El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain): a whole perspective

Autor: Ethel Allué, Patricia Martín, Josep Maria Vergès, Isabel Expósito, Marta Fontanals, Itxaso Euba, Roser Marsal, Ángel Carrancho, Anna Rodríguez, Juan Ignacio Morales, Xavier Oms, Marina Lozano, Miquel Guardiola
Přispěvatelé: Universitat de Barcelona
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Bronze Age
010506 paleontology
Livestock
Estratigrafia
Prehistory
Combustibles
Sedimentació
High resolution
Excavacions arqueològiques
01 natural sciences
Prehistòria
Paleontología
Feces
Jaciment arqueològic) [Atapuerca (Castella i Lleó]
Sequence (geology)
90 - Arqueologia. Prehistòria
Cave
0601 history and archaeology
Restes d'animals (Arqueologia)
Archaeological excavations
Neolithic
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Earth-Surface Processes
Plant remains (Archaeology)
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
060102 archaeology
Excrements
Physics
Restes de plantes (Arqueologia)
Paleontology
Física
Excavation
Sedimentation and deposition
06 humanities and the arts
Fuel
Archaeology
Fumier
Pastoralism
Animal remains (Archaeology)
Stratigraphic geology
Iberian Peninsula
Zdroj: Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos (RIUBU)
instname
RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya)
Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
Dipòsit Digital de la UB
Universidad de Barcelona
Popis: The archaeological site of El Mirador is located in the southern slope of the Sierra de Atapuerca. The work developed at the site is providing a substantial set of data from the Upper Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age. Throughout at least about 4000 years of occupation, the cave was used for various activities, among which, burial, habitation and animal stalling. The practices related with this last use is, at the moment, the main origin of the archaeological deposits, which are mainly composed by burnt animal dung with vegetal residues, potsherds, lithics and faunal remains. In addition, it is characterized by high sedimentation rates that have enabled an individual and clear record of different episodes, providing high resolution chronological data. Due to these particularities, specific excavation methodology and interdisciplinary studies of the archaeological data have been developed in order to understand the genesis of this archaeological sequence and, at the same time, to provide information about the introduction and development of the production economy in the Submeseta Norte region.
The Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (N_CGL2009-12703-C03-02/BTE; HAR200801984/HIST) and the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (CGL2012-38434-C0303; HAR2013-41197-P) and the Generalitat de Catalunya (2014SGR900; 2014SGR899) supported this research. Funding for the fieldwork came from the Consejería de Cultura y Turismo of the Junta de Castilla y León and the Atapuerca Foundation. Á. Carrancho research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) with projects CGL2012-32149 and CGL2012-38481
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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