http://hdl.handle.net/10366/154135 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:18:24 GMT 2026-09-14T18:18:24Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/172531 [EN] Although the production of artifacts from hard animal materials is considered an essential activity in subsistence strategies during the Upper Palaeolithic of SW Europe, the study of the bone industry of the El Cierro sequence shows an unequal proportion in the number of remains and in the complexity of the operational chains put into practice throughout the different periods. This study shows a turning point from the Lower Magdalenian, a period in which a clear increase is observed both in the number of elements and in the technical procedures carried out within the site. However, neither during the Lower Magdalenian nor during previous periods are there any planned operations aimed at the regular acquisition of bone raw materials, which leads us to reflect on the strategic nature of this technology throughout the Upper Palaeolithic sequence Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/172531 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/172167 [ES] Trabajos arqueológicos realizados en el yacimiento prehistórico de la cueva de El Cierro (Asturias) Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/172167 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/171653 [EN] Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the ICAZ Archaeomalocology Working Group (Santander, February 19th-22nd 2008). Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/171653 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/171433 [ES] Preactas de Congreso Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/171433 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/171408 [ES] Análisis de los objetos de adorno del Paleolítico y Mesolítico en los yacimientos arqueológicos europeos Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/171408 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170895 [EN] The archaeological deposit in Lezetxiki Cave has been excavated in two stages by teams directed first by José Miguel de Barandiarán (1956-1968) and then by Alvaro Arrizabalaga and María José Iriarte- Chiapusso (1996-2018). In the first stage, the deposit was found to cover a long period in the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. A number of human fossils, remains of numerous animal species and a large assemblage of stone tools were documented. When the second stage of excavations began in 1996, the objectives were much more modest, but the research has repeatedly been overwhelmed by the complexity of the deposit and the abundant information it has provided. Bedrock was reached in summer 2016. Although some analytical studies have still not concluded, we now begin to glimpse the role played by the site in the articulation of human population in the Basque Country in the Middle Palaeolithic and Early Upper Palaeolithic. The main aim of the present paper is therefore to summarize almost seventy years’ research at the site. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170895 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170859 [EN] Los Gitanos de Montealegre cave has one of the most outstanding sequences in the Cantabrian region, thanks to which it has been possible to determine, in particular, the subsistence activities practiced by the first foodproducing societies, including the collection of marine invertebrates in the intertidal zone. Although the characteristic is the shellfishing of gastropods, particularly limpets, other organisms have been documented at the site that provide us with information on related aspects beyond the subsistence of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic groups. This chapter studies in detail a set of archaeozoological remains of marine origin belonging to different bryozoans (Turbicellepora magnicostata), annelids (genera Spirorbis and Spirobranchus), arthropods (crab species Eriphia verrucosa, Pachygrapsus marmoratus, Necora puber and Xanthidae, and the goose barnacle Pollicipes pollicipes), and echinoderms (purple sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus). Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170859 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170857 [EN] Faunal remains represent a fundamental element of the archaeological record for understanding the subsistence strategies of Upper Palaeolithic huntergatherer societies in the Cantabrian region. In this chapter, we present the results of the archaeozoological and taphonomic study of the faunal assemblage recovered from the Azilian levels of El Cierro Cave (Ribadesella, Asturias), with the aim of identifying how these resources were exploited by human groups. El Cierro Cave contains one of the most complete Upper Pleistocene stratigraphic sequences in northern Spain. The Azilian occupations are represented in levels Cierro D and Cierro C, which yielded abundant faunal remains radiocarbon dated to approximately 13,000–12,500 cal BP. The archaeozoological analysis revealed a wide range of species, primarily marine molluscs, but also large mammals, birds, fish, crustaceans, echinoderms, and terrestrial molluscs. The taphonomic analysis of both vertebrates and invertebrates has enabled us to determine the role played by different animal resources in the diet and to reconstruct subsistence strategies based on the energetic and nutritional contributions each resource would have provided to the Azilian hunter-gatherers of El Cierro. The results obtained from each stratigraphic level have been compared and contextualised within the broader framework of the Cantabrian region. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170857 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170856 [EN] This article presents new evidence of portable art documented in the levels attributed to the Lower Magdalenian period in the El Cierro cave (Fresno, Ribadesella, Asturias). It comes from the excavations carried out by A. Gómez Fuentes and F. Jordá Cerdá between 1977 and 1979 in the main chamber of the cave. These excavations yielded a limestone, probably detached from the walls of the cave itself, decorated with parallel incisions of unknown function. Research carried out between 2016 and 2019 has documented occupations dating back to the early Holocene (Mesolithic), in the transition from the late Pleistocene to the Holocene (Azilian), but mainly to the Upper Pleistocene (several levels dated to the Lower Magdalenian, Upper Solutrean, Late Gravettian, Aurignacian and one dated to the Mousterian). In this context, the new evidence recovered is analysed and compared with other decorated objects from the cave, both on organic supports (in particular, a shoulder blade engraved with a deer with multiple striated lines and fragments of throwing weapons engraved with different motifs) and on inorganic supports, from interventions carried out in the last century. This evidence is compared with similar evidence from other sites of the same chronology documented in the Cantabrian region. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170856 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170521 [ES] En las nuevas intervenciones arqueológicas realizadas en la cueva cántabra de El Pendo se han documentado dos fragmentos de rocas blandas del tipo esteatita con evidencia de manipulación antrópica. En este artículo se estudian estas piezas en detalle y se revisa la información sobre este tipo de materia prima documentada en anteriores excavaciones en la cueva de El Pendo y en otros yacimientos de la región cantábrica durante la Prehistoria. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170521 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170260 [ES] Investigaciones realizadas en la Cueva de El Cierro (Ribadesella), Campañas del 2022 y 2023 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170260 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170073 [ES] Intervenciones Arqueológicas en la Cueva de Les Pedroses 2020-2024 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170073 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170071 [ES] Intervenciones Arqueológicas en la Cuevona de Ardines y La Viesca en el año 2022 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170071 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170067 Intervenciones arqueológicas en Tito Bustillo, Campaññas 2020 a 2024 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170067 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/167882 [EN] This chapter justifies the necessity of a social archaeology of kinship. To do so, the text frames what is understood today by kinship within its intellectual trajectory, giving a brief overview of different disciplinary approaches. Over the previous decades the topic was subject to strong criticism, loss of interest, mistrust or reticence. Nowadays the scholarly outlook is optimistic, the old weaknesses have been contested, interest in the topic is growing steadily, and fresh lines of enquiry have been opened. This paper critically surveys the current confusing panorama and points out unsolved shortcomings that the academic community is yet to face, particularly regarding the mainstream biodeterministic narrative within a context of scientism and neopositivist supremacy. The text then explains the genesis, aims and scope of the volume, framing its contents within the current intellectual landscape, which are arranged into two main research branches: science-based contributions drawing on bioarchaeology (aDNA and isotope analyses) and humanistic-oriented and anthropologicallyinformed chapters interested in household archaeology. Finally, it comments on the promising prospects for future advancements in this field. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/167882 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/167881 [EN] This contribution addresses a basic and ubiquitous collective social agent in antiquity between the conjugal family –which was rarely a social unit in itself– and the settlement or local community. The paper delves into such an intermediate and kin-driven social grouping, often materialised as a neighbourhood or multi-house aggregate. The text proposes an approach from the standpoint of household archaeology, centring on kinship, with the aim of challenging unquestioned claims and to endorse the target formulas of conviviality with supportive and highly detailed historical information from diverse sources. Such residential group cannot be interpreted as an “extended family” or a “cultural trait”, nor always be reduced to a complete household or corporate unilineal group. The chapter first discusses its underpinnings and interpretative limits and then surveys the literature of two major household archaeological schools in a comparative fashion to focus on a necessarily restrictive selection of well-known and representative case studies. Out of the suite of combinations of residence and descent options, the text concentrates on those multi-functional and self-sufficient composite residential groups involving either subaltern small conjugal dwellings or elite oversized ancillary subunits: mostly virilocal and patrilineal, and some bilocal and bilateral cases, often confused. This sample ranges from decentralised pre-/protohistoric Near Eastern and Mediterranean organisations to Mesoamerican and South American historical state-based polities. Such an exercise highlights key underlying commonalities of this collective social actor in varied settings across time and space, readdresses misguided points in current archaeological literature and suggests prospects for multi-stranded research integrating the domestic and funerary realms. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/167881 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z