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T1 Neolithic to Bronze Age economy and animal management revealed using analyses lipid residues of pottery vessels and faunal remains at El Portalón de Cueva Mayor (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)
A1 Francés Negro, Marta
A1 Iriarte Avilés, Eneko
A1 Galindo-Pellicena, M.A.
A1 Gerbault, P.
A1 Carrancho Alonso, Ángel
A1 Pérez Romero, Amalia
A1 Arsuaga, Juan Luis
A1 Carretero Díaz, José Miguel
A1 Roffet-Salque, M.
K1 Pottery
K1 Fatty acids
K1 δ13C values
K1 Archaeozoology
K1 Kill-off patterns
K1 Neolithic
K1 Chalcolithic
K1 Bronze age
K1 El Portalón de Cueva Mayor site
K1 Spain
K1 Arqueología-Burgos
K1 Archaeology-Burgos
AB El Portalón de Cueva Mayor located in the UNESCO World Heritage Centre of Atapuerca, is a unique reference Late Prehistory archaeological site in the Iberian Peninsula, covering some 7 kyr of Holocene occupations. Herein we present the study of lipid residue analyses from 108 pottery sherds coupled with faunal kill-off patterns from the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age periods to gain new insights into natural product exploitation and animal management. The molecular and isotopic analyses of lipid extracts provide evidence for the use of carcass and dairy products at the site. The construction of kill-off profiles for the ovicaprids (sheep/goat) and bovines (cattle) provide complementary insights into animal management at the site, suggesting that both bovines and ovicaprids were exploited for their milk. The diachronic evolution of identified products show no major variations in livestock husbandry or diet due to cultural or environmental change. Changing uses and different activities at the cave over time (domestic, funerary, etc.) are likely responsible for the subtle differences identified in the results. This study provides the first insights into human subsistence strategies through time at El Portalón de Cueva Mayor.
PB Elsevier
SN 0305-4403
YR 2021
FD 2021-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11220
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11220
LA eng
NO M.F.N. is supported by a grant from Junta de Castilla y León (ORDEN/EDU1083/2013)-Programa Operativo Fondo Social Europeo 2014–2020. M.A.G-P. has a technical support staff contract (PTA 2018-015145-I) from Fundación General de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares-Museo Arqueológico Regional (MAR) financed by Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividadad. This study has been financed by the research Project CGL 2012-38434-C03-01/02/03 and PGC 2018-093925-B-C33 of the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and the ERC Advanced Grant “NeoMilk” (FP7-IDEAS-ERC/324202). We thank The Royal Society for funding a fellowship to M.R.S (DHF\R1\180064 and RGF\EA\181067). A.C. acknowledges the funding of Junta de Castilla y Leon (Spain) and the European Regional Development Fund (project BU235P18) and the project PID 2019-105796 GB-I00 of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI/10.13039/501100011033). NERC (Reference: CC010) and NEIF (www.isotopesuk.org) are thanked for funding and maintenance of the GC-MS and GC-C-IRMS instruments used for this work. We also thank Helen Grant of the NERC Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry Facility (Lancaster node) for stable isotopic characterisation of reference standards and derivatising agents.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 19-abr-2026