Juan Carlos Vera-Rodríguez

Universidad de Huelva | UHU · Departamento de Historia, Geografía y Antropología

El encuentro científico internacional conmemora el Centenario del Descubrimiento del Dolmen de Soto. La temática de la reunión concilia tres aspectos claves de los monumentos megalíticos del suroeste de la Península Ibérica: 1) los descubrimientos de los principales monumentos; 2) las largas biografías de los sitios; 3) su contextualización arquite...

The deposition and manipulation of human remains in natural caves are well known for the Neolithic of Southern Iberia. The cultural meaning of these practices is however still largely unclear. Cueva de los Marmoles (CM, Priego-Córdoba) is one of the most important cave contexts from Southern Spain, which returned a large number of commingled skelet...

This study analyses the funerary activity of small collective tombs with a limited number of individuals in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula during the Copper Age. These small burial spaces are one of the most frequent funerary manifestations and one of the most common forms of megalithic monumentality in the complex societies of this geograp...

In northwestern Africa, lifestyle transitioned from foraging to food production around 7,400 years ago but what sparked that change remains unclear. Archaeological data support conflicting views: (1) that migrant European Neolithic farmers brought the new way of life to North Africa1–3 or (2) that local hunter-gatherers adopted technological innova...

The presence of scattered prehistoric human bones in caves and sinkholes is common in many regions of Iberia. These are usually interpreted as erratic elements coming from burial contexts, usually collective associations. These burial contexts are very frequent in karst areas of the Iberian Peninsula since the Early Neolithic, mostly in the Late Ne...

Este trabajo tiene por objeto presentar el sitio megalítico de La Torre-La Janera, ubicado en el Bajo Guadiana (Huelva). Su investigación ha integrado varias técnicas de muestreo, análisis y documentación: prospecciones, geoarqueología, tecnologías de información geográfica y fotogrametría. Los resultados más destacados han sido: a) la constatación...

Under the direction of Alexia Echevarría Sánchez, the archaeological excavation firm Grupo Ánfora carried out test excavations on the Cabezo La Joya in Huelva (Andalusia, Spain) from April to September 2019. It is the site of a necropolis which has served as a point of reference for Tartessian archaeology since the 1970s. The new finds include eigh...

Este artículo presenta los datos procedentes de un nuevo corte –denominado C006- realizado durante 2017 en Cueva de la Dehesilla. Por vez primera, se excava una de las salas más internas de la cavidad -sala 4-. El área intervenida muestra una secuencia estratigráfica datada desde el Neolítico Antiguo hasta el Neolítico Final, y cubierta por una gru...

Textile production is among the most fundamental and more complex technologies in human prehistory, but is under-investigated due to the perishable nature of fibrous materials. Here we report a discovery of five textile fragments from a prehistoric (fourth-third millennium cal BC) burial deposit located in a small cave at Peñacalera in Sierra Moren...

This work is a starting point for rethinking the role of the Iberian Peninsula in the neolithisation of northern Morocco. It focuses on the similarities and divergences between the first pottery productions and their decorations in both territories. This relationship is supported by the existence of an accurate chronological gradation between the f...

This work presents the anthracological and archeopalynological results obtained within the project AGRIWESTMED (ERC AdG 230561), which has involved a comprehensive retrieval of archeobiological remains based on a systematic sampling strategy, beyond the recovery of the usual archeological materials. These surveys were conducted on three sites locat...

Abstract: Here we present the study of the pottery remains from the Neolithic phase of Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Mechrouha, Tetouan, Morocco), focused on the analysis of decorative patterns and techniques. In its early phase, its association with the first evidence of agriculture and livestock in the western Maghreb, framed in the third quarter of the 6th...

Este estudio tiene por objeto determinar la cronología de la necrópolis de La Orden-Seminario. La investigación ha combinado el análisis estratigráfico con el modelo estadístico bayesiano de 17 dataciones radiocarbónicas efectuadas sobre restos antropológicos de tres tumbas. Los resultados ponen de manifiesto: a) la biografía funeraria de cada tumb...

In this paper we present the results of phytolith investigations at two archaeological sites in northwestern Morocco: Khil (Tangier) and Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Tétouan). The two sites located in Western Maghreb, one on the Atlantic and one on the Mediterranean coast, were investigated in the framework of the AGRIWESTMED project. Phytolith analysis compl...

This study focuses on the chronostratigraphic sequence of the Cave of Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Dar Ben Karrich, Tétouan, Morocco) excavated in 2012 in the framework of the AGRIWESTMED research project. The broad sequence reveals a series of occupations ranging from the Pleistocene (Moroccan Aterian) to recent historical times. Our research identifies a ri...

The presence of isolated human bones in cavities and sinkholes throughout Late Prehistory is a common phenomenon in a large part of the Iberian territory.

There is a significant number of funerary contexts for the Early Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula, and the body of information is much larger for the Late Neolithic. In contrast, the archaeological information available for the period in between (ca. 4800-4400/4200 cal BC) is scarce. This period, generally called Middle Neolithic, is the least we...

IAU en el Plan Parcial 8 “Seminario” de Huelva, dirigida por Alejandra Echevarría Sánchez. Se han documentado una serie de estructuras excavadas en el sustrato que adelantan el origen del poblamiento a finales del IV milenio a.n.e.

El dolmen de Soto es uno de los mayores monumentos megalíticos de Europa. Fue publicado por H. Obermaier en 1924 y casi cien años después, este volumen presenta la primera documentación gráfica sobre sus soportes, incluyendo análisis de pigmentos y dataciones del contexto arqueológico interno y externo del sepulcro. Su arquitectura es el resultado...

Cueva de la Dehesilla contó con dos excavaciones arqueológicas en 1977 y 1981. Desde entonces se conoce el potencial prehistórico del sitio, especialmente en relación con sus fases neolíticas, y se convirtió en uno de los enclaves fundamentales en el sur de la península ibérica. Este artículo presenta los datos procedentes de las recientes interven...

Two archaeological excavations were carried out at Dehesilla Cave in 1977 and 1981. The site gained a great scientific interest then, especially in relation to the Neolithic, and it became one of the key archaeological sites in the Southern Iberian Peninsula. This paper presents new data from the recent archaeological excavations resumed four decad...

La presencia de objetos exóticos en contextos arqueológicos y los intercambios a larga distancia que estos implican es uno de los temas que despierta más interés en la discusión arqueológica. En este artículo presentamos el estudio de una cuenta o colgante hallado en contextos neolíticos de la Cueva de los Cuarenta (Priego de Córdoba). Se trata del...

L´arrivée de l´agriculture et l´élevage, apparait comme une des piliers fondamentaux pour la compréhension de la dynamique historique du Maghreb et sa relation avec l´ensemble des régions méditerranéennes, et en particulier, avec la Péninsule Ibérique. Entre 2011 et 2013 dans le cadre du projet AGRIWSTMED Origins and spread of agriculture in the so...

Funerary practices of 4th millennium cal BC are characterized in most parts of Iberian Peninsula by the widespread of megalithic architecture, preluding major changes of social structuration fulfilled throughout the Copper Age. At the same time, burial caves are developed in mountainous areas scattered in the whole Iberia, many of the them located...

The period comprising the end of the Early Neolithic and the Middle Neolithic, dated broadly within the fifth millennium cal BC, corresponds to an interval that remains largely unknown in the extreme north-western tip of Africa. This situation contrasts with that of the Early Neolithic, a period characterised by the earliest evidence of the diffusi...

The use of seashells for the decoration of pottery from the sixth millennium cal BC is well known in the western Mediterranean, with the emergence of so-called Cardial Pottery. Actually, the most discussed issue up until now has been the use of bivalves for impressed decoration. However, the experimental approach followed in the present study provi...

Significance The gene pool of modern Europeans was shaped through prehistoric migrations that reached the Western Mediterranean last. Obtaining biomolecular data has been challenging due to poor preservation related to adverse climatic conditions in this region. Here, we study the impact of prehistoric (Neolithic–Bronze Age) migrations in Iberia by...

This study is an overview of the state of research on the process of neolithisation of the northwestern corner of Morocco. Particularly noteworthy are the recent findings of a Spanish-Moroccan team in the framework of the AGRIWESTMED project carried out between 2011 and 2013 for the most part at the caves of Magharat el-Khil (Tangier), Kaf Taht el-...

The gene pool of modern Europeans was shaped through prehistoric migrations that reached the Western Mediterranean last. Obtaining biomolecular data has been challenging due to poor preservation related to adverse climatic conditions in this region. Here, we study the impact of prehistoric (Neolithic–Bronze Age) migrations in Iberia by analyzing ge...

En este capítulo pretendemos presentar el análisis de los elementos líticos tallados, fundamentalmente aquellos sobre sílex, tanto bases de extracción como soportes industriales, así como también aquellas industrias constituidas por elementos líticos no silíceos, ya sean simplemente desbastados como también pulimentados. Dentro de este grupo recoge...

Hace 7000 años una sociedad de agricultores y ganaderos neolíticos eligió como asentamiento la misma eminencia rocosa en la que milenios más tarde se erigiría el Castillo de Doña Mencía, fortificación medieval que constituyó el núcleo originario de la actual localidad. Estos pobladores primigenios cultivaron cereales, trigo y cebada, junto a legum...

The combination of an archaeobotanical analysis from two different sites in the city of Huelva (Spain) and the identification of vine fields in the same area suggests that different fruit tree species (grapevine, olive, almond and pomegranate) and vegetables such as melon were introduced into the Iberian peninsula in the transition from the 9th to...

Hut 557 of La Orden-Seminario site (Huelva, Spain) is an pithouse located in the civic territory (Chora) of the ancient port town. Findings recovered during the excavation have allowed dating the occupation of the area between the mid-seventh and the beginning of the sixth century BC (ca. 650-580 BC). The dwelling is located in an agricultural plot...

En este trabajo se realiza una síntesis del conocimiento que a día de hoy se tiene sobre el poblamiento en los territorios delimitados del Paraje Natural Marismas del Odiel, así como su entorno más próximo, desde épocas prehistóricas hasta momentos históricos cuyo fin se establece en el periodo tardoantiguo; ya que entendemos que los periodos Alto...

El alto valle del Guadiato esconde un monumental y rico patrimonio de construcciones megalíticas, la mayoría de ellas todavía por descubrir e investigar debidamente y, por supuesto, por conservar y proteger. Este legado lo componen varias decenas de dólmenes de corredor, galerías cubiertas y sepulcros de falsa cúpula (tholoi), menhires y estelas-me...

Introducción ………………….……………………………... 218 Itinerario geológico y paradas………..……………………. 215 Parada 1: Cabezo del Conquero, Huelva ……………...….. 216 Parada 2: Aljaraque ...................………………..………….. 218 Parada 3: Cañada Honda, Aljaraque ………………..…….. 222 Parada 4:La Orden-Seminario, Huelva ……………...…….. 225 Parada 5: El Almendral, Isla Saltés ……………..……...

Late-Ancient Visigothic Era cemetery of La Orden-Seminario (Huelva) is found between archeological remains that revealed this archeological site great significance. This means this is one of the scarcest evidences of rural necropolis in this class we possess both on local and regional level. This finding is a key point for the best understanding of...

El uso de cavidades naturales con fines funerarios está bien documentado a lo largo de toda la Prehistoria y muy especialmente a partir del neolítico. Debido a su propia naturaleza, muchas cuevas no constituyen per se ambientes idóneos para la circulación de personas, a menudo ni siquiera para la deposición controlada de restos humanos, estando con...

El yacimiento neolítico del Arroyo de Santa María se localiza en la margen derecha del curso fluvial epónimo, en las proximidades de la vereda que desde la localidad de Almonte conduce a la aldea de El Rocío. Presentamos en esta comunicación los resultados obtenidos durante el desarrollo de una Intervención Arqueológica de Urgencia motivada por las...

En 1932, Samuel de los Santos Gener, director del Museo Arqueológico de Córdoba durante el segundo cuarto del siglo XX, fue avisado por Emilio Pérez Alcázar, administrador de distintas propiedades situadas en la campiña cordobesa, sobre la presencia de una extraña piedra grabada en un terreno próximo a la población de Espejo, si bien dentro del tér...

Abstract This paper focuses on the new macro-botanical evidence of South-Western Asian cultivated plants from northern Moroccan Neolithic sites. Due to the reduced presence of plant remains from previous excavations in the region, archaeological evidence of agriculture is rare and the arrival of domesticated plants and the role of farming in the Ea...

In this work we intent to share various rock art panels found in a small cave located in the site of Peñarredonda, next to Sierra del Castillo (Espiel, Cordoba). In the same way in order to contextualize this find, we analyze the evidence of prehistoric occupation of the surrounding territory, represented by two distinct cores, both datable around...

La investigación relativa a los inicios de la vitivinicultura en la Península Ibérica ha venido abordándose tradicionalmente a partir del análisis de las fuentes escritas clásicas, de estudios iconográficos, del estudio tipológico y funcional de la vajilla tanto cerámica como metálica, y en general de todos los recipientes relacionados con el almac...

Hereby, we present a preview about the stratigraphic and contextual analysis of fifteen negative structures, which are linked according to the space they share. They can be likewise linked in three different groups, datable in the 3rd millennium cal. BC. Due to that, we have been able to establish a functional classification of the contexts. This c...

In this paper we present the cemeteries of the El Seminario (Huelva) that are integrated in the settlement of the III millennium B.C. This site occupied the center of the estuary that formed the rivers Tinto and Odiel. In this archaeological site have been documented around 250 negative structures of the IV-III millennia BC with various typologies...

The Bronze Age cemetery of La Orden-Seminario (Huelva, southwest of Spain) shows the transition between the burial rites of Late Chalcolithic and local Bronze Age (first stage of the so-called "Southwestern Bronze"). C14 available datings have allowed us to differentiate a late Beaker first phase related to the end of megalithism (2200-1950 cal BC)...

We present a preview of the archaeological activity carried out in August 2007 and a descriptive study of the material culture and human remains recovered at the so-called Cueva de los Cuarenta (Las Lagunillas, Priego de Córdoba, Andalusia), a natural cave where different burial contexts from Late Neolithic have been documented. These rich contexts...

We present a preview of the archaeological activity carried out in August 2007 and a descriptive study of the material culture and human remains recovered at the so-called Cueva de los Cuarenta (Las Lagunillas, Priego de Córdoba, Andalusia), a natural cave where different burial contexts from Late Neolithic have been documented. These rich contexts...

We present a preview of the archaeological activity carried out in August 2007 and a descriptive study of the material culture and human remains recovered at the so-called Cueva de los Cuarenta (Las Lagunillas, Priego de Córdoba, Andalusia), a natural cave where different burial contexts from Late Neolithic have been documented. These rich contexts...

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El objeto de este artículo es el hallazgo de un fragmento de una gran hacha pulimentada de sílex aparecida durante la prospección para la realización de la Carta Arqueológica Municipal de Huelva. Su descubrimiento se produjo en el año 2009 junto con otras evidencias superficiales en el paraje denominado “La Somá”, una extensa plataforma situada uno...

Abstract In accordance with archaeological data partially obtained after the excavations conducted at La Orden-Seminario archaeological site at Huelva, a preliminary synthesis of historical evolution of the Atlantic Port as from the end of 2nd Millennium BC to first half of following 1st Millennium BC is hereby explained. The archaeological data co...

This paper explores the exploitation of plant resources during the Epipalaeolithic and the Neolithic in southern Iberia and northern Morocco. The archaeobotanical record allows outlining the range of wild species used and characterizing the first evidences of farming during the second half of the 6th mil. cal BC. Amongst the first crops, cereals, l...

In accordance with archaeological data partially obtained after the excavations conducted at La Orden-Seminario archaeological site at Huelva, a preliminary synthesis of historical evolution of the Atlantic Port as from the end of 2nd Millennium BC to first half of following 1st Millennium BC is hereby explained. The archaeological data confirms th...

Resumen: Los sistemas agrícolas presentes en el yacimiento de La Orden-Seminario (Huelva, España) se basan en unas tipologías de huellas de cultivo que permiten ser interpretadas como testimonios materiales de prácticas viticultoras según las diferentes evidencias manejadas. Las viñas documentadas por nosotros forman campos o parcelas de cultivo de...

Two Neolithic sites from Northern Morocco, Khil and Kaf Taht El-Ghar, have been re-excavated during 2011 and 2012 as part of the AGRIWESTMED (ERC) project on the origins and spread of agriculture in the Western Mediterranean. The systematic recovery and flotation of sediments in these two sites has provided a broad assemblage of domesticated and wi...

This paper presents preliminary information on the excavation of El Khil Caves (Achakar, Tanger, Morocco)carried out in September 2011. The aim was to obtain detailed data on the first farming communities in the northern part of Morocco. Two test pits were dug in Grotte B and Grotte C and bioarchaeological samples (both archaeobotanical and zooarch...