Gruta Nova da Columbeira (Bombarral, Portugal): Site stratigraphy, age of the Mousterian sequence, and implications for the timing of Neanderthal extinction in Iberia

Abstract: The Gruta Nova da Columbeira is recurrently mentioned in the literature concerning the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in Iberia as documenting the persistence beyond 30 000 calendar years ago of a Neanderthal-associated Mousterian. This claim is based on conventional radiocarbon d...

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Main Author: Zilhão, João (author)
Other Authors: Cardoso, João (author), Pike, Alistair (author), Weninger, Bernhard (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/10656
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/10656