Contribution of landscape analysis to the characterisation of Palaeolithic sites: A case study from El Horno Cave (northern Spain)

Beyond images: the external archaeological context of Palaeolithic rock art (EAC). A case study from the Nalón river basin (northern Iberia)

“…Just as in the case of the IAC, the detailed understanding of the EAC can provide some clues to help understand this cultural phenomenon. The proposed approach has already provided interesting data in its application to habitation sites (Fano et al, 2016), as it succeeded in relating the characteristics of their location with social information derived from the multi-disciplinary study of the archaeological record. It has now proved to be a powerful tool for the analysis of parietal art from a different perspective.…”

“…Recent applications of this methodology have shown that the integration of spatial information with data from the archaeological record sensu stricto (intensity of occupations, activities carried out, subsistence strategies etc.) allow more precise interpretations of the nature of the sites and therefore of their role in their social context (Fano et al, 2016;Fano & García-Moreno, 2017a). Nonetheless, it may be possible to go beyond a mere materialistic perspective and consider that the choice of a given site may be influenced by more subtle factors, such as the significance or symbolism of particular elements in the landscape or 'landmarks' (Tilley, 1994;Langley, 2013;García-Moreno, 2013b), or of certain practices (Grøn, 2018).…”

“…The last question is a reminder that the results of spatial analyses become meaningful when they are integrated with information obtained through conventional studies of the archaeological record (e.g. Fano et al, 2016). Once the spatial distribution pattern of sites preserving parietal representations has been determined, the data should be integrated with the results from the study of the art in order to observe tendencies that are statistically quantifiable.…”

Análisis Locacional Del Yacimiento Paleolítico De Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Lugo)

“…Es preciso destacar algunos de ellos en los que se relacionaba el emplazamiento en un determinado sitio con una variable concreta como por ejemplo la vegetación (García Moreno , 2008b, la insolación (García Moreno 2008a, la presencia visual (García Moreno 2013c), la movilidad (García Moreno 2013a; Prieto et al 2016;Ríos-Garaizar & García Moreno 2015;Sánchez et al 2016) o el clima (Burke et al 2014). También se han realizado estudios en los que se incluía más de una variable y que tenían como objetivo definir el patrón de asentamiento y la ocupación de yacimientos paleolíticos localizados en zonas geográficas concretas, como por ejemplo el valle del río Arlanzón (Marcos Sáiz 2006), la cornisa cantábrica (Fernández Fernández 2010;García Moreno 2013a;Marín Arroyo 2008Ortega Martínez & Ruíz-Redondo 2017;Turrero et al 2013), el valle del río Asón (Fano Martínez et al 2016;García Moreno 2010;García Moreno & Fano Martínez 2011), el valle del río Nalón (Corchón et al 2014;García Moreno et al 2013;García Moreno & Fano Martínez 2014), la cuenca del río Mundo (García Moreno 2014) y el río Sado (Burke et al 2011).…”

Homes for Hunters? Exploring the Concept of Home at Hunter-Gatherer Sites in Upper Paleolithic Europe and Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia

“…it is a focus of daily activities and a centre for the organization of tasks to be performed elsewhere. (Kolen 1999:139) For both Kolen (1999) and Ingold (1993), a key aspect of dwelling is organized space that is imbued with social and symbolic meanings and that we should expect traces of these activities; thus, it is something that prehistorians could detect and reconstruct at the intrasite scale (Haakanson and Jordan 2011;Leonova 2003) as well as at the intersite scale of landscape or across the landscape so that we all dwell in landscapes (Fano et al 2015;Garcia-Moreno 2013). Thus, a general consensus emerges where dwelling in human societies is embedded in a mythical ordering of space-a "mythical geography."…”