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Aurreko kanpainetan gertatu bezala, 2022ko udan Aranzadi Zientzia Elkarteko arkeologo talde bat Lakidain herrian (Aranguren Ibarra) dagoen Irulegiko Burdin Aroko herrixka gotortuan lanean aritu da. Aztarnategi arkeologiko horretan area zabaleko indusketa bat egin da, lehengo urtean in­dusten hasitako gunetik jarraituz. Lan horiei esker aztarnategi honetako aurrehistoria berantiarreko faseen ezagutza handituz doa., As in successive campaigns, in summer of 2022 a team of the Aranzadi Science Society has carried out a series of archaeological works in the Iron Age dated hillfort of Irulegi in the municipality of Laquidaín (Aranguren Valley). An open area excavation has been carried out, including areas in which intervention was made last year. Thanks to this work, those phases of the Iron Age in the site has begun to be known., Como en sucesivas campañas, en verano de 2022 un equipo de la Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi ha llevado a cabo una serie de trabajos arqueológicos en el poblado de la Edad del Hierro del yacimien­to de Irulegi, en el municipio de Laquidaín (Valle de Aranguren). Se ha continuado una excavación en área abierta, siguiendo áreas en las que se intervino el año pasado, gracias a las cuales se ha co­menzado a conocer esta fase del yacimiento de la prehistoria reciente.

Aurreko kanpainetan gertatu bezala, 2021eko ekainean eta uztailean Aranzadi Zientzia Elkarteko arkeologo talde bat Lakidain herrian (Aranguren Ibarra) dagoen Irulegiko Burdin Aroko herrixka gotortuan lanean aritu da. Aztarnategi arkeologiko horretan area zabaleko indusketa bat egin da, lehengo urtean industen hasitako gunea barnebilduz. Lan horiei esker aztarnategi honetako aurrehistoria berantiarreko faseen ezagutza handituz doa., As in successive campaigns, in July and June of 2021 a team of the Aranzadi Science Society has carried out a series of archaeological works in the Iron Age dated hillfort of Irulegi in the municipality of Laquidáin (Aranguren Valley). An open area excavation bhas been carried out, including areas in which intervention was made last year. Thanks to this work, this phase of the Iron Age in the site has begun to be known., Como en sucesivas campañas, en julio y junio de 2021 un equipo de la Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi ha llevado a cabo una serie de trabajos arqueológicos en el poblado de la Edad del Hierro del yacimiento de Irulegi, en el municipio de Laquidáin (Valle de Aranguren). Se ha realizado una excavación en área abierta, incluyendo áreas en las que se intervino el año pasado, gracias a las cuales se ha comenzado a conocer esta fase del yacimiento de la prehistoria reciente.

2019 eta 2020 urteetan Aranzadi Zientzia Elkarteko talde batek Lakidaingo herrian (Aranguren Ibarra) dagoen Irulegiko Burdin Aroko herrixkan zenbait jarduera arkeologiko burutu ditu. Kanpaina hauetan miaketak, miaketa geofisikoak, zundaketa geoarkeologikoak eta indusketa arkeologikoak, bai miaketa-zulo eta baita area zabalean planteatuak, egin dira, aztarnategi arkeologiko honetako historiaurre berantiarreko fase honen ikerketa hasiz., Between 2019 and 2020, a team from the Aranzadi Science Society carried out a series of archaeological works in the Iron Age town of the Irulegi site, in the municipality of Laquidáin (valle de Aranguren). During several campaigns, visual surveys, geophysical surveys, geoarchaeological surveys and archaeological excavations have been carried out, both in the form of trenches and in an open area, which have allowed us to begin to know this phase of this site., Entre los años 2019 y 2020 un equipo de la Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi ha llevado a cabo una serie de trabajos arqueológicos en el poblado de la Edad del Hierro del yacimiento de Irulegi, en el municipio de Laquidáin (valle de Aranguren). Durante varias campañas se han realizado prospecciones visuales, prospecciones geofísicas, sondeos geoarqueológicos y excavaciones arqueológicas, tanto en forma de catas como en área abierta, que han permitido empezar a conocer esta fase del yacimiento de la prehistoria reciente.

[ES] El conocimiento de los cambios climáticos y ambientales del inicio del Holoceno y su incidencia en las poblaciones y culturas humanas es clave para la comprensión de la evolución tanto pretérita como futura de éstas. En este sentido, el estudio mediante zanjas y sondeos del registro arqueosedimentario holoceno en el área del yacimiento neolítico de Los Cascajos (Los Arcos, Navarra), aporta una valiosa información no sólo para el establecimiento de la evolución ambiental de esta zona, sino también para el conocimiento de las actividades que los pobladores del yacimiento realizaron en los márgenes del río Odrón. En este trabajo se presentan los resultados del estudio estratigráfico, sedimentológico y geoquímico mediante XRF-CS de alta resolución del sondeo LAC1. Los datos obtenidos denotan una tendencia hacia la aridificación a lo largo del Holoceno, representada por un ciclo de agradación-incisión en la evolución fluvial del río Odrón. En el registro sedimentario fluvial se detectan también indicadores de actividad antrópica coetánea al asentamiento de Los Cascajos, lo que permite situar su ocupación en momentos hidrológicamente más húmedos que el actual, y evidenciar la posterior aridificación de esta zona del valle del Ebro a lo largo del Holoceno reciente (Megalayense)., [EN] The knowledge of climatic and environmental changes at the onset of the Holocene and its impact on human populations and cultures is key for the understanding of their both past and future evolution. In this sense, the study through trenching and cores of the Holocene archaeosedimentary record in the surroundings of the Los Cascajos Neolithic archaeological site (Los Arcos, Navarra), provides valuable information not only for the establishment of the environmental evolution of this area, but also for the knowledge of the activities that the inhabitants of the settlement developed in the Odrón riverbanks. In this work the results of the stratigraphic, sedimentological and geochemical study (XRFCS) of the LAC1 core are presented. The obtained data denote a trend towards longterm aridification throughout the Holocene, recorded by an aggradation-incision cycle in the fluvial evolution of the Odrón River. In the fluvial sedimentary record, anthropic activity proxies coetaneous to Los Cascajos settlement are also detected during a relatively more humid period than nowadays, this fact evidences the subsequent aridification of this area of the Ebro valley along the late Holocene (Meghalayan).

This paper presents the results of the first excavation campaign of the Artusia rock shelter in Unzué, Navarre, Spain. Chronocultural and archaeobiological analyses revealed five different occupationphases (Artusia IeV) within the regional Mesolithic timeline, specifically in the Mesolithic of Notches and Denticulates (Artusia I and II) and the Geometric Mesolithic (Artusia III, IV, and V). In addition, the study of the sedimentological and palaeoenvironmental evolution in the entire record helped to clearly define several climatic events which developed around 6550 cal BC-8500 cal BP and 6250 cal BC-8200 cal BP. Here, we present a description of these events and their (pre)historical interpretation with the aim of recognizing how they influenced the Mesolithic hunteregatherer groups living in the Ebro Basin of the Iberian Peninsula.

[EN] During the last decades we have gained a considerable amount of data about the Mesolithic lithic 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. Disposable tools, scarcely elaborated, coexisted with formal and more complex instruments, often composed of multiple parts and realized on a variety of raw-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 Seventh-Sixth millennia BC: the notched and denticulated blades. We will consider and interpret from a functional viewpoint materials from five different Late Mesolithic contexts: the Cocina Cave and Vallmayor IX in the NE of the Peninsula, Artusia rock-shelters in Navarre and Atxoste and Mendandia rock-shelters in the Basque country., [IT] Durante l’ultimo decennio, la nostra conoscenza dello strumentario litico Mesolitico nel Mediterraneo Occidentale si è considerabilmente arricchita. Sappiamo che esistevano una varietà di strumenti utilizzati per scopi diversi: l’ottenimento di alimenti (sia attraverso la caccia, che la pesca), l’elaborazione di tali alimenti, la produzione di artefatti, etc. Strumenti di natura speditiva, scarsamente elaborati, coesisterono con strumenti formali, più complessi, spesso costituiti di più parti e di materie prime diverse (es. inserti in pietra, conchiglia, osso, manici in legno od osso, etc.). In questo articolo ci concentriamo su un particolare tipo di strumento che compare nel Mediterraneo Occidentale tra il VII-VI millennio a.C.: le lame a incavi e denticolate. Consideriamo i materiali provenienti da cinque diverse siti del Mesolitico recente: la Grotta Cocina e il sito di Vallmayor IX nel nord-est della Penisola Iberica, il riparo sottoroccia di Artusia in Navarra e i siti di Atxoste e Mendandia nei Paesi Baschi e ne proponiamo un’interpretazione funzionale.

This paper presents archaeobotanical results from the Neolithic levels (5,300–4,000 b.c.) of two recently excavated sites in northern Iberia: El Mirón cave (Cantabria) and the open-air site of Los Cascajos (Navarra). A cereal grain from El Mirón is currently the earliest domesticated plant remain from this region. Despite the large number of samples examined, plant remains are few. They include basically cereals (Triticum monococcum, T. dicoccum, T. aestivum/durum/turgidum and Hordeum vulgare) and some nuts and fruits (Corylus avellana, Quercus sp., Vitis sp., etc.). The presence of free-threshing wheats at El Mirón opens up an interesting subject for debate, as until now naked wheats have been absent from the early Neolithic archaeobotanical record of the coastal Cantabrian region. Hulled wheat chaff is the main plant component from Los Cascajos, south of the Cantabrian Cordillera in Navarra, indicating waste from processing activities. The association of barley almost exclusively with both a burial and a ritual vase in Los Cascajos could be related specific rituals or ceremonies.