Hello Leonardo, I am not specialist for Iberian Middle Palaeolithic, but I know Middle Palaeolithic blade production is recorded in Abric Romaní, e.g. Layers P and M, if I remebered well. Some blades you can find also in other layers. The Romaní team did also refittings demonstrated this kind of the production.

For the first look you can open pdf on this link:

http://www.obermaier-gesellschaft.de/2018_tarragona/conference_booklet_2018.pdf. It is the text for Obermaier Tagung excursion.

Of course, better info you can expect from Romaní team.

All the best

Petr

Thanks a lot Petr.

In another catalonian site, they are cited:Article The Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in Cova Gran (Ca...

"The flakes show some morphological variation; oval or rectan-

gular blanks with dorsal faces and centripetal extractions

predominate, while points and blades are scarce. The few elongated

blanks were not obtained through typical blade production and are

technologically and morphologically different from the artefacts

that appear in the EUP levels of Cova Gran."

You can find something in Spanish:

Maíllo Fernández, J. M. (2001). Aproximación al fenómeno laminar en el Paleolítico medio: el ejemplo de la Cueva Morín (Villanueva de Villaescusa, Cantabria). http://e-spacio.uned.es/fez/eserv/bibliuned:ETFSerieI-8F370FF2-C5B4-C5CB-24DD-1107560F0EB2/Documento.pdf

-------------------------- (2005). La producción laminar en el Chatelperroniense de Cueva Morín: modalidades, intenciones y objetivos. Trabajos de prehistoria, 62(1), 47-64. http://tp.revistas.csic.es/index.php/tp/article/viewFile/55/55

Dear Leonardo:

if you mean real blades related with blade cores are difficult to be found. In Madrid at El Cañaveral, Parceka 32, there are some examples, and also in some levels of El Esquilleu, MOorin, Castillo, etc. but the sizes are small. If you just mean elongated flakes there are many in all the levallois levels. Hope it helps you

Thank you Javier,

What you say confirm what I saw. There is a phenomenon of small blades "bladelets" as also Agustín Diez Castillo said but not real volumetric blade production.

Thank you again,

Leonardo

Dear Leonardo, as Javier says there are many sites with 'bladelet' like productions, and some sites with elongated Levallois products. In Axlor I identified an unidirectional elongated flake/blade production in level B-C. Also, in Arlanpe SQ2 we identified clear retouched blades, but they were imported artifacts and the operational sequence was not complete. In my knowledge there is not a single site with extensive blade production as you can see in Northern France (MIS 6-5), or in Dordogne (MIS 4-3)

Thanks a lot Joseba. Are the results of Axlor and Arlanpe published somewhere?

Here you have

Thank you very much.