La Coca (Aspe, Alicante). A middle Paleolithic carving and supplying area.

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José Fernández Peris
It is a technological study of about a thousand lithic
pieces coming from a surface archaeological sire in a hillside deposit derived from the erosion of tertiary conglomerares of the area . The industrial data poinr our its appraisal as a carving and supplying area belonging to the recent Middle Paleolithic. The colluvial presents Wurmian features and technologically the industry shows production-operating chains of centripetal recurrent levallois debirated stone chips. The situation at the Vinalopó Corridor confers the archaeological site a special importance due to the fact that it is the best geographical interconnection between the Plateau and the Medirerranean.

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Fernández Peris, José. “La Coca (Aspe, Alicante). A middle Paleolithic carving and supplying area”. Recerques del Museu d’Alcoi, 1998, no. 7, pp. 9-46, https://raco.cat/index.php/RecerquesMuseuAlcoi/article/view/182815.