ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (CGL2010-15326; CGL2011-28681; CGL2011-27343; and RYC-2009-04533 to D.M.A.) and the Generalitat de Catalunya (2009 SGR 754 and 2009 SGR 324). Part of this research was also funded by the Synthesys project to J.M.-M. (BE-TAF-5471). We sincerely thank E. Gilissen and W. Wendelen for providing access to the collections under their care, and S. Ros-Montoya for taking the photograph of the Venta Micena VM-2255 mandible. Field work at Vallparadís was funded by Gestió d’Infraestructures, S.A., under the supervision of the Generalitat de Catalunya. The collaboration of the Ajuntament de Terrassa and the Generalitat de Catalunya is also acknowledged. Careful reading and thoughtful comments by P. Palmqvist, an anonymous reviewer, and the editor B. Van Valkenburgh, greatly improved the manuscript.
Handling editor: Blaire Van Valkenburgh