| a neandertal mandible from the cova del gegant (sitges, barcelona, spain). | a human mandible from the site of cova del gegant is described here for the first time and compared with other middle and upper pleistocene representatives of the genus homo from europe and southwest asia. the specimen was recovered from sediments which also yielded mousterian stone tools and pleistocene fauna. the preserved morphology of the mandible, particularly in the region of the mental foramen, clearly aligns it with the neandertals, making the cova del gegant the only known site in catal ... | 2005 | 15896823 |
| the middle-to-upper palaeolithic transition in cova gran (catalunya, spain) and the extinction of neanderthals in the iberian peninsula. | the excavations carried out in cova gran de santa linya (southeastern prepyrenees, catalunya, spain) have unearthed a new archaeological sequence attributable to the middle palaeoloithic/upper palaeolithic (mp/up) transition. this article presents data on the stratigraphy, archaeology, and (14)c ams dates of three early upper palaeolithic and four late middle palaeolithic levels excavated in cova gran. all these archaeological levels fall within the 34-32 ka time span, the temporal frame in whic ... | 2010 | 20097404 |