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Science 1 November 1985:
Vol. 230. no. 4725, pp. 501 - 507
DOI: 10.1126/science.230.4725.501
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Stone Age Prehistory of Northern Spain

Lawrence Guy Straus 1

1 Associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131.

The Vasco-Cantabrian region of Spain is one of the few areas of the world where a large sample of archeological sites has yielded a detailed record of the changes in the human condition in the period spanning Neanderthal times from about 125,000 years ago until the adoption of food production, less than 6000 years ago in this area. During this time, human adaptations underwent a series of crucial transformations involving profound changes in cultural systems and perthaps also in aspects of the biological basis for culture.

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