Licnología paleolítica: las lámparas de las Cuevas de Llonín y El Covarón (Asturias)

Abstract

We increase the short number of those Spanish items with two lamps that came from the mentioned Asturian caves. One belongs to the Upper Magdalenian and the other is archaeologically out of context, and both highlighted their exclusive presence inside the caves that, also, contain rock art. We have done a technological and functional study of the lamps, and we compare them with those known in the Iberian Peninsula and France; looking especially to the elements (raw material and technological processes) implicated in its morphological variability.