Asturian Culture

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Asturian Culture

an archaeological culture of the Stone Age, found in northern Spain and Portugal, along the coast of the Bay of Biscay.

The Asturian replaces the Azilian culture and dates from the Late Mesolithic Age. It is represented by large shell heaps of edible sea mollusks, among which are found the bones of modern mammals (including domesticated animals); coarsely flaked hand picks made of quartz flints used to gather mollusks from the rocks along the shore; coarse scraping knives and hatchets; and implements fashioned from deer antlers. Asturian culture sites are generally located near caverns and caves and sometimes within them.

REFERENCES

Breuil H., and R. Lantier. Les hommes de la pierre ancienne. Paris, 1959.
Obermaier, H. Fossil Man in Spain. New Haven, 1925.

P. I. BORISKOVSKII

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Since its foundation in 1997, Nun Tris has created a repertory in which the Asturian culture has had an important position, mainly due to the inclusion of the oral tradition of the province which has a language of its own, one of the Romanic languages that coexist in Spain.