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| v | Contents Author Page no. Figures, Color Plates, and Tables vii Acknowledgments xvii Preamble: La Cueva del Mirón: A Grand Cave Site in the Cantabrian Cordillera of Northern Spain Lawrence Guy Straus xxv Chapter One: The Excavation of El Mirón Cave Lawrence Guy Straus 1 Chapter Two: The Río Asón drainage in Eastern Cantabria Lawrence Guy Straus 7 Chapter Three: El Mirón Cave Lawrence Guy Straus 16 Chapter Four: Stratigraphy of El Mirón Cave (1996–2007) Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales 23 Chapter Five: Sedimentology of El Mirón Cave William R. Farrand 60 Chapter Six: El Mirón Cave Radiocarbon dates Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales 95 Chapter Seven: Preliminary Archaeomagnetic and Rock-Magnetic Results from the Holocene Fire Lenses in El Mirón Cave Ángel Carrancho and Juan José Villalaín 103 Chapter Eight: The Vegetational Contexts of El Mirón Cave throughout the Early to Middle Holocene: Contributions from the Palynological Study María José Iriarte Chiapusso 119 Chapter Nine: Analysis of Phytoliths from Holocene Levels of El Mirón Cave Débora Zurro 143 Chapter Ten: Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age Plant Remains from El Mirón Cave: Evidence on the First Farming Communities in the Cantabrian Region Leonor Peña-Chocarro 148 Chapter Eleven: Holocene Wood Charcoal from El Mirón Cave: Vegetation and Wood Use Lydia Zapata 174 Chapter Twelve: Holocene Biostratigraphy and Climatic Change in Cantabria: The Micromammalian Faunas of El Mirón Cave Gloria Cuenca Bescós and Juan Carlos García Pimienta 205 Chapter Thirteen: Bird Remains from the Post-Azilian Levels of El Mirón Cave Mikelo Elorza 243 Chapter Fourteen: The Holocene Herpetofauna of El Mirón Cave Borja Sanchiz, Jorge M. Lobo, and Salvador Bailon 250 | vi | Contents Author Page no. Chapter Fifteen: Taphonomic Study of the Large and Medium Mammals from the Post-Paleolithic Occupations in El Mirón Cave Manuel Pérez Ripoll and María Dolores López Gila 262 Chapter Sixteen: Macromammalian Remains from the Holocene Levels of El Mirón Cave Jesús Altuna and Koro Mariezkurrena 288 Chapter Seventeen: descriptions of the PostPaleolithic Pit and Hearth Features of El Mirón Cave Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales 319 Chapter Eighteen: The Post-Paleolithic Stone Industries of El Mirón Cave Lawrence Guy Straus, Manuel R. González Morales, and John D. Rissetto 332 Chapter Nineteen: The Ceramics of El Mirón Cave: Production, Morphology, and discard Cristina Vega Maeso 372 Chapter Twenty: Conclusions: Preliminary Overview and Focus on the Post-Paleolithic Occupations of El Mirón Cave Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales 426 Contributors 443 Color Plates to Follow Page 196 Index 445 ...

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