Session: #98

Regular session

The Southwestern Europe covers a wide territory with diverse ecosystems, from the Iberian Peninsula, through southern France to Italy. In each of these areas the different research tradition has focused on defining cultural characteristics at the regional level, that has resulted in varied nomenclatures (eg. Badegoulian-Magdalenian-Epigravettian; Epipalaeolithic-Epimagdalenian-Azilian) used to name the latest palaeolithic technocomplexes of the same chronology. This fact makes it difficult to establish comparisons between the results of the different studies.
Some of the differences that characterize, a priori, these cultural groups located in the several territories may be a consequence of the research tradition and / or the methodologies used. If this were the case, the existence of possible similarities between the territories should be considered and highlighted. If not, we should ask ourselves why these differences occur.
This session aims to be a starting point to establish a summary of the current state of the art to assess the existence or otherwise of a cultural process of regionalization or to recognize and highlight the existence of common characteristics between territories in the proposed chronology: 18,500-10,000 cal. BP. Therefore, in the face of the increasing specialization of research projects, we propose an effort of synthesis of an interdisciplinary nature. In this sense, we invite you to present works that show the dynamics of human groups, connecting the main axes of study: resources (biotic and abiotic), technology, paleoenvironment, symbolism, settlement / occupation patterns. All this included in an updated radiocarbon chronology, which allows to establish a common chronological framework for the different regions.

Southwestern Europe, final palaeolithic, interdisciplinary approach

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PaM

Margarita Vadillo Conesa (Spain) ¹

Cristina Real (Spain) ¹
Giulia Ricci (Italy) ²