Abstract: In this paper we summarise the available human radiocarbon dates and stable carbon (?13C) and nitrogen (?15N) isotope data for the Mesolithic of Northern Spain. Tis reinforces a strong division between inland and coastal locations, with the two separated by a distance of as little as ca. 10 km. Tere is considerable time depth to this division, which appears to exist from at least the second half of the eighth millennium BC, representing the region?s earliest Holocene human results. We also present new ?13C and ?15N data for terrestrial fauna from the inland site of Los Canes, as well as for a small number of marine and estuarine fish species from coastal sites.

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