Naroa Garcia-Ibaibarriaga- PhD in Quaternary
- University of the Basque Country
Naroa Garcia-Ibaibarriaga
- PhD in Quaternary
- University of the Basque Country
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Upper Palaeolithic archaeological sites in the Basque Country have been excavated for over a century. They have yielded a rich palaeoenvironmental record with zoological and botanical remains that have been obtained in stratigraphic series dated precisely by radiocarbon. This information reveals cyclical environmental changes from climates similar...
El País Vasco es considerado una de las regiones más adecuadas para el estudio
sobre la relación entre los cambios ambientales y las adaptaciones humanas a lo largo
del Pleistoceno, tal y como demuestra el gran número de investigaciones que se han
llevado a cabo en las últimas décadas. No en vano, funciono como corredor para las
poblaciones humanas...
The archaeological investigations carried out in the last twenty years in the Lower Valley of the River Güeña (Asturias, central part of northern Spain) have documented different prehistoric sites, particularly with Middle and Upper Palaeolithic occupations. This paper presents the results of the archaeological excavation carried out in the cave of...
En este trabajo se presenta el estudio de los microrrestos faunísticos del yacimiento de Armintxe (Lekeitio, Bizkaia). En esta cueva se ha recogido sedimento para el estudio micropaleontológico en tres zonas: la zona del Panel de grabados, la Galería intermedia y la zona de la entrada denominada como Vestíbulo. Las muestras de la zona del Panel han...
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...
Praileaitz I cave is located on the northern Iberian Peninsula and preserves a long sedimentary deposit spanning between 21 and 10 ka BP. Excavated since 2000, the use of the cave by humans seem to be different from other caves known in the Basque Country. The Lower Magdalenian singular anthropic remains suggests that this space would have been occ...
The Gravettian is an Upper Palaeolithic technocomplex whose knowledge has most evolved over the last few years in the geographical area known as Basque Crossroad (the zone located between the westernmost end of the Pyrenees and the eastern half of the Cantabrian Range).
This phase expanded in the region over eight millennia, between the 33,000 cal...
A systematic study of vertebrate remains from Mesolithic to Chalcolithic/Bronze Age levels in Lumentxa Cave has examined a total of 12,390 remains belonging to large mammals, small mammals, amphibians and reptiles, which have been identified at genus/species level. They are distributed among 37 taxa, corresponding to a minimum number of 328 individ...
Sites corresponding to Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS 5) and MIS 4 like Artazu VIII, with a continental record but no hominin imprints or carnivore activities, are very scarce in the Iberian Peninsula. The Artazu VIII cave fill (Arrasate, northern Spain) was discovered in 2013 and is presented here for the first time, including detailed stratigraphic...
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...
The so-called Basque crossroads constitutes a small region disposed on both slopes of the western Pyrenees, with one part on the north of the Iberian Peninsula and another, on the southwest of present-day France. Throughout the Pleistocene, it has been the main path for human populations to transit between the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Euro...
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 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...
The archaeological site of Cova Rosa (Sardéu, Ribadesella, Asturias) was excavated in 1958 and 1959 by Francisco Jordá Cerdá, professor of Prehistory at the University of Salamanca, who documented three layers (2, 3 and 4) that he ascribed to the Magdalenian and a further three layers (6, 7 and 8) attributed to the Solutrean. They were separated by...
The archaeological site of Cova Rosa (Sardéu, Ribadesella, Asturias) was
excavated in 1958 and 1959 by Francisco Jordá Cerdá, professor of
Prehistory at the University of Salamanca, who documented three layers
(2, 3 and 4) that he ascribed to the Magdalenian and a further three layers
(6, 7 and 8) attributed to the Solutrean. They were separated by...
Cova Rosa is an archaeological site in Asturias, Spain, excavated by Francisco Jordá Cerdá in 1958, 1959 and 1964. Later, the same archaeologist and Alejandro Gómez Fuentes carried out an excavation from 1975 to 1979. They documented two levels, named Cova Rosa A and Cova Rosa B. The archaeological material resulting from this excavation has remain...
The role of pollen and small mammal records in the palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the societies that inhabited the Cantabrian Region during Greenland Stadial 2 has gained relevance in the last twenty years. In response to the scarcity of long non-anthropogenic sedimentary sequences that cover the entire Greenland Stadial 2 (with the exceptio...
Este volumen recoge los resultados de la intervención arqueológica realizada entre los años 2005-2009 en el despoblado medieval situado en la colina alavesa de Zornostil o los altos de Zornostegui, identificable con el poblado medieval de Zornoztegi. Con anterioridad se habían realizado durante los años 2001-2003 una serie de prospecciones intensiv...
We present a paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction based on microfaunal assemblages preserved at Lezetxiki II Cave (Arrasate, Basque Country, Iberian Peninsula) and synthesize previously published and new chronological work from the cave to better understand the environmental history of the region. The stratigraphic sequence of this s...
The Artazu VII site (Arrasate, northern Iberian Peninsula) is a fossiliferous deposit that was discovered unsystematically at the Kobate Quarry in 2012. During the following year, all the vertebrate remains attributed to the upper Pleistocene (~ 93 ka) were recovered in an emergency excavation project. Here, we describe, for the first time, the sma...
Praileaitz I Cave (Deba, Basque Country) is one of those caves that can be considered special. Excavated in various series since 2000, the use of this cave is different to the rest of the caves we know of. Used sporadically as a temporary dwelling for a group of people since the Gravettian period, the singularity of the remains dated in the Lower M...
In this paper The small vertebrate assemblage from Praileaitz I (Deba, Gipuzkoa) is described. Although during the archaeological works were not taken specific samples for the microvertebrate study, we could use the residue from the sedimentological study, encompassing a chrono-cultural sequence from the Solutrean to the Mesolithic. A total of 13 d...
En este trabajo se presenta el estudio biométrico realizado en los sorícidos del yacimiento del Pleistoceno superior de Artazu VII (Arrasate, Gipuzkoa). Se han medido 97 elementos dentarios inferiores conectados a las mandíbulas de las especies Sorex araneus-coronatus y Sorex minutus. De esta manera se ha podido
determinar la variabilidad en tamaño...
Este trabajo presenta los resultados del análisis de los restos de vertebrados recuperados en el complejo inferior de la Cueva de Baltzola (Dima, Bizkaia), uno de los pocos conjuntos faunísticos asignables a la Edad del Bronce en el País Vasco. La economía pecuaria se basa en las tres cabañas domésticas clásicas: ganado ovicaprino, bovino y porcino...
En este trabajo se presenta el estudio de los microvertebrados del yacimiento de Ondaro (Nabarniz, Bizkaia). En total se han identifica-do 15 especies, estando los micromamíferos representados por ocho taxones de roedores (Apodemus sylvaticus-flavicollis, Arvicola amphi-bius, Microtus (Terricola) sp., Microtus (Alexandromys) oeconomus, Microtus (Mi...
Late Pleistocene palaeontological sites without human intervention are limited in the Cantabrian region, and even more so those with a good state of preservation and rich biodiversity. A new vertebrate fossiliferous locality discovered at Kobate Quarry (Arrasate, northern Iberian Peninsula) is presented in this article. This site, in which remains...
The reconstruction of the Cantabrian Gravettian and its palaeoenvironmental sequence is based on cave stratigraphies, which generally indicate a very rigorous climate (intense cold, occasionally dry and other times attenuated by the humidity). However, as open-air deposits are increasingly studied (Ametzagaina, Irikaitz and Mugarduia South), other...
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...
Este breve texto explica, en clave historiográfica, los motivos por los cuales los modelos territoriales aplicados desde mediados del siglo XX a la ecúmene paleolítica en la Península Ibérica continúan aún distorsionando nuestra visión. El paradigma del hábitat durante el Paleolítico superior en una cavidad situada a baja altitud se ha ido replican...
Three very different records are combined here to reconstruct the evolution of environments in the Cantabrian Region during the Upper Pleistocene, covering ~35.000 years. Two of these records come from Antoliñako Koba (Bizkaia, Spain), an exceptional prehistoric deposit comprising 9 chrono-cultural units (Aurignacian to Epipaleolithic). The palaeoe...
Este trabajo recoge el estudio de los micromamíferos de los lechos superiores (ca. 3695-4414 cal BP) de la Cueva de Arenaza I (Galdames, Bizkaia), excavados entre 1991 y 1993 y recuperados recientemente del depósito provincial. El conjunto de restos corresponde al menos a 14 especies diferentes de micromamíferos, nueve de ellas pertenecientes al Or...
The cave of Askondo (Mañaria, Bizkaia, Spain) is an archaeological site on the western flank of Asko Mount. Archaeological excavations in 2011 have provided a prehistoric and historic sequence from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age. Approximately 3000 microvertebrate elements (including mammals, reptiles, and amphibians) were recovered, of...
The end of the Middle Pleistocene is an interesting period for investigating the transformation of Neandertal behavior from the early Middle Paleolithic to the late Middle Paleolithic. Few sites in the Iberian Peninsula have sequences corresponding to the last interglacial (MIS5) and even fewer in the Cantabrian Region. One of the best places to in...
RESUMEN: Se describen los hallazgos de dos nuevas cavidades, en las cuales se han recuperado restos humanos. Las dataciones directas de estos restos humanos son coherentes a nivel cronológico con el Calcolítico. La primera cavidad, Punta Lucero II, ha proporcionado dos restos humanos de un individuo joven en un sondeo realizado en la zona exterior...
This paper provides the study of the small mammal assemblage from the site of Morgotako Koba (Kortezubi, Bizkaia). A total of nine species (Apodemus sylvaticus, Apodemus flavicollis, Arvicola amphibius, Microtus (Terricola) sp., Microtus (Alexandromys) oeconomus, Microtus (Microtus) agrestis, Microtus (Microtus) arvalis, Talpa sp. and Sorex araneus...
The cave of Lezetxiki II, located in the upper valley of the Deba River and near the eastern end of the Bay of Biscay, is an archaeological site physically connected to the classical site of Lezetxiki.Both cavities are well known due to the important archaeological and paleontological discoveries that have been made there. In the deposit of Lezetxi...
El Portalón is the current entrance to the Cueva Mayor Karst system of the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). The latter is internationally well-known for its rich Early to Middle Pleistocene hominin-bearing localities. Besides, El Portalón is an important archaeological site with a long stratigraphic sequence roughly covering the last 30.000 yea...
THE LONG SMALL VERTEBRATE RECORD OF ANTOLIÑAKO KOBA (BIZKAIA, SPAIN; UPPER PLEISTOCENE): A PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION FROM THE AURIGNACIAN TO THE AZILIAN PERIOD
By means of fossil remains we try to reconstruct the climatic and environmental changes in the southern Bay of Biscay in the last 100 or 120 thousand years. These reconstructions are able for comparison with other local, regional and global registers as pollen, GISP2, the marine record, etc.
En este trabajo se estudia el conjunto de restos de anfibios y reptiles procedentes de los niveles del Magdaleniense Superior y Final y del Aziliense del yacimiento de Santa Catalina (Vizcaya) y en los que 18 taxones han sido determinados (Salamandra salamandra, cf. Ichthyosaura alpestris, cf. Lissotriton helveticus, Triturus cf. marmoratus, Bufo b...
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La campaña de excavación llevada a cabo en el 2011 en la cueva de Askondo (Mañaria, Bizkaia) ha sacado a la luz una serie estratigráfica del Pleistoceno superior y Holoceno (ca. 64000-3500 cal BP). Las muestras de microvertebrados provienen de los cuadros O13, O14, O17 y N14, de donde se eligió un sector por talla (por cada 10cm). Mientras que en e...
La cueva de Arlanpe (Lemoa, Bizkaia), excavada entre 2006 y 2011, presenta una secuencia estratigráfica discontinua que abarca desde el Pleistoceno medio al Holoceno. En las distintas campañas se seleccionó un cuadrante testigo de 50x50 cm en cada una de las zonas de excavación (Fondo, Central y Entrada) de las que se recogieron muestras de sedimen...
We describe the southwesternmost specimen of Sicista betulina (Mammalia; Dipodidae) and of the genus Sicista found to date in Eurasia, which comes from the early Late Pleistocene (MIS 5) site of Lezetxiki II (Arrasate, Basque Country, Spain), in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. Sicista is a relatively common taxon in Quaternary deposits, althoug...
En este artículo describimos los micromamíferos del yacimiento paleontológico de Kiputz IX (Mutriku, Gipuzkoa, España) registrados en las tallas correspondientes a una edad arqueológica solutrense. La buena preservación de los restos óseos y la aplicación de las actuales técnicas micropaleontológicas permiten realizar la reconstrucción paleoambient...
El presente artículo es una revisión de los sitios arqueológicos y paleontológicos con estudios palinológicos y de microvertebrados de cronología Solutrense de la región cantábrica. Aunque hoy en día, los estudios paleoambientales son un elemento habitual en las actuaciones arqueológicas, la información correspondiente a este periodo sigue siendo e...
En el desarrollo de la excavación realizada en el 2011 en el yacimiento de Askondo (Mañaria, Bizkaia), se encontraron numerosos restos de microvertebrados. Los micromamíferos se encuentran representados en este yacimiento por 9 roedores y dos insectívoros, mientras que los reptiles por dos saurios y un ofidio y los anfibios por tres anuros. La asoc...
This paper presents the results obtained from the analysis of the remains of small mammals found in 11 semi-spits of the lowest layer (K) of Lezetxiki II (Arrasate, Gipuzkoa). Eleven taxa have been identified, nine belonging to the Order Rodentia and two to the Order Soricomorpha. The association of small mammals suggests that the archaeobotanical...
