Upper Paleolithic

This study presents the first reconstruction of hunter-gatherer resilience to recurrent seismic events older than 13 ka, using geophysical, geological, and archaeological data from Vale Boi in southwestern Iberia. Foragers mitigated earthquake impacts through flexible mobility and social network adjustments between ~30,000 and 24,000 years ago.

Analysis of local and non-local chert use across the Gravettian, Proto-Solutrean and Solutrean levels at Vale Boi. Non-local cherts were intensively reduced and transported as versatile raw material volumes rather than finished tools, with reliance on them decreasing as occupations became longer-term.