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Santamaría Díez, Marta Navazo Ruiz, Marta Arnold, Lee J. . Benito Calvo, Alfonso Demuro, Martina . Carbonell, Eudald 2023-10-11T11:40:47Z 2023-10-11T11:40:47Z 2023-07 0267-8179 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7865 10.1002/jqs.3501 1099-1417 Hotel California is part of a network of open-air Neanderthal sites located in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). In this study, we examine the technology of the lithic assemblages recovered from this site's archaeological levels 3 to 7, which are characterised by the use of local raw materials, non-hierarchical centripetal exploitation systems, systematic production of flakes and few retouched items. This type of expedient technology is repeated throughout the entire sequence, which spans Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 3 to 4. Through a comparison with the technocomplexes and occupation histories of surrounding sites – including a re-evaluation of the published chronology for the nearby site of Fuente Mudarra, which is now dated exclusively to MIS 5 – we examine whether the detected pattern is applicable to the rest of the Atapuerca Mousterian record and if this expedient behaviour has equivalents in other sites in the region. Our findings show that the lithic procurement, exploitation and configuration strategies employed at the Sierra de Atapuerca open-air sites were constant over broad time periods spanning MIS 5 to 3, in contrast to the technological sequences observed at other nearby sites on the Northern Iberian Plateau. The recurrent settlement of these open-air Neanderthal sites over tens of thousands of years and the consistent use of expedient technologies during different occupation periods is likely attributable to the rich ecological context of the Sierra de Atapuerca environs. This work was funded by the Spanish Ministry projects CGL2012-38434-C03-02, CGL2015-65387-C3-3-P and PGC2018-093925-B-C31. The field excavation work was funded by the Junta de Castilla y León and Fundación Atapuerca. Marta Santamaría has a predoctoral fellowship from the University of Burgos. Martina Demuro is supported by Australian Research Council Future Fellowship grant FT200100816. The excavation team has made this research possible. We would like to give special thanks to Hector de la Fuente and Pedro Alonso, colleagues of the Prehistory Laboratory of the UBU, for their constant support. application/pdf eng Wiley Journal of Quaternary Science. 2023, V. 38, n. 5, p. 658-684 https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3501 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//CGL2012-38434-C03-02/ES/EL PLEISTOCENO Y EL HOLOCENO DE LA SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA (BURGOS, ESPAÑA): GEOLOGIA, PALEOECOLOGIA Y PALEOBIOLOGIA DE HOMINIDOS/ info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//CGL2015‐65387‐C3‐3‐P/ES/EL PLEISTOCENO Y HOLOCENO DE LA SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA (BURGOS, ESPAÑA): GEOLOGIA, PALEOECOLOGIA Y PALEOBIOLOGIA DE HOMINIDOS II/ info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PGC2018‐093925‐B‐C31/ES/EL PLEISTOCENO Y HOLOCENO DE LA SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA/ info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ARC/Future Fellowships/FT200100816/AU/ Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Expedient technology Lithic technology Neanderthals Open‐air sites Sierra de Atapuerca Arqueología-Burgos Prehistoria-Burgos Archaeology-Burgos Prehistoric peoples Low‐cost technologies in a rich ecological context: Hotel California open‐air site at Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Journal of Quaternary Science 38 5 658 684