An operative sequences network: The technical organization at Casa Montero Early Neolithic flint mine (Madrid, Spain)

The purpose of this work is to analyze in which way the technical system of the Early Neolithic flint mine of Casa Montero (5350-5220 cal. BC) was organized to manage different flint-based reduction sequences. The particular features and genesis of Casa Montero's flint limited the efficiency of...

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Autor: Castañeda Clemente, Nuria Ester
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
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https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0181
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Palabra clave:blade production
Casa Montero
Early Neolithic
knowledge transmission
flint mining
Arqueología
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spelling An operative sequences network: The technical organization at Casa Montero Early Neolithic flint mine (Madrid, Spain)Castañeda Clemente, Nuria Esterblade productionCasa MonteroEarly Neolithicknowledge transmissionflint miningArqueologíaThe purpose of this work is to analyze in which way the technical system of the Early Neolithic flint mine of Casa Montero (5350-5220 cal. BC) was organized to manage different flint-based reduction sequences. The particular features and genesis of Casa Montero's flint limited the efficiency of one of the main goals of the mine: blade production. As a result, a great amount of the extracted raw material was discarded throughout the process. However, an efficiently planned management allowed its reuse for other purposes. One of the key social activities that took place at the mine was knapping apprenticeship. Younger community members were progressively introduced to this complex technical system, taking part in a many-sided set of tasks and parts of the whole production process, from extraction to recycling and waste management. However, knapping learning, as an operative sequence itself, needs a great amount of raw material. By means of the factorial analysis of the relationships between skill levels and raw material varieties and features of blanks, we can understand the complex organization of this technical system in which some strategies were carried out to avoid competition for raw material and allow motivation of apprentices. The spheres of mining, knapping, and learning coexist harmonically and benefit each other. Younger people of the community participated in mining as a workforce, knapping offers them abundant waste to practice, and learning allows social reproductionThe work was financed by the APPREND: Apprenticeship in Prehistory project, ref. PGC2018-093309-A-I00 of the National Program for the Generation of R&D&I, funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and the Spanish Agencia de Investigación. It also contributes to the Flint mining in the Neolithic of Inner Iberia project, ref. SI1-PJI-2019-00108, funded by Comunidad de Madrid and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. This article was written while the author benefited from a Research Talent Attraction post-doctoral contract, reference 2017-T2/HUM-3488, funded by the Comunidad de Madrid in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The initial research was carried out under an agreement between the Consejería de Cultura y Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC-Madrid), and Autopistas Madrid Sur Concesionaria Española, S. A., for the research, conservation, and dissemination of information about the archaeological site of Casa Montero, conducted at the Instituto de Historia of the CSIC (Madrid, Spain)De GruyterDepartamento de Prehistoria y ArqueologíaFacultad de Filosofía y Letras20212021-09-14research articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10486/721270https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0181reponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/7212702026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv An operative sequences network: The technical organization at Casa Montero Early Neolithic flint mine (Madrid, Spain)
title An operative sequences network: The technical organization at Casa Montero Early Neolithic flint mine (Madrid, Spain)
spellingShingle An operative sequences network: The technical organization at Casa Montero Early Neolithic flint mine (Madrid, Spain)
Castañeda Clemente, Nuria Ester
blade production
Casa Montero
Early Neolithic
knowledge transmission
flint mining
Arqueología
title_short An operative sequences network: The technical organization at Casa Montero Early Neolithic flint mine (Madrid, Spain)
title_full An operative sequences network: The technical organization at Casa Montero Early Neolithic flint mine (Madrid, Spain)
title_fullStr An operative sequences network: The technical organization at Casa Montero Early Neolithic flint mine (Madrid, Spain)
title_full_unstemmed An operative sequences network: The technical organization at Casa Montero Early Neolithic flint mine (Madrid, Spain)
title_sort An operative sequences network: The technical organization at Casa Montero Early Neolithic flint mine (Madrid, Spain)
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Castañeda Clemente, Nuria Ester
author Castañeda Clemente, Nuria Ester
author_facet Castañeda Clemente, Nuria Ester
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv blade production
Casa Montero
Early Neolithic
knowledge transmission
flint mining
Arqueología
topic blade production
Casa Montero
Early Neolithic
knowledge transmission
flint mining
Arqueología
description The purpose of this work is to analyze in which way the technical system of the Early Neolithic flint mine of Casa Montero (5350-5220 cal. BC) was organized to manage different flint-based reduction sequences. The particular features and genesis of Casa Montero's flint limited the efficiency of one of the main goals of the mine: blade production. As a result, a great amount of the extracted raw material was discarded throughout the process. However, an efficiently planned management allowed its reuse for other purposes. One of the key social activities that took place at the mine was knapping apprenticeship. Younger community members were progressively introduced to this complex technical system, taking part in a many-sided set of tasks and parts of the whole production process, from extraction to recycling and waste management. However, knapping learning, as an operative sequence itself, needs a great amount of raw material. By means of the factorial analysis of the relationships between skill levels and raw material varieties and features of blanks, we can understand the complex organization of this technical system in which some strategies were carried out to avoid competition for raw material and allow motivation of apprentices. The spheres of mining, knapping, and learning coexist harmonically and benefit each other. Younger people of the community participated in mining as a workforce, knapping offers them abundant waste to practice, and learning allows social reproduction
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