Solutrean chronology and lithic variability in Vasco-Cantabrian Spain
- Straus, Lawrence Guy
- Bernaldo de Quirós Guidotti, Federico
- Cabrera Valdés, Victoria
- Clark, Geoffrey A.
ISSN: 0514-7336
Year of publication: 1977
Issue: 28-29
Pages: 109-112
Type: Article
More publications in: Zephyrus: Revista de prehistoria y arqueología
Abstract
Recent excavations in Cantabrian cave deposits provide evidence of Solutrean industrial variability and provocative chronological information. On the basis of radiocarbon there is strong evidence for contemporeanity between the Solutrean phenomena of Cantabrian Spain and in the Rhone Valley. The stone-points diagnostic would probably be the result of convergent technology. There is considerable evidence for variability among artifacts assemblages (shown in their respective coefficients of variation). It is therefore difficult to characterize Cantabrian collections from the time range in question in a general way. It seems more fruitful to try and demonstrate the existence of functional parameters for observed artifact variability.