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Leierer, Lucia Carrancho Alonso, Ángel Pérez, Leopoldo Herrejón Lagunilla, Ángela Herrera Herrera, Antonio V. Connolly, Rory Jambrina Enríquez, Margarita Hernández Gómez, Cristo M. Galván, Bertila Mallol, Carolina 2021-01-15T12:36:59Z 2021-01-15T12:36:59Z 2020-11 0305-4403 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/5600 10.1016/j.jas.2020.105237 By studying combustion structures, which conceal information about anthropogenic activity, we might learn about their makers. This is especially important for remote time periods like the Middle Paleolithic, whose archaeological record comprises numerous combustion structures. The majority of these are simple, flat, open hearths, although a small number of features situated in pit-like depressions have been recorded. Given that hearths built on a flat surface can result in pit-like color alteration of the underlying sediment, accurate identification of pit hearths is a crucial step prior to behavioral interpretation. Here we present a comprehensive study of a possible pit hearth from the Middle Paleolithic site of El Salt, Spain, using a microcontextual approach combining micromorphology, lipid biomarker analysis, archaeomagnetism and zooarchaeology. This pit hearth involves a true depression containing a thick plant ash deposit. It reached very high temperatures, possibly multiple burning events and long combustion times. Morphologically distinct combustion structures in a single archaeological context may indicate different functions and thus a diverse fire technology, pointing to Neanderthal behavioral variability. ERC Consolidator Grant project PALEOCHAR – 648871 https://erc.europa.eu/funding/consolidator-grants, I + D Project HAR2008-06117/HIST, HAR2015-68321-P (MINECO-FEDER/UE), and the Cultural Heritage Department of the Valencia Government and the Archaeological Museum Camil Visedo of Alcoy, under the direction of Professor Bertila Galván of Universidad de La Laguna, Junta de Castilla y León (project BU235P18), the European Fund for Economic and Regional Development (EFRD) and the project PID2019-105796 GB-I00 of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI/10.13039/501100011033) application/pdf eng Elsevier Journal of Archaeological Science. 2020, V. 123, 105237 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105237 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/HAR2008-06117/HIST info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/HAR2015-68321-P info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/JCyL/BU235P18 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/PID2019-105796 GB-I00 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Middle paleolithic Pit hearth Neanderthal Micromorphology Lipid biomarkers Archaeomagnetism Zooarchaeology Física Arqueología Physics Archaeology It's getting hot in here – Microcontextual study of a potential pit hearth at the Middle Paleolithic site of El Salt, Spain info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Journal of Archaeological Science 123 105237