El Ateriense del Norte de África y el Solutrense peninsular: ¿contactos transgibraltareños en el Pleistoceno Superior?
Journal:
munibe (Antropologia-Arkeologia)
Number:
Volume:
Nº58
Year:
2007
Pages:
101-126
Keywords:
Aterian, Solutrean, Strait of Gibraltar, Lithic industry.
ISBN:
ISSN:
1132-2217
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Abstract:
We present a state of the question on the North African Aterian, examining different hypotheses that posit some kind of relationship of this technocomplex with the Solutrean of the Iberian Peninsula, via the Strait of Gibraltar. Despite the fact that palaeoenvironmental conditions of the Strait area during the last glaciation would have allowed the movement of humans in several moments, the current archaeological record, besides some techno-typological similarities, does not allow us to conclude any kind of Aterian contribution in the formation of the peninsular solutrean industries. Furthermore, some reflections about the evolution of the lithic industries from the Initial Upper Palaeolithic are made, pointing out the necessity of undertaking a theoretical and methodological renovation, in order to gain a better understanding of the processes of technological evolution in the Upper Paleolithic, and their relationships with prior contexts.
