Geoarchaeology, Paleobiology and Archaeology of rockshelters and caves from Valencia (Spain)

Summary

Caves and rock-shelters stratified sites from Mediterranean Spain are the result of the accumulation of time-averaged palimpsests, that probably don’t represent the normal range of human activities on the landscape. We focus the discussion on understanding the nature of human responses to climate changes, and we argue that different erosive and removal events in several mediterranean sites had been decisive in our vision of the end of the Palaeolithic-Epipalaeolithic and the beginning of the Neolithic.

Nevertheless, caves and rock-shelters produced geoarchaeological, radiometric, paleobiological, archaeological and ethnographical data that could be used like a proxies to systematic recovery of materials needed for eco-dynamics research. The goal of this contribution is to present long-term trends concerning the human populations in Valencia (Spain), a micro-region of Mediterranean Iberia, between the late Upper Paleolithic and the beginning of the Neolithic (ca. 20 – 6 ky calBP). Data about the use of the caves for shepherds in the twentieth century, that have affected the preservation of archaeological sites, are also included.

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