Cova Negra and Gorham’s Cave: evidence of the place of birds in Mousterian communities

Cova Negra de Bellus at Jativa in Alicante province and Gorham’s Cave, Gibraltar, are both sites which have produced a sequence of Mousterian industries. No other sites belonging to the first two phases of the Würm have been so extensively excavated in. southern and southeastern Spain, and, although the locations of the two caves appear to be totally dissimilar, cultural comparisons have been made (Waechter 1964, Villaverde 1984) regarding the human occupation of the caves.