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The presence of flint blades of great format in the Valencian territory turns out to be habitual ... more The presence of flint blades of great format in the Valencian territory turns out to be habitual in the funeral and domestic contexts of the Late Neolithic/Calcolithic periods (from half of the IVth in the middle of the millenium III BC). We will try to synthesize in the following pages the questions and available answers about the origin, methods and technologies of manufacture, and on the modalities and characteristics of the social consumption.
KEY WORDS: Late Neolithic/Calcolithic, big blades, raw material, specializing production, diffusion.
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KEY WORDS: Late Neolithic/Calcolithic, big blades, raw material, specializing production, diffusion.
Abstract : Tabular flint use in the late prehistory of Valencian country (Mediterranean Spain). The on tabular flint lithic production is one of the more significant technological characteristics of the Late Neolithic and Eneolithic periods in the Valencian country. The exploitation and the use of this type of flint is reduced to these periods, and it's usually associated with craft productions (large knives and daggers) and raw material circulation networks. The site of Ereta del Pedregal (Navarrés, Valencia), an important establishment of habitat, has delivered the best ensemble of tabular flint with two differents techno-industrial destinations according two varietys : the local tabular flint was employed to manufacture arrowheads, while the no local tabular flint were used preferentially to fabricate cutting tools. This second production in the site of Ereta, according to the stratigraphic available data, appears to be placed at he initial time of the neo-eneolithic sequence.
Neolithic/Copper Age. New excavation indicates the complexity of prehistoric use of the cave and confirms its use as a burial site during the Late Neolithic/Copper Age and perhaps during the Bronze Age.
KEY WORDS: Late Neolithic/Calcolithic, big blades, raw material, specializing production, diffusion.
Abstract : Tabular flint use in the late prehistory of Valencian country (Mediterranean Spain). The on tabular flint lithic production is one of the more significant technological characteristics of the Late Neolithic and Eneolithic periods in the Valencian country. The exploitation and the use of this type of flint is reduced to these periods, and it's usually associated with craft productions (large knives and daggers) and raw material circulation networks. The site of Ereta del Pedregal (Navarrés, Valencia), an important establishment of habitat, has delivered the best ensemble of tabular flint with two differents techno-industrial destinations according two varietys : the local tabular flint was employed to manufacture arrowheads, while the no local tabular flint were used preferentially to fabricate cutting tools. This second production in the site of Ereta, according to the stratigraphic available data, appears to be placed at he initial time of the neo-eneolithic sequence.
Neolithic/Copper Age. New excavation indicates the complexity of prehistoric use of the cave and confirms its use as a burial site during the Late Neolithic/Copper Age and perhaps during the Bronze Age.
Key words: Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Human burial, 3D model, Virtual reconstruction, C14 data
is supported by the study of funerary practices.
The presence and significance of individual and collective
burials in Final Neolithic/Chalcolithic societies in
the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula provides new evidence
for the debate concerning the emergence of social
inequalities in this region. Our contribution is based on
the recent discovery and excavation of several individual
pit burials in domestic contexts at the site of La Vital
(Gandía, Valencia). The particularities of the identified
burials (different ritual episodes) and their content (Bell
Beaker pottery, metal objects, animal offerings) together
with an accurate chronometric database allow us to consider
several issues in relation to settlement dynamics,
social networks and relationships for the period from the
end of the 4th to the middle of the 3rd millennium cal
BC in the central area of the Mediterranean coast of the
Iberian Peninsula."
2014 Paperless survey? New methodological approaches to archaeological fieldwork, the case of La Canal de Navarrés (València). Paper presented at the “Workshop Dando sentido a la prospección arqueológica, Making sense of archaeological survey,” Jaén.
Riassunto Durante l'ultimo decennio, la nostra conoscenza dello strumentario litico Mesolitico nel Mediterraneo Oc-cidentale 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 dentico-late. 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.