Álvarez-Alonso, DavidDíez Fernández-Lomana, J. CarlosGarcía-Diez, MarcosJordá Pardo, Jesús FranciscoRivas Santiago, Rosa2025-11-252025-11-252023-12-28Álvarez Alonso, D.; Díez Fernández-Lomana, J.C.; García Díez, M.; Jordá Pardo, J.F.; Rivas Santiago, R. (2023) Los Enebrales rock-shelter (Tamajón, Guadalajara, Spain): First Gravettian site in central Iberia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 53 - 2024, pp. 104340. Elsevier2352-4103https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104340https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/30917The registered version of this article, first published in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, is available online at the publisher's website: Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104340La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104340The stratigraphy and materials from a survey carried out in 1994 and 1995 in a rock-shelter in Tamajon ´ (southwestern Iberian Central Range) are studied here. The Pleistocene deposits were generated by high-energy channelled fluvial flows and dense currents of debris flow and mud flow type. The recovered lithic industry, created mainly in low-quality local materials, can be associated with Gravettian technocomplexes. Three radiocarbon dates obtained from the stratigraphic sequence are located in a temperate interstadial of OIS 3a and in a cold episode at the beginning of OIS 2. The faunal remains, which come from human consumption, display cut and percussion marks. They reveal a predominance of equines, followed by deer, in a mosaic environment. A shale plaque-pendant, worked and decorated, was found outside the stratigraphy. The human occupations of the shelter must have been sporadic, but reflect, with the growing evidence nearby, a thriving population in this area of anatomically modern humans. The association of pre-Solutrean archaeological materials, together with the dates obtained, establishes the human occupation of the Los Enebrales shelter as the oldest evidence of the Upper Palaeolithic in the inner Iberian Plateau.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess5504.05 Prehistoria5505.01 ArqueologíaartículoGeoarchaeologyChronostratigraphyZooarchaeologyLithic industryPortable artSouthern Iberian plateauGravettian