Bifacially worked leafpoints are often treated as a kind of "index fossil" for MP/UP transitional industries in Central Europe.
"These Spanish finds make it clear that symbolic behavior existed among the Neandertals before the time of the transitional industries," archaeologist João Zilhão of the University of Barcelona says.
These transitional industries date from the period of overlap of Neanderthals and early modern humans in Europe (approximately 40,000 to 30,000 years ago) and were originally thought to have been made by early modern humans.
It was also irrelevant, because Walter Taylor was a transitional figure in the industry.
If 2014 was the games industry's transitional year, 2015 could see the major developers and publishers finally getting into their groove with the current consoles.
Herbert Diess, the head of Volkswagen's main passenger car division, told reporters: "We are really in a transitional phase for the industry.
Some "transitional" Middle Upper Paleolithic stone tool industries, like the Châtelperronian industry in France, the Uluzzian in Italy, and the Szeletian in East-Central Europe, combine strong similarities with the Mousterian with modern technological elements.
This thicket of contracts and subsidiaries says something, perhaps, about the music industry's current transitional phase.
Investors, impatient with the industry's long "transitional period," have pounded stocks like Electronic Arts and Activision.
