Chronological reassessment of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and Early Upper Paleolithic cultures in Cantabrian Spain

This research has been supported by the European Commission through FP7-PEOPLE2012-CIG (Ref: 322112), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (HAR2012-33956 and RYC-2011-00695), Cantabria Campus International and University of Cantabria to ABMA. The Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehisto´ricas de Cantabria is sponsored by the University of Cantabria, the Government of Cantabria and Banco Santander. This paper was mainly written during a research stay by one of us (ABMA) at the Leverhulme Centre for Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge funded by Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (Jose de Castillejo Program, Ref no. CAS15_00054). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.