https://hdl.handle.net/10259/3723 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:13:36 GMT 2026-04-27T14:13:36Z https://hdl.handle.net/10259/9248 Spatial analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic kill/butchering site: the case of the Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain) Moclán Ramos, Abel; Cobo Sánchez, Lucía; Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel; Méndez Quintas, Eduardo; Rubio Jara, Susana; Panera, Joaquín; Pérez González, Alfredo; Santoja, Manuel Kill/butchering sites are some of the most important places for understanding the subsistence strategies of hunter-gatherer groups. However, these sites are not common in the archaeological record, and they have not been sufficiently analysed in order to know all their possible variability for ancient periods of the human evolution. In the present study, we have carried out the spatial analysis of the Early Middle Palaeolithic (MIS 9–8) site of Cuesta de la Bajada site (Teruel, Spain), which has been previously identified as a kill/butchering site through the taphonomic analysis of the faunal remains. Our results show that the spatial properties of the faunal and lithic tools distribution in levels CB2 and CB3 are well-preserved although the site is an open-air location. Both levels show a similar segregated (i.e. regular) spatial point pattern (SPP) which is different from the SPP identified at other sites with similar nature from the ethnographic and the archaeological records. However, although the archaeological materials have a regular distribution pattern, the lithic and faunal remains are positively associated, which is indicating that most parts of both types of materials were accumulated during the same occupation episodes, which were probably sporadic and focused on getting only few animal carcasses at a time. Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10259/9248 2023-06-06T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10259/9241 Identifying activity areas in a neanderthal hunting camp (the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter, Spain) via spatial analysis Moclán Ramos, Abel; Huguet Pàmies, Rosa; Márquez Mora, Belén; Álvarez Fernández, Ana; Laplana Conesa, César; Arsuaga, Juan Luis; Pérez González, Alfredo; Baquedano, Enrique Spatial analysis has been much used to examine the distribution of archaeological remains at Pleistocene sites. However, little is known about the distribution patterns at sites identified as hunting camps, i.e., places occupied over multiple short periods for the capture of animals later transported to a base camp. The present work examines a Neanderthal hunting camp (the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter in Pinilla del Valle, Madrid, Spain) to determine whether different activities were undertaken in different areas of the site. A spatial pattern was detected with a main cluster of materials (lithic tools, faunal remains, and coprolites) clearly related to the presence of nearby hearths—the backbone of the utilised space. This main cluster appears to have been related to collaborative and repetitive activities undertaken by the hunting parties that used the site. Spatial analysis also detected a small, isolated area perhaps related to carcasses processing at some point in time and another slightly altered by water. Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10259/9241 2023-03-21T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10259/3984 El "campo de hoyos" calcolítico de Fuente Celada (Burgos): datos preliminares y perspectivas Alameda Cuenca-Romero, María Carmen; Carmona Ballestero, Eduardo; Pascual Blanco, Silvia; Martínez Diez, Gerardo; Díez Pastor, Cristina Se presentan los resultados de la excavación de un yacimiento del tipo “campo de hoyos”, en su mayoría calcolíticos precampaniformes con una pequeña zona de ocupación anterior durante el Neolítico. Destaca la presencia de varias inhumaciones humanas en alguno de los hoyos y de restos asociados al hábitat (manteados de barro y elementos de molienda) en una zona, donde debió de estar situado un pequeño poblado de cabañas cuyos restos han desaparecido al estar estratigráficamente colocados en superficie. Todo ello apunta a una estructura de aprovechamiento económico de tipo estable, con inversión a largo plazo en los medios de producción, al contrario de las hipótesis que postulan una economía itinerante durante este período de la prehistoria de la submeseta norte española; The results are presented of the archaeological excavation of a ‘Pit Field’ site in the Northern Spanish Plateau. While a small part of the site was occupied during the Neolithic, most of the pits belong chronologically and culturally to the “Pre-Bell Beaker” Chalcolitith period. A few human graves were recovered inside the pits, together with indications of a settlement area (mud fragments used in the huts and stone mortars) whose remains have disappeared due to postdepositional disturbance. The evidence seems to support recent hypothesis claiming a sedentary exploitation of the milieu, with long-term economic investment on the nearby landscape, in opposition to traditional interpretations describing the prehistoric economy of the area as fundamentally mobile. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10259/3984 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10259/3937 Nuevos epígrafes latinos en Las Uces, Valsalabroso, Salamanca Cortés Bárcena, Carolina; Vega Maeso, Cristina; Carmona Ballestero, Eduardo En el transcurso de una prospección arqueológica se documentaron varias inscripciones latinas inéditas en la localidad de Las Uces (Valsalabroso, Salamanca). Se trata de 4 epígrafes de naturaleza funeraria que se suman a otros tres conocidos por la bibliografía. Todos conforman un grupo homogéneo, cuyas características encajan con las producciones epigráficas conocidas en el occidente de la provincia de Salamanca. El trabajo da a conocer los nuevos epígrafes y realiza una valoración crítica sobre la relación de estas evidencias con un asentamiento indígena romanizado bajo la localidad de Las Uces.; In the course of an archaeological prospection several unpublished Latin inscriptions were documented in the locality of Las Uces (Valsalabroso, Salamanca). They are 4 funerary monuments that are added to other three known by the bibliography. All forms a homogenous group, whose characteristics fit to the well-known epigraphic productions in the West of the province of Salamanca. This paper presents the new epigraphs and makes a critical valuation on the relation of these evidences with a Romanizated indigenous settlement under the locality of Las Uces. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10259/3937 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z