Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:412

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX412

Authors:
Huguet Pàmies, Rosa

Abstract:
This entitled Ph. Doctoral: 'First human occupations in the Iberian Peninsula: Palaeoeconomy in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos) and the Guadix-Baza basin (Granada) during the Lower Pleistocene' arises from the interest to know the cultural development degree of the hominids, that lived in western Europe during the Lower Pleistocene, as well as their capacity to survive and reproduce themselves as a group in the territories that lived. This work began with the will to make a study of these human groups from a palaeoecologic and cultural point of view. This exposition is inspired by contextual archaeology or 'human autoecology' by Butzer (1989; 1971) and applied, from my point of view in an extraordinary form by Peters and Blumenschine (Blumenschine and Peters, 1998; Peters and Blumenschine, 1995) in their works on the hominids of Olduvai. The sites documented in the karstic system of the Sierra de Atapuerca constitute the greater concentration of archaeological deposits of the existing Lower Pleistocene in Europe, which makes this place a key point for the study of the first hominids' subsistence strategies of the continent. In a determinate territory, Sierra de Atapuerca, different archaeological sites have been documented, relatively synchronous, but with own characteristics. This shows us different hominids behaviors and activities, according to their cultural development and the conditions of the environment in which they lived. The study of the materials of Fuente Nueva-3 and Barranco León (Guadix-Baza basin) have shown us the characteristics of the establishments that the hominids made in the open air, which has allowed us to obtain a more complete vision of different landscapes where the hominids of the Lower Pleistocene moved: the cavities (Sierra de Atapuerca