[Sousa, Maria F.|PublicAdministrativeSpace:Sousa, Maria F.] [Figueiredo, Silvério M.|PublicAdministrativeSpace:Figueiredo, Silvério M.]
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The World of Elephants - International Congress, Rome 2001
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2001
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611-616
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Elephants are present in Portugal since the Miocene. There are two kinds of stratification contexts with remains of Pleistocene elephants: geological and archaeological. We illustrate four archaeological sites. 1) Mealhada, a site located in the central region of Portugal, north of Coimbra. 2) Santo Antão do Tojal (Loures), a very important site in the Lisbon area on the right bank of the Tagus river. 3) Foz do Enxarrique (Vila Velha de Rodão), a site located in the upper Tagus near Spain. This site contains a single Mousterian level, that has the most recent dates for the presence of Elephas antiquus. 4) The cave site of Figueira Brava located near the city of Setubal on the south side of Arrabida mountain, where Homo neanderthalensis remains were found associated with bones, which have been attributed to Mammuthus primigenius with some caution.
