsMarta Santamaría (0000-0002-5291-5224, Universidad de Burgos), Marta Navazo (0000-0002-3602-2741, Universidad de Burgos), Alfonso Benito-Calvo (0000-0002-6363-1753, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana), Alicia Medialdea (0000-0001-5895-0736, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana), E Carbonell (0000-0001-6306-3621, Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Year2024
Volume16
Issue1
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchaeological and Anthropological Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1866-9557 • E-ISSN: 1866-9565
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s12520-023-01927-w
OpenAlexW4390687026
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited64

In this paper, we present the site of Valdeprovedo (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos), an open-air Paleolithic site. This site is attractive for study and research for three main reasons. First, it is an open-air site with an extraordinarily well-preserved lithic assemblage that corresponds to a very short-lived event. Second, in this small area, refits have been achieved with a high refitting rate, which allows us to reconstruct the action carried out in this place during a specific moment, around 28 ka. And third, this is the first site of this chronology that has been documented in the Sierra de Atapuerca, providing new data on the inland population of the Iberian Peninsula by Upper Paleolithic groups

Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology · Chronology · Geography · Knapping · Mousterian · Peninsula · Population · Upper Paleolithic · Archaeological and Geological Studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology

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