El Solútreo-Gravetiense o Parpallense, Industria Mediterránea

[ES] En este artículo intentamos demostrar la personalidad propia de la industria conocida hasta ahora en España como Solútreo-Gravetiense. Dada su situación cronológica, había unas industrias en el mismo litoral mediterráneo que nos parecía que podrían asimilarse perfectamente a nuestro Solútreo-Gravetiense, y su estudio comparativo ha dado como resultado un paralelismo muy significativo. El método de estudio usado ha sido el de la tipología analítica, creada por G. Laplace en los años cincuenta y que ha ido perfeccionándose hasta dar su última lista tipológica el año 1972. La aplicación del método dialéctico a los conjuntos líticos paleolíticos ha dado como resultado una valoración mucho más objetiva de los mismos. También el rigor en la aplicación de métodos estadísticos ha significado un gran avance. Los tres niveles analizados han sido el Solútreo-Gravetiense del Parpalló (Gandía), Valencia), el Salpetriense inferior (ahora medio a causa de nuevos descubrimientos) del yacimiento epónimo en el Gard francés, y el Tardigravetiense inicial o Epigravetiense de la Grotta Paglicci, en la Puglia italiana. Su base es muy similar, solutrense, si bien en Italia es difícil de detectar; y su sucesión es un Magdaleniense inicial-medio. Sus elementos más característicos son los útiles de escotadura, puntas y hojas, y en general los abruptos, que dominan esta industria. En el artículo se desarrollan las comparaciones tipológicas a nivel de secuencias estructurales; los índices de ciertos útiles característicos son también tratados con detenimiento. La cronología aproximada de este momento va de 16000 a 13000 años a. C, fundamentada en análisis radiocarbónicos. Como colofón se postula el nombre de Parpallense para esta industria, recogiendo sugerencias anteriores, y en base a la. primacía en la identificación de la misma en el yacimiento valenciano. Un paralelismo cultural es la teoría que se apunta para explicar la extensión de esta industria, una respuesta similar a estímulos casi iguales en el arco mediterráneo Almería-Puglia.[EN] In this report we try to show the special personality of the industry known till now in Spain as Solutreo-Gravettian. Once given its chronological situation, some industries were found in the same Mediterranean littoral, that were thought to be perfectly similar to our Solutreo-Gravettian, and its comparative study has given as result a very significative parallelism. The method of study used, has been the analytical typology created by G. Laplace in the fifty's and that has improved itself on and on until its last typological list in 72. The application of the dialectical method to lithic ensembles has given as result a much more objective valuation of themselves. The strictness in the application of statistical methods has been also a great advance. The three levels that have been analised are the Solutreo-Gravettian from Parpalló (Gandía, Valencia, Spain), the Lower Salpetrian (now considered as Middle, because of the new discoveries) of the eponym site in the French Gard, and the Lower Tardigravettian or Epigravettian from Grotta Paglicci in the Italian Puglia.4 The levels below these are very similar, Solutrean, being them very difficult to detect in Italy thougk; their succession is a Lower-Middle Magdalenian. Their most characteristic elements are notched tools, points and blades, and in general the abrupts that dominate this industry. We develop in this article typological comparisons in a structural sequence level; the index of some characteristical tools are also treated attentively. The approximate chronology of this moment gives a date of 16000-13000 years BC, based in radiocarbonic analysis. To finish with, we suggest the name of Parpallean to this industry, collecting former suggestions, and based on the primacy of its identification in the Valencian site. A cultural parallelism is the theory suggested to explain the extension of this industry, a similar answer to almost identical stimulus in the Mediterranean area, from Almería to the Puglia region

Scheduling in Dense Small Cells with Successive Interference Cancellation

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The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition occupations from Cova Foradada (Calafell, NE Iberia)

The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe covers the last millennia of Neanderthal life together with the appearance and expansion of Modern Human populations. Culturally, it is defined by the Late Middle Paleolithic succession, and by Early Upper Paleolithic complexes like the Châtelperronian (southwestern Europe), the Protoaurignacian, and the Early Aurignacian. Up to now, the southern boundary for the transition has been established as being situated between France and Iberia, in the Cantabrian façade and Pyrenees. According to this, the central and southern territories of Iberia are claimed to have been the refuge of the last Neanderthals for some additional millennia after they were replaced by anatomically Modern Humans on the rest of the continent. In this paper, we present the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition sequence from Cova Foradada (Tarragona), a cave on the Catalan Mediterranean coastline. Archaeological research has documented a stratigraphic sequence containing a succession of very short-term occupations pertaining to the Châtelperronian, Early Aurignacian, and Gravettian. Cova Foradada therefore represents the southernmost Châtelperronian-Early Aurignacian sequence ever documented in Europe, significantly enlarging the territorial distribution of both cultures and providing an important geographical and chronological reference for understanding Neanderthal disappearance and the complete expansion of anatomically Modern Humans

¡Oh, aquel crucero del año 33!

El 15 de junio de 1933 zarpó de Barcelona el "Ciudad de Cádiz" con 192 universitarios a bordo, en un viaje iniciático por el Mediterráneo. Por primera vez muchos de nuestros mejores arabistas, poetas e historiadores recorrerían los lugares donde había nacido occidente