Author, as appears in the article.: Isabel Cáceres; Paula García-Medrano; Andreu Ollé; Eudald Carbonell
Department: Història i Història de l'Art
URV's Author/s: CÁCERES CUELLO DE ORO, ISABEL; Paula García-Medrano; Andreu Ollé; CARBONELL ROURA, EUDALD
Keywords: refits Galería acheulean
Abstract: Galería is one of the main sites of the Trinchera del Ferrocarril (railway trench) in Atapuerca, together with Gran Dolina and Sima del Elefante. The Galería excavations took place mainly during the 1980s and 1990s and continued until 2010. Work has recently resumed in the upper levels of the sequence, which has prompted us to summarize the previously collected data and plan an entire new set of questions in order to be able to compare that earlier data with information yielded from the new interventions. Galería consists of a long sequence dating from around 500 ka to 250 ka, which has made it possible to conduct a diachronic study of the technology at the site. As a consequence of the sustainment of similar occupational patterns and a similar 'toolkit', the technology at Galería generally enjoyed a broad stability throughout the technology the Middle Pleistocene. Nevertheless, we have isolated technological characteristics which reflect technological changes through time.In this case, we present a synchronic analysis of the human occupation phases of each subunit, which finally led us to a diachronic view of the site. Most of the knapping sequences occurred outside of the cave, making the chaînes opératoires very fragmented. This was the result of short and sporadic occupations for the basic purpose of obtaining the animals that had fallen into the cave through a natural trap created by the TN shaft, in successful competition with carnivores. Although lithic refits are very scarce, we used them in this study to characterize the spatial distribution not only of the activities performed, but also of the knapping sequences carried out inside the cave. The two knapping locations (outside and inside) reflect different knapping strategies.
Research group: Autoecologia Humana del Quaternari
Thematic Areas: History Historia Història
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 1040-6182
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Record's date: 2016-04-18
Last page: 378
Journal volume: 433
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618215011210
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.013
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2016
First page: 363
Publication Type: Article Artículo Article