Book Chapters by Valeria Francés
Métodos cronométricos en Arqueología, Historia y Paleontología, 2020
The San Chuis hillfort (San Martín de Beduledo, Allande, Asturies, Spain) is a fortified village ... more The San Chuis hillfort (San Martín de Beduledo, Allande, Asturies, Spain) is a fortified village located in the interior of the western mountains of the Cantabrian Mountains.Discovered in 1952, it was systematically excavated by Professor Francisco Jordá Cerdá in two series of campaigns (1962-1963 and 1979-1986) that have allowed us to document a very extensive human occupation in time that is expressed in a stratigraphic succession and an overlapping of architectural structures that cover the Iron Age and Romanization. We present a Bayesian radiocarbon chronology that has allowed us to document a continuous occupation of this settlement during a millennium.
Papers by Valeria Francés
In recent years our multidisciplinary research project is implementing a program of numerical dat... more In recent years our multidisciplinary research project is implementing a program of numerical dating in different sites that host archaeological levels related to the neolithisation of Campos de Hellín and the lower basin of the Mundo River. In this paper we present all the dates obtained, some of them unpublished, that come from the application of radiocarbon, thermoluminescence and amino acid racemization methods on organic and inorganic samples of different nature. Excavations carried out in the shelters of Cueva Blanca, Pico Tienda III and Acebuchal are allowing us to unveil a sequence of settlement in this geographical space from the 9th to the 6th millennium cal BP Previously, there was no archaeological evidence of these periods, mistakenly posing a population gap for this area, which, on the other hand, presents a privileged geostrategic situation as it is a natural route of communication between the plateau and the Mediterranean coast and also lies within the natural corrid...
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2021
This work presents a new methodological tool developed in order to achieve more rigorous and obje... more This work presents a new methodological tool developed in order to achieve more rigorous and objective ascription and evaluation of the archaeological surface assemblages: the Archaeological Surveying Consistency Index (ASCI). A combination of this innovative approach, GIS technologies and a radial model of intensive archaeological survey is designed and implemented on a case study to provide an answer to an archaeological anomaly in the field of archaeological surveying. The radial model of intensive archaeological survey and total coverage was designed on the basis of the background, the characteristics of the terrain and, fundamentally, of the posed hypotheses (proximity and visibility). The information thus generated was analysed and represented using GIS technologies (kernel maps, proportional symbols maps, viewshed analyses). Our research has allowed us to give cultural material contextualization to Abrigo Grande de Minateda, a paradigmatic rock art site of the prehistoric art of the Iberian Peninsulás Mediterranean Arc, which has been recognised as World Heritage in 1998 by UNESCO.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2021
This work presents a new methodological tool developed in order to achieve more rigorous and obje... more This work presents a new methodological tool developed in order to achieve more rigorous and objective ascription and evaluation of the archaeological surface assemblages: the Archaeological Surveying Consistency Index (ASCI). A combination of this innovative approach, GIS technologies and a radial model of intensive archaeological survey is designed and implemented on a case study to provide an answer to an archaeological anomaly in the field of archaeological surveying. The radial model of intensive archaeological survey and total coverage was designed on the basis of the background, the characteristics of the terrain and, fundamentally, of the posed hypotheses (proximity and visibility). The information thus generated was analysed and represented using GIS technologies (kernel maps, proportional symbols maps, viewshed analyses). Our research has allowed us to give cultural material contextualization to Abrigo Grande de Minateda, a paradigmatic rock art site of the prehistoric art of the Iberian Peninsulás Mediterranean Arc, which has been recognised as World Heritage in 1998 by UNESCO.
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Book Chapters by Valeria Francés
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