La Cueva de Nerja (Málaga, España) y los indicios del Solutrense en Andalucía

Abstract

This paper tries to contribute to the knowledge of the Solutrean period in the south of the Iberian Peninsula. There are described the 14C ages and the climatic and industrial characteristics of the part of the litostratigraphic sequence of the �Vestíbulo� of the Cave of Nerja (Málaga, Spain) that contains these industries. This documentation is correlated with the sequence obtained in Les Malladetes (Valencia, Spain) and is placed inside the chronostratigraphic framework of the peninsular south. Also, there are discussed some key questions of the regional sequence: the relation between the Gravettian and the Solutrean periods or their initial horizon. The chronostratigraphic and industrial data of Nerja allow to pose that a significant increase of sites with Upper Palaeolithic take place during the Gravettian and that the evolutionary sequence of this solutrean materials can be correlated with the main series of the Mediterranean Iberian area.