Author, as appears in the article.: Gomez de Soler, Bruno; Soares-Remiseiro, Miguel; Arteaga-Brieba, Andion; Borras, Gisela; Camara, Javier; Campeny, Gerard; Chacon, M. Gema; Luis Fernandez-Marchena, Juan; Guinart, Vicenc; Lopez, Gerard; Mas, Barbara; Soto, Maria; Suesta, Alfredo; Shkarinska, Kateryna; Ramirez-Pedraza, Ivan; Val-Peon, Cristina; Vallverdu, Josep;
Department: Història i Història de l'Art
URV's Author/s: Arteaga Brieba, Andion / CAMPENY VALL-LLOSERA, GERARD / Chacón Navarro, María Gema / Gómez de Soler, Bruno / LÓPEZ MARTÍNEZ, GEMA ISABEL / Ramírez Pedraza, Iván / Suesta Guillén, Alfredo / Vallverdú Poch, Josep
Keywords: Sant marti de tous Quarry La guinardera Industry Gunflints Gunflint preforms Chert
Abstract: In 2014, an anthropic accumulation of chert material was discovered in La Guinardera area, at the southwest of the Sant Marti de Tous town (Barcelona, NE Iberian Peninsula). In 2018 a first archaeological intervention was carried out in two locations: La Guinardera and La Guinardera Nord. After the fieldworks, these two accumulations were interpreted as chert workshops. These workshops are in the St. Genis Formation, included within La Noguera lacustrine system and dated to the Priabonian age (upper Eocene). The St. Marti de Tous area presents shallow lacustrine conditions typical of sabkha environments, in which layers of gypsums and sandy lutites are interspersed with tabular red sandstone levels, yielding different varieties of chert.The Guinardera chert is characterized by a fairly homogeneous matrix, presenting a fine texture, with a microcrystalline and spherulitic length-slow chalcedony matrix, and a combination of grey colours, in general of dark hues, with an opaque diaphaneity but translucent at the edges.The archaeological assemblage from La Guinardera Nord site allows us to identify a chert workshop for the production of gunflints. The heterogeneity of the assemblage at La Guinardera site precludes assigning it to any single chrono-cultural period or function.The technological characterization of La Guinardera Nord site reveals distinctive attributes of a gunflint workshop that can be differentiated from prehistoric workshops. The presence of square and thick preforms, oxide traces on butts and ventral faces, marked bulbs and thick platforms, together with fresh edges on flakes and blades and the near-absence of patinated materials, corroborate it.The presence of these two deposits within the above-mentioned formation shows us a repeated landscape exploitation pattern for raw material extraction, since references chert use range from the Middle Palaeolithic (e.g., Abric Romani) to historical times (e.g., La Guinardera Nord).
Thematic Areas: Historia Ciências ambientais Archaeology Antropologia / arqueologia
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Author's mail: alfredo.suesta@estudiants.urv.cat bruno.gomez@urv.cat mariagema.chacon@urv.cat josep.vallverdup@urv.cat andion.arteaga@estudiants.urv.cat andion.arteaga@estudiants.urv.cat ivan.ramirez@estudiants.urv.cat alfredo.suesta@estudiants.urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-0954-0057 0000-0002-3177-3263 0000-0001-8673-212X 0000-0003-0954-0057
Record's date: 2024-06-15
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Papper original source: Journal Of Lithic Studies. 8 (2): 24-
APA: Gomez de Soler, Bruno; Soares-Remiseiro, Miguel; Arteaga-Brieba, Andion; Borras, Gisela; Camara, Javier; Campeny, Gerard; Chacon, M. Gema; Luis Fernan (2021). The Guinardera quarry (Sant Marti de Tous, Barcelona): A new chert exploitation location during historical times. Journal Of Lithic Studies, 8(2), 24-. DOI: 10.2218/jls.6546
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2021
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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