The technological change in the western mediterranean during the mis 3

The problematic of the techno-typological change during the Middle Paleolithic is a debated and unresolved issue in the study of Neanderthals technical behaviors. The project of this Ph.D. thesis aims to contribute to the on-going discussion adding new data from two European key sites, Abric Romaní...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Picin, Andrea
Format: doctoral thesis
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2014
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Rovira i virgili (URV)
Repository:Repositori Institucional de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili
OAI Identifier:oai:urv.cat:TDX:1345
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1345
http://hdl.handle.net/10803/145063
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:93 - Història. Ciències auxiliars de la història. Història local
90 - Arqueologia. Prehistòria
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Summary:The problematic of the techno-typological change during the Middle Paleolithic is a debated and unresolved issue in the study of Neanderthals technical behaviors. The project of this Ph.D. thesis aims to contribute to the on-going discussion adding new data from two European key sites, Abric Romaní (Spain) (level O and M), and Fumane Cave (Italy) (unit A9 and unit A5+A6). The work is focused on the particular shift between Levallois and discoid technology that occurred in the archaeological sequences of the two sites during the MIS3. The study will be carried out with a quantitative perspective taking in considerations the concepts of the Human Behavioral Ecology and the aspects of costs and benefits related with the change of the knapping strategies