Ana Doyague
Universidad de Cadiz, Prehistoria, Graduate Student
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Con este trabajo presentamos un nuevo yacimiento en la cuenca alta del río Guadalete, que tras las evidencias, aún provisionales, de su emplazamiento geomorfológico y de un análisis tecno-tipológico preliminar de las industrias líticas es... more
Con este trabajo presentamos un nuevo yacimiento en la cuenca alta del río Guadalete, que tras las evidencias, aún provisionales, de su emplazamiento geomorfológico y de un análisis tecno-tipológico preliminar de las industrias líticas es atribuible a una fase del Solutrense peninsular. Dadas las condiciones geográficas del emplazamiento nos ofrece una interesante perspectiva de futuro como patrón de asentamiento de grupos de cazadores recolectores del Pleistoceno Superior en las estribaciones del noroeste de la sierra de Cádiz
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Abordamos el estudio en su contexto de un elemento mueble para ornato personal, consistente en un colgante perforado y pulido sobre un soporte calcáreo microcristalino seleccionado por sus peculiaridades físicas. Fue hallado junto a un... more
Abordamos el estudio en su contexto de un elemento mueble para ornato personal, consistente
en un colgante perforado y pulido sobre un soporte calcáreo microcristalino seleccionado por sus peculiaridades
físicas. Fue hallado junto a un abundante registro lítico de Modo 4 con morfotipos solutrenses
y fauna, en este yacimiento inédito de la cuenca alta de río Guadalete que está en sintonía histórica con
otras ocupaciones al aire libre en las campiñas y medios cársticos de Andalucía Occidental. La nueva
localización abre interesantes perspectivas de estudio sobre el Paleolítico Superior regional, ya que supone
la evidencia al pie del valle del alto Guadalete de un asentamiento al aire libre poco modificado al
haberse encontrado sellado en gran parte por un depósito relicto de ladera.
en un colgante perforado y pulido sobre un soporte calcáreo microcristalino seleccionado por sus peculiaridades
físicas. Fue hallado junto a un abundante registro lítico de Modo 4 con morfotipos solutrenses
y fauna, en este yacimiento inédito de la cuenca alta de río Guadalete que está en sintonía histórica con
otras ocupaciones al aire libre en las campiñas y medios cársticos de Andalucía Occidental. La nueva
localización abre interesantes perspectivas de estudio sobre el Paleolítico Superior regional, ya que supone
la evidencia al pie del valle del alto Guadalete de un asentamiento al aire libre poco modificado al
haberse encontrado sellado en gran parte por un depósito relicto de ladera.
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This report shows the results of a research which tried to delimit the supplying possible areas of stone raw materials which were used to build the megalithic grave of Alberite II. Alberite II is very close to the dolmen Alberite I and is... more
This report shows the results of a research which tried to delimit the supplying possible areas of stone raw materials which were used to build the megalithic grave of Alberite II. Alberite II is very close to the dolmen Alberite I and is part of the necropolis complex of Villamartin, Cadiz. In order to study the petrology and determine the different lithologies of the orthostate, an archaeometric study of every orthostate that still remains today – an indefinite part of those that originally made up the dolmen - was carried out. This allows us to suggest some hypotheses about the archaeological definition of this megalith from the preserved remains, with a chronology and similar structure to the dolmen of Alberite I.
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La cueva del Higueral de Valleja está situada en el suroeste de la Sierra Valleja dentro del Término Municipal de Arcos de la Frontera, en la provincia de Cádiz. En la última intervención se identificaron 10 niveles de ocupación... more
La cueva del Higueral de Valleja está situada en el suroeste de la Sierra Valleja dentro del Término Municipal de Arcos de la Frontera, en la provincia de Cádiz. En la última intervención se identificaron 10 niveles de ocupación paleolítica con evidencias arqueológicas y paleo-ambientales. Se registraron dos niveles con industrias adscritas al Paleolítico superior con elementos tecnológicos Solutrenses en el Nivel III y un estrato IV con industrias líticas bien encuadrables dentro del Modo 4, pero aún por determinar su atribución específica. En la secuencia son los primeros niveles con registro atribuible a la presencia de humanos anatómicamente modernos. El análisis tecnológico y funcional de estas industrias es el objeto de este artículo.
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An advance in the archaeometric characterization of useful polished made in sillimanite-fibrolite is made. This study is part of a research project related to the raw materials procurement in the Recent Prehistory. We studied 16 pieces,... more
An advance in the archaeometric characterization of useful polished made in sillimanite-fibrolite is made. This study is part of a research project related to the raw materials procurement in the Recent Prehistory. We studied 16 pieces, including axes and adzes, from different sites located in the middle and upper basin of the river Guadalete, which are deposited in the Municipal Historical Museum of Villamartín (Cádiz). Different archaeometric techniques such as optical microscopy of thin sections, X-ray diffraction, micro-X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Magnetic Susceptibility have been applied for the petrological and mineralogical characterization of the tools. Analytical results show that tools were elaborated on rare lithic supports uncommon in the regional geological setting. Different possibilities on the source of these raw material areas are proposed.
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“El Juncal” is a passage dolmen belonging to an unpublished megalithic necropolis in the upper Majaceite River valley. It is located in the transition between the calcareous reliefs and the bassets of flysch sandstone of the facies of... more
“El Juncal” is a passage dolmen belonging to an unpublished megalithic necropolis in the upper Majaceite River valley. It is located in the transition between the calcareous reliefs and the bassets of flysch sandstone of the facies of Aljibe, in the East of the current province of Cádiz. The archaeological excavation, consisting in an emergency intervention, allowed to recover both the architecture of the
tomb, the bone deposits and grave goods, formed in part by exotic components that were associated unequally to the different individuals. We present the reconstruction of the burial process and the
consequent ritual, together with the anthropological study of the entombed individuals, defining preliminarily their minimum number, age, sex and the paleopathologies observed. Based on this information and Social Archeology as theoretical perspective, we propose an interpretation of the social structure during the mid of the 4th millennium B.C.E. With this hypothesis we challenge, on the one
hand, the apparent collective meaning of these burials and demonstrate on the other hand the disintegration of the egalitarian tribal society during the Neolithic.
tomb, the bone deposits and grave goods, formed in part by exotic components that were associated unequally to the different individuals. We present the reconstruction of the burial process and the
consequent ritual, together with the anthropological study of the entombed individuals, defining preliminarily their minimum number, age, sex and the paleopathologies observed. Based on this information and Social Archeology as theoretical perspective, we propose an interpretation of the social structure during the mid of the 4th millennium B.C.E. With this hypothesis we challenge, on the one
hand, the apparent collective meaning of these burials and demonstrate on the other hand the disintegration of the egalitarian tribal society during the Neolithic.