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New Dates for the Solutrean and Magdalenian of Cantabrian Spain: El Miron and La Riera Caves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2018

Lawrence G Straus  and
Manuel R González Morales
Lawrence G Straus*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, MSC01 1040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 USA
Manuel R González Morales
Affiliation:
Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas, Universidad de Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain
*
*Corresponding author. Email: lstraus@unm.edu.
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Abstract

This sixth date list for the prehistoric site of El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain) reports on new age determinations for the earliest and last Solutrean occupations (20.4 and 18.0 14C kyr BP) and for a Lower/Initial Magdalenian level with a possible rock wall (16.75 14C kyr BP). The site has now been dated by 92 radiocarbon (14C) assays. In addition, to help resolve inconsistencies in the 14C chronology of La Riera Cave (Asturias)—the first Paleolithic site in Spain to be extensively 14C-dated back in the 1970s—two AMS assays were done on bones from the Lower and Upper Magdalenian collections (15.1 and 13.5 14C kyr BP).

Keywords

Cantabrian SpainEl Miron CaveLa Riera Caveradiocarbon AMS datingUpper Paleolithic

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Radiocarbon , Volume 60 , Issue 3 , June 2018 , pp. 1013 - 1016
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© 2018 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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