Lost in the mountains?

In recent years, modified Mediterranean marine shells (especially Columbella rustica) have been documented in Mesolithic sites in the Southern Pyrenees and Ebro Basin. Some scholars suggest that the presence of this gastropod allows us to identify a long-distance social network that created a common...

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Authors: Martínez Moreno, Jorge|||0000-0002-6326-7058, Casanova, Joel, Mora Torcal, Rafael|||0000-0001-7824-6818
Format: article
Publication Date:2010
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:170605
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/170605
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:South-eastern Pyrenees
Mesolithic
"Cultural landscape"
Columbella rustica
Boreal
SE de los Pirineos
Mesolítico
"Paisaje cultural"
Pirinioetako HE
Mesolitoa
"Paisaia kulturala"
Boreala
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Summary:In recent years, modified Mediterranean marine shells (especially Columbella rustica) have been documented in Mesolithic sites in the Southern Pyrenees and Ebro Basin. Some scholars suggest that the presence of this gastropod allows us to identify a long-distance social network that created a common "cultural landscape". We introduce new data obtained in the South-eastern Pyrenean site of Balma Guilanyà. The chronometric and technical contextualization of this assemblage reveals the transformations that affected the technical, social and cultural spheres of the Postglacial hunter-gatherers from the South Pyrenees and Ebro Valley.