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Enhanced functional data retrieval from palaeolithic stone tools by lipid analysis
Davara, Javier; Hernández, Cristo M.; Carrizo, Daniel; Herrera-Herrera, Antonio V.; Iriarte, Eneko; Mallol, CarolinaDespite the great potential of lipid biomarkers in archaeological science, their analysis in stone tools has been overlooked. The lipid retention capacity of Palaeolithic stone tools, along with the potential utility of the biomarkers they may harbour as a functional proxy, remains largely unknown. Here, we extracted lipid biomarkers from flint flakes and limestone pebbles from the Middle Palaeolithic site of E...
Fire use and waste management in an Iberian iron age village: geoarchaeological...
Tomé, Laura; Iriarte, Eneko; Blanco-González, Antonio; Fernández-Palacios, Enrique; Martín-Seijo, María; Carrancho, Ángel; Herrera-Herrera, Antonio V.Middens, commonly found in archaeological sites across different chronologies, serve as rich sedimentary archives of daily life by capturing the refuse and discarded artifacts of past human groups. This study focuses on the midden deposits of the Early Iron Age settlement site of Cerro de San Vicente (Central Iberia). We applied a high- resolution, microcontextual geoarchaeological approach, integrating soil mi...
Searching for traces of human activity in earthen floor sequences: high-resolut...
Tomé, Laura; Iriarte, Eneko; Blanco-González, Antonio; Jambrina-Enríquez, Margarita; Égüez, Natalia; Herrera-Herrera, Antonio V.; Mallol, CarolinaThe Northern Iberian Plateau during the Early Iron Age witnessed the proliferation of villages, showcasing wellpreserved earthen architectural remains that offer valuable insights into past daily life practices. However, the application of high-resolution geoarchaeological approaches to these contexts has been largely overlooked, despite their significance in assessing complex sedimentary sequences predominantl...
Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe
Evershed, Richard P.; Davey Smith, George; Roffet-Salque, Mélanie; Timpson, Adrian; Diekmann, Yoan; Lyon, Matthew S.; Cramp, Lucy J. E.In European and many African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian populations, lactase persistence (LP) is the most strongly selected monogenic trait to have evolved over the past 10,000 years(1). Although the selection of LP and the consumption of prehistoric milk must be linked, considerable uncertainty remains concerning their spatiotemporal configuration and specific interactions(2,3). Here we provide detaile...
Human forager response to abrupt climate change at 8.2 ka on the Atlantic coast...
García-Escárzaga, Asier; Gutiérrez-Zugasti, Igor; Marín-Arroyo, Ana B.; Fernandes, Ricardo; Núñez de la Fuente, Sara; Cuenca-Solana, DavidThe cooling and drying associated with the so-called ‘8.2 ka event’ have long been hypothesized as having sweeping implications for human societies in the Early Holocene, including some of the last Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Atlantic Europe. Nevertheless, detailed ‘on-site’ records with which the impacts of broader climate changes on human-relevant environments can be explored have been lacking. Here, we re...
Looking for the traces of the last hunter–gatherers: Geophysical survey in the ...
Arias, Pablo; Diniz, Mariana; Cubas, Miriam; Duarte, Carlos; Iriarte, Eneko; Salzmann, Christoph; Teichner, Felix; Teira, LuisThis paper presents the results of an application of geophysical surveying methods to Mesolithic sites in Portugal. Magnetic gradiometry maps have been produced at the sites of Vale de Romeiras and Poças de São Bento. At the latter, three excavation seasons have provided information to test the results of the survey. It is concluded that these techniques can be considered efficient tools for the delimitation of...
The microstratigraphic record of human activities and formation processes at th...
Duarte, Carlos; Iriarte, Eneko; Diniz, Mariana; Arias, PabloShell midden formation is largely controlled by an-thropogenic processes, resulting from human exploitation of aquatic resources. This makes shell middens archives of bothhuman behaviour and palaeoenvironmental records.However, their often complex stratigraphy hampers the isola-tion of individual anthropogenic events. In the central/ southern coast of Portugal, extensive inland estuaries were preferential setti...