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    A warm and humid paleoecological context for the Neanderthal mountain settlement at the Navalmaíllo rockshelter (Iberian Central System, Madrid)
    (Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022) Blain, Hugues Alexandre; Laplana Conesa, César; Sánchez Bandera, Christian; Fagoaga, Ana; Blanco Lapaz, Ángel; Martínez-Monzón, Almudena; Bisbal-Chinesta, Josep Francesc; Moclán, Abel; Martín Perea, David Manuel; Domínguez García, Ángel Carmelo; Álvarez Vena, Adrián; Sevilla, Paloma; Ruiz Zapata, María Blanca; Gil García, María Elena; Márquez, Belén; Huguet Pamiès, Rosa; Pérez-González, Alfredo; Arsuaga Ferreras, Juan Luis; Baquedano, Enrique
    Neanderthals have been claimed to have had a selective adaptation to rugged, wooded landscapes that would have partially compensate their high basal metabolic rate and locomotor energetic costs through reducing search time and increasing diet breadth. The archaeological site of the Navalmaíllo rockshelter (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid), located in a mountain environment in central Iberian Peninsula, has been interpreted as a repeated short-term occupation hunting camp by Neanderthal groups, mainly focused on primary access to large bovids and cervids. Navalmaíllo rockshelter has also furnished fish, toads, frogs, tortoises, lizards and snakes remains. This association of amphibians and reptiles suggests a much warmer climate (+2.8 °C) for layer F than at present, with similar temperatures during the summer but higher temperatures throughout the remaining months. Rainfall was slightly more abundant (+180.6 mm) than today, with a more contrasted regime during the year, with rainier winters and drier summers. A two-month period of aridity is observed during summer, representing a similar duration to present-day climatic conditions. Reconstructed landscapes are mainly constituted by open areas with dry grassland and rocky or stony areas, evolving laterally to humid meadows, probably close to the aquatic and peri-aquatic areas, such as rivers or ponds with riverside vegetation. Woodland environments are also well represented around the site, with medium scrublands to forest formations. Fish complete this reconstruction by documenting the presence of a pre-mountain well-developed river system characterized by relatively cold, permanent, oxygen-rich, and running waters. Such reconstruction is in disagreement with previous pollen interpretation for Layer F that suggested a very open and cold environment. Our new interpretation suggests that the Neanderthal occupation of the Navalmaíllo rockshelter occurred during a somewhat temperate and humid period, probably within the later part of the Marine Isotope Stage 5, effectively favouring the presence of a high biodiversity around the site.
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    A symbolic Neanderthal accumulation of large herbivore crania
    (Nature Human Behaviour, 2023) Baquedano, Enrique; Arsuaga Ferreras, Juan Luis; Pérez-González, Alfredo; Laplana Conesa, César; Márquez, Belén; Huguet, Rosa; Gómez Soler, Sandra; Villaescusa, Lucía; Galindo Pellicena, María Ángeles; Rodríguez, Laura; García González, Rebeca; Cruz Ortega, M.; Martín Perea, David Manuel; Ortega, Ana I.; Hernández Vivanco, Alicia; Ruiz Liso, Gonzalo; Gómez Hernanz, Juan; Alonso Martín, José I.; Abrunhosa, Ana; Moclán, Abel; Casado, Ana Isabel; Vegara Riquelme, Marina; Álvarez Fernández, Ana; Domínguez García, Ángel Carmelo; Álvarez-Lao, Diego J.; García García, Nuria; Sevilla, Paloma; Blain, Hugues Alexandre; Ruiz Zapata, María Blanca; Gil García, María Elena; Álvarez Vena, Adrián; Sanz, Teresa; Quam, Rolf; Higham, Thomas
    This work examines the possible behaviour of Neanderthal groups at the Cueva Des-Cubierta (central Spain) via the analysis of the latter’s archaeological assemblage. Alongside evidence of Mousterian lithic industry, Level 3 of the cave infill was found to contain an assemblage of mammalian bone remains dominated by the crania of large ungulates, some associated with small hearths. The scarcity of post-cranial elements, teeth, mandibles and maxillae, along with evidence of anthropogenic modification of the crania (cut and percussion marks), indicates that the carcasses of the corresponding animals were initially processed outside the cave, and the crania were later brought inside. A second round of processing then took place, possibly related to the removal of the brain. The continued presence of crania throughout Level 3 indicates that this behaviour was recurrent during this level’s formation. This behaviour seems to have no subsistence-related purpose but to be more symbolic in its intent.