Good and Bad Knappers Among Neanderthals
- Javier Baena
- Irene Ortiz
- Concepción Torres
- Yoshihiro Nishiaki (coord.)
- Olaf Jöris (coord.)
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
ISBN: 978-981-13-8979-5, 978-981-13-8980-1
Datum der Publikation: 2019
Seiten: 95-117
Art: Buch-Kapitel
Zusammenfassung
One of most recent Mousterian sites discovered in Madrid (Spain) is El Canaveral-Area 3 archaeological site, an open-air raw material quarrying site occupied during the MIS 3. In this site, we have excavated a total surface area of around 164 m(2) of coluvionar sediments affected by edaphic processes that have had an impact on the distribution of the original knapping zones. However, several refits were discovered as a result of rapid sedimentation. From a technological point of view, the lithic production was mainly focused in the production of levallois points after a centripetal decortication of flakes and blocks. In this paper, we present and analyze some examples that indicate, with no doubt, the existence of a wide variety of technological levels in the knapping authors, as a possible result of social changes that occurred in the MIS 3 Neanderthals communities.