Actuación arqueológica en los depósitos mesolíticos de Cueva de la Cocina (Dos Aguas, Valencia): valoración preliminar

Puchol, Oreto García; Gordó, Salvador Pardo; Castillo, Agustín Diez; Nicolau, Alfredo Cortell; Cabanilles, Joaquim Juan; McClure, Sarah B.; Ramacciotti, Mirco

doi:10.7203/sagvntvm.50.13273

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“…She highlighted another important trait previously described by Pericot: the cavity offers a sedimentary accumulation in the center, and a pronounced slope from this part to the southern wall, forming a great basin when the Holocene accumulation started to occur. This aspect has been demonstrated by the recent fieldwork conducted affecting the surrounding areas (García Puchol et al, 2018b). The mountainous landscapes around the site and the particular "cul de sac" conformed by the area, currently only accessible through a "stimulating" rural track, are in accordance with the several uses and activities carried out at the site from a long durée perspective, from the Mesolithic to the contemporary period.…”

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“…The results obtained helped us to offer a new reevaluation of the previous and currently preserved archaeological deposits. The methodology applied included refined spatial registering and digital orthophotographic methods within in a rigorous protocol for recovering fieldwork data (Diez Castillo et al, 2017;García Puchol et al, 2018b).…”

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A multi-stage Bayesian modelling for building the chronocultural sequence of the Late Mesolithic at Cueva de la Cocina (Valencia, Eastern Iberia)

García-Puchol,

McClure,

Juan-Cabanilles

et al. 2023

Quaternary International

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A multi-stage Bayesian modelling for building the chronocultural sequence of the Late Mesolithic at Cueva de la Cocina (Valencia, Eastern Iberia)

García-Puchol,

McClure,

Juan-Cabanilles

et al. 2023

Quaternary International

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“…Currently, it has been the subject of four campaigns (2015)(2016)(2017)(2018) directed by Oreto García-Puchol, Joaquim Juan-Cabanilles and Sarah B. McClure (García-Puchol et al 2015, 2017, 2018b. As for Cova de l'Or, the first excavation at the site was directed by Vicent Pascual during the 1950s, while Bernat Martí directed a new intervention during the 1970s and 1980s (Martí et al 1980).…”

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Cultural continuities and discontinuities at the Neolithic transition in Eastern Iberia: an analysis of the morphometry of geometric microliths

Nicolau

Puchol

Shennan

2020

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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The main goal of this paper is to explore possible cultural continuities and discontinuities at the Neolithic transition in Eastern Iberia. To address this issue we introduce a twofold methodology, consisting of Geometric Morphometrics and the use of the self-developed Geomeasure system, to examine evolutionary patterns in geometric microliths. These are a specific type of arrowhead shared by both the last huntergatherers and the first farmers from two reference sites in the region: Cueva de la Cocina and Cova de l'Or (Eastern Iberia). Although advances in research have contributed to a better comprehension of this process, there are still unanswered questions, especially when the study is approached from a regional perspective.Such is the case for the Neolithisation of the Eastern Iberian Peninsula, and the way in which the previous Mesolithic population interacted-if they interacted at all-with the first farmers. In this case, some sites present archaeological contexts that have been catalogued as acculturation contexts. This has traditionally been the case for phase C of Cueva de la Cocina (Spain), although recent research points to the possibility that the content of this specific deposit is to the result of post-depositional processes. Here we try first to understand the cultural evolutionary patterns and relations between the different geometric microlith technocomplexes and, second, to address the specific problem of the interpretation of taphonomic disturbances in the archaeological record. We use the the Cueva de l'Or and the Cueva de la Cocina for comparison, and our conclusions raise serious doubts about the existence of an acculturation phase at the latter.

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“…Since then, Cocina Cave has been a key site to understand the evolutionary history of the last hunter-gatherers in Mediterranean Iberia, and the appearance and development of farming and pastoral practices. Archaeological studies consisted of Pericot's excavation (1941Pericot's excavation ( -1945 (Pericot 1945), Fortea's investigation (1974-1981 (Fortea et al 1987), and the recent campaigns (2015)(2016)(2017)(2018) by Garcı ´a-Puchol, McClure and Juan Cabanilles (Garcı ´a-Puchol et al 2015;2018b;Diez-Castillo et al 2017;Pardo-Gord ó et al 2018;Cortell-Nicolau et al 2020).…”

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Analysis of stratigraphical sequences at Cocina Cave (Spain) using rare earth elements geochemistry

Gallello

Ramacciotti

Puchol

et al. 2021

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This study investigates the stratigraphical sequence of Cocina Cave (Spain) employing and testing for the first time the capability of rare earth elements as markers of human activities in caves. Located in Dos Aguas (Valencian Community, Spain), Cocina Cave is characterized by the presence of several Holocene archaeological deposits from the final Mesolithic to the present day and is a pivotal site for understanding the socio-ecological dynamics of the last hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula and the transition to pastoral and agricultural economies in the Western Mediterranean. However, the identification of strata from particular time-periods in the cave is often difficult due to the homogeneity of layers, the poor archaeological record in some strata and the presence of severe disturbance phenomena. The methodological approach of this study consisted of crossreferencing rare earth elements and other chemical markers with the archaeological stratigraphical interpretation, in an attempt to not only support the identification of the anthropic contribution to the formation of Cocina Cave strata, but also to characterize and confirm different natural and occupational episodes, particularly those associated with hunter-gatherer, early agriculturalist, and shepherd activities. Sediments were collected from different excavation areas and analysed for major elements, trace elements, rare earth elements (REE), soil organic matter (SOM) amounts and pH. Multivariate statistics were employed to group samples according to their elemental profile, and these were then compared to the archaeological temporal interpretation. The obtained results showed that REE amount and fractionation geochemical processes were regulated by carbonates, phosphates and pH. The use of REE as markers was particularly useful as their concentrations and their calculated ratios and anomaly distributions were demonstrated to be highly consistent with the archaeological stratigraphical interpretation.

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Actuación arqueológica en los depósitos mesolíticos de Cueva de la Cocina (Dos Aguas, Valencia): valoración preliminar

Cited by 5 publications

References 4 publications

A multi-stage Bayesian modelling for building the chronocultural sequence of the Late Mesolithic at Cueva de la Cocina (Valencia, Eastern Iberia)

A multi-stage Bayesian modelling for building the chronocultural sequence of the Late Mesolithic at Cueva de la Cocina (Valencia, Eastern Iberia)

Cultural continuities and discontinuities at the Neolithic transition in Eastern Iberia: an analysis of the morphometry of geometric microliths

Analysis of stratigraphical sequences at Cocina Cave (Spain) using rare earth elements geochemistry

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