127582 20240731103408.0 doi 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104086 sideral 134608 ART-2023-134608 eng Soto, Adriana There and back again: Late Mesolithic technological change in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula 2023 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted A profound change took place in the lithic technology of the last hunter-gatherer societies in Western Europe and North Africa at the end of the Early Holocene. In a short period, several technological innovations were adopted in geographically, socially and culturally different contexts; a situation that raises many questions about the mechanisms that enabled this successful expansion and acceptance. In this paper, we propose a regional approach to the phenomenon. In the northeast of Iberia, the Ebro valley is one of the areas with the most records from the Late Mesolithic (Geometric Mesolithic or GM) as well as from the immediately previous phase (Notched and Denticulate Mesolithic or NDM). This study explores on exploring the main technological characteristics of both phases, as well as their chronological development, to analyse when and how the change occurred. For this purpose, we have reviewed the lithic industry, the stratigraphic sequences and the chronology of more than fifty archaeological levels. The results obtained highlight the technological distance between the two industrial traditions, where the GM innovations burst into the Ebro valley when the NDM technology was still active. However, we consider that the adoption of the new technology would take place through the socio-territorial structures of the NDM. This hypothesis is based on the recognition of continuity in the territorial occupation, as well as the identification of technological practices typical of the NDM that persist in GM lithic assemblages. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/AEI/PID2020-116598GB-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H14-20R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.78 2023 Archeology 2023 Q1 History 2023 Q1 Archeology (arts and humanities) 2023 Q1 3.1 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Rodríguez-Lejarza, Ander Jiménez, Luis Domingo, Rafael Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-3894-7112 Utrilla, Pilar Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-9181-9833 Montes, Lourdes Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-0628-2582 Alday, Alfonso 3000 695 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Antigüed. Área Prehistoria 50 (2023), 104086 [14 pp.] J. archaeol. sci. rep. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS 2352-409X 9422472 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/127582/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2574394 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/127582/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:127582 articulos driver 2024-07-31-10:02:27 ARTICLE