Pastores trashumantes del Neolítico antiguo en un entorno de alta montañasecuencia crono-cultural de la Cova de Els Trocs (San Feliú de Veri, Huesca)

  1. Manuel Á. Rojo Guerra 1
  2. Leonor Peña Chocarro 2
  3. José Ignacio Royo Guillén 3
  4. Cristina Tejedor Rodríguez 1
  5. Iñigo García-Martínez de Lagrán 4
  6. Héctor Arcusa Magallón
  7. Rafael Garrido Pena 5
  8. Marta Moreno García 6
  9. Niccolò Mazzucco 6
  10. Juan Francisco Gibaja Bao 6
  11. David Ortega Cobos 6
  12. Bernd Kromer 7
  13. Kurt W. Alt 8
  1. 1 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01fvbaw18

  2. 2 Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología
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    Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología

    Roma, Italia

  3. 3 Gobierno de Aragón
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    Gobierno de Aragón

    Zaragoza, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0425pg203

  4. 4 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

  5. 5 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01cby8j38

  6. 6 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
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    Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02gfc7t72

  7. 7 Universität Tübingen
  8. 8 University of Basel
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    University of Basel

    Basilea, Suiza

    ROR https://ror.org/02s6k3f65

Journal:
BSAA Arqueología

ISSN: 1888-976X

Year of publication: 2013

Issue: 79

Pages: 9-55

Type: Article

More publications in: BSAA Arqueología

Abstract

This paper presents the preliminary results of the excavation of the “Els Trocs’’ Cave, developed in the context of the research project “The pathways of the Neolithic”. The careful and detailed work of excavation and recording has revealed a complex stratigraphy in which, thanks to the radiocarbon dates on short-lived samples (cereal seeds, human bones and domestic animal remains), it has been possible to distinguish four different periods of occupation inside the cave. With this information and some preliminary analyses of part of the materials (pottery, flint and faunal remains), we have documented the presence of a human group in the mountain pastures of the axial Pyrennes, at a very early stage (beginning of the last third of the Vlth millennium cal. BC), with a transhumant pastoral economy. It was a fully neolithic population with clear evidences of the use of wheat and barley, despite they did not cultivate around the close environment of this cave, where complex burial rituals had been also documented.