article_snippet.sent: a woman provides the first evidence of an ancient Magdalenian burial in the region and an engraved stone found near a woman appears to have been a makeshift tombstone.
article_snippet.sent: Lower Magdalenian life and death in Oldest Dryas Cantabrian Spain: an overview' published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
article_snippet.sent: The burial is one of the most complex features of the Magdalenian record in El Mirón. '
article_snippet.sent: Anthropologists from the University of New Mexico said: 'The burial is one of the most complex features of the Magdalenian record in El MirónEl Mirón.
article_snippet.sent: In addition to El Mirón, Magdalenian sites have been found from Portugal in the west to as far east as Poland.
article_snippet.sent: Using detailed mineralogical maps of the region, it is thought the Magdalenian people mined the distinctive ochre from an outcrop in the modern-day city of Santoña, situated around 12 miles (20km) from the cave. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Grave is the first burial of this kind found in the Iberian peninsula .
  