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The first and biggest period in Iberia's prehistory is the Paleolithic, which starts c. 1.3 Ma and ends almost coinciding with Pleistocene's ending, c. 11.500 years or 11.5 ka ago. Significant evidence of an extended occupation of Iberia during this period by Homo neanderthalensis has been discovered.
The Paleolithic in the Iberian peninsula is the longest period of Iberian prehistory, spanning from c. 1.3 million years ago to c. 11,500 years ago, ending at roughly the same time as the Pleistocene epoch.
Extinction of the Neanderthal Man in its last refuge – the west of Iberia (in modern Portugal). Gravettian culture in Europe. 20th millennium BC Solutrean cultural period in Europe. Pre-historic art in the Vila Nova de Foz Côa (near modern Vila Nova de Foz Côa, in Portugal), one of the biggest sites in Europe.
The group of over 700 sites of prehistoric Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin, also known as Levantine art, were collectively declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998. The sites are in the eastern part of Spain and contain rock art dating to the Upper Paleolithic or (more likely) Mesolithic periods of the Stone Age. The art ...
Germanic kingdoms in Iberia (red and green), 560. In the early 5th century, Germanic tribes invaded the peninsula, namely the Suevi , the Vandals ( Silingi and Hasdingi ) and their allies, the Sarmatians and the Alans .
Los Millares participated in the continental trends of Megalithism and the Beaker culture [citation needed].Analysis of occupation material and grave goods from the Los Millares cemetery of 70 tholos tombs with port-hole slabs has led archaeologists to suggest that the people who lived at Los Millares were part of a stratified, unequal society which was often at war with its neighbors ...
The name "Iberomaurusian" means "of Iberia and Mauretania", the latter being a Latin name for northwest Africa. Paul Maurice Pallary (1909) coined this term [ 2 ] to describe assemblages from the site of La Mouillah in the belief that the industry extended over the strait of Gibraltar into the Iberian Peninsula.
Prehistoric Iberia. Prehistoric Portugal * Timeline of pre-Roman Iberian history; C. Celtici; P. Paleolithic Iberia This page was last edited on 22 June 2024, at 21: ...