What burned the forest? Wildfires, climate change and human activity in the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in SE Iberian Peninsula

C Sánchez-García, J Revelles, F Burjachs, I Euba… - Catena, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate variability such as higher or lower temperatures, changing precipitation patterns,
shifts in plant communities and other climate-related changes have particularly affected …

[HTML][HTML] Heinrich Stadial 1 continental sand dunes and Middle to Late Holocene paleosol sequences in SE Iberia: Implications for human occupation and site …

JFL de Pablo, A Polo-Díaz, C Ferrer-García, RM Poch - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
Continental aeolian sandy deposits are common in the semi-arid Mediterranean biomes of
the Iberian Peninsula. Very few studies, however, have addressed their chronology …

[HTML][HTML] There and back again: Late Mesolithic technological change in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula

A Soto, A Rodríguez-Lejarza, L Jiménez… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
A profound change took place in the lithic technology of the last hunter-gatherer societies in
Western Europe and North Africa at the end of the Early Holocene. In a short period, several …

Unraveling Early Holocene occupation patterns at El Arenal de la Virgen (Alicante, Spain) open-air site: an integrated palimpsest analysis

JR Rabuñal, M Gómez-Puche, A Polo-Díaz… - Archaeological and …, 2023 - Springer
Palimpsests are ubiquitous in the open-air archaeological record. Yet, integrated intra-site
research strategies of palimpsest dissection to infer occupational histories, spatial …

Spatiotemporal patterns on the appearance of the first trapeze industries in the Late Mesolithic of the Iberian Peninsula

M Gómez-Puche, JFL de Pablo - Radiocarbon, 2024 - cambridge.org
The spread of trapeze industries (the creation of trapeze-shaped flint tips) during Late
Mesolithic is one of the most disruptive phenomena of technological change documented in …

Mesolithic hearth-pits and formation processes: a geoarchaeological investigation of sediments from El Arenal de la Virgen site (SE Iberia)

A Polo-Díaz, JR Rabuñal, G Guérin… - Archaeological and …, 2023 - Springer
Hearth-pits are some of the most common archaeological features documented in open-air
Mesolithic sites, especially in coversand areas of NW Europe. However, very few …