Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 41 (4) 2013

Annotation:  Acheulean Large Flake Technology in Campo de Calatrava (Ciudad Real, Spain) Alternative Interpretations of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Interface at Vindija Cave (Northwestern Early Upper Paleolithic Stone Tool Technologies of Northern Mongolia: The Case of Tolbor-4 and Tolb On the Supposedly Young Age of Angara Alluvial Sediments Based on the Findings of Salvage Excavatio The Early Neolithic of the Kama Region On the Function of “Grooved Stones” Middle Neolithic Ceramics from the Tytkesken VI Settlement Site A New Neolithic Ceramic Tradition in the Kama Region Early and Middle Bronze Age Burials at Ordynskoye-1, Western Siberia: A New Cultural Interpretation The Suzukteh Mound 22, Mongolia: The Burial Rite Prestigious Afanasyevo Wooden Metal-Bound Ware from the Sayan-Altai Without a Face: A Silver Plaque from the Eastern Slopes of the Urals New Elements in the Iconography of 9th–10th Century Ural-Siberian Silver A 13th–14th Century AD “Horse Skin Burial” at Basandaika Kurgan 1, Western Siberia Age-Related Skeletal Changes in Adult Populations Under Various Social and Geographical Conditions:   

Acheulean Large Flake Technology in Campo de Calatrava (Ciudad Real, Spain)

A. Arroyo and I. de la Torre.

Acheulean assemblages with a preferential use of large fl akes for biface blanks are common in Africa as well as in other areas such as the Levant and India. At Campo de Calatrava (central Spain), Middle Pleistocene sites from river terrace contexts also contain bifaces made on large fl akes. To gain a detailed technological knowledge of these large tools, two open-air sites (Albalá and El Sotillo) are described and compared: Albalá represents an example of a cobble-based technology; at El Sotillo, the focus is on the production of large fl akes, similar to those documented in Africa, the Levant, and India.

Keywords: Acheulean, large cutting tools, Middle Pleistocene, Campo de Calatrava, сentral Spain.