Miriam Cubas

University of Alcalá | UAH · Department of History and Philosophy (Prehistory)

The Neolithic in the Southeast of the Southern plateau of the Iberian Peninsula has received little research attention compared to neighboring regions, such as Andalusia or Valencia. In the research of Neolithic ceramics in this region, the mor-pho-decorative study has predominated, although the importance of technological aspects has been progress...

Bone breakage is one of the most common features in the archaeological record. Fractures occur at different times and are classified as fresh or dry depending on the presence or absence of collagen in the bone. In the study of human remains, the timing of the occurrence of a fracture is of crucial importance as it can sometimes be linked to the cau...

The Iberian Peninsula is a key region for unraveling human settlement histories of Eurasia during the period spanning the decline of Neandertals and the emergence of anatomically modern humans (AMH). There is no evidence of human occupation in central Iberia after the disappearance of Neandertals ~42,000 years ago until approximately 26,000 years a...

Rationale Alkylresorcinols (AR) are cereal‐specific biomarkers and have recently been found in archaeological pots. However, their low concentrations and high susceptibility to degradation make them difficult to detect using conventional gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC/MS). Here we describe the development of a more sensitive liquid chroma...

La fouille de Saint-Julien-lès-Metz réalisée dans un cadre préventif s’est déroulée il y a une vingtaine d’années et sa publication a conduit à la reprise complète des études de mobiliers. Le site se caractérise par un état de conservation relativement bon. L’ensemble illustre trois périodes du Néolithique sous des angles parfois inédits et constit...

En este trabajo, presentamos las actividades llevadas a cabo durante las campañas de intervención arqueopaleontológica en la cueva de Abauntz, Arraitz-Orkin, Valle de la Ultzama, en los años 2022 y 2023. El objetivo principal del proyecto es caracterizar el tipo e intensidad de la ocupación del nivel h, adscrito al Paleolítico medio, así como los p...

The preventive archaeological excavation of Saint-Julien-lès-Metz took place some twenty years ago, and the artefacts were completely restudied following the publication of this relatively well-preserved site. The site as a whole illustrates three Neolithic periods from sometimes unprecedented angles, and represents a major contribution to our unde...

The funerary practices of the 4th and 3rd millennia cal bc are marked by the widespread use of megalithic architecture in most of the Iberian Peninsula, alongside major social transformations taking place during the Copper Age. At the same time, we find a proliferation of collective burials in natural caves located in mountainous areas of southern...

L’ouest des Pyrénées a toujours été une voie naturelle qui connecte la péninsule Ibérique au reste du continent Européen, et, pour cette raison, ainsi que pour sa géologie abondante en roche calcaire, la région présente une grande richesse de sites préhistoriques dans des grottes ou abris sur roche. L’intense activité archéologique du début du XXe...

Plant material culture can offer unique insights into the ways of life of prehistoric societies; however, its perishable nature has prevented a thorough understanding of its diverse and complex uses. Sites with exceptional preservation of organic materials provide a unique opportunity for further research. The burial site of Cueva de los Murciélago...

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The mobility of human groups in Prehistory, among other reasons, is closely motivated by the procurement of raw materials to elaborate different artefacts. In this sense, mountainous environments are interesting scenarios to ex- plore the local response and dynamics of raw material procurement and the mobility associated with it. The expansion of t...

Ya está lista la segunda edición de "Novedades del Megalitismo peninsular" que se celebrará los días 14-16 de julio en el Conjunto arqueológico de Los Dólmenes de Antequera (Málaga). Tras el éxito de la reunión "Las tumbas y los muertos, los muertos entre las tumbas" celebrada en el municipio de Reinoso (Burgos) el pasado mes de julio, anunciamos...

The material culture recorded at El Ostrero archaeological site (Maliaño, Cantabria) is reviewed here. Our results show that the site was occupied in two different chronological periods; the earliest in the Iron Age and the other later occupation during the Roman Age. Most of the material culture may be dated between the 8th and 4th centuries BC, a...

En este artículo presentamos los resultados del estudio integral del depósito de la Edad del Hierro documentado en la cueva del Aspio (Ruesga), integrando el conjunto arqueológico procedente de la recogida superficial de 1994 y de las intervenciones arqueológicas desarrolladas entre los años 2013 y 2018. Gracias a ello ha sido posible documentar un...

Count Vega del Sella’s research marked the beginning of the long tradition of Mesolithic studies in Asturias (North Spain). Another pioneer, L. Sierra, explored a number of caves in Cantabria with Mesolithic shell-middens, but no specific research line was developed on this kind of deposit in the province. The early excavation at Santimamiñe Cave r...

RESUMEN Este estudio se centra en el análisis de la distribución de los materiales prehistóricos recuperados y en las técnicas y patrones decorativos del conjunto cerámico del enclave de A Ceada das Chás/Castelo de Lobarzán (Oímbra/Monterrei, Ourense). Los resultados permiten cuestionar aspectos en cuanto a la ocupación, el modelo de asentamiento y...

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The spread of technological innovations is clearly related to the environment, which can influence local responses by prehistoric communities. In this sense, mountain environments are interesting scenarios to explore the local response and dynamics of adoption. The expansion of the Neolithic in Iberia has been linked to the introduction and consoli...

The archaeological site of Les Pedroses Cave and its parietal art have been studied and reappraised during the last three years. The cave was excavated in 1956 but the materials obtained remained unpublished. The information has been updated and the results have been correlated with the current excavation, allowing us allowed to contextualize much...

La cerámica prehistórica es uno de los materiales más documentados en los yacimientos de la Prehistoria reciente. Constituye, por tanto, una herramienta fundamental para establecer la cronología y la sistematización de las distintas ocupaciones humanas. Este curso de especialización se centra en las técnicas de análisis disponibles para abordar el...

O Penedo Gordo, tamén chamado Penedo da Moura, é un afloramento rochoso exento no lugar de Feilas, na parroquia de Fumaces e A Trepa, concello de Vilardevós, no que foi localizada pintura rupestre ao aire libre en 2017. A Dirección Xeral de Patrimonio da Xunta de Galicia solicitou á Universidade de Vigo a elaboración dunha proposta de actuación, qu...

The introduction and spread of the Neolithic “way of life” in Europe was a process that took several millennia, followed by different rhythms and displayed singularities in each geographic area. It was therefore a very complex phenomenon that, despite highly significant advances in research in recent decades, is yet to be fully understood. To deepe...

The introduction and spread of the Neolithic “way of life” in Europe was a process that took several millennia, followed by different rhythms and displayed singularities in each geographic area. It was therefore a very complex phenomenon that, despite highly significant advances in research in recent decades, is yet to be fully understood. To deepe...

Este trabajo tiene como eje discursivo la información publicada sobre dos de las cinco piraguas neolíticas documentadas en el asentamiento neolítico de La Marmotta (Anguillara Sabazia, Lazio, Italia), y como este hallazgo puede darnos nuevos datos sobre la navegación y la expansión neolítica por el Mediterráneo. Se trata de un yacimiento excepciona...

This study attempts a holistic approach to past foodways in prehistoric northern Gujarat, India, by considering evidence of food production, distribution, preparation and consumption. We present here the results of a pilot residue study, integrating lipid and starch grain analyses, conducted on 28 ceramic vessels from three Chalcolithic/Harappan se...

En este artículo se hace una puesta al día sobre la información disponible relativa a las excavaciones arqueológicas efectuadas en la Cueva de El Cierro. Está focalizado en las intervenciones llevadas a cabo con posterioridad a la primera excavación en el yacimiento, realizada por el profesor Francisco Jordá Cerdá en 1959, tanto las efectuadas por...

We present our experiences with a series of ‘forgotten groups’ that empower themselves through outreach activities. The authors coordinate or advise different activities, but the protagonists and promoters are those people, the ‘forgotten groups’. This work includes a description of objectives, methods and practices when coordinating inclusive outr...

The NeoNet dataset aims to provide a new research tool for the study of the pioneer farming front (i.e. Neolithisation) in the North Central and North Western Mediterranean basin by focusing on the period of transition from a foraging to a farming economy (ca. 7000 to 3500 cal BC). The complete dataset is formed by the elencoc14.tsv file, a datafra...

Los proyectos de transferencia y divulgación científica constituyen en la actualidad una parte importante de la actividad de los investigadores de cualquier disciplina. En el presente volumen se reúnen una serie de trabajos focalizados en proyectos de divulgación científica que se han desarrollado en distintos ámbitos y orientados a diferentes sect...

La mayor parte de los investigadores e investigadoras consideran que la ciencia alcanza su máxima expresión cuando esta revierte en la sociedad. Actualmente, es difícil encontrar una línea de investigación que no tenga un programa de proyección social independientemente de cuál sea su alcance. En los proyectos de investigación existe habitualmen...

El Niño cave, located on the south-eastern border of the Spanish Meseta, hosts a discontinuous sequence including Middle Palaeolithic and Neolithic levels, along with Upper Palaeolithic and Levantine style paintings. It is a key site for understanding human occupations of inland Iberia during the Palaeolithic and early prehistory. This paper summar...

Esecutore: Thomas Huet, Miriam Cubas, Juan F. Gibaja, Xavier Oms, Niccolò Mazzucco Direzione scientifica: Niccolò Mazzucco The NeoNet dataset collects all available, published, radiocarbon dates associated with the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic transition in the North Central-Western Mediterranean watershed. The dataset counts 2506 radiocar...

El Pendo Cave (Cantabrian Spain) is a well-known Palaeolithic archaeological site listed in the World Heritage by UNESCO. Nevertheless, the site preserves outstanding evidence of a Bronze Age context defined by the presence of non-sedimented circular structures, organic material (i.e., cordage, crafted wood and bark elements), metal objects and abu...

150 años de investigaciones prehistóricas en el valle del Sella, Asturias Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología Dirige: Jesús F. Jordá Pardo Coordina: Esteban Álvarez Fernández En este curso se aborda el estudio del poblamiento prehistórico del valle del río Sella desde la óptica de la geoarqueología, la paleoantropología, la arqueología y el...

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An intact archaeological context named Locus 1 has recently been discovered at Dehesilla Cave (southern Spain). The ritual funerary deposition consists of a complete pottery jar with part of a human calvarium over the mouth, and was occulted by large stone blocks. This paper offers a presentation of the new data provided mainly by the stratigraphic...

This paper presents the current state of research on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Cantabrian Spain. The Neolithization process took place later in the north of the Iberian Peninsula (from c. 5000 cal BC onwards) than in other parts of the peninsula, such as Mediterranean Spain, where the transition occurred some centuries earlier. This t...

The ‘Asturian culture’ is an archaeological techno-complex characteristic of the coastal areas of central and eastern Asturias and western Cantabria in northern Spain. Despite a long tradition of research on this archaeological phenomenon, little information has been acquired about domestic structures. Even locations of living areas have been po...

For one hundred years the Asturian has been the main reference point for the Mesolithic of northern Spain at both national and international levels. However, from the very beginning of research, some Basque counterparts to the eastern Asturian shell middens were added to the list and were very soon studied by T. de Aranzadi, J. M. de Barandiaran,...

The interior of the Iberian Peninsula has orographic conditions that make this territory especially vulnerable to Quaternary climate oscillations and which actually could have made it decisive for Paleolithic human populations at critical points. For this reason, the information provided by paleon-tological sites is important for reconstructing cli...

Since 2013 we built a working group formed by researchers, educators, social workers, communicators and educational psychologists to bring archaeological research to all types of audiences, especially those with limited access to scientific dissemination programmes. In particular, we refer to people with psychological disorders or physical disabili...

This paper presents novel insights into the archaeology of food in ancient South Asia by using lipid residue analysis to investigate what kinds of foodstuffs were used in ceramic vessels by populations of the Indus Civi-lisation in northwest India. It examines how vessels were used in urban and rural Indus settlements during the Mature Harappan per...

En este artículo se presenta el análisis tecnológico del conjunto cerámico documentado en la Cueva del Niño (Aýna, Albacete), un yacimiento arqueológico emblemático situado en el interior de la Península Ibérica con ocupaciones adscritas al Neolítico y al Calcolítico. Nuestra investigación aporta nuevos datos sobre las elecciones tecnológicas empl...

En este trabajo se hace una presentación de las investigaciones arqueológicas desarrolladas en el yacimiento de Aranbaltza (Barrika, Bizkaia), uno de los escasos yacimientos paleolíticos al aire libre conservados en la región cantábrica. Su registro es especialmente rico en ocupaciones realizadas por grupos de neandertales, desde finales del Pleist...

El yacimiento de la cueva de Abittaga, excavado por J.M. Barandiarán entre 1964 y 1965, contiene una secuencia arqueológica con ocupaciones del Magdaleniense Superior y de la Prehistoria Reciente. Este yacimiento apenas ha participado en los debates de la prehistoria vasca de los últimos 40 años, fundamentalmente porque el yacimiento había sido est...

The Atlantic Western Pyrenean area is exceptionally rich in archaeological evidence of funerary contexts dated to Late Prehistory. These funerary deposits are mainly recorded in caves and megalithic structures. Burials attributed to the Holocene have been recorded in more than 187 caves (177 just in Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia), reflecting the relevance o...

En este artículo se presentan los resultados de las tres primeras campañas arqueológicas llevadas a cabo desde el año 2016 en una estructura tumular situada en el paraje conocido como la Campa l´Españal (San Martín del Rey Aurelio, Asturias). Tras una breve introducción sobre el fenómeno megalítico en el Cantábrico, se exponen el proceso de excavac...

The introduction of farming had far-reaching impacts on health, social structure and demography. Although the spread of domesticated plants and animals has been extensively tracked, it is unclear how these nascent economies developed within different environmental and cultural settings. Using molecular and isotopic analysis of lipids from pottery,...

Archaeological sites attributed to the Late Prehistory are located all along the Sella valley and they are dated from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age. Although these chronologies of the Prehistory have not been addressed in a systematic research, broad archaeological evidence allows us to establish a reliable archaeological basis. In this contribut...

Fat residue analysis in sherds has allowed in the last years to target the cooking practices of prehistoric groups. Lipids identified in several ceramic samples from diverse sites in Northern Iberia show that dairy products were already present during the early stages of the regional Neolithic, side by side with meat derived from ruminants.

Archaeologists have long searched for methods to identify the use and function of prehistoric artifacts. The increasing application of use-wear, molecular and experimental approaches to the study of pottery vessels, flint and ground stone tools have provided crucial new information about prehistoric tool use in the last decades. However, whereas an...

This paper presents new archaeological evidence recorded in the late Pleistocene levels from Arangas cave (Northern Spain). The main goal is to reconstruct the subsistence strategies of the hunter-gatherer groups that occupied the cave between 18,500 and 12,500 cal BP from the integral study of biotic and abiotic remains. Anthracological study reve...

El yacimiento neolítico de El Prado (Pancorbo, Burgos) data de finales del VI e inicio del V milenio cal BC excepto una estructura del neolítico final datada en el V milenio cal BC. Se trata, por tanto, de un asentamiento al aire libre que abarca distintos momentos del Neolítico, localizado en un fondo de valle y que forma parte de los denominados...

El Cierro Cave possesses one of the few sequences in SW Europe in which archaeological levels cover the transition from the late Pleistocene to the early Holocene. Information contributed by the palynological and anthracological studies indicates that this transition was marked by a steady expansion of broadleaf woodland and a reduction in herbaceo...

Remains of perishable materials only survive at archaeological sites in extraordinary preservation conditions. This means that some technologies, such as woodworking, are clearly under‐represented in the archaeological record. Twelve wooden objects were found in the Aspio Cave (Ruesga, Cantabria). The application of an appropriate analytical method...

RESUMEN El yacimiento de la cueva de Atxurra fue excavado entre 1934 y 1935 por J.M. Barandiarán Ayerbe. Las condiciones de la excavación, la tardía publicación de los resultados y los avatares sufridos por los materiales arqueológicos recuperados han condicionado el análisis y la interpretación del yacimiento y de su secuencia estratigráfica. Reci...

This conference aims to be a meeting of researchers studying the Early Neolithic in Europe and surroundings areas, in relation with the neolithisation process in the continent. This process followed different rhythms and presented singularities in each geographic area, and was therefore a very complex phenomenon. In order to address this scientif...

Pottery technology is one of the traits traditionally linked to the transition from hunter-gathering to farming in Eurasia, using it as proxy for the so-called Neolithic transition. Current research, nevertheless, has allowed proposing different dynamics for both phenomena. Nowadays, it is possible to identify different trajectories across the cont...