A cave to live in during the last glacial maximum: Cueva de Nerja

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During the extensive period of time recorded in the Nerja Cave between 30000 and 3000 years before present, which corresponds to the Late Pleistocene and Holocene lower end and half the rooms on the entrance to the Cave of Nerja were occupied by populations modern humans (Homo sapiens) during the stages of prehistory known as the Gravettian, Solutrean, Magdalenian, Epipaleolithic, Neolithic and Chalcolithic. Throughout this broad chronological period in which the cave was inhabited, the different populations that occurred at the time they left on the floor of the rooms occupied by the remains of their daily activities (making stone tools and bone development of ornaments, ceramic vessels carrying, handling, processing and consumption of food, etc). The study of these remains using modern research techniques in prehistoric archeology has allowed us to know how these people lived in environments that move, that animals used for food and their clothing, as they related to the sea, and other many aspects of their activities and characteristics of the coast of Malaga, within this broad span of time. As singular facts, we can point to the jurisdiction of the first group of people who lived in the cave with the hyenas from the use of the same, consumption of fish, birds and mammals typical of more northern latitudes in the colder times recorded in the sequence of the cave or the extraordinary consumption of mussels and other marine molluscs at the end of the Upper Pleistocene.

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Cueva de Nerja

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