Prevailing wisdom holds that early humans lived close to the coastlines of Spain, but a new study has found that they formed networks at higher altitudes.
NewsletterEarly people weathered the Last Ice Age in the significantly cooler uplands of central Spain, eschewing the warmer coastlines, according to a new archaeological survey. Its findings counter the prevailing wisdom that hunter-gatherers stuck close to the Mediterranean and Atlantic shorelines of the Iberian Peninsula, which include modern-day Spain and Portugal.
said in a press release. “ a result of modern research hitherto prioritizing study of coastal regions and neglecting the inland.”In 2018, a team led by Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño, an archaeologist and historian at the University of Alcalá in Spain, set out to correct the record by embarking on a systematic field survey of inland Iberia, the peninsula that includes modern-day Spain and Portugal.
Still, the team found evidence of extensive settlement, including charcoal and stone and bone tools, plus personal ornaments made using shells. The view from atop Charco Verde II during the 2021 excavation season.Radiocarbon methods dated the deeper layers at Charco Verde II to about 21,000 years old and the shallowest to roughly 15,000 years.
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