Conference Proceedings by Pablo Lopez Cisneros
by Ramon Obeso, Alvaro Arrizabalaga, Mikelo Elorza, Álvaro Moreno-Jiménez, Pablo Lopez Cisneros, Dan Cabanes, Sonia Gabriel, Marcos García-Diez, Irantzu Elorrieta-Baigorri, David Álvarez-Alonso, Antonio Tarriño Vinagre, Rafael Domingo Martínez, Paloma Uzquiano Ollero, Jesus Tapia, Aitor Calvo, Jesús F. Jordá, and María de Andrés Herrero 57th Annual Meeting in Heidenheim: 15-16. ISBN.978-3-933474-97-1, 2015
Authors:D. Álvarez-Alonso, J. Yravedra, A. Arrizabalaga, J. F. Jordá, E. Álvarez-Fernández, M. de... more Authors:D. Álvarez-Alonso, J. Yravedra, A. Arrizabalaga, J. F. Jordá, E. Álvarez-Fernández, M. de Andrés-Herrero, M. Elorza, S. Gabriel, García-Díez, D. Garrido, M. M. J. Iriarte, J. Rojo, C. Sesé, P. Uzquiano, T. Aparicio, M. Arriolabengoa, A. Calvo, P. Carral, R. Domingo, I. Elorrieta, V. Estaca, O. Fuente, M. García, E. García, E. Iriarte Avilés, P. López, M. Meléndez, J. Tapia, A. Tarriño, G. J. Trancho, A. M. Valles, M de Andrés-Chain, D. Ballesteros, D. Cabanes, A. Moreno, D. Rodrigo & R. Obeso
Coímbre cave (142 meters asl) is located on the southwestern slope of Mount Pendendo (529 m), in the small valley of Besnes river, tributary of Cares river, in a medium-higher mountain are in the central-western Cantabria –northern Iberian Peninsula- (Álvarez-Alonso et al., 2009; 2013b). The landscape in the surroundings of the cave –situated in an interior valley but near to the current coast in a low altitude- can be described as a mountainous environment where valleys, small hills and steep mountains with high slopes are integrated, which confer a relative variety of ecosystems to this area. Coímbre contains an important archaeological site divided in two different areas. B Area, is the farthest from the entrance, and is the place where took place the excavations carried out to date, between 2008 and 2012 (Álvarez-Alonso et al., 2009, 2011, 2013a, 2013b).
Coímbre B shows a complete and very interesting Magdalenian sequence (with Lower, Middle and Upper Magdalenian levels), and a gravettian level, that converts this cave in one of the biggest habitat areas in western Cantabria. Its rich set of bone industries, mobiliar art and ornaments, provide key information that shows the connections between this area, the Pyrenees and the south-west of Aquitaine.
Moreover, Coímbre cave presents an interesting set of Magdalenian engravings, locatedin different places of the cavity, both in open and accessible areas, and in narrower and inaccessible places, which clearly define two different symbolic spaces. All this artistic expressions belong to the Magdalenian, and it is possible to establish a division between a set of engravings framed in the first stages of this period (the most abundant and remote); and a more limited set of engravings, in which stand out a block with a engraving of a bison with a deep trace of more than one meter long, that belongs to the recent Magdalenian.
This work presents the preliminary results of the analysis of Magdalenian occupations in Coímbre, after the end of the excavations in B Area, and the study of its rock art, shaping this site as one of the most important places of Magdalenian human activities in western Cantabria.
Papers by Pablo Lopez Cisneros
Conference: Hugo Obermaier-Gesellschaft für Erforschung des Eizeitalters und der Steinzeit e V. 57th Annual Meeting in Heidenheim, 2015, Volume: 57th Annual Meeting in Heidenheim. Hugo Obermaier Society for Quaternary Research and Archaeology of the Stone Age, 2015
Coímbre cave (135 meters asl) is located on the southwestern slope of Mount Pendendo (532 m), in ... more Coímbre cave (135 meters asl) is located on the southwestern slope of Mount Pendendo (532 m), in the small valley of Besnes river, tributary of Cares river, in a medium-higher mountain are in the central-western Cantabria –northern Iberian Peninsula- (Álvarez-Alonso et al., 2009; 2013b). The landscape in the surroundings of the cave –situated in an interior valley but near to the current coast in a low altitude- can be described as a mountainous environment where valleys, small hills and steep mountains with high slopes are integrated, which confer a relative variety of ecosystems to this area. Coímbre contains an important archaeological site divided in two different areas. B Area, is the farthest from the entrance, and is the place where took place the excavations carried out to date, between 2008 and 2012 (Álvarez-Alonso et al., 2009, 2011, 2013a, 2013b).
Coímbre B shows a complete and very interesting Magdalenian sequence (with Lower, Middle and Upper Magdalenian levels), and a gravettian level, that converts this cave in one of the biggest habitat areas in western Cantabria. Its rich set of bone industries, mobiliar art and ornaments, provide key information that shows the connections between this area, the Pyrenees and the south-west of Aquitaine.
Moreover, Coímbre cave presents an interesting set of Magdalenian engravings, located in different places of the cavity, both in open and accessible areas, and in narrower and inaccessible places, which clearly define two different symbolic spaces. All this artistic expressions belong to the Magdalenian, and it is possible to establish a division between a set of engravings framed in the first stages of this period (the most abundant and remote); and a more limited set of engravings, in which stand out a block with a engraving of a bison with a deep trace of more than one meter long, that belongs to the recent Magdalenian.
This work presents the preliminary results of the analysis of Magdalenian occupations in Coímbre, after the end of the excavations in B Area, and the study of its rock art, shaping this site as one of the most important places of Magdalenian human activities in western Cantabria.
he use of bone as fuel has been already documented
in some sites dated to the Middle and Upper Pa... more he use of bone as fuel has been already documented
in some sites dated to the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic.
They contribute to a longer combustion time due to their durability;
consequently, they are useful to reduce the need for
firewood, a good advantage in open palaeoenvironmental
contexts with limited arboreal vegetation. The use of bones
as fuel can be identified by several lines of evidence. The main
one is a large number of burned bones, with an intense cremation–
charring or calcination, together with high fragmentation
resulting from the long contact with the fire. Other features
may be present, although they can also result from individual
circumstances. They include either the presence of complete
skeletal profiles–which implies using all the bones of the animal–
or a selection of the anatomical parts which contribute
better to combustion, i.e. epiphyses and axial elements. In this
article, we argue that the faunal assemblage of level Co.B.6 of
Coímbre cave fully corresponds to this model. Moreover, this
level coincides with a cold palaeoclimatic event, which was
correlative to the climatic deterioration that occurred at the end
of MIS 3, and an open environment. Thus, we propose that
this level contains the first known
En los últimos años se ha puesto de manifiesto que los neandertales explotaron un rango de especi... more En los últimos años se ha puesto de manifiesto que los neandertales explotaron un rango de especies muy amplio. Diversos animales independientemente de su tamaño o su nicho ecológico fueron explotados, así proboscidios, ungulados de diversas tallas, carnívoros, pequeños mamíferos como los lagomorfos, reptiles, aves y peces presentan evidencias de haber sido aprovechados por estos seres humanos. Esta gran variabilidad de recursos es un ejemplo de la versatilidad neandertal. En este trabajo hemos tratado de reflejar esta adaptabilidad a través de una revisión de las evidencias zooarqueológicas y tafonómicas descritas en los yacimientos musterienses del interior de la Península Ibérica, tomando como referencia aquellos lugares situados en la meseta correspondientes a los estadios isotópicos 5-3.
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Conference Proceedings by Pablo Lopez Cisneros
Coímbre cave (142 meters asl) is located on the southwestern slope of Mount Pendendo (529 m), in the small valley of Besnes river, tributary of Cares river, in a medium-higher mountain are in the central-western Cantabria –northern Iberian Peninsula- (Álvarez-Alonso et al., 2009; 2013b). The landscape in the surroundings of the cave –situated in an interior valley but near to the current coast in a low altitude- can be described as a mountainous environment where valleys, small hills and steep mountains with high slopes are integrated, which confer a relative variety of ecosystems to this area. Coímbre contains an important archaeological site divided in two different areas. B Area, is the farthest from the entrance, and is the place where took place the excavations carried out to date, between 2008 and 2012 (Álvarez-Alonso et al., 2009, 2011, 2013a, 2013b).
Coímbre B shows a complete and very interesting Magdalenian sequence (with Lower, Middle and Upper Magdalenian levels), and a gravettian level, that converts this cave in one of the biggest habitat areas in western Cantabria. Its rich set of bone industries, mobiliar art and ornaments, provide key information that shows the connections between this area, the Pyrenees and the south-west of Aquitaine.
Moreover, Coímbre cave presents an interesting set of Magdalenian engravings, locatedin different places of the cavity, both in open and accessible areas, and in narrower and inaccessible places, which clearly define two different symbolic spaces. All this artistic expressions belong to the Magdalenian, and it is possible to establish a division between a set of engravings framed in the first stages of this period (the most abundant and remote); and a more limited set of engravings, in which stand out a block with a engraving of a bison with a deep trace of more than one meter long, that belongs to the recent Magdalenian.
This work presents the preliminary results of the analysis of Magdalenian occupations in Coímbre, after the end of the excavations in B Area, and the study of its rock art, shaping this site as one of the most important places of Magdalenian human activities in western Cantabria.
Papers by Pablo Lopez Cisneros
Coímbre B shows a complete and very interesting Magdalenian sequence (with Lower, Middle and Upper Magdalenian levels), and a gravettian level, that converts this cave in one of the biggest habitat areas in western Cantabria. Its rich set of bone industries, mobiliar art and ornaments, provide key information that shows the connections between this area, the Pyrenees and the south-west of Aquitaine.
Moreover, Coímbre cave presents an interesting set of Magdalenian engravings, located in different places of the cavity, both in open and accessible areas, and in narrower and inaccessible places, which clearly define two different symbolic spaces. All this artistic expressions belong to the Magdalenian, and it is possible to establish a division between a set of engravings framed in the first stages of this period (the most abundant and remote); and a more limited set of engravings, in which stand out a block with a engraving of a bison with a deep trace of more than one meter long, that belongs to the recent Magdalenian.
This work presents the preliminary results of the analysis of Magdalenian occupations in Coímbre, after the end of the excavations in B Area, and the study of its rock art, shaping this site as one of the most important places of Magdalenian human activities in western Cantabria.
in some sites dated to the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic.
They contribute to a longer combustion time due to their durability;
consequently, they are useful to reduce the need for
firewood, a good advantage in open palaeoenvironmental
contexts with limited arboreal vegetation. The use of bones
as fuel can be identified by several lines of evidence. The main
one is a large number of burned bones, with an intense cremation–
charring or calcination, together with high fragmentation
resulting from the long contact with the fire. Other features
may be present, although they can also result from individual
circumstances. They include either the presence of complete
skeletal profiles–which implies using all the bones of the animal–
or a selection of the anatomical parts which contribute
better to combustion, i.e. epiphyses and axial elements. In this
article, we argue that the faunal assemblage of level Co.B.6 of
Coímbre cave fully corresponds to this model. Moreover, this
level coincides with a cold palaeoclimatic event, which was
correlative to the climatic deterioration that occurred at the end
of MIS 3, and an open environment. Thus, we propose that
this level contains the first known
Coímbre cave (142 meters asl) is located on the southwestern slope of Mount Pendendo (529 m), in the small valley of Besnes river, tributary of Cares river, in a medium-higher mountain are in the central-western Cantabria –northern Iberian Peninsula- (Álvarez-Alonso et al., 2009; 2013b). The landscape in the surroundings of the cave –situated in an interior valley but near to the current coast in a low altitude- can be described as a mountainous environment where valleys, small hills and steep mountains with high slopes are integrated, which confer a relative variety of ecosystems to this area. Coímbre contains an important archaeological site divided in two different areas. B Area, is the farthest from the entrance, and is the place where took place the excavations carried out to date, between 2008 and 2012 (Álvarez-Alonso et al., 2009, 2011, 2013a, 2013b).
Coímbre B shows a complete and very interesting Magdalenian sequence (with Lower, Middle and Upper Magdalenian levels), and a gravettian level, that converts this cave in one of the biggest habitat areas in western Cantabria. Its rich set of bone industries, mobiliar art and ornaments, provide key information that shows the connections between this area, the Pyrenees and the south-west of Aquitaine.
Moreover, Coímbre cave presents an interesting set of Magdalenian engravings, locatedin different places of the cavity, both in open and accessible areas, and in narrower and inaccessible places, which clearly define two different symbolic spaces. All this artistic expressions belong to the Magdalenian, and it is possible to establish a division between a set of engravings framed in the first stages of this period (the most abundant and remote); and a more limited set of engravings, in which stand out a block with a engraving of a bison with a deep trace of more than one meter long, that belongs to the recent Magdalenian.
This work presents the preliminary results of the analysis of Magdalenian occupations in Coímbre, after the end of the excavations in B Area, and the study of its rock art, shaping this site as one of the most important places of Magdalenian human activities in western Cantabria.
Coímbre B shows a complete and very interesting Magdalenian sequence (with Lower, Middle and Upper Magdalenian levels), and a gravettian level, that converts this cave in one of the biggest habitat areas in western Cantabria. Its rich set of bone industries, mobiliar art and ornaments, provide key information that shows the connections between this area, the Pyrenees and the south-west of Aquitaine.
Moreover, Coímbre cave presents an interesting set of Magdalenian engravings, located in different places of the cavity, both in open and accessible areas, and in narrower and inaccessible places, which clearly define two different symbolic spaces. All this artistic expressions belong to the Magdalenian, and it is possible to establish a division between a set of engravings framed in the first stages of this period (the most abundant and remote); and a more limited set of engravings, in which stand out a block with a engraving of a bison with a deep trace of more than one meter long, that belongs to the recent Magdalenian.
This work presents the preliminary results of the analysis of Magdalenian occupations in Coímbre, after the end of the excavations in B Area, and the study of its rock art, shaping this site as one of the most important places of Magdalenian human activities in western Cantabria.
in some sites dated to the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic.
They contribute to a longer combustion time due to their durability;
consequently, they are useful to reduce the need for
firewood, a good advantage in open palaeoenvironmental
contexts with limited arboreal vegetation. The use of bones
as fuel can be identified by several lines of evidence. The main
one is a large number of burned bones, with an intense cremation–
charring or calcination, together with high fragmentation
resulting from the long contact with the fire. Other features
may be present, although they can also result from individual
circumstances. They include either the presence of complete
skeletal profiles–which implies using all the bones of the animal–
or a selection of the anatomical parts which contribute
better to combustion, i.e. epiphyses and axial elements. In this
article, we argue that the faunal assemblage of level Co.B.6 of
Coímbre cave fully corresponds to this model. Moreover, this
level coincides with a cold palaeoclimatic event, which was
correlative to the climatic deterioration that occurred at the end
of MIS 3, and an open environment. Thus, we propose that
this level contains the first known