Nuevas Aportaciones Al Debate Especialización-Diversificación en El Solutrense Cantábrico. Estudio Arqueozoológico Y Tafonómico De Los Macromamíferos De La Cueva Del Buxu (Cardes, Asturias, España)

Abstract

This paper presents the preliminary taphonomic and archaeozoological data obtained from the review of the remains of macromammals who provided the excavations of El Buxu cave. It quantifies and assesses the presence of carnivores and their potential impact on the formation of the archaeological record; also it offers the data for seasonality and estimated age at the time of the death of macromammals, mainly of the fundamental taxa: Rupicapra rupicapra and Cervus elaphus. The data could be used to debate about the transit to the observed diversification of resources, along the Upper Paleolithic, with accuracy.