<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rodríguez-Álvarez, Xosé Pedro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">de Lombera-Hermida, Arturo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bal-García, Hugo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rey-Rodríguez, Iván</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Díaz-Rodríguez, Mikel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mosquera-Castro, Tania</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ibáñez-Encinas, Álvaro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pérez-Alberti, Augusto</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fábregas-Valcarce, Ramón</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Late Neandertal occupations in a Galician mountain valley during MIS 3: Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Lugo, NW Iberia)</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quaternary International</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2026</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2026/07</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618226001783</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">770</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">110292</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1040-6182</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;meta charset=&quot;UTF-8&quot; /&gt;In this paper we analyze the last Neanderthal occupations in Cova Eirós (level 3, 41.7-39 ka cal. BP). This site is located in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, at a prominent and strategic place in the small valley of Cancelo (Tricastela, Lugo, Spain), just at the intersection of the Cantabrian and western Atlantic basins. The occupations of level 3 of Cova Eirós show the survival of small, isolated Mousterian communities in mountainous and marginal areas at a time when Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH) are found elsewhere in Iberia. The paleoclimatic reconstruction, based on the macrofaunal and small vertebrates assemblages from level 3, reflects a balanced ecosystem with high specific biodiversity. Both the palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and the faunal assemblage are indicative of a typical glacial-period refuge area, characterized by a predominantly wooded habitat interspersed with open spaces. The richness and chrono-stratigraphic definition of the archeological record from Cova Eirós provide a good glimpse into the technology and subsistence strategies of the last Neanderthal groups that occupied the Iberian northwest. The technological and zooarcheological analyses of level 3 point to recurrent short-term Neanderthal occupations at the site alternating with the use of the site as a cave bear hibernation den and the sporadic presence of other predators. The non-residential nature of those occupations, the low density of artifacts and the spatial fragmentation of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;chaînes operatoires&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;are indicative of the high logistic mobility of these communities, which are consistent with other Neanderthal occupations of the late Middle Paleolithic throughout the Cantabrian region.&lt;/p&gt;
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