Neolithic flint mining at Casa Montero (Vicálvaro, Madrid)

Rodríguez, Susana Consuegra; García, María del Mar Gallego; Clemente, Nuria Castañeda

doi:10.3989/tp.2004.v61.i2.47

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“…One consequence of the mitigation process for the M-50 motorway around Madrid was the discovery in 2003 of the extensive Neolithic flint mines of Casa Montero. These were the first Early Neolithic flint mines to be found in Iberia (Consuegra et al 2004;Díaz-del-Río et al 2006;Consuegra et al 2018). Dated to 5400 BC, the mines extended over 2 ha and revealed over 3700 vertical shafts, some as deep as 7m, and produced a vast collection of flint in all stages of preparation.…”

Section: Neolithic -6th-4th Millennia Bcmentioning

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Veinte años de arqueología de la Prehistoria tardía en la Península Ibérica. Mirando hacia atrás y hacia adelante

Lillios

2018

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Las investigaciones arqueológicas de las comunidades agrarias del VI al II milenios a. C. en la Península Ibérica han sufrido transformaciones fundamentales en los últimos 25 años. Este artículo trata de proporcionar una visión general de esta investigación considerando tres temas: 1) los cambios en la teoría, la perspectiva y la práctica, 2) el descubrimiento de nuevos sitios o tipos de sitios, y 3) la evolución de las metodologías y técnicas analíticas. Se concluye con algunas reflexiones sobre posibles futuros desafíos y direcciones para la investigación.

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Section: Neolithic -6th-4th Millennia Bcmentioning

confidence: 91%

Veinte años de arqueología de la Prehistoria tardía en la Península Ibérica. Mirando hacia atrás y hacia adelante

Lillios

2018

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“…This entire region was, until recently, Madrid's agricultural pantry, having been heavily populated since Neolithic times due to the economic mining of flint (Consuegra et al, 2004). They are currently marginal peri-urban areas with a range of large infrastructures (e.g., AVE-high speed train, radial highways, ring roads, railway lines, and high voltage lines) and significant remnants of industrial and mining operations (brick clays and sepiolite) from the last two decades as a result of unrestrained urban expansion (de Pablo et al, 2017).…”

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Vegetation on expansive clay soils from Madrid and La Sagra region (Madrid-Toledo, Spain)

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Magaña Ugarte,

Martínez Labarga

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Soils rich in expansive clays (i.e., smectite and montmorillonite, and, to a lesser extent, soft clays such as sepiolite and palygorskite) are found in a broad stretch running NNE-SSW from the east of Madrid to the Tagus River surrounds in the province of Toledo. These clays tend to give rise to a specific type of soil, known as "vertisols" or related argillic soils with vertic behaviour, varied chemical and sedimentological composition, and occasionally siliceous or dolomitic clasts. In these soils, where there is an absence of woody vegetation, the colonising nitrophilous vegetation becomes of particular interest through the usage and alteration of the land. These argillic soil plant communities are incredibly diversified, with flora suited to the unique hydrogeochemical conditions of these settings. The variety of these plant communities is determined by factors such as land use, lithology, terrain, and the level of humidity they can withstand. We identify the primary plant community on the Madrid-Toledo expansive clays in this paper, as well as provide a preliminary approach to the different varieties and transitions to other related plant communities. The main dynamic and catena links are established, and a floristically summarised table is provided, along with a descriptive examination of the community's behaviour and variability. Finally, its conservation status and the high degree of threat to which it is subjected are assessed.

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“…The first season involved the excavation of 123 shafts, a random sample of approximately 2,500 shafts mapped across 2.4 hectares. This allowed an initial assessment of the variability of prehistoric flint-extraction methods and the geological structure of the site, while a small number of characteristic Early Neolithic potsherds supplied the relative dating of some of these shafts (Consuegra et al 2004;Capote et al 2008).…”

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La mina de sílex del Neolítico Antiguo de Casa Montero (Madrid, España), 5350-5220 cal a. C.

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We present a comprehensive and interpretative overview of the evidence recovered at the mining field of Casa Montero (Madrid, Spain). We describe the technical and social aspects of flint mining in the specific historical context of central Iberia's Early Neolithic societies. Combination of all the evidence allows us to suggest that mining at the site was probably a generational phenomenon, where the acts of gathering in order to perform a collective action served as a basis for binding new political relations beyond each individual group. Strategic, tactical, and logistic preconditions were required for those gatherings, including the ability and capacity to convene, design, and organize an orderly set of actions such as those deployed at the flint mine. As with other Neolithic mining sites in Europe, understanding these social preconditions are important if archaeologists are to move beyond describing the formal and technical variability of the mines. RESUMEN Presentamos una revisión de conjunto e interpretativa de las evidencias recuperadas en la mina de sílex de Casa Montero (Madrid, España). Describimos los aspectos técni-cos y sociales de la minería del sílex en el contexto históri-co específico de las sociedades del Neolítico

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Neolithic flint mining at Casa Montero (Vicálvaro, Madrid)

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Veinte años de arqueología de la Prehistoria tardía en la Península Ibérica. Mirando hacia atrás y hacia adelante

Veinte años de arqueología de la Prehistoria tardía en la Península Ibérica. Mirando hacia atrás y hacia adelante

Vegetation on expansive clay soils from Madrid and La Sagra region (Madrid-Toledo, Spain)

La mina de sílex del Neolítico Antiguo de Casa Montero (Madrid, España), 5350-5220 cal a. C.

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