What is it about?
The small vertebrates assemblages retrieved from the Cueva del Conde has allowed to reconstruct the paleoenvironmental trends during the end of the Mousterian and the beginnings of the Upper Paleolithic in the area of Central Asturias northern Spain.
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Why is it important?
The knowledge of climate and environment at the mousterian-aurignacian transition is still under discussion as since during this period the replacement of Neanderthals by anatomically modern humans occurred, and the deposits of this period studied are still scarce
Perspectives
the climatic conditions between both levels do not seem to show a sufficiently important change that explains the biological and cultural changes that took place during this transition. This is something that has also found in other contemporary sites in N Spain. We will have to follow other perspectives of study.
PhD Paloma Uzquiano Ollero
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia
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This page is a summary of: Palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate of the Mousterian–Aurignacian transition in northern Iberia: The small-vertebrate assemblage from Cueva del Conde (Santo Adriano, Asturias), Journal of Human Evolution, July 2011, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.01.010.
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