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This paper analyses the territoriality and mobility of hunter-gatherer
groups that inhabited Coímbre in its different occupation periods
(Magdalenian and Gravettian). With the objective of developing this study
a Geographic Information System was used, allowing us to get new
information of Coímbre cave in relation to the lithic raw materials
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... The time boundary, which has been established as 2 h (Lee, 1976;Vita-Finzi and Higgs, 1970), can be represented in maps by an isochrone. The model assumes that human groups periodically returned to a central place (Wobst, 1974;Orians and Pearson, 1979;Whallon, 2006), and it has been applied to Solutrean contexts in Iberia to analyse the raw material procurement (Andr es-Herrero et al., 2017;Aubry et al., 2012Aubry et al., , 2015. Furthermore, Cannon (2003) formulated the model of central place forager prey choice as applied to faunal remains, which has also been used for Lateglacial contexts in Iberia (Marín- Arroyo, 2008Arroyo, , 2009. ...
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Coímbre cave (Peñamellera Alta, Asturias) is an Upper Palaeolithic site in Northern Spain, spanning an occupation sequence from the Gravettian to the Magdalenian periods. The upper layers -layer I and II-, corresponding to the Upper Magdalenian, register the highest intensity of human activity. In this paper, we analyse raw material functionality at the site through the study of cut-marks found on bone remains. At Coímbre, we have documented mainly quartzite, followed by flint; other raw materials are found in very low frequencies. There are several types of local quartzite that appear mainly as flaking debitage and stone tools such as burins and scrappers. On the other hand, flint is mainly knapped to elaborate blades and bladelets, as well as specialised implements, such as different types of side scrappers. Retouched flakes on flint are relatively more abundant than those made on quartzite. In this paper we employ the use of photogrammetry, geometric morphometrics and statistics to analyse the cut-marks from the Upper Magdalenian assemblage of Coímbre cave. Our aim is to determine the lithic raw material preferentially used for carcass processing at the site.
Coímbre is one of the few Gravettian sites the middle-western part of Cantabria. It is one of the most interesting sites for the analysis of the Gravettian close to the boundary of its western expansion in Europe. Zooarchaeological and taphonomical study of the faunal and archaeobotanical remains and the lithic industry and the interpretation of its AMS-dated archaeological and sedimentological sequence make it possible to analyse the Gravettian settlement in Coímbre cave using a territorial perspective. The subsistence strategies developed in Coímbre have been determinant in the interpretation of its occupation patterns. Thus, we can assess the existence of the specific mobility and subsistence patterns developed by these human groups in the framework of Cantabria. This pattern shows an ephemeral logistic and punctual occupation of the cave, probably linked to an eastern-western corridor. This is one of the paper’s most interesting contributions.
