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This doctoral dissertation analyses the societies of bands of hunters-gatherers of the South of the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the Superior Pleistocene and beginnings of the Holocene from the proposal of the Social Archaeology within the Atlantic-Mediterranean environment.
To understand the current research situation in Andalusia in these moments we leave from the different theoretical-methodological positions that have tried to explain this historical period, for, later on, approach the History of Research of this Historical period in Andalusia during the 20th century, dominated by the Traditional Archaeology model.
This work continues explaining the causes and consequences of the late disappearance of the Homo neanderthalensis in the Centre and South of the Iberian Peninsula, and the possible coexistence with the first Homo sapiens sapiens. All this it related with an Atlantic-Mediterranean environment, dominated by some temperate climatic conditions at the end of the Pleistocene.
Next, we approach to the form of life of the first Homo sapiens sapiens, explaining the aggregation places, the social articulation of the territory, the work ways,… Finally, we approach the disappearance of the societies of bands and their substitution for the tribal ones, characterised by an economy of production in the South of the Iberian Peninsula.