Aproximación al aprovisionamiento de materias primas líticas en el yacimiento del Paleolítico medio del Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Valencia)

Eixea, Aleix; Bonilla, Valentín Villaverde; Zilhão, João

doi:10.3989/tp.2011.11059

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“…However, a few sites have tools made on raw material from distant sources. Some of the material found at Abrigo de la Quebrada (Eixea et al, 2011) comes from sources more than 100 km from the site. This pattern has also been observed in flint from Cova Negra and Abric del Salt.…”

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“…Flint is generally dominant, but at the upper levels (IIeV) of Abrigo de la Quebrada there is considerable variation, with quartzite and limestone also being important. At most sites the raw material is local (Molina et al, 2010;Eixea et al, 2011). However, a few sites have tools made on raw material from distant sources.…”

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“…Some that have been excavated recently contain abundant stratified archaeological deposits (Fig. 1); important sites include Cova del Bolomor in Tavernes de Valldigna, Valencia (Fernández Peris, 2007), Cova Negra in Xàtiva, Valencia , Abrigo de la Quebrada in Chelva, Valencia Eixea et al, 2011), Cova Foradada in Oliva, Valencia (Campillo et al, 2002), Abric del Salt and Abric del Pastor in Alcoi, Alicante (Galván et al, 2006(Galván et al, , 2008Gómez de la Rua et al, 2010), Cova de Dalt del Tossal de la Font in Vilafamés, Castellón (Olària et al, 2004(Olària et al, -2005, Cueva Antón in Mula, Murcia (Zilhão et al, 2010), Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo in Torre Pacheco, Murcia (Walker et al, 2012), Cueva Perneras in Lorca, Murcia (Montes Bernárdez, 1991) and Cueva de los Aviones in Cartagena, Murcia (Montes Bernárdez, 1989). Though several other sites are known, they are less wellpublished, usually with poor stratigraphical and chronological control.…”

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Neanderthal diets in central and southeastern Mediterranean Iberia

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a b s t r a c tDuring recent decades, Neanderthal diet has been a major research topic in palaeoanthropology. This has been accelerated by the maturation of different techniques, which have produced a plethora of new information. However, this proliferation of data has led to confusing and contradictory results. Furthermore, most of the ecological dietary studies have been carried out on specimens drawn from different time periods and regions, almost exclusively those characterized by cold, open environmental conditions. Subsistence models based on these fragmentary data have been applied to Neanderthals living in a variety of different regions and environments, even though their dietary strategies may have been as variable as regions they inhabited. In this paper we integrate different dietary approaches (studies of the zooarchaeology, stable isotopes and plant remains) from the central and southeastern Mediterranean coast of Iberia in order to develop a broader and more complex picture of Neanderthal diet in different Mediterranean environmental conditions. Our results suggest that there may have been some minor dietary variation due to climatic or environmental differences, but that Neanderthal diet focussed on large terrestrial game, supplemented by plant foods when these were available.Ó 2013 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved. Neanderthal dietary ecologyThe dietary behaviours of Neanderthals and the relationship between their diet and their social organization, technological abilities, and even their eventual disappearance, have been hotly debated in the anthropological literature. Examining the diets of Neanderthals requires the synthesis of data that have been collected by numerous researchers over the last 150 years. In many cases, the differences between Neanderthal and early modern human diets have been emphasized, at the expense of cogent discussion of the variation within each group. Early modern humans lived in a wide variety of environmental contexts and likely pursued a variety of behaviours throughout this range of environments. The exclusively Eurasian distribution of Neanderthals did not include as many environments, but neither was it the exclusively cold Arctic climate that many have supposed it to be. A more detailed examination of the Neanderthal range and the effects of shifting global climates reveals that this group would have been exposed to a diverse range of environments (Hoffecker, 2009;MacDonald et al., 2009). Just as modern human dietary behaviour likely varied with environments, so, too, can we predict that Neanderthals had different diets in different environments.Our understanding of the diets of Neanderthals comes from three main lines of evidence. The first is the study of the human remains themselves, including the isotope signal recorded in their bones, the microwear on their teeth, and how factors of their lifehistory are related to diet. The second line of evidence includes the study of the remains of their food, in the form of animal and plant remains preserved ...

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“…In levels II and III, raw-material procurement was carried out within a radius of 10 km around the site, where Neandertals could find flint, quartzite, and limestone (Eixea, 2012;Eixea et al, 2014Eixea et al, , 2011. Nevertheless some flint coming from sources situated more than 40 km distance is also present.…”

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Ramification of lithic production and the search of small tools in Iberian Peninsula Middle Paleolithic

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a b s t r a c tThe notion of recycling and it relationship with ramified productions and small tool production in Late Middle Paleolithic from the Iberian Peninsula are investigated. Results from Amalda, Axlor, Peña Miel, and Quebrada show that the production of small tools is one of the principal objectives of lithic provisioning in these sites. Whereas in Axlor and Amalda, this is achieved through the ramification of production, due to the remoteness of flint sources, in Quebrada, where raw material sources are closer, small flakes are obtained at the end of Levallois production. The implications for Neandertal society organization of this small tool production is discussed, and its evolution is observed from a diachronic perspective.

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“…Recently, raw flint materials found at the Abrigo de la Quebrada site (Chelva, Valencia, Spain) have been classified according to macroscopic features and have allowed some interesting insights. [15] The aim of this paper is to compare the application of physicochemical [energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (EDXRF) and X-ray diffraction (XRD)] and macroscopic methods to lithic artefacts studies with the purpose of evaluating the potential of these techniques to discriminate between local and allochthonous raw materials and show how, in our case, the complementarity of the two methods was useful for the study of flint from the Abrigo de la Quebrada site and the surrounding area.…”

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Identification of local and allochthonous flint artefacts from the Middle Palaeolithical site ‘Abrigo de la Quebrada’ (Chelva, Valencia, Spain) by macroscopic and physicochemical methods

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This work summarizes the characterization of flint artefacts from the Middle Palaeolithic site 'Abrigo de la Quebrada' (Chelva, Valencia, Spain) and flint geological samples collected in the Chelva area. Additionally, some flint artefacts located outside this geographical zone were also analysed and compared with the samples from the Abrigo de la Quebrada site. Flint samples have been studied using methods of macroscopic description and physicochemical analysis [energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (EDXRF) and X-ray diffraction (XRD)]. Multivariate statistical analysis of the EDXRF data and the determination of the crystalline index of quartz, obtained from the XRD patterns, are suitable methods to discriminate between local and allochthonous flint artefacts in agreement with the macroscopic classification. These results provide new analytical information of the flint artefacts on a geographical area that had not been studied so far.

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Aproximación al aprovisionamiento de materias primas líticas en el yacimiento del Paleolítico medio del Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Valencia)

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Neanderthal diets in central and southeastern Mediterranean Iberia

Neanderthal diets in central and southeastern Mediterranean Iberia

Ramification of lithic production and the search of small tools in Iberian Peninsula Middle Paleolithic

Identification of local and allochthonous flint artefacts from the Middle Palaeolithical site ‘Abrigo de la Quebrada’ (Chelva, Valencia, Spain) by macroscopic and physicochemical methods

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