% pubman genre = article @article{item_3065965, title = {{The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition occupations from Cova Foradada (Calafell, NE Iberia)}}, author = {Morales, Juan I. and Cebri{\`a}, Artur and Burguet-Coca, Aitor and Fern{\'a}ndez-Marchena, Juan Luis and Garc{\'\i}a-Argudo, Gala and Rodr{\'\i}guez-Hidalgo, Antonio and Soto, Mar{\'\i}a and Talamo, Sahra and Tejero, Jos{\'e}-Miguel and Vallverd{\'u}, Josep and Fullola, Josep Maria}, language = {eng}, issn = {1932-6203}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0215832}, publisher = {Public Library of Science}, address = {San Francisco, CA}, year = {2019}, abstract = {{The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe covers the last millennia of Neanderthal life together with the appearance and expansion of Modern Human populations. Culturally, it is defined by the Late Middle Paleolithic succession, and by Early Upper Paleolithic complexes like the Ch{\^a}telperronian (southwestern Europe), the Protoaurignacian, and the Early Aurignacian. Up to now, the southern boundary for the transition has been established as being situated between France and Iberia, in the Cantabrian fa{\c{c}}ade and Pyrenees. According to this, the central and southern territories of Iberia are claimed to have been the refuge of the last Neanderthals for some additional millennia after they were replaced by anatomically Modern Humans on the rest of the continent. In this paper, we present the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition sequence from Cova Foradada (Tarragona), a cave on the Catalan Mediterranean coastline. Archaeological research has documented a stratigraphic sequence containing a succession of very short-term occupations pertaining to the Ch{\^a}telperronian, Early Aurignacian, and Gravettian. Cova Foradada therefore represents the southernmost Ch{\^a}telperronian{\textendash}Early Aurignacian sequence ever documented in Europe, significantly enlarging the territorial distribution of both cultures and providing an important geographical and chronological reference for understanding Neanderthal disappearance and the complete expansion of anatomically Modern Humans.}}, journal = {{PLoS One}}, volume = {14}, number = {5}, eid = {e0215832}, }