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1. Refining chronologies and typologies: Cueva de la Cocina (Dos Aguas, Valencia, Spain) and its central role in defining the Late Mesolithic sequence in the Iberian Mediterranean area.

Author

Juan-Cabanilles, Joaquim, García-Puchol, Oreto, and McClure, Sarah B.

Subjects
*MESOLITHIC Period, *SPANISH literature, *RESEARCH questions, *PALEOLITHIC Period, *NEOLITHIC Period
Abstract

This paper constitutes a narrative view of the diachronic research conducted at Cueva de la Cocina (Dos Aguas, València) and its consequences on the Spanish Mesolithic literature from the middle of the 20th century to current times. Since its discover in 1941, the site has become one of the key sites regarding the sequence of the Late Mesolithic in Mediterranean Iberia. The campaigns conducted by L. Pericot (1941-45) provided the first archaeological sequence between the end of the Palaeolithic and the Early Neolithic in the aforementioned area. The review developed by J. Fortea in his fundamental book, focused on the Mediterranean "Epipalaeolithic", reinforced the initial postulates on the occupations of the last hunter-gatherers and gave place to the current sequence. The goal of this work consists of providing some light in the epistemological trajectory that conforms the Mesolithic's research history. Particularly, we want to highlight the importance to understand pioneering works to open new research questions considering current archaeological challenges and chances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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2. Insights into the Late Mesolithic toolkit: use-wear analysis of the notched blades, case-studies from the Iberian Peninsula

Author

Gibaja, Juan Francisco, Mazzucco, Niccolò, Perales, Unai, San Millán Lomas, María, García Puchol, Oreto, Rojo-Guerra, Manuel, and Juan Cabanilles, Joaquim

Subjects
Toolkit, Late Mesolithic, Use-wear analysis, Iberian Peninsula
Abstract

During the last decades we gain a considerable amount of new data about the Mesolithic toolkit in the Western Mediterranean. A large set of instruments probably existed for a variety of purposes: foraging practices (both hunting and fishing), food processing, crafting activities, etc. Expedient, disposable tools, scarcely elaborated, coexisted with formal and more complex instruments, often composed of multiple parts and realized on a variety of materials (e.g. stone, shell or bone inserts; bone or wood hafts, etc.). In this paper we will consider one particular type of tool that appears in the Western Mediterranean starting from the VII-VI millennium cal BC: the notched or denticulated blades. We will consider materials proceedings from five different Late Mesolithic contexts: the Cocina Cave, the Abric de la Falaguera and Vallmayor in the NE of the Peninsula, Artusia rock-shelters in Navarre and Atxoste and Mendandia rock-shelters in the Basque country. The results of our analysis indicate that all the studied materials are characterized by some common traits, both on a technological and functional level. Notches are often shaped through bending fractures, even if some elements are shaped through abrupt retouch. Also the cinematic of the tool appears almost identical in all the observed implements, while the major variability is observed among the worked materials. The notches appear to be used for scraping a variety of materials, from soft vegetal and animal substances, to woody plants or hardanimal material such as bone and antler. Even if data is still too scarce to draw definitive conclusions, we cannot exclude that notched blades represented a particular category of artifact, a crafting tool employable to scrape a variety of materials. However, interpretative problems (the overlaps between use-wear traces) and taphonomic alterations still represent a problem to overcome.

Published
2014

3. A multi-stage Bayesian modelling for building the chronocultural sequence of the Late Mesolithic at Cueva de la Cocina (Valencia, Eastern Iberia).

Author

García-Puchol, Oreto, McClure, Sarah B., Juan-Cabanilles, Joaquim, Cortell-Nicolau, Alfredo, Diez-Castillo, Agustín, Pascual Benito, Josep Lluís, Pérez-Ripoll, Manuel, Pardo-Gordó, Salvador, Gallello, Gianni, Ramacciotti, Mirco, Molina- Balaguer, Lluís, López-Montalvo, Esther, Bernabeu-Aubán, Joan, Basile, Martina, Real-Margalef, Cristina, Sanchis-Serra, Alfred, Pérez-Fernández, Ángela, Orozco-Köhler, Teresa, Carrión-Marco, Yolanda, and Pérez-Jordà, Guillem

Subjects
*MESOLITHIC Period, *SEQUENCE stratigraphy, *RADIOCARBON dating, *TWENTY-first century, *AGRICULTURE
Abstract

This paper presents a refined Mesolithic chronocultural sequence as a result of matching data provided by the set of archaeological research conducted at Cueva de la Cocina (Valencia, Spain) in the 20th and 21st centuries and the new radiocarbon dates record. Because available data are of different quality, we apply a methodological framework based on Bayesian modelling approaches. To do this, we systematically order each one of the archaeological registers and then combine the information in a unitary general chronology. Our novel approach introduces Bayesian modelling from a double analytical procedure: using Bayesian chronological models applied to the stratigraphic sequence of Pericot's excavation in Cocina cave we build a general phase model using data from multiple years of archaeological fieldwork. One the most reliable layers have been defined, we use this information to define the rest of the sequence through a Predictive Bayesian approach. This approach sheds light on evolutionary questions from a macroscale regarding the socioecological dynamics of the last hunter-gatherers and their role for explaining the subsequent agricultural spread. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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