Fig 1.
Location of sites in the Cantabrian region, northern Spain.
1: La Viña, 2: La Güelga, 3: Llonín, 4: Esquilleu, 5: El Castillo, 6: Covalejos, 7: Ruso I, 8: Morín, 9: Cobrante, 10: El Otero, 11: Mirón, 12: El Cuco, 13: Arrillor, 14: Axlor, 15: Bolinkoba, 16: Labeko Koba, 17: Ekain, 18: Amalda, 19: Aitzbitarte Cave III.
Fig 2.
Radiocarbon dates for the uppermost dates of the Mousterian assemblages from the Cantabrian region (Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country) calibrated against IntCal13 [42] in OxCal v.4.2 [41] assuming each sample has a 5% prior probability of being and outlier within the general t-type outlier model [43].
All dates have been obtained using the ultrafiltration protocol [40]. References are given in S1 Table. Amodel = 99.8. *denotes previously unmodelled dates introduced as R-dates while the others are modelled dates at individual sites introduced as Prior PDFs.
Fig 3.
Radiocarbon dates for the Aurignacian assemblages from the Cantabrian region (Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country) calibrated against IntCal13 [42] in OxCal v.4.2 [41] assuming each sample has a 5% prior probability of being and outlier within the general t-type outlier model [43].
All dates have been obtained using the ultrafiltration protocol [40]. References are given in S1 Table. Amodel = 84.2. *denotes previously unmodelled dates introduced as R-dates while the others are modelled dates at individual sites introduced as Prior PDFs.
Fig 4.
Radiocarbon dates for the Gravettian assemblages from the Cantabrian region (Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country) calibrated against IntCal13 [42] in OxCal v.4.2 [41] assuming each sample has a 5% prior probability of being and outlier within the general t-type outlier model [43].
All dates have been obtained using the ultrafiltration protocol [40]. References are given in S1 Table. Amodel = 104.4. *denotes previously unmodelled dates introduced as R-dates while the others are modelled dates at individual sites introduced as Prior PDFs.
Table 1.
Results of the 68% and 95% PDF range of the boundaries, duration of technocomplexes and temporal lapse between archaeological phases.
Fig 5.
A spatio-temporal comparison of the late Mousterian, Châtelperronian, Aurignacian and Gravettian assemblages from the Cantabrian region (Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country).