Mobility, settlement, and resource patchiness in Upper Paleolithic Iberia

It has been argued that the resource patchiness and predictability which fostered the classic seasonal round and agriculture were a product of the Holocene, and that the more unpredictable environments characteristic of the Pleistocene made such cultural developments impossible. But what of refugium environments, such as those hypothesized for the Iberian Peninsula during the Last Glacial Maximum? This paper examines evidence for resource patchiness and predictability in the late Pleistocene Iberian Peninsula, and uses archaeological site location and subsistence data to explore human mobility in different bioclimatic zones in this region.