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  • Microvertebrate studies in archaeological contexts: Middle Paleolithic to early Holocene past environments
    Publication . López-García, Juan Manuel; Blain, Hugues-Alexandre; Rhodes, Sara; Blanco-Lapaz, Ángel
    Since 2016, the Microvertebrate Working Group (MVWG), which is part of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ), has held meetings every 2 years with the aim of exchanging data from the study of herpetofauna and small mammals in archaeological contexts. This special issue is the culmination of the III Microvertebrate Working Group (MVWG) meeting that was held virtually between September 1st and 2nd 2020 at the Institut de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), Tarragona, Spain. The meeting gathered 50 small vertebrate zooarchaeologists virtually from Algeria, Argentina, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, the Philippines, Scotland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and Tunisia. The present special issue is the result of a total of 18 oral communications and 11 posters.
    2022Journal article Restricted access Show more
  • A symbolic Neanderthal accumulation of large herbivore crania
    Publication . Baquedano, Enrique; Arsuaga, Juan L.; Pérez-González, Alfredo; Laplana, César; Márquez, Belén; Huguet, Rosa; Gómez-Soler, Sandra; Villaescusa, Lucía; Galindo-Pellicena, M. Ángeles; Rodríguez, Laura; García-González, Rebeca; Ortega, M.-Cruz; Martín-Perea, David M.; Ortega, Ana I.; Hernández-Vivanco, Lucía; Ruiz-Liso, Gonzalo; Gómez-Hernanz, Juan; Alonso-Martín, José I.; Abrunhosa, Ana; Moclán, Abel; Casado, Ana I.; Vegara-Riquelme, Marina; Álvarez-Fernández, Ana; Domínguez-García, Ángel C.; Álvarez-Lao, Diego J.; García, Nuria; Sevilla, Paloma; Blain, Hugues-Alexandre; Ruiz-Zapata, Blanca; Gil-García, M. José; Álvarez-Vena, Adrián; Sanz, Teresa; Quam, Rolf; Higham, Tom
    This work examines the possible behaviour of Neanderthal groups at the Cueva Des-Cubierta (central Spain) via the analysis of the latter's archaeological assemblage. Alongside evidence of Mousterian lithic industry, Level 3 of the cave infill was found to contain an assemblage of mammalian bone remains dominated by the crania of large ungulates, some associated with small hearths. The scarcity of post-cranial elements, teeth, mandibles and maxillae, along with evidence of anthropogenic modification of the crania (cut and percussion marks), indicates that the carcasses of the corresponding animals were initially processed outside the cave, and the crania were later brought inside. A second round of processing then took place, possibly related to the removal of the brain. The continued presence of crania throughout Level 3 indicates that this behaviour was recurrent during this level's formation. This behaviour seems to have no subsistence-related purpose but to be more symbolic in its intent.
    2023-01Journal article Open access Show more