To the West of Spanish Cantabria: The Palaeolithic Settlement of Galicia

This volume is a synthesis of the results obtained by the researchers in the oriental region of Galicia from the paleontological, zooarchaeological, geomorphological and archaeological point of view. Its aim is to show the great potentiality of the Quaternary research of the NW Iberian in an area poorly known by the scholars but which may provide essential information to the understanding of the Palaeolithic: the eastern mountains of Galicia and the hinterland Tertiary depressions. Their geographical situation, as a crossroads among the Meseta and the Atlantic and Cantabrian regions; their geological features, karstic systems and evidences of glacial landscape; as well as the quality of their archaeo-palaeontological records, turn them into an exceptional area for the study of the Quaternary. Contents: Chapter 1: Palaeolithic Research in Galicia (César Llana-Rodríguez0; Chapter 2: The Upper Pleistocene Palaeoenvironmental Evolution of Galicia: a Geomorphological Approach (Augusto Pérez-Alberti); Chapter 3: Upper Pleistocene Cave Bears from Galicia (NW of the Iberian Peninsula): a Palaeoenvironmental Approach (Aurora Grandal-dAnglade et al); Chapter 4: Small Vertebrates of Galicia (NW Spain) during the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene (Jose Miguel Rey-Salgado); Chapter 5: Environment and Animal Resources in the Upper Pleistocene and Early Holocene of Northwest Iberia (Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez); Chapter 6: The First Settlement of the Iberian Peninsula in the European Context (Xosé Pedro Rodríguez-Álvarez); Chapter 7: A Research Program on the Palaeolithic Settlement of Inland Galicia (NW Spain) (Ramón Fábregas-Valcarce); Chapter 8: Geomorphology and Relative Chronology of the Human Occupations during the Pleistocene at the Basin of Monforte de Lemos (Lugo, Galicia) (Alicia Ameijenda-Iglesias; Chapter 9: The Palaeolithic Settlement of the Monforte Basin (Lugo, Galicia) (Arturo de Lombera-Hermida et al); Chapter 10: Caves and People. Archaeological Research at the Eastern Margins of NW Iberia (Arturo de Lombera-Hermida); Chapter 11: The Upper Pleistocene Site of Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Lugo, Galicia) (Xose Pedro Rodríguez-Álvarez et al); Chapter 12: Archaeological Excavations in the Becerreá Sites (Eastern Lugo): Valdavara Cave and Valdavara 3 (Manuel Vaquero-Rodríguez, Susana Alonso-Fernández, Alicia Ameijenda-Iglesias).