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The first modern humans of the Meseta, in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula, were expert hunters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Researchers from the CENIEH have analyzed the faunal remains at the Abrigo de la Malia site, revealing successful subsistence strategies among human groups that were highly knowledgeable about their environment. The findings challenge the idea of a population void in the interior of the peninsula 36,000 years ago.<\/p>\n

Knowledge about the first settlements of\u00a0<\/span>Homo sapiens<\/span><\/em>\u00a0in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula at the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic<\/a> has been significantly advanced with the publication in the journal\u00a0<\/span>Quaternary Science<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Advances<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0of a study led by Edgar T\u00e9llez, a researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigaci\u00f3n sobre la Evoluci\u00f3n Humana (CENIEH). The study addresses the subsistence strategies of the first settlers of the Meseta through the taphonomic and zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal remains recovered at the Abrigo de La Malia site (Tamaj\u00f3n, Guadalajara).<\/span><\/p>\n

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The first modern humans of the Meseta, in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula, were expert hunters, according to a new study published in the journal Quaternary Science Advances. Excavation at Abrigo de la Malia, 2024\/Gabriela Villeco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Analysis of animal<\/a> remains demonstrates that the site, dated to around 36,000 years ago, was occupied recurrently for at least 10,000 years, in a context of constant climate changes. The human groups that visited it mainly hunted deer, wild horses, bison, and chamois, typical resources of forested, mountainous, and grassland environments. Their occupations were brief in nature, meaning the site was not used as a permanent camp. Instead, their visits were likely related to hunting, provisioning, and the initial processing of animal resources.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Phalanx of chamois with cut mark\/Edgar T\u00e9llez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Human groups in the region, highly knowledgeable about their environment, were capable of developing effective subsistence strategies, based mainly on hunting and processing medium and large ungulates. These practices allowed them to adapt to the harsh climatic and environmental conditions of the Meseta during the initial Upper Paleolithic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As the authors point out, although human communities faced complex and even hostile climatic environments, the region offered sufficient resources to ensure their subsistence, and these communities knew how to take advantage of them. Therefore, they question the idea of a population void in the interior of the peninsula and challenge us to rethink the mobility, occupation, and adaptation patterns of the first\u00a0<\/span>Homo sapiens<\/span><\/em>\u00a0in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

A little-explored region<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For decades, it was assumed that the Meseta was left almost uninhabited after the disappearance of the Neanderthals and was not resettled until the end of the Last Glacial Period, about 20,000 years ago, with the arrival of the first anatomically modern humans. In contrast, the Mediterranean, Cantabrian, and Atlantic coastal areas concentrated the majority of known deposits and studies on subsistence practices, providing a solid comparative framework.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The new findings in the Meseta, a little-explored region, are especially novel, since they force us to rethink the traditional models of occupation and adaptive strategies of the first\u00a0<\/span>Homo sapiens<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Funding<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The excavations in the caves of Tamaj\u00f3n are made possible thanks to the financing of the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla la Mancha through annual calls for the excavation and research of Archaeological and Paleontological heritage, with the support of the Ayuntamiento de Tamaj\u00f3n and G.E. Abismo. This research has also been made possible thanks to funding from the European Research Council (numbers 805478, 949330, and 881299), CENIEH, and the European Research Council (ERC).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Instituto de Arqueolog\u00eda-M\u00e9rida, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the Institut Catal\u00e0 de Paleoecologia Humana i Evoluci\u00f3 Social (IPHES), and the Universidad del Pa\u00eds Vasco also contributed to this research alongside CENIEH.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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T\u00e9llez, E., Rodr\u00edguez-Hidalgo, A., Rodr\u00edguez-Almagro, M., N\u00fa\u00f1ez-Lahuerta, C., Arteaga-Brieba, A., Pablos, A., & Sala, N., Subsistence strategies in the early upper Paleolithic of central Iberia: Evidence from Abrigo de la Malia, Quaternary Science Advances<\/em> (2025), 19, 100297, DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.qsa.2025.100297<\/a><\/div>\n
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Press release<\/a> from the Centro Nacional de Investigaci\u00f3n sobre la Evoluci\u00f3n Humana – CENIEH<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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