J. Emili Aura TortosaUniversity of Valencia | UV · Departamento de Prehistoria, Arqueología, Historia Antigua
J. Emili Aura Tortosa
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In this work, we present a preliminary analysis of the Solutrean antlerworking at Hort de Cortés–Volcán del Faro (Valencia, Spain) (ca. 26–21 ka cal BP). A restudy of its archaeological sequence, which came to encompass the Early Upper Palaeolithic to the Magdalenian period, has been a mandatory subject in the last years. This site became an archae...
Un balance sobre la malacofauna terrestre en los yacimientos paleolíticos y mesolíticos valencianos. Esta presentación pretende hacer un recorrido de la malacofauna terrestre hallada en los yacimientos de cronología paleolítica y mesolítica en el ámbito del actual territorio valenciano. Las referencias publicadas sobre los gasterópodos continentale...
The exhibition, PAST AND PRESENT. ONE HUNDRED YEARS DOING ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, is conceived as a cultural event for the enjoyment of society. The aim is to show a glimpse of the history of the Laboratory of Archaeology, the addressed research topics and the knowledge generated over a century of work by all the people who have...
The transitions from foraging to farming and later to pastoralism in Stone Age Eurasia (c. 11-3 thousand years before present, BP) represent some of the most dramatic lifestyle changes in human evolution. We sequenced 317 genomes of primarily Mesolithic and Neolithic individuals from across Eurasia combined with radiocarbon dates, stable isotope da...
The Mediterranean coast of Spain is marked by several clusters of Palaeolithic sites: to the south of the Pyrenees, in the area around the Ebro River, in the central part, and on the south coast, one of the southernmost regions in Europe. The number of sites is small compared with northern Iberia, but like that region, the Palaeolithic occupations...
El Abric de la Ratlla del Bubo (Crevillent, Alicante) es uno de los yacimientos clave para el conocimiento del Paleolítico superior en el área central del Mediterráneo ibérico, especialmente en lo que a sus fases iniciales se refiere. El yacimiento ha sido objeto de varias intervenciones arqueológicas, tanto clandestinas como científicas. Sin embar...
Conocer cómo se utilizaron los recursos marinos en la prehistoria ayuda a comprender la historia de la dispersión humana por el planeta. Las costas y las grandes cuencas concentran una amplia variedad de nutrientes que fueron esenciales para nuestraevolución como especie.
Al mismo tiempo, sirvieron como grandes vialesde comunicación en sus migracio...
The Palaeolithic-Mesolithic transition is not limited to the beginning of the Holocene.
The transformations that occurred in the Iberian Mediterranean region, between the
end of the Last Glacial Maximum and the beginning of the Holocene constitute a Long
Transition. This text evaluates the trajectory of technical systems, resource management and sy...
Se presentan los primeros datos sobre los conjuntos de la malacofauna terrestre del yacimiento de Coves de Santa Maira (Castell de Castells, Alacant), datados entre el Paleolítico superior final y el Neolítico (ca.15-6 ka Cal BP). Los estudios comprenden la identificación taxonómica de los ejemplares y su cuantificación (NMI, NR). Los datos obtenid...
The study on a long and marrow shaped sedimentary rock discovered in the Upper Palaeolithic levels excavated in 1972 at the Valencian site of Hort de Cortés-Vol-
cán del Faro was carried out. This is an argillaceous limestone with a compact and soft appearance 19.43 cm long, 4.16 cm wide and 4.79 cm thick. The stratigraphic associated materials pla...
The presence of human groups during the Last Glacial Maximum has been witnessed along all Iberian regions [1]. Nevertheless, the paleoenvironmental and biogeography conditions show differences, with clear influence in the settlement dynamics, subsistence strategies and social behaviour of Palaeolithic people. Under this precept, our objective is to...
The Lateglacial to early Holocene transition includes climatic events of high and medium magnitude, which ended up defining the current Mediterranean landscapes. Santa Maira sequence covers this period and analyses of different materials have allowed for the reconstruction of the landscape and human strategies for raw materials exploitation. Wood c...
Los yacimientos de Andalucía oriental constituyen la facies regional más meridional del Magdaleniense europeo. A los sitios
costeros, conocidos desde principios del siglo XX, se han añadido una serie de sitios localizados en el surco intrabético que
serán la base de discusión de este trabajo. Esta dispersión muestra una amplia distribución geográfi...
The sites of Eastern Andalusia constitute the southernmost regional facies of the European Magdalenian. In addition to the coastal sites, which have been known since the beginning of the 20th century, a number of sites located in the Intrabaetic Basin have been added, which will be the basis for discussion in this work. This dispersion shows a wide...
The interest of this paper lies in the analysis of variability detected within the group of splintered pieces, establishing distinctions within this broad category. A technological and traceological reading has been used for this purpose. These analyses have been applied to two geographically distant, chronologically disparate assemblages, which ma...
El presente trabajo propone la redacción de un plan director para el Palau Ducal dels Borja de Gandíadesde una revisión histórica de lo realizado, pero con una clara orientación práctica de desarrollopresente y futuro. Además, en el análisis y la elaboración de las propuestas se aporta un enfoquemultidisciplinar que va más allá de los aspectos arqu...
La Cueva de Nerja (Maro, témino municipal de Nerja, provincia de Málaga, S de España) contiene un importante yacimiento arqueológico en la zona de su antigua entrada (salas de la Torca, de la Mina y del Vestíbulo) cuya cronología se encuentra comprendida entre ca. 25.000 y ca. 3.000 años BP, secuencia que cubre el Pleistoceno superior final y gran...
At the end of the Late Glacial period, the laminar-microlaminar techno-complexes of Mediterranean regions of the Iberian Peninsula exhibit a common Magdalenian substrate. At the same time, the regional data show some variability that is difficult to fit into a single evolutionary model. This paper seeks to analyse the main trends in the techno-econ...
Thirteen fieldworks campaigns were carried out in the multistratified Palaeolithic site
of Hort de Cortés-Volcán del Faro (HC-VF), the results of which were published in various papers and notes up to the definitive report of 2003. The first campaigns set its interest and parallels with the nearby sequence of Parpalló Cave (Gandia). However, the as...
Cueva de Nerja has provided a diversified assemblage of birds. In this work the avian bones recovered at the Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic levels in the excavations led by F. Jordá Cerdá is analyzed. The identification of 11 orders, including 14 families and 16 taxa, allows to link their variability with the paleoclimatology and pale...
Los resultados de las excavaciones realizadas entre 1968 y 1984 en la Cova de Hort de Cortés- Volcán del Faro quedaron limitados a identificar materiales solutrenses, magdalenienses y neolíticos-calcolíticos. Una lectura crítica de la Memoria de excavaciones, publicada en 2003,
permitió plantear la posibilidad de la presencia de ocupaciones anterio...
The excavation of the Volcán del Faro site (Cullera, Valencia) did not live up to the expectations created after the discovery of the perforated staff. The prospect of a new Palaeolithic sequence, close to that of Parpalló (Gandia, Valencia), brought with it the possibility of obtaining new palaeoenvironmental, chronostratigraphic and archaeologica...
En ocasiones, los hallazgos más simples resultan sorprenden-tes, aunque sean esperables. Siempre se ha aceptado que el uso de materiales tan frági-les como la piel, la madera o las fibras vegetales debieron de ser importantes durante el Paleolítico. Elaborar prendas de protección y abrigo-desde calzado a gorros-, recipientes para el almacenamiento...
This book is a compendium of articles on archaeozoology and taphonomy studies of the Iberian Peninsula. With this volume, the Departament de Prehistòria, Arqueologia i Història Antiga (Universitat de València) wishes to pay tribute to Doctor Manuel Pérez Ripoll, who died recently. It reviews his career as a professor and researcher at the Universit...
The origin of iron‐oxide materials found at Paleolithic and Neolithic sites in the Spanish Mediterranean region is a pivotal issue that has not yet been explored. The aim of this study is to investigate the exploitation of local ochre sources during the different archaeological phases identified at the site of Coves de Santa Maira (Valencian Region...
In this study we present evidence of braided plant fibres and basketry imprints on clay recovered from Coves de Santa Maira, a Palaeolithic-Mesolithic cave site located in the Mediterranean region of Spain. The anatomical features of these organic fibre remains were identified in the archaeological material and compared with modern Stipa tenacissim...
The Iberian Peninsula is considered one of the most well-suited regions in Europe to develop studies on the relationship between environmental changes and human adaptations across the Late Pleistocene. Due to its southwesternmost cul-de-sac position and eco-geographical diversity, Paleolithic Iberia was the stage of cyclical cultural/technological...
L es recerques en el jaciment de les coves de Santa Maira (Castell de Castells) han permès documentar una àmplia seqüència cronostratigràfica, arqueològica i paleoambiental, amb ocupacions humanes des de l'últim Pleniglacial fins al Neolític (aproximadament entre fa 20.000 i 5.500 anys abans del present) i materials puntuals que arriben a temps his...
Fish remains of three sectors of the Iberian Mediterranean coastline are
analysed. The data show exploitation in fresh and marine waters and
biases in the preservation of fish bones from Solutrean coastal sites. We
expect a major part of the evidence of human exploitation of the marine
environment to be flooded today, because there are sectors with...
Aquatic and marine resources concentrate diverse analytical perspectives that converge in emphasizing their involvement in human evolution. The Iberian Mediterranean region is one of the European reference areas to analyze the evolution of the use of coastal areas and marine resources between hunter-gatherer-fisher societies of Prehistory. In this...
Les recerques en el jaciment de les coves de Santa Maira (Castell de Castells) han permès documentar una àmplia seqüència cronostratigràfica, arqueològica i paleoambiental, amb ocupacions humanes des de l'últim Pleniglacial fins al Neolític (aproximadament entre fa 20.000 i 5.500 anys abans del present) i materials puntuals que arriben a temps hist...
During the Late GlacialeEarly Holocene transition Southern Iberia has an extensive record of Palaeolithic coastal sites, wich have been preserved due thanks to the morphology of the continental shelf. This is was a period with rapid palaeoclimatic oscillations and changes in sea level. However, the sites show an apparent continuity in technology an...
For the first time we compare lithic production systems from the three archaeological phases identified in the Iberian Mediterranean region between 14.5 and 10.5 ky cal BP: final Magdalenian, microlaminar Epipalaeolithic and sauveterroid Epipalaeolithic. These phases coincided with rapid palaeoenvironmental changes, whose effects on a peripheral re...
En la unidad mesolítica de Coves de Santa Maria (Castell de Castells, Alicante), se ha recuperado un importante conjunto de macroutillaje lítico asociado a restos de óxidos de hierro. Con el objetivo de investigar los procesos de trabajo en los que estuvieron implicados estas evidencias, se ha realizado una experimentación con cantos y óxidos de hi...
In the Iberian Mediterranean region it is difficult to find studies dedicated to the percutors-touchers used in the lithic production of the Epipalaeolithic. This work presents the study of 11 small pebbles located in caves of Santa Maira (Castell de Castells, Alicante), which were recovered in the Epipaleolithic levels, dated between 13445 and 101...
In the Mediterranean Iberian region, the subsistence model during the Upper Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic has common characteristics: specialized hunting based on one medium-sized speciments (red deer or ibex), with a complementary consumption of other ungulates, carnivores and small preys (leporids), and even marine resources. At least from the...
This presentation offers new information about the remains of marine invertebrates (mol-luscs and crustaceans) from two sites with late Pleistocene levels in the Province of Malaga (southeast Spain): Mina Chamber in Nerja Cave (Maro) and Victoria Cave (Rincón de la Victoria).
The mollusc assemblages, from Levels 15 and 16 at Nerja and the shell-mid...
Radiocarbon dating is a useful tool for establishing chronological frameworks in archaeological contexts, reaching the category of “absolute” value. In the case of the ancient Neolithic, the selection of singular short-lived samples of domestic species or remains of Homo sapiens in Neolithic contexts seemed a sufficient filter to define more precis...
During the Late Glacial-Early Holocene transition Southern Iberia has an extensive record of Palaeolithic coastal sites, wich have been preserved due thanks to the morphology of the continental shelf. This is was a period with rapid palaeoclimatic oscillations and changes in sea level. However, the sites show an apparent continuity in technology an...
In this paper we present evidence of anthropophagic behaviour amongst hunter-gatherer groups of the Mediterranean Mesolithic. Thirty human remains have been found in the Mesolithic levels of the Santa Maira Caves. As well as describing the anthropogenic marks identified, this paper contextualizes them within the archaeological context and subsisten...
The period spanning the Last Glacial Maximum through early Holocene encompasses dramatic and rapid environmental changes that offered both increased risk and new opportunities to human populations of the Mediterranean zone. The regional effects of global climate change varied spatially with latitude, topography, and distance from a shifting coastli...
Here we present an evaluation of faunal studies and new isotopic results on human and faunal remains from the first farmers at Nerja Cave (Málaga, Spain), and assess the data obtained from a regional perspective and on the basis of the archaeological and archaeozoological context. The evidence shows that the Neolithic peoples who inhabited the cave...
The Pleistocene-Holocene transition is still a topic of debate in the archaeology of southern Europe, whether by itself or as a part of the long transition that began at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and ended with the neolithisation process. This work contributes to the discussion from the point of view of the zooarchaeological study o...
Los restos de conejo (Oryctolagus cuniculus) son muy abundantes en los conjuntos de fauna de los yacimientos arqueológicos del Pleistoceno y Holoceno inicial del Mediterráneo ibérico. En este sentido se presenta una revisión de los datos disponibles sobre el consumo humano de este lagomorfo desde el Paleolítico medio hasta el Mesolítico en la zona...
The identification of unarticulated human remains with anthropic marks in archaeological contexts normally involves solving two issues: a general one associated with the analysis and description of the anthropic manipulation marks, and another with regard to the interpretation of their purpose. In this paper we present new evidence of anthropophagi...
Rabbit remains (Oryctolagus cuniculus) are very abundant in faunal assemblages of the Pleistocene and initial Holocene archaeological sites of Mediterranean Iberia. We present a review of available data on human consumption of this leporid from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic in the central area of Mediterranean Iberia. We review the rabb...
The significance of coastal areas to human survival and expansion on the planet is undeniable. Their ecological diversity and their use as communication routes are some of their most distinctive qualities. However, the evidence of exploitation of these resources has had an uneven preservation, which is limited to certain regions and more recent eve...
This paper presents the results obtained from the study of the bivalves recovered during the archaeological excavations in the Vestíbulo chamber of Nerja Cave (M alaga, southern Spain) carried out by Professor Francisco Jord a Cerd a between 1983 and 1987. These excavations recovered the archaeological record of the sequence from the Gravettian to...
The excavations carried out by L. Pericot from 1929 to 1931 in the Cova del Parpalló allowed to document the Gravettian in the base, a potent Solutrean layers and a Magdalenian. All this sequence comprise an exceptional assemblage of portable art because of their number of plaquets/objects and the great chronological amplitude. With all this inform...
Se analiza el conjunto de dataciones sobre hueso humano disponible para el País Valenciano entre el final del Paleolítico y el Neolítico medio, y más concretamente las correspondientes a individuos del Neolítico antiguo con el fin de caracterizar de forma más precisa el ritual de enterramiento de esta etapa entre los ríos Xúquer y Vinalopó. La dist...
We have focused our study on the projectile points of Cova de Parpalló. The Magdalenian sequence in this archaeological site is one of the most complete in the Upper Paleolithic from the southwest of Europe. We have analyzed 334 pieces from an assemblage that includes well over 2000 finished objects, and consider these weapons as a representative s...
We present in this paper a preliminary approximation of the socioecological dynamics of the last hunter-gatherers in Mediterranean Iberia based on summed C 14 densities from multiples sites. We focus the discussion on understanding the nature of human responses to climate changes in terms of population trends. Simultaneously, we argue that a critic...
Holliday (1) rejects age-depth models for the Younger Dryas boundary layer (YDB) in Kennett et al. (2), claiming that they are incorrect for several reasons, including age reversals, high age uncertainties, and use of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating. These same claims previously were presented in Meltzer et al. (3) and were discussed...
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A cosmic impact event at ∼12,800 Cal B.P. formed the Younger Dryas boundary (YDB) layer, containing peak abundances in multiple, high-temperature, impact-related proxies, including spherules, melt glass, and nanodiamonds. Bayesian statistical analyses of 354 dates from 23 sedimentary sequences over four continents established a modeled...
We present some bone tools from certain sites of Asturias whose engraving is done by the pseudo-excise carving technique. Some ones are added for the first time in the franco-cantabrian Badegulian/Archaic Magdalenian bone tool list, confirming a broad western geography in that period, but limited to a small number of pieces in each site. Additional...
The Cave of Nerja is a key site for an understanding of the Neolithic period in the Iberian Peninsula and specifically in Andalusia. In this paper we present the sequence for the Neolithic occupation of the cave based on the study of pottery, the stratigraphy and radiocarbon dates. The occupation sequence is contextualized in the regional area and...
A major cosmic-impact event has been proposed at the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) cooling episode at ≈12,800 ± 150 years before present, forming the YD Boundary (YDB) layer, distributed over >50 million km2 on four continents. In 24 dated stratigraphic sections in 10 countries of the Northern Hemisphere, the YDB layer contains a clearly defined...
A total of 167 plates of two whale barnacle species (Tubicinella major Lamarck, 1802 and Cetopirus complanatus
Mörch, 1853) have been found in the Upper Magdalenian layers of Nerja Cave, Mina Chamber (Maro,
Málaga, southern Spain). This is the first occurrence of these species in a prehistoric site. Both species are
specific to the southern right w...
Dans cette communication sont présentés les premiers résultats du projet ATLANTICMARINE (Ministère des Sciences et Innovation, Gouvernement d'Espagne) qui analyse le rôle que jouèrent les ressources marines dans le régime alimentaire des groupes humains du Sud-ouest européen au cours de la Préhistoire. Pour cela, sont analysés, à partir d'un point...
This paper tries to contribute to the knowledge of the Solutrean period in the south of the Iberian Peninsula. There are described the 14C ages and the climatic and industrial characteristics of the part of the litostratigraphic sequence of the �Vestíbulo� of the Cave of Nerja (Málaga, Spain) that contains these industries. This documentation is co...