Papers by Mónica Alonso Eguíluz
Estrat Critic, 2011
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Use of the space and settlement patterns at the deposit of San Cristóbal are characterised. Anthr... more Use of the space and settlement patterns at the deposit of San Cristóbal are characterised. Anthropogenic activities at the site are revealed through an interdisciplinar approach based on microstratigraphic and palaeobotanical studies. Correlation of micromorphological, silica phytolith, charcoal, pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses and calcitic pseudomorph and faecal spherulite quantification are coupled with excavation data and macroscopic observations.
Results provide insights into livestock keeping practices at the rock-shelter, animal feeding strategies, management of residues and occupation mode of the site.
They also contribute to reconstruct the formation processes of the deposits and to outline the ecological frame of the site during its use as herding facility over the Chalcolithic. The immediate chrono-cultural context of the investigated sequence is outlined allowing discussion on the possible role of the activities at the rock-shelter in the territorial organisation of local early agropastoral groups at the time of megalithism development. From a methodological point of view this work shows that high-resolution sedimentary contextualisation of archaeological remains is essential to build up more accurate and reliable interpretations on livestock management and the use of natural resources in prehistoric deposits.
It also highlights the contribution of excavation strategies adapted to the particularities of pen deposits to better understand the archaeological evidence of early pastoral practices in cave and rock-shelters during fieldwork.
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Use of the space and settlement patterns at the deposit of San Crist obal are characterised. Anth... more Use of the space and settlement patterns at the deposit of San Crist obal are characterised. Anthropogenic activities at the site are revealed through an interdisciplinar approach based on microstratigraphic and palaeobotanical studies. Correlation of micromorphological, silica phytolith, charcoal, pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses and calcitic pseudomorph and faecal spherulite quantification are coupled with excavation data and macroscopic observations. Results provide insights into livestock keeping practices at the rock-shelter, animal feeding strategies, management of residues and occupation mode of the site. They also contribute to reconstruct the formation processes of the deposits and to outline the ecological frame of the site during its use as herding facility over the Chalcolithic. The immediate chrono-cultural context of the investigated sequence is outlined allowing discussion on the possible role of the activities at the rock-shelter in the territorial organisation of local early agro-pastoral groups at the time of megalithism development. From a methodological point of view this work shows that high-resolution sedimentary con-textualisation of archaeological remains is essential to build up more accurate and reliable interpretations on livestock management and the use of natural resources in prehistoric deposits. It also highlights the contribution of excavation strategies adapted to the particularities of pen deposits to better understand the archaeological evidence of early pastoral practices in cave and rock-shelters during fieldwork.
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Use of the space and settlement patterns at the deposit of San Cristobal are characterised.
Anth... more Use of the space and settlement patterns at the deposit of San Cristobal are characterised.
Anthropogenic activities at the site are revealed through an interdisciplinar approach based on
microstratigraphic and palaeobotanical studies. Correlation of micromorphological, silica phytolith,
charcoal, pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses and calcitic pseudomorph and faecal spherulite
quantification are coupled with excavation data and macroscopic observations.
Results provide insights into livestock keeping practices at the rock-shelter, animal feeding strategies,
management of residues and occupation mode of the site.
They also contribute to reconstruct the formation processes of the deposits and to outline the
ecological frame of the site during its use as herding facility over the Chalcolithic.
The immediate chrono-cultural context of the investigated sequence is outlined allowing discussion on
the possible role of the activities at the rock-shelter in the territorial organisation of local early agropastoral
groups at the time of megalithism development.
From a methodological point of view this work shows that high-resolution sedimentary contextualisation
of archaeological remains is essential to build up more accurate and reliable interpretations
on livestock management and the use of natural resources in prehistoric deposits.
It also highlights the contribution of excavation strategies adapted to the particularities of pen deposits
to better understand the archaeological evidence of early pastoral practices in cave and rock-shelters
during fieldwork.
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Revista d’Arqueologia de Ponent 24, pp. 323-330, 2014
El Cerco de Bolunburu is a small Late Iron Age hill fort near the River Cadagua (Bizkaia) that ha... more El Cerco de Bolunburu is a small Late Iron Age hill fort near the River Cadagua (Bizkaia) that has been excavated since 2008. The discovery of the main archaeological structures (wall, entrance and moat) allowed us to define its perimeter. Four domestic huts and three small sheds were identified in the inner area, next to the wall. This paper provides a first approach to the study of the rotary querns, the most frequent finds at Bolunburu. The querns present similar morphologies and raw materials, so it is possible that they were made locally. Moreover, limestone outcrops have been located on the escarptment that borders the site to the north.
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Los fitolitos son microrrestos vegetales formados por sílice que se forman en el tejido de las pl... more Los fitolitos son microrrestos vegetales formados por sílice que se forman en el tejido de las plantas, adoptando la morfología de la célula en la que han cristalizado. Este tipo de microrresto es muy útil tanto para arqueólogos como para paleoecólogos puesto que los datos que se pueden obtener de ellos nos informan de actividades antrópicas en el yacimiento así como del medio en el que se desarrollaron dichas actividades. El objetivo de este artículo es el de mostrar los resultados de este tipo de análisis aplicados a un contexto de establos bajo roca, concretamente al sitio de San Cristóbal (Álava), cuyos datos han puesto de manifiesto la importancia de las plantas herbáceas silvestres en elregistro arqueológico, estando ausentes las plantas domesticadas.
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Laia Macià Plaza, Agata Rodríguez Cintas, Mónica Alonso Eguíluz, Irene Esteban, May 2013
Los fitolitos son microrrestos silíceos de origen vegetal. El ácido monosilícico (Si (OH)4) es ab... more Los fitolitos son microrrestos silíceos de origen vegetal. El ácido monosilícico (Si (OH)4) es absorbido a través de las raíces y transportado a las partes aéreas de la planta, donde se solidifica adoptando la morfología de las células. Debido a su naturaleza inorgánica se preservan en buen estado durante largos periodos de tiempo y en condiciones extremas, cuando otros restos vegetales desaparecen del registro, lo que convierte su estudio en una valiosa herramienta para la paleobotánica y la arqueología.
El Grupo de Estudios Paleoecológicos y Geoarqueológicos (GEPEG, Universitat de Barcelona) tiene como objetivo el estudio de fitolitos y del análisis mineralógico de los sedimentos con el fin de comprender los diversos modos de explotación de los recursos vegetales por las poblaciones humanas del pasado, así como de la reconstrucción del clima y la vegetación del pasado, teniendo en cuenta los procesos postdeposicionales que pudieron afectar los fitolitos en el momento de su deposición en suelos y sedimentos. Este póster pretende dar a conocer las líneas de investigación de las que forman parte nuestros proyectos de tesis doctoral y máster que se enmarcan dentro de las líneas generales de investigación del GEPEG: reconstrucción del paleoambiente durante la evolución de los primeros Homo; la explotación de los recursos vegetales y el uso del fuego por los primeros humanos modernos y por poblaciones neandertales en la Península Ibérica, así como el desarrollo de las primeras sociedades de agricultores y ganaderos.
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Papers: Neolithic by Mónica Alonso Eguíluz
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2019
Cova Bonica has yielded one of the few assemblages of Cardial Neolithic records of directly dated... more Cova Bonica has yielded one of the few assemblages of Cardial Neolithic records of directly dated human remains (c. 5470 and 5220 years cal. BC – unmodelled) in the Iberian Peninsula and has provided the first complete genome of an Iberian farmer. A minimum of seven individuals and six age clusters have been ascribed on the basis of the disarticulated human bones. A large number of archaeological artifacts have likewise been identified in the same layer, preserved in a small number of remnants in different areas of the cave. This study presents the results of a multi-proxy archaeological analysis of the spatial distribution, human remains, small and large mammals, palaeobotanical remains, lithics, ceramics and radiocarbon dating, with the aim of reconstructing the cave's history and the context of the layer containing the human remains. The results suggest the cave was used for at least two distinct purposes: one related to its use for funerary practices, as documented by a small group of artifacts (ornamental objects, ceramics, tools), charcoal and small mammals; the other related to its use as a sheep pen as indicated by reworked fumier, the results of a zooarchaeological study and an ovicaprine palaeodemographic profile. The paper concludes that the funerary and ritualistic practices of the Cardial Neolithic in SW Europe are difficult to reconstruct because human remains are often scattered in archaeological layers where other human activities may also have been conducted. For this reason, artifacts associated with human remains do not constitute a solid foundation on which to reconstruct funerary practices. Indeed, only a multi-proxy analysis of the archaeological material is capable of evaluating different geological and/or archaeological processes and their associated activities.
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Results provide insights into livestock keeping practices at the rock-shelter, animal feeding strategies, management of residues and occupation mode of the site.
They also contribute to reconstruct the formation processes of the deposits and to outline the ecological frame of the site during its use as herding facility over the Chalcolithic. The immediate chrono-cultural context of the investigated sequence is outlined allowing discussion on the possible role of the activities at the rock-shelter in the territorial organisation of local early agropastoral groups at the time of megalithism development. From a methodological point of view this work shows that high-resolution sedimentary contextualisation of archaeological remains is essential to build up more accurate and reliable interpretations on livestock management and the use of natural resources in prehistoric deposits.
It also highlights the contribution of excavation strategies adapted to the particularities of pen deposits to better understand the archaeological evidence of early pastoral practices in cave and rock-shelters during fieldwork.
Anthropogenic activities at the site are revealed through an interdisciplinar approach based on
microstratigraphic and palaeobotanical studies. Correlation of micromorphological, silica phytolith,
charcoal, pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses and calcitic pseudomorph and faecal spherulite
quantification are coupled with excavation data and macroscopic observations.
Results provide insights into livestock keeping practices at the rock-shelter, animal feeding strategies,
management of residues and occupation mode of the site.
They also contribute to reconstruct the formation processes of the deposits and to outline the
ecological frame of the site during its use as herding facility over the Chalcolithic.
The immediate chrono-cultural context of the investigated sequence is outlined allowing discussion on
the possible role of the activities at the rock-shelter in the territorial organisation of local early agropastoral
groups at the time of megalithism development.
From a methodological point of view this work shows that high-resolution sedimentary contextualisation
of archaeological remains is essential to build up more accurate and reliable interpretations
on livestock management and the use of natural resources in prehistoric deposits.
It also highlights the contribution of excavation strategies adapted to the particularities of pen deposits
to better understand the archaeological evidence of early pastoral practices in cave and rock-shelters
during fieldwork.
Posters by Mónica Alonso Eguíluz
El Grupo de Estudios Paleoecológicos y Geoarqueológicos (GEPEG, Universitat de Barcelona) tiene como objetivo el estudio de fitolitos y del análisis mineralógico de los sedimentos con el fin de comprender los diversos modos de explotación de los recursos vegetales por las poblaciones humanas del pasado, así como de la reconstrucción del clima y la vegetación del pasado, teniendo en cuenta los procesos postdeposicionales que pudieron afectar los fitolitos en el momento de su deposición en suelos y sedimentos. Este póster pretende dar a conocer las líneas de investigación de las que forman parte nuestros proyectos de tesis doctoral y máster que se enmarcan dentro de las líneas generales de investigación del GEPEG: reconstrucción del paleoambiente durante la evolución de los primeros Homo; la explotación de los recursos vegetales y el uso del fuego por los primeros humanos modernos y por poblaciones neandertales en la Península Ibérica, así como el desarrollo de las primeras sociedades de agricultores y ganaderos.
Papers: Neolithic by Mónica Alonso Eguíluz
Results provide insights into livestock keeping practices at the rock-shelter, animal feeding strategies, management of residues and occupation mode of the site.
They also contribute to reconstruct the formation processes of the deposits and to outline the ecological frame of the site during its use as herding facility over the Chalcolithic. The immediate chrono-cultural context of the investigated sequence is outlined allowing discussion on the possible role of the activities at the rock-shelter in the territorial organisation of local early agropastoral groups at the time of megalithism development. From a methodological point of view this work shows that high-resolution sedimentary contextualisation of archaeological remains is essential to build up more accurate and reliable interpretations on livestock management and the use of natural resources in prehistoric deposits.
It also highlights the contribution of excavation strategies adapted to the particularities of pen deposits to better understand the archaeological evidence of early pastoral practices in cave and rock-shelters during fieldwork.
Anthropogenic activities at the site are revealed through an interdisciplinar approach based on
microstratigraphic and palaeobotanical studies. Correlation of micromorphological, silica phytolith,
charcoal, pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses and calcitic pseudomorph and faecal spherulite
quantification are coupled with excavation data and macroscopic observations.
Results provide insights into livestock keeping practices at the rock-shelter, animal feeding strategies,
management of residues and occupation mode of the site.
They also contribute to reconstruct the formation processes of the deposits and to outline the
ecological frame of the site during its use as herding facility over the Chalcolithic.
The immediate chrono-cultural context of the investigated sequence is outlined allowing discussion on
the possible role of the activities at the rock-shelter in the territorial organisation of local early agropastoral
groups at the time of megalithism development.
From a methodological point of view this work shows that high-resolution sedimentary contextualisation
of archaeological remains is essential to build up more accurate and reliable interpretations
on livestock management and the use of natural resources in prehistoric deposits.
It also highlights the contribution of excavation strategies adapted to the particularities of pen deposits
to better understand the archaeological evidence of early pastoral practices in cave and rock-shelters
during fieldwork.
El Grupo de Estudios Paleoecológicos y Geoarqueológicos (GEPEG, Universitat de Barcelona) tiene como objetivo el estudio de fitolitos y del análisis mineralógico de los sedimentos con el fin de comprender los diversos modos de explotación de los recursos vegetales por las poblaciones humanas del pasado, así como de la reconstrucción del clima y la vegetación del pasado, teniendo en cuenta los procesos postdeposicionales que pudieron afectar los fitolitos en el momento de su deposición en suelos y sedimentos. Este póster pretende dar a conocer las líneas de investigación de las que forman parte nuestros proyectos de tesis doctoral y máster que se enmarcan dentro de las líneas generales de investigación del GEPEG: reconstrucción del paleoambiente durante la evolución de los primeros Homo; la explotación de los recursos vegetales y el uso del fuego por los primeros humanos modernos y por poblaciones neandertales en la Península Ibérica, así como el desarrollo de las primeras sociedades de agricultores y ganaderos.