Middle palaeolithic susbsistence strategies in the Spanish Northern Meseta. Corazón Cave (Mave, Palence)
Abstract This work shows a first description of the subsistence strategies carried out by the Neanderthal communities that inhabited the Horadada Gorge (Mave, Palence). Through the analysis of the faunal collections retrieved from the Mousterian archaeological horizon unearthed at Corazón Cave, dated at 96 Ka, a first characterization of the models used by the Neanderthals to obtain meat resources in this site is presented. Corazón Cave represents a strategic corridor connecting the Spanish Northern Plateau with the Cantabrian Range and the set of subsistence strategies described here can shed light on the importance of this locale in its regional framework. The methodological framework used to undertake this study includes zooarchaeological and taphonomic bone analyses, and mortality patterns. Our results suggest an anthropogenic accumulation of horses, deer, goats and other herbivores. Cut mark and fracture patterns on the bone assemblage support this. Cut marks have been identified in almost all anatomical sections, indicating a variety of activities related to skinning, disarticulation and fleshing. Apart from meat consumption, percussion marks and breakage patterns suggest access to marrow. Carnivores were present in the site as secondary scavenger agents, accessing to those remains left behind when Neanderthals abandoned the cave.
- Referencias
- Cómo citar
- Del mismo autor
- Métricas
Yravedra Sáinz De Los Terreros, J., Díez Martín, F., Sánchez Yustos, P., Gómez De La Rúa, D., Díaz Muñoz, I., & Gómez González, J. Ángel. (2013). Middle palaeolithic susbsistence strategies in the Spanish Northern Meseta. Corazón Cave (Mave, Palence). Zephyrvs, 71(1), 45–60. Retrieved from https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0514-7336/article/view/9956
Most read articles by the same author(s)
- Fernando Díez Martín, Kenneth Martínez Molina, Joan García Garriga, José Ángel Gómez González, Isabel Cáceres, Ethel Allué Martí, Policarpo Sánchez Yustos, José Yravedra Sáinz De Los Terreros, The Middle Palaeolithic in the Southern Caucasus: Double Cave (Tsutskhvati valley, Republic of Georgia) , Zephyrvs: Vol. 63 (2009)
- Carmen Cacho Quesada, Sergio Ripoll López, Jesús F. Jordá Pardo, Francisco Javier Muñoz Ibáñez, José Yravedra Sainz De Los Terreros, Ruth Maicas Ramos, Ocupaciones magdalenienses en la Meseta Norte. La Peña de Estebanvela (Segovia) , Zephyrvs: Vol. 56 (2003)
- Fernando Díez Martín, Policarpo Sánchez Yustos, José Ángel Gómez González, La ocupación paleolítica en los páramos del Duero. Nuevos datos procedentes de Valdecampaña (Olivares de Duero, Valladolid) , Zephyrvs: Vol. 62 (2008)
- José Yravedra Sainz De Los Terreros, Alberto Gómez Castanedo, Analysis of the taphonomic processes of Morín Cave. The first results of a necessary study , Zephyrvs: Vol. 67 (2011)
- Fernando Díez Martín, Sobre el cambio tecnológico: el paradigma gradualista y la transición entre el Paleolítico inferior y el medio , Zephyrvs: Vol. 52 (1999)
- José Yravedra Sainz De Los Terreros, Los lagomorfos como recursos alimenticios en Cueva Ambrosio (Almería, España) , Zephyrvs: Vol. 62 (2008)
- José Yravedra Sainz De Los Terreros, Estado de la cuestión sobre la subsistencia del Musteriense en el interior y la fachada de la Península Ibérica , Zephyrvs: Vol. 56 (2003)
- Fernando Díez Martín, Las alteraciones inducidas por el laboreo agrícola: la influencia del movimiento vertical en los yacimientos paleolíticos de los páramos de Montemayor-Corcos (Valladolid y Burgos) , Zephyrvs: Vol. 56 (2003)
- Fernando Diéz Martín, Aproximación al fenómeno paleolítico en el Páramo del Sureste vallisoletano , Zephyrvs: Vol. 49 (1996)
- Policarpo Sánchez Yustos, Fernando Díez Martín, The Early Paleolithic in the Duero basin: the Ecological Unit of Plateaus , Zephyrvs: Vol. 66 (2010)
Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
+
−