The beginning of the Neolithic in the mid-Ebro valley and in Iberia’s Inland (Northern and Southern submeseta), Spain

Rojo-Guerra, Manuel; Lagrán, Íñigo García-Martínez de; Royo-Guillén, José I.

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2017.12.037

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“…Traditionally, such high altitude mountain areas were mainly considered as transit zones [102,103]. However, recent fieldwork has demonstrated that archaeological sites located in this ecosystem have a lot to contribute to the present debate on the Neolithisation process and the definition of early Neolithic communities [12,13,25,30]. The reasons for that are twofold.…”

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“…BC interval [1][2][3][4][5]. Through the river valleys they also advanced fast to inland areas such as the Upper Ebro Valley and the pre-Pyrenean territories [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Increasing fieldwork and archaeological studies show the great variability of environmental and socio-economic scenarios where early Neolithic communities of different identity and origin unfolded their farming practices in Iberia [14][15][16][17][18].…”

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“…One of the core issues presently under debate is whether the neolithisation process of the Pyrenean highlands was associated with the short-distance movement of livestock from sedentary mixed farming communities based in this mountain range [11] or the seasonal coming of pastoral groups from the Pre-Pyrenean lower lands and the Upper Ebro Valley [12,24,29,30]. Although these hypotheses are not mutually exclusive, they correspond to divergent subsistence models according to which animal husbandry would have been practiced at very different scales (i.e., the house-hold level or an intensive and more specialised level).…”

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Investigating Neolithic caprine husbandry in the Central Pyrenees: Insights from a multi-proxy study at Els Trocs cave (Bisaurri, Spain)

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Sheep remains constitute the main archaeozoological evidence for the presence of Early Neolithic human groups in the highlands of the Southern Pyrenees but understanding the role of herding activities in the Neolithisation process of this mountain ecosystem calls for the analysis of large and well-dated faunal assemblages. Cova de Els Trocs (Bisaurri, Huesca, Spain), a cave located at 1564 m a.s.l on the southern slopes of the Central Pyrenees, is an excellent case study since it was seasonally occupied throughout the Neolithic (ca. 5312–2913 cal. BC) and more than 4000 caprine remains were recovered inside. The multi-proxy analytical approach here presented has allowed us to offer new data elaborating on vertical mobility practices and herd management dynamics as has not been attempted up until now within Neolithic high-mountain sites in the Iberian Peninsula. For the first time, δ18O and δ13C stable isotope analyses offer direct evidence on both the regular practice of altitudinal movements of sheep flocks and the extended breeding season of sheep. Autumn births are recorded from the second half of the fifth millennium cal. BC onwards. Age-at-death distributions illustrate the progressive decline in caprine perinatal mortality together with the rising survival rate of individuals older than six months of age and the larger frequency of adults. This trend alongside the ‘off-season’ lambing signal at the implementation of husbandry techniques over time, probably aiming to increase the size of the flocks and their productivity. Palaeoparasitological analyses of sediment samples document also the growing reliance on herding activities of the human groups visiting the Els Trocs cave throughout the Neolithic sequence. In sum, our work provides substantial arguments to conclude that the advanced herding management skills of the Early Neolithic communities arriving in Iberia facilitated the anthropisation process of the subalpine areas of the Central Pyrenees.

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“…El hallazgo de un contexto con elementos cerámicos cardiales en La Paleta, cerca de Toledo, en pleno hinterland peninsular, sirvió para plantear la hipótesis de un proceso de llegada de grupos cardiales oriundos del Bajo Tajo que habrían seguido el curso de este río como vía de acceso directo a las regiones centrales de la península ibérica 2 . A pesar de las justas reservas planteadas desde entonces por lo que atañe a la fiabilidad de la muestra ("una masa heterogénea de material orgánico" según Bernabeu y Martí 2014: 428; véase también Rojo et al 2018) utilizada en la datación radiocarbónica que sostiene una cronología tan precoz (circa 5700-5500 cal BC) para este sitio, la hipótesis respecto al proceso responsable del establecimiento de ese grupo humano en la región toledana goza sin embargo de algún apoyo indirecto. Para empezar, en las condiciones paleogeográficas del Tajo durante el Holoceno Medio, cuya ría Flandriense se prolongaba hasta cerca de la mitad de su curso portugués (e. g. Vis et al 2008), favoreciendo así su navegabilidad.…”

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Vaso con decoración cardial de Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Lugo)

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El hallazgo de un vaso cerámico parcialmente conservado en el curso de las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en Cova Eirós permite aportar nuevos datos sobre la cultura material del Neolítico regional. El recipiente, tanto por su forma de botella como por su decoración (impresión de concha), recuerda claramente a la cerámica cardial, tan característica del registro arqueológico entre los primeros grupos neolíticos del sur de la península ibérica. Se abordan las circunstancias del hallazgo y los paralelos más cercanos, que se encuentran entre las colecciones cerámicas del sur de Portugal. A modo de conclusión, sugerimos que la pieza analizada se remonta probablemente al final del VI milenio a. C.

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“…Currently, it is assumed that Schematic art first appeared in the Early Neolithic and persisted throughout the Late Neolithic and Copper Age (fourth and third millennia BC) (e.g. Escoriza Mateu 2002;Carrasco Rus et al 2006, 2015Cruz & Vicent-García 2007;Fernández Martín et al 2017;Rojo-Guerra et al 2018).…”

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Who painted that? The authorship of Schematic rock art at the Los Machos rockshelter in southern Iberia

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The beginning of the Neolithic in the mid-Ebro valley and in Iberia’s Inland (Northern and Southern submeseta), Spain

Cited by 19 publications

References 30 publications

Investigating Neolithic caprine husbandry in the Central Pyrenees: Insights from a multi-proxy study at Els Trocs cave (Bisaurri, Spain)

Investigating Neolithic caprine husbandry in the Central Pyrenees: Insights from a multi-proxy study at Els Trocs cave (Bisaurri, Spain)

Vaso con decoración cardial de Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Lugo)

Who painted that? The authorship of Schematic rock art at the Los Machos rockshelter in southern Iberia

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