High Resolution Archaeology and Neanderthal Behavior

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction: Neanderthal Behavior and Temporal Resolution of Archeological Assemblages

   • Manuel Vaquero

   Pages 1-16

3. The Abric Romaní and the Archeological Level J (ca. 50 ka)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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4. The Abric Romaní and the archeological level J (ca. 50 ka)

   1. The Abric Romaní Site and the Capellades Region

      • Josep Vallverdú-Poch, Bruno Gómez de Soler, Manuel Vaquero, James L. Bischoff

      Pages 19-46

   2. Spatial Patterns in Level J

      • Pablo Sañudo, Josep Vallverdú-Poch, Antoni Canals

      Pages 47-76

   3. Microstratigraphic Analysis of Level J Deposits: A Dual Paleoenvironmental-Paleoethnographic Contribution to Paleolithic Archeology at the Abric Romaní

      • Josep Vallverdú-Poch, Marie-Agnès Courty

      Pages 77-133

   4. Neanderthal Landscapes and Their Home Environment: Flora and Fauna Records from Level J

      • Ethel Allué, Francesc Burjachs, Ana García, Juan Manuel López-García, Maria Bennàsar, Florent Rivals et al.

      Pages 135-157

   5. Taphonomy of Level J of Abric Romaní

      • Isabel Cáceres, Maria Bennàsar, Rosa Huguet, Jordi Rosell, Palmira Saladié, Ethel Allué et al.

      Pages 159-185

5. Human Activity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. The Lithic Assemblage of Level J

      • Manuel Vaquero, María Gema Chacón, Felipe Cuartero, Mª Dolores García-Antón, Bruno Gómez de Soler, Kenneth Martínez

      Pages 189-311

   3. Occupational Patterns and Subsistence Strategies in Level J of Abric Romaní

      • Jordi Rosell, Ruth Blasco, Rosa Huguet, Isabel Cáceres, Palmira Saladié, Florent Rivals et al.

      Pages 313-372

   4. Hearth Functioning and Forest Resource Exploitation Based on the Archeobotanical Assemblage from Level J

      • Ethel Allué, Dan Cabanes, Alex Solé, Robert Sala

      Pages 373-385

6. Conclusions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 387-387

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   2. Conclusions: Landscapes, Campsites, Time, and Neanderthal Behavior

      • Manuel Vaquero, Ethel Allué, Josep Vallverdú-Poch

      Pages 389-405

7. Back Matter

   Pages 407-411

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The aim of this book is to provide a new insight on Neanderthal behaviour using the data recovered in level J of Romaní rockshelter (north-eastern Spain). Due to the sedimentary dynamics that formed the Romaní deposit, the occupation layers are characterized by a high temporal resolution, which makes it easier to interprete the archaeological data in behavioural terms. In addition, the different analytical domains (geoarchaeology, lithic technology, zooarchaeology, taphonomy, anthracology, palaeontology) are addressed from a spatial perspective that is basic to understand human behaviour, but also to evaluate the behavioural inferences in the framework of the archaeological formation processes.​

• Archaeological research
• Human evolution
• Middle Palaeolithic
• Neanderthals
• Spatial analysis

• Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain

  Eudald Carbonell i Roura

Eudald Carbonell was born in Ribes de Freser (Girona, Spain) on 1953. He studied at the University School of Girona, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Paris. In 1986 he earned a Doctorate degree in Quaternary Geology from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris VI (1986), and in 1988 he earned a Doctorate in Geography and History from the University of Barcelona. In 1988 he began working at the University Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona as an Adjunct Associate Professor and in 1991 he became a Permanent Professor. Since 1999, he has been Head of the Prehistory Department at Rovira and Virgili University and he is currently Head Researcher for the Quaternary Human Autoecology Group at this same university and Director of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES). He has participated in research and field work in Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Georgia, Tajikistan, Algeria, Morocco, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, the United States, Mexico, Chile, Cuba, China and Australia among others. His most outstanding scientific milestones are his studies on the ancient settlements of the Iberian Peninsula. These lines of work led him to develop a multidisciplinary research program in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos). Since 1991, Eudald Carbonell has been one of the co-directors alongside Dr. Juan Luis Arsuaga (Complutense University of Madrid) and José María Bermúdez de Castro (National Research Centre on Human Evolution). In 1983, he started the excavations at Abric Romaní (Capellades, Barcelona), the Neanderthal site that is the main subject of this book.

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