In this paper we adopt a new perspective on the chronology and settlement strategies of the last Mesolithic societies of the Ebro basin. For this purpose, we applied concepts from population biology (carrying capacity) and redefined the catchment area of the sites using GIS analysis tools. We concluded that the last hunter-gatherer groups lived below their means, so that physical and cultural reproduction was guaranteed. Therefore, the changes that the societies underwent—from Notches and Denticulate Mesolithic to Geometric Mesolithic, and from there to Neolithic—were not motivated by external factors, but rather were social decisions. The chronology suggests a rapid assumption of the new technological norms—in either of the technological transitions, although the process of experimentation with the production economy must have been slower, so that the Mesolithic territorial strategy remained in force during the first three centuries of the Neolithic. Throughout this process, the efficient Mesolithic networks allowed the transmission of objects, ideas and people.

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埃布罗盆地最后的狩猎采集群体的土地：他们自己命运的伪造者


在本文中，我们对埃布罗盆地最后中石器时代社会的年代学和定居策略采用了新的视角。为此，我们应用了种群生物学的概念（承载能力），并使用 GIS 分析工具重新定义了场地的集水区。我们得出结论，最后的狩猎采集群体生活在他们的经济能力范围内，因此保证了物理和文化的繁殖。因此，社会所经历的变化——从缺口和齿状中石器时代到几何中石器时代，再从那里到新石器时代——不是由外部因素驱动的，而是社会决策。年表表明，在这两种技术转型中，新技术规范的快速假设，尽管生产经济的实验过程一定较慢，因此中石器时代的领土战略在新石器时代的前三个世纪仍然有效。在整个过程中，高效的中石器时代网络允许物品、思想和人员的传输。