Thirty years of mesolithic research in Atlantic coastal Iberia (1970-2000)

Authors
Citation
Ga. Clark, Thirty years of mesolithic research in Atlantic coastal Iberia (1970-2000), J ANTHR RES, 56(1), 2000, pp. 17-37
Citations number
86
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Sociology & Antropology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH
ISSN journal
0091-7710 → ACNP
Volume
56
Issue
1
Year of publication
2000
Pages
17 - 37
Database
ISI
SICI code
0091-7710(200021)56:1<17:TYOMRI>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
After a lapse of about two decades (1950-1970), and partly because of gener ational replacement, Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherer adaptations along the Atlantic coasts of Iberia have been the subject of re newed research efforts. Conducted under a broadly defined ecofunctionalist paradigm, post-1970 work has yielded a move complete picture of regional va riability than was previously available. Although differences are apparent in the tempo and intensity of research along the Cantabrian coast of Spain and in Atlantic Portugal, similar processes of resource diversification and intensification appear to be documented in both areas. These processes can be traced back to the pleniglacial maximum and are explained by population -resource imbalances created by an influx of immigrants from the north into already densely populated coastal areas.