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Notes on Some Mousterian Finds in Spain and Irak

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

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The following sites were discovered by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Milton and myself during the summer and autumn of 1926, while I was excavating the Devil's Tower Cave at Gibraltar.

(i) Llanos de la Horadada. This is a surface site, lying on rising ground to the west of the road from San Roque to the Rio Guadiaro, near the seventh kilometre-stone out of San Roque. The Llanos de la Horadada is a group of low hills forming a southern extension of the Sierra del Arco; it takes its name from a tunnel-like cave, the Cueva de la Horadada, which runs through an outcrop of Eocene sandstone about 1 km. to the west of the road.

In a recently-ploughed field lying immediately above the road we found a small number of flint and quartzite implements, two of which, a small disc and a chopper, were unmistakably Mousterian (Fig. II, Nos. 1 and 2). The implements and flakes were all slightly abraded, and those which were made of flint were deeply patinated, some being white and others light brown.

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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1927

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page 269 note * Institut de Paléontologie Humaine: Travaux exécutés en 1912. Anthropologie t. xxiv., 1913.

page 269 note † Breuil, H.. Stations Chelléenes de la Province de Cadiz. Inst. francais d'anthr. t. ii. 1914Google Scholar.

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