Spatial analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic kill/butchering site: the case of the Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain)

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 ancie...

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Autores: Moclán, Abel, Cobo Sánchez, Lucía, Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel, Méndez Quintas, Eduardo, Rubio Jara, Susana, Panera Gallego, Joaquín, Pérez González, Alfredo José, Santonja, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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Middle Pleistocene
Early Middle Palaeolithic
Iberian Peninsula
Intra-site spatial analysis
Faunal remains
Lithic industry
Humanidades
55 Historia
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spelling Spatial analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic kill/butchering site: the case of the Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain)Moclán, AbelCobo Sánchez, LucíaDomínguez Rodrigo, ManuelMéndez Quintas, EduardoRubio Jara, SusanaPanera Gallego, JoaquínPérez González, Alfredo JoséSantonja, Manuel903(46)"632"Middle PleistoceneEarly Middle PalaeolithicIberian PeninsulaIntra-site spatial analysisFaunal remainsLithic industryHumanidades55 HistoriaKill/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.SpringerUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20232023-01-0120232023-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91868reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)InglésengFEDER-JCyL Not available CEN154P20ESF-Junta de Castilla y Leon Not available BDNS 376062MICIN-AEI PGC2018- 093612-B-I00 Not availableXunta de Galicia http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010801 Not available ED481D-2022open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/918682026-06-02T12:44:21Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Spatial analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic kill/butchering site: the case of the Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain)
title Spatial analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic kill/butchering site: the case of the Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain)
spellingShingle Spatial analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic kill/butchering site: the case of the Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain)
Moclán, Abel
903(46)"632"
Middle Pleistocene
Early Middle Palaeolithic
Iberian Peninsula
Intra-site spatial analysis
Faunal remains
Lithic industry
Humanidades
55 Historia
title_short Spatial analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic kill/butchering site: the case of the Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain)
title_full Spatial analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic kill/butchering site: the case of the Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain)
title_fullStr Spatial analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic kill/butchering site: the case of the Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain)
title_full_unstemmed Spatial analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic kill/butchering site: the case of the Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain)
title_sort Spatial analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic kill/butchering site: the case of the Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain)
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Moclán, Abel
Cobo Sánchez, Lucía
Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel
Méndez Quintas, Eduardo
Rubio Jara, Susana
Panera Gallego, Joaquín
Pérez González, Alfredo José
Santonja, Manuel
author Moclán, Abel
author_facet Moclán, Abel
Cobo Sánchez, Lucía
Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel
Méndez Quintas, Eduardo
Rubio Jara, Susana
Panera Gallego, Joaquín
Pérez González, Alfredo José
Santonja, Manuel
author_role author
author2 Cobo Sánchez, Lucía
Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel
Méndez Quintas, Eduardo
Rubio Jara, Susana
Panera Gallego, Joaquín
Pérez González, Alfredo José
Santonja, Manuel
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad Complutense de Madrid
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 903(46)"632"
Middle Pleistocene
Early Middle Palaeolithic
Iberian Peninsula
Intra-site spatial analysis
Faunal remains
Lithic industry
Humanidades
55 Historia
topic 903(46)"632"
Middle Pleistocene
Early Middle Palaeolithic
Iberian Peninsula
Intra-site spatial analysis
Faunal remains
Lithic industry
Humanidades
55 Historia
description 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.
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Xunta de Galicia http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010801 Not available ED481D-2022
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