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Laura María Sirvent Cañada
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The neolithic settlement of Limoneros (Elche, Alicante)
2020
[EN] This paper shows the results of rescue archaeology campaigns undertaken on the site of Limoneros, an open-air settlement located to the south of Elche (Alicante), in the alluvial plain of the Vinalopó river and dated on the first half of the 5th millennium cal BC. The settlement entails different negative structures, including two stretches of ditch, silos and basins, structures finally reused as a waste area. The analysis of the recovered evidences allows the characterization of the activities developed by a farming community in a territory articulated by the river Vinalopó, where other settlements dated back to the same period have been documented. Therefore, Limoneros supplies relev…
Understanding woodworking in Paleolithic times by means of use-wear analysis
2020
Abstract Throughout prehistory, wood working was a frequent activity. The indices of this activity comes from rare found wooden remains, and the analysis of use-wear on them. In most recent periods, there are stone polished tools and metal tools, that increase the capability of wood transformation. This is not the case for older times, from which only knapped tools are available. The woodworking chaine operatoire includes activities of selection and acquisition of raw material, but also the transformation and the finish of objects and structures. Use-wear analysis in many sites illustrates this. However, a systematic compilation of published traceological analysis has not been made recently…
The First Neolithic Occupation of La Cova del Randero (Pedreguer, Alicante, Spain)
2021
The excavations at “Cova del Randero” (Pedreguer, Alicante, Spain) began in 2007 within the programme of archaeological interventions of the Archaeological Museum of Alicante. The cavity, located in one of the valleys that connect the coast with the inland mountains, presents a wide sequence of occupations that begins in the Upper Palaeolithic and continues throughout the different phases of the Neolithic. The results of a multidisciplinary study, carried out in an archaeological context associated with the first Neolithic presence of the cavity, are presented here. This occupation is defined by a unique combustion structure to which a set of artefacts and biofacts are linked. This archaeol…
Estudio Experimental y traceológico sobre piezas destinadas al trabajo de la madera (cuñas y azuelas) a través de réplicas de soportes paleolíticos y…
2018
En este trabajo experimental se han reproducido y utilizado una serie de piezas comunes a distintos períodos cronológicos, desde el Paleolítico Medio al Neolítico, que presentan un característico filo astillado opuesto a otra zona astillada, o a una superficie manifiesta o potencialmente percutida. Nuestro objetivo es comprobar si la función de estas piezas pudo ser como cuñas (percutor intermedio), cinceles o azuelas para hendir o tallar la madera a partir de la valoración de la eficacia en experimentación y de las huellas de uso. In this experimental work we have recreated and used a series of pieces from different chronological periods, including Middle Paleolithic to Neolithic, as they …