Author, as appears in the article.: García-Vadillo F-J; Canals-Salomó A; Rodríguez-Álvarez X-P; Carbonell-Roura E
Department: Història i Història de l'Art
URV's Author/s: Canals Salomó, Antoni / Carbonell Roura, Eudald / Rodríguez Álvarez, José Pedro
Keywords: Transport patterns Territorial management Technological homoeostasis Spheroids Quartz Large cutting tools (lcts) Danjiangkou reservoir region transport patterns territorial management technology technological homoeostasis stone tools spheroids site quartz north-africa middle pleistocene lithic industry atapuerca assemblages age
Abstract: The Acheulean of the Iberian Peninsula is considered a homogeneous technocomplex within the Large Flake Acheulean (LFA) of northern African origin. In this work, we describe the lithic industry of Santa Ana Cave, interpret the territorial functions of the site and search for its technological parallels. Our results place the lithic industry of Santa Ana within the LFA. This assemblage is characterised by: 1) an association of spheroids and large cutting tools (LCTs), 2) the systematic shaping of handaxes on flakes, and 3) quartz knapping. The lithic industry of Santa Ana is unique in the Iberian Peninsula within a region of broad technological variability masked by the apparent homogeneity derived from the extensive presence of handaxes and cleavers. Outside Africa, the technological features observed in the Santa Ana assemblage have only been documented at a few sites in the eastern Mediterranean, China and India. These features illustrate the homeostasis of the Acheulean technocomplex and the expansion of African groups, including northern African groups, towards the Iberian Peninsula. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
Thematic Areas: Science and technology studies History Geociências Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Archeology (arts and humanities) Archeology Archaeology
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: eudald.carbonell@urv.cat josepedro.rodriguez@urv.cat antoni.canals@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-6306-3621 0000-0002-1852-2283 0000-0002-4240-0921
Record's date: 2024-09-07
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X21004776
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Journal Of Archaeological Science: Reports. 41
APA: García-Vadillo F-J; Canals-Salomó A; Rodríguez-Álvarez X-P; Carbonell-Roura E (2022). The large flake Acheulean with spheroids from Santa Ana Cave (Cáceres, Spain). Journal Of Archaeological Science: Reports, 41(), -. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103265
Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103265
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2022
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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