Caracterización zooarqueológica de las cuevas redil en la Prehistoria de la Meseta Norte: el caso de El Mirador (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos)

Identifier:  TDX:2480

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX2480

Authors:  Martín Rodríguez, Patricia

Abstract:
This doctoral thesis focus in archaeozoologial and taphonomical study of animal assemblages recovered in El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos). These assemblages were originate were originated during the utilization of the cave like livestock enclosure during Neolithic (VI-IV millennium cal. BC) and Bronze Age. Results of this work confirm early adoption of husbandry practices in the Spanish Meseta. Sheep and goat were de base of this economical system and cattle was exploited too. Milk and meat were used and, during Bronze Age, cattle were also employed like drought animal. We observed economical changes during IV millennium and during Bronze Age, when the importance of cattle increased and the importance of ovicaprino decreases. This patterns was liked with an economical diversification documented at Mediterranean level. El Mirador was occupied like enclosure during winter. Small-scale herd movements would be developed during summer time. This thesis also includes four scientific papers based in different aspects of El Mirador cave assemblages and one methodological study of ovicaprine perinatal bone identification.