El límite Pleistoceno – Holoceno en el yacimiento arqueológico de la Cueva de Nerja (Málaga, España): nuevas aportaciones cronoestratigráficas y paleoclimáticas

Abstract

During the Late Upper Pleistocene and the Lower and Middle Holocene an important sedimentary record was deposited in the ancien entry of Nerja Cave (Málaga, Spain). The 41 calibrated valid 14C dates obtained from this record show a chronological spread between 30 and 3,6 ky. cal. BP for the archaeological record of Nerja Cave. This large stratigraphic record constitutes one of the most important archaeological and palaeobiological sequences of the western Mediterranean, which contains remains of the Gravettian, Solutrian, Magdalenian, Epipaleolithic, Neolithic and Cooper Age. In this paper we establish a narrower correlation between the main palaeoclimatological events detected in Alborán Sea and the sedimentary and occupational episodes of the cave