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A mediterranean perspective of the neolithization process. The cave of Nerja in the context of andalusia (Spain)
J. Emili Aura TortosaJesús F. Jordá PardoPablo García BorjaOreto García PucholErnestina BadalManuel Pérez RipollGuillem Pérez JordàJosep Lluís Pascual BenitoYolanda Carrión MarcoJuan Vicente Morales Pérezsubject
Western MediterraneanMediterráneo occidentalMesolíticoEspañaAndalucíaBioarchaeological DataPrehistòriaSpainArchaeological sequenceNeolíticoRadiocarbon DatesRadiocarbonoSecuencia arqueológicaNeolithicAndalusiaDatos bioarqueológicosMesolithicdescription
[EN] This paper offers an overview for the Early Neolithic of the southern coast of Andalusia (Spain). Analyses of materials recovered during the 1979-87 excavations in Nerja cave by professor Francisco Jordá Cerdá, including new radiocarbon dates on domestic taxa, allow us to examine the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. Paleoenvironmental and paleoeconomic data (stratigraphy and bioarcheological data) combined with archaeological data (ornaments, bone tools, lithics, and ceramics were analysed) to provide a regional perspective on the neolithisation of the western Mediterranean. There is an apparent 500-year gap between occupations by the last coastal foragers and the earliest Neolithic farmers, and no evidence is found to suggest a local Neolithization. Our approach assumes a diffusion process of the Neolithic
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| 2013-01-01 |