70 fechas para una cueva : revisión crítica de 70 dataciones C14 del Pleistoceno Superior y Holoceno de la Cueva de Nerja (Málaga, Andalucía, España)

Abstract

Resumen. Durante el Pleistoceno superior final y el Holoceno inferior y medio se depositó en las salas de la entrada de la Cueva de Nerja (Málaga, Andalucía, España) Greenland (GISP2 and GRIP) and in Alborán Sea (MD95-2043). This has allowed us to verify our previous palaeoclimatological interpretations of the sequence, establish a narrower correlation between the main palaeoclimatological events detected in Alborán Sea and the occupational episodes of the cave, and to advance in the consideration of the archaeological record of the cavity as a unit, in the territorial context of the South of the prehistoric Iberia.

Cova de les Malladetes (Valencia, Spain): New Insights About the Early Upper Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula

“…In turn, the first two Gravettian phases of the Cendres sequence (levels XVIB and XVIA) can be dated between 31,000 and 27,400 cal BP. On the other hand, there is no disagreement between these dates and those obtained at other Gravettian sites, such as Barriada (Fernández-López de Pablo et al 2014) or Comte (Casabó et al 2017), or more distant sites, such as those of Palomar (De la Peña and Vega 2013), Nerja (Jordá and Aura Torsosa 2008) or Bajondillo (Cortés-Sánchez et al 2019), although in the latter case, as for Gravettian level IIIn of Foradada (Morales et al 2019), the dates obtained are somewhat older.…”

35,000 years of recurrent visits inside Nerja cave (Andalusia, Spain) based on charcoals and soot micro-layers analyses

“…www.nature.com/scientificreports/ Furthermore, this work extends the origin of the prehistoric occupation of the Nerja cave by 10,000 years. The archaeological and chronometric analysis of the sedimentary deposits present in the entrance areas of the cave confirmed an extensive period of use of the cave between 30,000 and 4000 years, encompassing the Gravettian, Lower Solutrean, Middle-Upper Solutrean, Upper Magdalenian, Epipalaeolithic, Mesolithic, Early Neolithic, Middle-Recent Neolithic and Chalcolithic chronocultures [2][3][4][5][6] . Our study of the internal areas of the cave allowed us to extend the periods of occupation recorded in the cave, identifying for the first time two phases of visits relating to the Aurignacian period, namely phases 1 and 2 (Early Aurignacian and Recent Aurignacian), the former corresponding to the Early Aurignacian and the latter to the Evolved Aurignacian.…”

“…The paper includes 68 radiocarbon datings (48 of them unpublished) carried out by two different laboratories, in USA (Beta Analytic) and in France (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, first on the Tandétron then on Artémis, LMC14). Before their inclusion in the Bayesian model, the dates were subjected to a “validation filter” 3 based on analytical and physico-chemical criteria, in order to robustify the model. In addition, the results have been linked to other chronometers, in particular, to 7 new 14 C datings on carbonates from a stalagmite with soot microlayers to provide the model with greater accuracy and resolution.…”

Maritime-oriented foragers during the Late Pleistocene on the eastern costa del sol (Southeast Iberia): Cueva Victoria (Málaga, Spain)

“…Among the thirty species classified, P. vulgata was a gastropod collected for its alimentary value ( Ramos et al., 2006 ). However, Cueva de Nerja (Maro, Nerja) to the east of Cueva Victoria, has undoubtedly provided most information about shell-fishing in the area ( Jordá Pardo, 1981 , 1982 , 1986 ; Jordá Pardo et al., 2016 ). In the Magdalenian levels in the Vestibule of the cave (NV 7, NV 6 and NV 5), bivalves gathered in sandy or muddy substrates are present.…”