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Moclán Ramos, Abel Cobo Sánchez, Lucía Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel Méndez Quintas, Eduardo Rubio Jara, Susana Panera, Joaquín Pérez González, Alfredo Santoja, Manuel 2024-06-12T11:19:29Z 2024-06-12T11:19:29Z 2023-06-06 1866-9557 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9248 10.1007/s12520-023-01792-7 1866-9565 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. Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. AM was funded by a grant from the Junta de Castilla y León, financed in turn by European Social Funds via the Consejería de Educación (BDNS 376062). This work is financed by CEN154P20 (co-financed by FEDER and JCyL) and PGC2018-093612-B-I00 (funded by MICIN/AEI/https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 and ERDF) projects. EM-Q is funded by a Post-Doc Xunta de Galicia Grant (ED481D-2022/023). LC-S is funded by J. Cascalheira’s ERC Consolidator grant (CoG—101045506). application/pdf eng Springer Nature Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 2023, V. 15, n. 7 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01792-7 Atribución 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Middle Pleistocene Early Middle Palaeolithic Iberian Peninsula Intra-site spatial analysis Faunal remains Lithic industry Arqueología Archaeology Spatial analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic kill/butchering site: the case of the Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain) info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 15 7