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The Guinardera quarry (Sant Marti de Tous, Barcelona): A new chert exploitation location during historical times

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    Identificador: imarina:9242977
    Autores:
    Gomez de Soler, BrunoSoares-Remiseiro, MiguelArteaga-Brieba, AndionBorras, GiselaCamara, JavierCampeny, GerardChacon, M. GemaLuis Fernandez-Marchena, JuanGuinart, VicencLopez, GerardMas, BarbaraSoto, MariaSuesta, AlfredoShkarinska, KaterynaRamirez-Pedraza, IvanVal-Peon, CristinaVallverdu, Josep
    Resumen:
    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 exploitati
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    Autor según el artículo: 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;
    Departamento: Història i Història de l'Art
    Autor/es de la URV: 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
    Palabras clave: Sant marti de tous Quarry La guinardera Industry Gunflints Gunflint preforms Chert
    Resumen: 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).
    Áreas temáticas: Historia Ciências ambientais Archaeology Antropologia / arqueologia
    Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Direcció de correo del autor: 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
    Identificador del autor: 0000-0003-0954-0057 0000-0002-3177-3263 0000-0001-8673-212X 0000-0003-0954-0057
    Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-06-15
    Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enlace a la fuente original: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/article/view/6546
    Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Journal Of Lithic Studies. 8 (2): 24-
    Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes 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
    URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    DOI del artículo: 10.2218/jls.6546
    Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Año de publicación de la revista: 2021
    Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
  • Palabras clave:

    Archaeology
    Sant marti de tous
    Quarry
    La guinardera
    Industry
    Gunflints
    Gunflint preforms
    Chert
    Historia
    Ciências ambientais
    Archaeology
    Antropologia / arqueologia
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