Hunter-gatherer societies mobility has been interpreted as a dialectical interplay of social and environmental factors. Demography and social network restriction have been pointed out as potential factors for the demise of Neanderthal and to differ them from anatomically modern human. To reconstruct land use and social network we investigate Middle and Upper Palaeolithic lithic remains from an open-air site loc...
The dating of rock art is one of the main inherent problems of the research of this type of archaeological evidence. This task is not, however, devoid of difficulties, stylistic comparison being the only available method to accomplished it in countless occasions. In the Côa Valley, we do not discard stylistic comparison, such a method being used as an essential complement of a wider strategy that we will descri...
La découverte inattendue de gravures paléolithiques de plein air dans la vallée du Côa et la décision de leur conservation in situ ont servi d’impulsion pour la recherche de leur contexte archéologique. Depuis 1995, on sait que cette vallée conserve des vestiges d’occupation humaine qui vont du Gravettien à l’Azilien. Les études ont révélé l’exploitation d’une zone écotone de son bassin versant et les origines ...