xavier clop

Abstract Residue analysis in pottery usually concerns habitat or funerary sites. In this work, we have studied 21 vases from the Mines of Gava (Barcelona, Spain) which constitute the oldest evidence of mining focused on variscite during the IVth millennium BC. The main objectives are determining the degree of preservation of lipids in this context, identifying the natural substances exploited in the vessels and highlighting pottery use in the day-to-day mining work at this site, as well as establishing if some of the vessels are part of the grave goods from burials in the same mines. The results obtained by combining molecular and isotopic analyses showed that>70% of the containers investigated provided significant amounts of lipids. A wide diversity of organic substances processed comprising animal adipose fats, plants and beeswax was determined. Relationships found between the shape of the vessels and their content highlighted their role in the mining life. This work not only exposes one of the oldest evidences of the use of beeswax in pottery in the Iberian Peninsula, but also allows us to understand the management of resources in a very specialized archaeological site focused on mining activities.

This paper seeks to reconstruct the management of food resources in the early Neolithic site of Cabecicos Negros in southeastern Spain. For this purpose, we have studied 29 potsherds from Cabecicos Negros (Andalusia, Spain). Applying the methods of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry we were able to recompose the daily use of the sherds related to the consumption and storage of food products. Among the results obtained in this work, we were able to show new evidence of the exploitation of dairy products in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as provide information on the exploitation and management of the early domestic animals herds. To improve the archaeological results obtained, isotopic results were compared with a modern reference of 53 fat samples from the adipose tissue of domestic pigs and wild boars.

Xarxes. Els primers intercanvis fa 6.000 anys, es el titulo de una exposicion temporal e itinerante, coproducida por el Museo de Gava, el Museo de Historia de Sabadell y la Diputacion de Barcelona, inaugurada en el ano 2009. Entre sus objetivos se encontraban tanto la difusion cientifica y patrimonial, asi como la reflexion antropologica y social sobre los intercambios y la circulacion de elementos materiales e inmateriales, en el contexto de las primeras comunidades agricolas del Neolitico en la actual Catalunya. La exposicion abordo la circulacion de materias primas, en bruto o manufacturadas (silex, obsidiana, variscita y otras rocas, concha, coral, la circulacion de formas y motivos decorativos ceramicos…), tanto a escala supralocal como dentro de conjuntos culturales homogeneos.

En: Juan Francisco Gibaja Bao, Millan Mozota Holgueras, Maria Eulalia Subira Galdacano & Araceli Martin Colliga (coords.) (2019) - Mirando a la muerte : las practicas funerarias durante el Neolitico en el noreste peninsular. Volumen 3, Castello de la Plana, E-DitArx, 388 p. (Col.: Akademos; 3). ISBN: 978-84-946902-7-3.

Resum En aquest treball es desenvolupa una proposta concreta per abordar alguns dels objectius pedagògics, com ara la transversalitat, el treball en equip o la necessitat d'incrementar els coneixements pràctics. La perspectiva des de la que s' ha realitzat ha ...

Abstract. One of the most remarkable and highlighted features of the human communities in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula since the end of the fourth millennium Cal ANE in the first centuries of the second millennium CAL ANE is the extension of collective burials as the most widespread funerary practice. Collective burials are carried out on a wide variety of types of natural and constructed structures. The purpose of this work is to analyze the "times" of the different types of structures documented with collective burials, in order to determine the validity of each one of them and the changes and the permanencies in their use.

Entre le 3500-1500 cal BC certains elements de la culture materielle comme les grandes lames taillees en silex que nous considerons dans ce travail sont des temoins de l'existence de vastes reseaux de contact inter-groupal a travers desque/s ont circule des personnes, des biens materiels ou de l'informatlon. Les resu/tats obtenus a partir d'une etude interdiscip!fnalre sur ces supports laminaires nous permettent presenter fes premieres hypotheses sur son origine, les processus technfques mises en oeuvre pour son obtention, ainsi comme les objectives de !eur production. Grandes lames, Neolithique Finai-Chalcolithique, Sepultures, Nord-est Peninsulaire.

In this study we carry out a provenance study of the rocks used to build up the Puigseslloses megalithic tomb (Folgueroles, Barcelona province, Spain). Throughout a comparative petrologic and sedimentologic analysis of the materials used in this monument and those similar ones cropping out in the nearby areas, we deduce that the supplying area is the Paleogene Folguroles Sandstones Formation.

ABSTRACT The Iberian Peninsula, wilh an extension of 581.600 km2, a great geological diversity and hundred of archaeological sites with recent prehistory chronologies, results an interesting territory for the Iithic raw materials study and their use and dislribution paths along the differenl historic periods. This indubitable interest contrasts with the scantiness of studies about the raw materials used in the lithic industries of the prehistory, especially in the Neolithic-Aeneolithic period, where the lithological diversity is usually bigger than in the Palaeolithic. This fact has carried out to the practical "inexistence" of this extensive territory, in a lot of lhe publications that has been realised over this thematic up to date in Europe, Cummins (1983). ln this chapter, we can only pretend to give first ideas of the types of raw materials that appear with a greater abundance in the Iberian Peninsula, making a balance of the published results just to date; the general characteristics of the Iberian geology and what possible trade and distribution routes have followed many of these materials at the Neolithic-Aeneolithic in this area. It is plain thal the great number of archaeological sites and chronologies known in this territory, their vast cultural, geographical and geological diversity, and the great variety of sites (caves, open air settlements, burials, villages, megaliths, etc.), make that the investigation task still outslanding is enormous and undoubtedly a challenge for the future researchers. The Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula has been submitted at very traditional focussing and basically dominated by the cultural change in the ceramics explanations. It was believed that their provenance from the Middle Orient and the diffusionist type explanations were reinforced, in contrast with lhe Iigurian cave of Arene Candide (Italy). ln the 60th-70th decades, Pellicer (1967) considered a tripartite scheme (Old , Medium, Recent) on the basis of the studies of caves as Carigüela de Pinar (Granada) or Nerja (Málaga). The studies of the Valencian caves (Or, Cocina, Cendres) questioned the basis of the dual model that domains as paradigm in the functionalists explanations, recycled in explications of diffusion. A wave of advance from Middle Orient was considered, that provide the Neolithic to SW Europe and go to acculturate to the old hunter-gatherer populations. It is considered thal the Neolithic arrived associated to the cardial ceramic horizon, with groups that behaved the agriculture and the cattle raising. Other studies in caves as Fosca (Castellón) studied by Carmen Olaría and Francesc Gusi, already questioned the Levantine model and proposed chronologies previous to the Vth millennium B.C. for the first groups of producers. The excavations of Pellicer and Acosta in the caves of Dehesilla, Parralejo and Nerja in the 80th provided already previous chronologies, dated at VIth Millennium for the Neolithic in the Occidental Subbetic. This fact carried to a restatement of focusing to positions more autochthonists, Pellicer (1995). Recent studies in archaeological siles of the Cadiz and Algeciras Bays, as in Embarcadero del Rio Palmones and EI Retamar, questioned the advance wave models, and confirm the specific weigh of the lithic technology with a Epipalaeolithic tradition (geometric microliths). ln the VIth and even VIIth millennium B.C. , it is possible to observe the wide paper or the vegetal resources, the importance of the fishing practices and a growing increase of the animals domestication (bovids, caprids), together with the hunting maintenance, Ramos and Lazarich (2002), such as reflects the Portuguese sea shell accumulations from the Bays of Lisboa, Setúbal and the Algarbe (Lagos área).

Les excavacions arqueologiques a la Cova del Sardo de Boi (anys 2006 a 2008) junt a un extens programa de prospeccio arqueologica al Parc Nacional d'Aiguestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici han permes documentar el proces de colonitzacio i poblament dels espais d'alta muntanya del nord-oest de Catalunya des de inicis de l'Holoce. La sequencia prehistorica de la Cova del Sardo cobreix practicament tres mil anys, entre el 5.500 i el 2.500 ca lANE. Junt amb d'altres jaciments documentats aporta indicis sobre les dinamiques del poblament neolitic en petits abrics i cavitats, que a partir del 3.000 calANE esdeve molt mes intens i extens i experimenta una profunda modificacio entorn el 2.400 calANE. Les dades paleoecologiques obtingudes a la zona completen la imatge d'aquestes primeres ocupacions humanes en aquest sector dels Pirineus

Depuis quelques annees, l’un des axes de recherche sur le site de Tell Halula porte sur la caracterisation des pratiques mortuaires durant les phases d’occupation les plus anciennes du site, attribuees au PPNB moyen et recent. Ces pratiques se sont revelees etre constantes et tres homogenes : le corps etait depose en inhumation primaire, dans une fosse individuelle, creusee a l’interieur des maisons, pres de l’entree. Plus d’une centaine de sepultures ont ete decouvertes ; elles sont en cours d’etude en vue d’une publication exhaustive. Pour l’instant, l’un des aspects les plus interessants est la presence de mobilier funeraire dans plus de la moitie d’entre elles ; il s’agit de parures, telles que des perles en pierre et des coquillages qui entrent dans la composition de colliers, de bracelets et de diademes, mais egalement des plaquettes en pierre incisee et des outils en silex et en os. Parmi ces objets, il importe de signaler, dans onze de ces sepultures, la presence exceptionnelle d’objets en cuivre dont l’analyse approfondie est presentee dans cet article.

catalaEn aquest treball es presenta l’analisi tecnologica (materia primera, tecniques de modelat, tractaments de les superficies i coccions) i morfotipologica dels vasos ceramics amb un millor grau de preservacio que procedeixen del fossat de la Dou (Vall d’en Bas, la Garrotxa) datat del bronze final (1290-920 cal ANE). L’estudi permet plantejar unes primeres hipotesis sobre els processos de treball que es van desenvolupar en la seva manufactura i, mes enlla, comencar a definir formes de fer especifiques en la produccio ceramica per aquesta zona i en aquesta cronologia. EnglishThis paper presents the technological (raw materials, forming techniques, surface treatments and firing) and typological analysis of ceramic vessels with a better degree of preservation which were recovered from the ditch of La Dou site (Vall d’en Bas, La Garrotxa) dated in Late Bronze Age (1290-920 cal. BC). The study proposes preliminary hypotheses about it manufacturing working processes which were develope...

Por primera vez en el estudio del fenómeno megalítico del sureste de la Península Ibérica se ha obtenido una serie radiocarbónica para el análisis de sus manifestaciones más antiguas. Se han datado 30 restos antropológicos de sepulturas tipo rundgräber y de tumbas de cámara y corredor pertenecientes a las necrópolis de Las Churuletas, La Atalaya y Llano de El Jautón. El análisis estadístico de esta serie radiocarbónica ha permitido establecer las siguientes conclusiones: i) el inicio de la actividad funeraria ocurriría entre el 3730-3650 cal BC y el final entre el 2395-2270 cal BC; ii) las sepulturas tipo rundgräber son las que poseen una duración más corta, finalizando entre el 2650-2505 cal BC; III) la datación de diferentes sepulturas y necrópolis muestra una importante heterogeneidad en sus periodos de uso; y iv) a partir de principios del III milenio se produciría una significativa intensificación de la actividad funeraria paralela al incremento demográfico y desarrollo del pob...

DESCRIPTION L’article présente les productions céramiques de l’horizon cardial du site de la Caserna de Sant Pau de Camp (Barcelona) à travers une étude des matières premières (analyse minéralogique) mais aussi une étude technologique et morphologique. Les datations 14C ont permis de mieux préciser la chronologie de ces productions et de mettre ces dernières en relation avec les données disponibles pour la région côtière centrale de la Catalogne.

Pottery is the main component of many archaeological assemblages and, for over a century, it has been one of the principal tools used to define cultural identity and to characterise culture change. But the simplistic equation of ‘Pots equal people’ has rightly been challenged, and in the meantime a huge ethnohistoric literature has grown up around the question of what technical and stylistic traditions actually mean to the people who make and use pots. Among the different stages of the pottery production process, we focus our research on the study of raw material management strategies for making pottery. The management of raw materials is defined in each case for the forms of selection, supply and treatment of the raw materials. It is in this phase of the production process when the raw material is treated providing the mechanical properties (resistance, strength and hardness) that make them more or less suitable for one or another application (cooking, storage of solids and liquids...