Antonio J. Romero

University of the Basque Country | UPV/EHU · Departamento de Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología

The Sope˜na rock-shelter is a Palaeolithic site located in the northern slopes of the Cantabrian mountain range of northern Spain, facing the Bay of Biscay, in the Principality of Asturias. The shelter overlooks the Güe˜na River, which is a tributary to the Sella River. Excavations there yielded a long stratigraphic and archaeological sequence of e...

Bone retouchers are a technological appliance used to perfect lithic tools efficiently. They are most frequently found in Middle Palaeolithic contexts. In this paper, we present a group of bone retouchers from the Mousterian Level XV of the Sopeña rock shelter (Asturias, Spain). The bone part preferred was the middle part of the shaft of long bones...

Las series televisivas de corte post-apocalíptico ofrecen al espectador la oportunidad de observar cómo se configura una sociedad desde un hipotético estadio inicial fruto de la destrucción de un sistema anterior. En la serie The Walking Dead (AMC Studios, 2010-2022), el colapso del sistema del capitalismo financiero y de las instituciones que lo s...

Arrillor (Murua, Álava) is an archeological site on the southeast of Mount Gorbea. The cave is characterized by an extensive archaeological sequence belonging to middle Palaeolithic. This work presents the taphonomic and zooarchaeological study of 11 stratigraphic levels that contain faunal remains. We have identified an ensemble of levels included...

Understanding the illumination systems used by Paleolithic groups in caves gives us essential information about the Paleo-speleological capabilities of our ancestors and their activities in dark spaces. In this paper, we present a multianalytical and multiproxy approach (wood charcoal and soot) to characterize a Paleolithic lamp. The methodology wa...

The Geosite of Jarama VI is a rock shelter containing a lithostratigraphic sequence formed by five Upper Pleistocene sedimentary units, three of wich present archaeological remains of the Middle Palaeolithic with an age older than 50 ka BP and even a bone remain of Homo neanderthalensis. In order to preserve all this analog information of this Geos...

The Mousterian site of Jarama VI (Guadalajara, Spain) has three archaeological levels corresponding to the final Middle Palaeolithic. Taphonomic and zooarchaeological analyses have determined important changes in the functionality of the site in relation to the species consumed and the nutrients that were sought. The first occupations consisted of...

El yacimiento musteriense de Pié Lombard (Alpes-Maritimes, Francia) está localizado en un entorno montañoso de medio rango y posee un conjunto óseo rico y diversificado en el cual los restos de aves son abundantes. Su estudio tafonómico y zooarqueológico brinda cuestiones importantes sobre la explotación de aves por parte de rapaces, carnívoros y n...

Consumption of members of the same species occurs in many organism and it could be practiced by humans during Prehistory, although archaeological recognition is difficult. Many times we can show the intervention on the bodies, but we cannot prove the meat ingestion. Neither is simple to know specific causes of each share cannibal action. The eviden...

It has traditionally been thought that movement of human groups across the Pyrenees would have been difficult in the Palaeolithic, although there are data contradicting this view. It may even be proposed that a Pyrenean region existed in the Palaeolithic with specific cultural traits and a series of sites, especially in the Magdalenian. The existen...

Here we report a comprehensive bibliographic review about the human violence in the Pleistocene. The scientific literature has appealed (quite unevenly) to the existence of conflicts among hunter-gatherers to explain specific phenomena in the archaeological record such as cannibalism, the existence of certain injuries in Pleistocene hominins and re...

As social constructions, heritage properties require the participation of all their stakeholders, especially in the case of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain) World Heritage Site is used as a test case for assessing the fulfilment of the local community’s development expectations, perceptions, and values. This paper is the f...

Anthropic fracture of avian bones has received scarce experimental attention. Prehistoric bird consumption is assumed from references in studies of lagomorphs or small mammals, despite the fact that avian bones are quite different from those of mammals and rodents. Their consumption by humans can be addressed experimentally. This paper presents the...

The employ of hard animal materials (bones, nails and teeth) with technological purposes by hunter-gatherer groups in Paleolithic times has been quite discussed in the scientific literature. In the present work we address the state of the question about the use and transformation of animal teeth for this period in Europe. Since R. Dart’s (1949) hyp...

Desde hace algunos años se ha venido discutiendo sobre las delimitaciones geográficas del Arte Levantino y las características estilísticas del Arte Esquemático. El abrigo de El Castillarejo desde su descubrimiento en 1977 ha sido catalogado como esquemático, atendiendo a una documentación, estudio y análisis precarios. Algunos motivos de este conj...

Presentamos un nuevo hallazgo de Pintura Rupestre Esquemática situado en el Norte de la provincia de Córdoba, exactamente en el Alto Valle del Guadiato. El panel se encuentra muy deteriorado, pero al ponerlo en relación con las demás evidencias de hábitat humano en la Prehistoria Reciente de este lugar lo entendemos de vital importancia para obtene...

Si no conocemos los puntos de luz utilizados en las cavidades, reconstruiremos la Historia a través de otro escenario. La morfología en la inmensa mayoría de las cuevas decoradas durante el Pleistoceno en Andalucía, nos ha hecho plantearnos cómo sería su iluminación. Una cueva abrupta, con grandes precipicios, ¿seríamos capaces de transitarla con u...

The objective of this work is to make an initial approximation of the results in relation to the levels of the Neolithic in the Caves of Nerja (Malaga, Spain). This activity is situated within the General Interdisciplinary Research Project Applied to the Conservation of the Caves of Nerja 2008‑2013. After the intervention in the Mine Hall, we prese...