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Using Carroll’s book (Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice found there) as a suggestive guide, the current trends of the research on the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition are described, for the Northern Iberian Peninsula. Some clear weaknesses are described in the patterns used to analyse the period, which should be corrected in order to improve the results of archaeologists’ work.
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Let us cite an example affecting us directly. When the authors of this article were returning on their way out of the looking-glass, towards everyday reality, they received a letter from the maximum authority responsible for archaeology in their administration. In the letter, at the same time as regret was expressed that they had not been able to consult or study the materials from their own excavations in the last twelve months because of purely bureaucratic complications, they were also informed that another twelve months, at the very least, would be needed before the situation could be brought back to normal. And their patience and understanding were greatly appreciated.
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Arrizabalaga, A., Iriarte, M.J. (2009). Through the Looking-Glass. The Most Recent Years of Cantabrian Research in the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition. In: Camps, M., Chauhan, P. (eds) Sourcebook of Paleolithic Transitions. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76487-0_22
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