Few topics in palaeoanthropology have generated more recent debate than the nature and
causes of the remarkable transformation in human behavioral patterns that marked the …

Radiocarbon dating has been fundamental to the study of human cultural and biological
development over the past 50,000 yr. Two recent developments in the methodology of …

The Aurignacian technocomplex comprises a succession of culturally distinct phases.
Between its first two subdivisions, the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian, we see …

Since the late 1980s, northern Iberia has yielded some of the earliest radiocarbon dated
Aurignacian assemblages in Western Europe, probably produced by anatomically modern …

Few would now dispute the reality of a major dispersal of anatomically and genetically
modern human populations across Europe and western Asia centered broadly within the …

The Iberian Peninsula is a key region for unraveling human settlement histories of Eurasia
during the period spanning the decline of Neandertals and the emergence of anatomically …

The complex environmental history of Isotope Stage Three carries the implication that cave
and rockshelter sites containing deposits from the time of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic …

The Iberian Peninsula plays a central role in the current debates on the Middle-Upper
Palaeolithic transition and the Neanderthal extinction. This is largely due to the …

In this study we present optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating results obtained at
one of the most important open‐air M iddle P alaeolithic sites in the S ierra de A tapuerca …

This paper re-examines lithic technological variability of the Early Ahmarian, one of the early
Upper Palaeolithic cultural entities in the Levant, which has often been regarded as a …