Journal
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 197-222Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-016-0343-y
Keywords
Spatial analysis; Faunal refits; Tooth microwear analysis; Site structure; Time spans; Abric Romani
Funding
- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competividad (MINECO) [HAR 2010-19957, CGL2012-38434-C03-03, CGL2012-38358]
- Generalitat de Catalunya [2009 SGR 188]
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- European Social Fund
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Practically all archeological assemblages are palimpsests. In spite of the high temporal resolution of Abric Romani site, level O, dated to around 55 ka, is not an exception. This paper focuses on a zooarcheological and taphonomic analysis of this level, paying special attention to spatial and temporal approaches. The main goal is to unravel the palimpsest at the finest possible level by using different methods and techniques, such as archeostratigraphy, anatomical and taxonomical identification, taphonomic analysis, faunal refits and tooth wear analysis. The results obtained are compared to ethnoarcheological data so as to interpret site structure. In addition, activities carried out over different time spans (from individual episodes to long-term behaviors) are detected, and their spatial extent is explored, allowing to do inferences on settlement dynamics. This leads us to discuss the temporal and spatial scales over which Neanderthals carried out different activities within the site, and how they can be studied through the archeological record.
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