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Radiocarbon Dating the Late Upper Paleolithic of Cantabrian Spain: El Mirón Cave Date List IV

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

Lawrence Guy Straus ,
Manuel R González Morales ,
Thomas Higham ,
Michael Richards  and
Sahra Talamo
Lawrence Guy Straus
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, MSC01 1040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas, Universidad de Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain
Manuel R González Morales
Affiliation:
Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas, Universidad de Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain
Thomas Higham
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology, Perrins Bldg., South Parks Road, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
Michael Richards
Affiliation:
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Sahra Talamo
Affiliation:
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Abstract

This fourth date list for the long cultural sequence in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain) reports on 19 new AMS assays for Solutrean, Initial, Lower, and Middle Magdalenian and Azilian levels, ranging from about 19 to 11 uncalibrated kyr. Key results are provision of further precision on the transition between the Solutrean and Magdalenian at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum and the very exact dating of a Magdalenian human burial and its relationship to both major living floors and closely associated rock art in the cave.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , 2015 , pp. 183 - 188
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Copyright © 2015 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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