Autor según el artículo: Santamaría M; Navazo M; Arnold LJ; Benito-Calvo A; Demuro M; Carbonell E
Departamento: Història i Història de l'Art
Autor/es de la URV: Carbonell Roura, Eudald
Palabras clave: Sierra de atapuerca Open-air sites Neanderthals Middle paleolithic site Lithic technology Expedient technology single sierra de atapuerca rock shelter radiocarbon chronologies open-air sites neanderthals neanderthal settlement multiple grains luminescence lithic technology las estatuas human occupation dose distributions
Resumen: Hotel California is part of a network of open-air Neanderthal sites located in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). In this study, we examine the technology of the lithic assemblages recovered from this site's archaeological levels 3 to 7, which are characterised by the use of local raw materials, non-hierarchical centripetal exploitation systems, systematic production of flakes and few retouched items. This type of expedient technology is repeated throughout the entire sequence, which spans Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 3 to 4. Through a comparison with the technocomplexes and occupation histories of surrounding sites – including a re-evaluation of the published chronology for the nearby site of Fuente Mudarra, which is now dated exclusively to MIS 5 – we examine whether the detected pattern is applicable to the rest of the Atapuerca Mousterian record and if this expedient behaviour has equivalents in other sites in the region. Our findings show that the lithic procurement, exploitation and configuration strategies employed at the Sierra de Atapuerca open-air sites were constant over broad time periods spanning MIS 5 to 3, in contrast to the technological sequences observed at other nearby sites on the Northern Iberian Plateau. The recurrent settlement of these open-air Neanderthal sites over tens of thousands of years and the consistent use of expedient technologies during different occupation periods is likely attributable to the rich ecological context of the Sierra de Atapuerca environs.
Áreas temáticas: Paleontology Historia y filosofía de la ciencia Historia Geosciences, multidisciplinary Geosciences, interdisciplinary Geography, physical Geografía Geociências Earth and planetary sciences (miscellaneous) Ciencias humanas Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Biodiversidade Arts and humanities (miscellaneous) Archaeology
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Direcció de correo del autor: eudald.carbonell@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0001-6306-3621
Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-06-15
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jqs.3501
URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Journal Of Quaternary Science. 38 (5): 658-684
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Santamaría M; Navazo M; Arnold LJ; Benito-Calvo A; Demuro M; Carbonell E (2023). Low-cost technologies in a rich ecological context: Hotel California open-air site at Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain. Journal Of Quaternary Science, 38(5), 658-684. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3501
DOI del artículo: 10.1002/jqs.3501
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2023
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
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