RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Too good to go? Neanderthal subsistence strategies at Prado Vargas Cave (Burgos, Spain)
A1 Fuente Juez, Héctor de la
A1 Navazo Ruiz, Marta
A1 Benito Calvo, Alfonso
A1 Rivals, Florent
A1 Amo Salas, Mariano
A1 Alonso García, Pedro
K1 Middle Paleolithic
K1 Neanderthal
K1 Zooarcheology
K1 Taphonomy
K1 Seasonality
K1 Dental wear
K1 Prehistoria-Burgos
K1 Prehistoric peoples
K1 Arqueología-Burgos
K1 Archaeology-Burgos
AB Understanding the relationship between Neanderthal groups and their environment and they it is essential to comprehending their ways of life. In this article, we use both zooarchaeology and taphonomy to study the fauna assemblages found in Level 4 of Prado Vargas Cave (Cornejo, Burgos, Spain). The results point to a site in which the main accumulating agent was Neanderthal groups, who transported small- and medium-sized animal carcasses—with deer as the dominant taxon—according to their general utility to systematically and intensely exploit the major muscle bundles, bone marrow, skin, and tendons. According to dental microwear analysis, reiterated and prolonged occupations occurred in diverse moments, suggesting that the site was used most often as a long-term campsite. We detected a minimal amount of carnivore activity, who accessed the cave during periods of human absence and modified some of the remains left by the Neanderthals. Together, this information indicates that Prado Vargas is a key site to understand the dynamics of the Neanderthals in the linking area between the Castillan Plateau and the Cantabrian Range.
PB Springer
SN 1866-9557
YR 2023
FD 2023-10
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7917
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7917
LA spa
NO We are grateful for the financial support received from the Junta de Castilla y León, through the Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural, which funded the project “Intervención arqueológica en la Cueva de Prado Vargas, in Cornejo” (Merindad de Sotoscueva, Burgos) (SUBV-22/011-BU). We also want to thank Beni and the mayors of La Merindad de Sotoscueva and Cornejo for their support and collaboration. The same goes for all of those who participated and participate in excavation campaigns, without whom we would not have been able to do this work. Finally, a special thanks to the Prehistory Laboratory of the UBU partners, Marta Santamaría and Pedro Alonso, for their immeasurable and indispensable support.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 13-may-2024