ResumenSe dan a conocer dos piezas singulares del Paleolítico superior de la región central mediterránea ibérica, que por sus características tipológicas y decoración permiten establecer la existencia de contactos intergrupales de cierta amplitud que apuntan al Cantábrico y el sur de Francia. Se trata de un bastón perforado de la cova del Badall (Gandia, València) y un candil decorado del Magdaleniense de la cova del Parpalló (Gandia, València). Esta última pieza combina representaciones figurativas y signos cuyos paralelos cabe situar en la propia secuencia del yacimiento y en contextos magdalenienses septentrionales, lo que indica que en periodos de marcada regionalización regional no dejaron, sin embargo, de darse contactos intergrupales de elevado interés para comprender la dinámica cultural de Paleolítico superior del suroeste de Europa.Palabras clave: Arte mueble paleolítico. Bastón perforado. Tecnología y tipológica de la industria ósea. Candil decorado. Solutrense. Magdaleniense.
AbstractWe expose here two singular pieces from the central Mediterranean region of the Iberian Peninsula. Both of them are from the Upper Palaeolithic. Typological and decorative characteristic allow us to stablish the existence of wide intergroup relationship between this region, cantabric area and the south of France. These pieces are a perforated baton from Badall cave (Gandia, València) and a decorated tine from the Magdalenian layers of Cova del Parpalló (Gandia, València). The decorated tine from Parpalló combines figurative representations and signs which parallels can be located in its own site sequence and septentrional magdalenian contexts. It indicates that when the regionalization is highest, connections between different groups still happening. These pieces are interesting to establish long-distance exchange networks between the groups of hunter-gatherers living in south-western Europe.
In this work, we present a preliminary analysis of
the Solutrean antlerworking at Hort de Cortés–Volcán del Faro (Valencia, Spain) (ca. 26–21 ka cal BP). A restudy of its archaeological sequence, which came to encompass the Early Upper Palaeolithic to the Magdalenian period, has been a mandatory subject in the last years. This site became an archaeological reference since the beginning of its excavation in the 1960s but has not been systematically studied. The implementation of more specialized studies is used a) to observe the distribution of technical pieces in the stratigraphy and identify possible stratigraphic alterations and b) to restudy a huge lithic, osseous, and faunal collection which can provide new information that may clarify them. The aim is to develop a systematic study, from a technological point of view, to identify and characterize operational schemes and to define the modalities of antlerworking. The technological analysis of waste products, blanks, roughouts, and objects allows us to observe how raw material is obtained and transformed into a toolkit following the refitting by default method. It will help us analyze some questions about the raw material acquisition and transformation like (1) selection between hunted and shed antlers and its possible explanation, (2) the existence of planning of tool manufacture, and (3) the step-by-step production of the debitage. We will extract conclusions and analyze different social aspects: (1) by identifying technical traditions and comparing them with other studied sites and periods and (2) by knowing a new aspect of the way of life of these human groups.
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