Dinámicas de población, dieta y prácticas funerarias de los últimos cazadores-recolectores y primeras sociedades campesinas de la Región Cantábrica

Abstract

Neolithisation was the most radical change in human societies of the recent past, leading to biological, technological, socioeconomic and cultural transformations that began in the Near East approximately 12,000 years ago. The Cantabrian Region was one of the European places that later received their impact and where the neolithisation model (demic diffusion vs. acculturation) has been most debated. In this PhD, for the first time, an approach of this phenomenon is proposed from the multidisciplinary study of the human remains of eighteen funerary contexts dated between the Azilian and the Bronze Age. With the aim of understanding the population dynamics, diet, mobility and funerary practices of the last hunter-gatherers and first farming societies of the Cantabrian Region, this research integrates radiocarbon dating and bayesian modelling, anthropological and taphonomic studies, and the analysis of stable isotopes, dental calculus and DNA of the individuals buried in these sites.