MobiLithics: Fingerprinting the exploitation of lithic resources during the Upper Pleistocene

Authors

  • María Soto Madrid Institute for Advanced Study - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • Juan Morales Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona, Spain. Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain. SERP, Departament d'Historia i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
  • Hassan Aouraghe Université Mohammed Premier, Faculté des Sciences, Département de Géologie, Oujda, Morocco.
  • Robert Sala-Ramos Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona, Spain. Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.
  • M. Gema Chacón Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona, Spain. Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.UMR7194 – HNHP (CNRS – MNHN – UPVD – Sorbonne Universités), Musée de l'Homme, 17 Place du Trocadero, 75016, Paris, France.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21014/actaimeko.v12i3.1478

Keywords:

Pleistocene, Middle to Upper Palaeolithic, MSA-LSA, Lithic resource characterization, Mobility

Abstract

MobiLithics is a multiscalar project aimed at characterizing the lithic resources exploitation and territorial adaptive responses among the last Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens to different climatic, cultural, and biological dynamics. The project focuses on the Middle-to-Later Stone Age, in North Africa, and the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in the Mediterranean basin of the Iberian Peninsula, as key scenarios for the origin and expansion of our species. Results on geospatial modelling, petrographic and geochemical analyses, and multivariate statistics and predictive models determine the variability on resource procurement and territorial structure. These will contribute to the international debate on the adaptability of our species to different palaeoenvironments, sociocultural realities, and changing climatic conditions.

Author Biographies

Juan Morales, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona, Spain. Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain. SERP, Departament d'Historia i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

Senior Researcher at the María de Maeztu Excellence Program at IPHES-CERCA

Hassan Aouraghe, Université Mohammed Premier, Faculté des Sciences, Département de Géologie, Oujda, Morocco.

Professor at the Université Mohammed Premier, Oujda, Morocco

Robert Sala-Ramos, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona, Spain. Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.

Director of IPHES-CERCA. Professor at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili

M. Gema Chacón, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona, Spain. Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.UMR7194 – HNHP (CNRS – MNHN – UPVD – Sorbonne Universités), Musée de l'Homme, 17 Place du Trocadero, 75016, Paris, France.

Researcher at IPHES-CERCA

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Published

2023-09-06

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 3 (2023)

Section

Research Papers

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