Precise dating of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Murcia (Spain) supports late Neandertal persistence in Iberia

• Published in: Heliyon
• Main Authors: Zilhão, João, Anesin, Daniela, Aubry, Thierry, Badal, Ernestina, Cabanes, Dan, Kehl, Martin, Klasen, Nicole, Lucena, Armando, Martín-Lerma, Ignacio, Martínez, Susana, Matias, Henrique, Susini, Davide, Steier, Peter, Wild, Eva Maria, Angelucci, Diego E., Villaverde, Valentín, Zapata, Josefina
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Article; Cueva; Greenland
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5696381/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00435

The late persistence in Southern Iberia of a Neandertal-associated Middle Paleolithic is supported by the archeological stratigraphy and the radiocarbon and luminescence dating of three newly excavated localities in the Mula basin of Murcia (Spain). At Cueva Antón, Mousterian layer I-k can be no mor...