Iberia Before the Iberians: The Stone Age Prehistory of Cantabrian Spain

Straus examines the Stone Age prehistory of Cantabrian Spain and provides readers with an interpretation of his findings. This book is intended for English-speaking students of paleoanthropology and all others interested in Stone Age prehistory. It was written with two fundamental, related goals in mind: 1)to produce a syntheses of our current understanding of the course of hominid adaptations throughout the Stone Age in a particularly well-defined and well studied region of southwestern Europe; and 2) to provide a counterweight to the preponderant French (particularly Perigord) bias in the presentation, in the United States and Britain, of the Paleolithic record. -- From the introduction