SESSION 3 – Stone tool production and processing techniques
Flintknapping in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Hammerstones from Spanish Mediterranean region

In papers dedicated to the Iberian Pleistocene-Holocene transition it is not common to find studies on the use of small-medium pebbles as hammerstones. Some of these pebbles have been documented associated with a blade-bladelet production at the Coves de Santa Maira site (Castell de Castells, Alacant, País Valencià, Spain). This circumstance has made us to undertake a study of these pieces to assess their role within the chaîne opératoire to knap bladelets dated in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition.