Mario Gutiérrez-Rodríguez

Universidad de Jaén | UJAEN · Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Arqueología Ibérica

Meat consumption by early hominins is a hotly debated issue. A key question concerns their access to large mammal carcasses, including megafauna. Currently, the evidence of anthropic cut marks on proboscidean bones older than -or close to- 1.0 Ma are restricted to the archaeological sites of Dmanisi (Georgia), Olduvai (Tanzania), Gona (Ethiopia), O...

This terrestrial and underwater archaeological research project around a Mediterranean islet identifies that it was a commercial centre during the fifth century AD. The results shed light on Late Roman island occupation dynamics.

Zooarchaeological analyses of the skeletal remains of 52 animals unearthed in the courtyard of an Iron Age Tartessian building known as Casas del Turuñuelo (Badajoz, Spain) shed light on a massive sacrifice forming part of a series of rituals linked to the site’s last period of activity and final abandonment. The rites took place towards the end of...

In this paper we present the main results linked to the analysis of the territory of Iliturgi, with special emphasis on the impact and transformations arising from the siege of this Iberian oppidum in 206 BC during the Second Punic War. This research forms part of the studies of this conflict in the Upper Guadalquivir, the main objective of which i...

The Tartessian culture developed in the SW Iberia between the 8th and the 5th centuries BC. Its formation came about as a result of the merging of the Phoenician population that arrived in the peninsula at the end of the 9th century BC and the indigenous population that lived in the area. This cultural hybridisation led to differences in the Tartes...

The lack of vertical stratigraphic sondages and open area excavations constitutes a challenge to understanding Mauritanian urbanism. This makes the characterization of the spatio-temporal evolution of Mauritanian towns a difficult task. Systematic excavations carried out in Tamuda by several research teams in the twentieth century provided vertical...

Roman roads are omnipresent in the Mediterranean basin. Despite the methodological advances achieved, interdisciplinary studies including geoarchaeological techniques are still rare. The aim of this study is to offer a microstratigraphic analysis of an important Roman road in order to characterise the raw materials and construction techniques used...

The Guadix-Baza Basin (GBB, Granada, Spain) extends over a surface area of some 4.500 km2 and constitutes one of the richest Pleistocene vertebrate fossil records in Western Europe. Within this basin, Orce area stands out for having yielded evidence on of the oldest hominin presence in western Eurasia. Exceptionally rich collections of stone tools...

The southwestern coast of the Iberian Peninsula has been considered a low-probability tsunamigenic area. However, both onshore and offshore studies have characterized the occurrence of several extreme wave events (tsunamis and storm surges) in the Gulf of Cadiz during the Holocene. Among all the events reported in literature, in recent years the th...

Paleo-wetlands have fragmented in archaeological times associated with human stressors. We present an interdisciplinary analysis of a past temporary paleo-wetland located at an important junction between the valleys of the Rivers Guadalquivir and Guadalimar in the province of Jaén (Eastern Andalusia, Spain). We applied a high-resolution protocol to...

Damos a conocer el hallazgo de un santuario ibero, situado en la Loma de Úbeda (Jaén), en un punto clave de conexión entre los valles del Guadalquivir y del Guadalimar, definido como un espacio al aire libre, al que se asocia un depósito votivo del siglo III a. n. e. El interés de este estudio de caso radica en la aplicación de un protocolo fuertem...

Recent archaeological excavations (2016–2019) in the city of Tamuda (northern Morocco) yielded evidence of commercial milling and bread-making facilities dated to the Mauretanian period (first century BC). This article presents the results of the excavation of two Mauretanian buildings (E0 7 and E0 8) in the Eastern Quarter, in which evidence for f...

Recent research undertaken as part of the Iliturgi Project has located the remains of an Early Imperial building complex linked to the Via Augusta. They include the foundations of an arch and a monumental platform whose size and characteristics allow it to be identified as the Ianus Augustus, a monumental complex near the River Baetis that marked t...

En este trabajo se presenta un análisis arquitectónico y material de la escalera monumental que preside el patio del yacimiento de Casas del Turuñuelo. El análisis de los escalones inferiores nos ha permitido documentar la primera evidencia de la fabricación de un mortero de cal de manera antrópica empleado para la producción de bloques paralelepíp...

1 Estabulación, almacenaje y alimentación durante los siglos IV-III a. C. en el Área 3 de Giribaile ANTONIO JESÚS ORTIZ VILLAREJO, LUIS MARÍA GUTIÉRREZ SOLER, MARÍA ALEJO ARMIJO Y MARIO GUTIÉRREZ RODRÍGUEZ PALABRAS CLAVE: ganadería, arqueología ibérica, estabulación, asentamiento rural. CÓDIGOS JEL: B10, B11, B15, R14. L a campaña de excavación arq...

Although microarchaeological techniques are being increasingly applied to European urban contexts, its integration in classical archaeology projects is far from systematic. In this sense, the archaeological record of Roman cities—because of their vitality, diversity and continuity of occupation—are excellent arenas to develop the direction of these...

Los brazaletes de piedra del Neolítico Antiguo (ca. 5500-4800 cal AC) y los contextos donde se produjeron son relativamente conocidos. Sin embargo, lugares únicamente destinados a la extracción de materia prima y primera transformación no se han documentado en la Península Ibérica. En este trabajo damos a conocer la primera cantera de mármol para l...

Geoarchaeology, as a significant discipline within archaeology and the geosciences, operates at many different scales and encompasses several analytical methods and techniques, including what we highlight here: (ar- chaeological) soil micromorphology. Communication practices of micromorphological researchers have not evolved significantly or, at le...

La finalidad de este artículo es dar a conocer un breve conjunto de materiales procedentes de la excavación arqueológica realizada en la villa romana y necrópolis tardorromana de la antigua estación de autobuses, situada en el Camino de Ronda de Granada. Se trata de objetos cotidianos realizados con diferentes materiales como el hueso, metal, arcil...

El estudio de los paisajes rurales antiguos se ha visto enriquecido por una mayor comprensión de las villae y otras formas de asentamiento rural. Estas instalaciones agrícolas son, en muchos casos, el único registro arqueológico visible de una realidad normalmente perdida del paisaje agrario romano: los fundi. En este trabajo proponemos una metodol...

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The stone bracelets are one of the most outstanding elements of personal ornaments of the ancient Neolithic in Western Mediterranean and the South of the Iberian Peninsula (5500-4800 cal. BCE). These bracelets are considered an element of cultural identity and a chronological marker of the first Neolithic societies in these areas. The study of the...

Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo entre 2010 y 2012 en la Cova dels Jurats han permitido determinar que, a diferencia del resto de las cuevas de Calescoves, todas ellas de enterramiento, ésta funcionó como santuario, distinguiéndose dos fases diferentes en su uso. La primera se corresponde con el periodo Talayótico Final, convirtiéndose en el primer...

This paper is an advance to the archaeological excavation of the site Villavieja from Fuentes de Cesna (Algarinejo, Granada, Spain). Villavieja is a prehistoric settlement located on a high plateau, which overlooks the river Genil, between Loja and Iznájar. It has a walled enclosure from about three hundred meters long. The site closes some three h...

This paper show the presence of a very particular kind of flint artifact during the historical period, such as the Late Roman igniters. They are relatively common in some archaeological contexts but poorly studied by historiography. Through the experimentations it's aimed to make a characterization of them by technical analysis serving knapping sti...

Resumen: El estudio integral del paisaje del área de Alconétar (Cáceres) ha permitido obtener nuevos datos sobre la dinámica de ocupación durante la Prehistoria reciente de sector. Prospecciones y sondeos realizados en tres sectores aledaños a las márgenes del Tajo han servido para trazar una imagen integral de la evolución del paisaje, en el que s...

The geoarchaeological stratigraphy of a site located at the coalescence zone of two small alluvial fans at the Albaicin foothills, reveals lanscape changes during the late Holocene in Granada. The record shows two geological beds, each divided in several archaeological strata. The lower bed, formed by gravelly-cobbly sands and clays, include pebble...

Se presenta el análisis de las dinámicas poblacionales de la Cuenca de Vera durante la Antigüedad Tardía, que si bien son ya conocidas (la concentración del poblamiento en torno a yacimientos destacados en altura a partir del siglo V d.C.), este trabajo las estudia desde una óptica territorial basada en las posibilidades de los SIG y concretamente...