Radiocarbon dates for the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene occupations of Cova Rosa (Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain)

Four excavations have been performed at the archaeological site of Cova Rosa (Asturias, Cantabrian Spain): three of them in the second half of last century and the other in this decade. Although little of the archaeological material found in those excavations has been published, here we attempt the...

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Authors: Álvarez-Fernández, Esteban, Jordá Pardo, Jesús Francisco, Arias, Pablo, Bécares Pérez, Julián, Martín Jarque, Sergio, Portero, Rodrigo, Teira, Luis, Douka, Katerina
Format: article
Publication Date:2021
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Repository:e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNED
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/23154
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/23154
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:55 Historia
55 Historia::5505 Ciencias auxiliares de la historia::5505.01 Arqueología
chronology
Cantabrian Iberia
Magdalenian
Mesolithic
Solutrean
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Summary:Four excavations have been performed at the archaeological site of Cova Rosa (Asturias, Cantabrian Spain): three of them in the second half of last century and the other in this decade. Although little of the archaeological material found in those excavations has been published, here we attempt the stratigraphic correlation of sections revealed by the different excavations and we present 22 new radiocarbon dates for bones and marine shells, built in a Bayesian statistical model. This has enabled the documentation of occupations that mainly took place during the Last Glacial period, in the Solutrean (middle and upper phases) and Magdalenian (archaic, lower, and upper phases), and also in the early Holocene (Mesolithic). These occupations are compared with the record at other sites in Cantabrian Spain in general and in Asturias, in particular.