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The rock shelter Abrigo del Molino (Segovia, Spain) and the timing of the late Middle Paleolithic in Central Iberia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2018

Martin Kehl ,
David Álvarez-Alonso ,
María de Andrés-Herrero ,
Andrés Díez-Herrero ,
Nicole Klasen ,
Janet Rethemeyer  and
Gerd-Christian Weniger
Martin Kehl*
Affiliation:
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany
David Álvarez-Alonso
Affiliation:
Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Centro Asociado de Asturias, Av. del Jardín Botánico, 1345, 33203 Gijón, Spain
María de Andrés-Herrero
Affiliation:
Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany/Neanderthal Museum, Talstraße 300, 40822 Mettmann, Germany
Andrés Díez-Herrero
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Spain - Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME), Calle de Ríos Rosas, 23, 28003 Madrid, Spain
Nicole Klasen
Affiliation:
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany
Janet Rethemeyer
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany
Gerd-Christian Weniger
Affiliation:
Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany/Neanderthal Museum, Talstraße 300, 40822 Mettmann, Germany
*
*Corresponding author at: Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Albertus Magnus Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany. E-mail address: kehlm@uni-koeln.de (M. Kehl).
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Abstract

The timing of the late Middle Paleolithic and late disappearance of Neanderthals in the Iberian Peninsula are hotly debated subjects in Paleolithic archeology. Several studies suggested a late survival in South and Central Iberia until about 32 ka, but were probably subject to significant age underestimation due to contamination of dating samples, undiagnostic lithic assemblages, and/or lack of stratigraphic integrity. We conducted a radiocarbon and luminescence-dating study backed by detailed sedimentological and micromorphological investigations at the newly discovered rock shelter sequence of Abrigo del Molino (Central Spain). Accumulation of the sediment sequence was rapid. It started with deposition of paleoflood slack-water deposits at around 48 ka and continued until about 41 ka with deposition of colluvial and detrital sediments. These contain two Mousterian levels, which place the latest Neanderthal occupation at around 45 to 41 ka, i.e., between Heinrich Stadials 5 and 4, and probably during a time of climate amelioration. Abrigo del Molino thus provides a detailed and chronologically well-constrained record of Late Neanderthal presence and morphodynamic change in Central Iberia during times of millennial-scale climate changes. The site gives further evidence for an early disappearance of Neanderthals in Central Iberia.

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Radiocarbon datingLuminescence datingMicromorphologyMiddle Paleolithic
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Research Article
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Quaternary Research , Volume 90 , Issue 1 , July 2018 , pp. 180 - 200
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Copyright © University of Washington. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2018 

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