Directing the eye. The Côa Valley Pleistocene rock art in its social context Article Swipe
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The Upper Palaeolithic Coa Valley settlement is defined by 22 sites securely identified on surface, 15 of which have been excavated or surveyed (Aubry 2009). These sites are divided in two different types according to their location on the granitic Pliocenic plateau or on the river valley bottoms. The sites on the plateau document brief but frequent hunting related activities, documented by discarded retouched bladelets and points, associated with large lithic fire structures, in the context of seasonal pond formation during defrosting. The second type of sites have yielded complex structures suggesting longer and residential occupations, preserved in low energy slope deposits.
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