Gibraltar’s Gorham’s Cave: The survival of a Neanderthal population
The most recent known Neanderthal habitation site, Gorham’s Cave in Gibraltar, which dates from 33 to 24 ka BP, is examined in terms of its stratigraphy. Gorham’s Cave’s Level IV, which is distinguished by Mousterian technology and a series of 22 AMS dates, only documents Neanderthal presence. Level III is Upper Palaeolithic, with the Solutrean,…