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T1 Spatial analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic kill/butchering site: the case of the Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain)
A1 Moclán Ramos, Abel
A1 Cobo Sánchez, Lucía
A1 Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel
A1 Méndez Quintas, Eduardo
A1 Rubio Jara, Susana
A1 Panera, Joaquín
A1 Pérez González, Alfredo
A1 Santoja, Manuel
K1 Middle Pleistocene
K1 Early Middle Palaeolithic
K1 Iberian Peninsula
K1 Intra-site spatial analysis
K1 Faunal remains
K1 Lithic industry
K1 Arqueología
K1 Archaeology
AB 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.
PB Springer Nature
SN 1866-9557
YR 2023
FD 2023-06-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9248
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9248
LA eng
NO 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).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 07-ene-2025