Caracterización del yacimiento de Cueva Blanca (Hellín, Albacete). Nuevas aportaciones para el debate en torno a la transición del Mesolítico al Neolítico antiguo en el Sureste peninsular the Site of cueva blanca (hellín, Albacete). contributions to the debate on the Mesolithic-Early neolithic transition in the Iberian Southeast
La Cueva de los Murciélagos de Zuheros (Córdoba) es una de las cavidades más relevantes en la historiografía arqueológica para el estudio del Neolítico en el sur de la península ibérica. Después de un recorrido por sus intervenciones arqueológicas, sus dataciones radiocarbónicas y el estado previo del conocimiento sobre sus cerámicas neolíticas, este trabajo tiene como objetivo fundamental presentar las bases del estudio del conjunto cerámico procedente de la secuencia adscrita al Neolítico antiguo de las campañas de 1990-1991 y 1993. Durante éstas se emplearon técnicas y métodos modernos de excavación y, por tanto, proporcionan una información con garantías sobre la estratigrafía y el conjunto de materiales de este sitio arqueológico. Este análisis tiene un carácter extensivo y cuantitativo, y se centra en las dimensiones morfológica, tecnológica y especialmente decorativa, tanto a nivel de técnicas como de motivos. Permite no sólo una revisión del conocimiento anterior sobre las cerámicas del yacimiento, sino también concluir con una caracterización detallada y un estado actual del conjunto cerámico del Neolítico antiguo de este relevante enclave ubicado en la Subbética cordobesa.
Ofrecemos los resultados de una datación sobre una muestra de carbón procedente de un hogar asociado a dos menhires que forman parte de la cabecera del Dolmen de las Casas de Don Pedro. La fecha obtenida permite defender que los menhires debieron erigirse a comienzos del IV milenio y que el simbolismo que encarnan estaba en un punto álgido.
In this, the penultimate in this series of Studies, we complete our coverage of the peninsula by discussing megalithic tombs of north Portugal and of three provinces of southwest Spain. We also investigate the tholos tombs omitted from previous Studies of western Iberia. In a final Study we shall consider the picture that has emerged from our examination of nearly a thousand Iberian tombs.Tombs of the Minho, the coastal area of northern Portugal, were discussed in the fifth Study, as were the tombs of the central region around Viseu; in the present article we publish amplified lists of the tombs of these regions, and extend our coverage to the tombs of the adjacent areas. For southern Portugal our earlier discussion was confined to megalithic tombs, and so here we include a section on tholos (false-cupola) tombs. Finally, we investigate the west Andalusian provinces of Cadiz, Cordoba and Sevilla, including two great tholos tombs west of the city of Seville that may have had stellar orientations.Northern Portugal does not have the dense concentrations of megalithic tombs that we find in the Alentejo, but -as befits a region on the Atlantic seaboard -the tombs are among the earliest in western Europe. The Douro river runs from east to west and enters the sea at the city of Porto, and we use it to divide northern Portugal into five regions: the North Douro Basin, two regions that are further north of the river, and two that are south of it.Those orientations that are listed here for the first time were assembled by the authors between 1997 and 2000, with the collaboration of Nuno Miguel Soares, Carla Stockler and Claudia Alemao. One of the two northerly regions -the Minho -and one of the southerly ones -the Beiras, otherwise the Mondego Platform -were featured in a previous study,"! and we here supplement the previous lists with a further 12 tombs. For the three new regions we report 26 orientations, so that Table A I lists 38 tombs whose orientations appear here for the first time, together with 48 tombs whose orientations are repeated from an earlier Study 0142-7273/0110026-0045/$2.50
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