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The nature and chronology of human occupation at the Galerías Bajas, from Cueva de Ardales, Malaga, Spain

The Cueva de Ardales is a hugely important Palaeolithic site in the south of the Iberian Peninsula owing to its rich inventory of rock art. From 2011–2018, excavations were carried out in the cave for the first time ever by a Spanish-German research team. The excavation focused on the entrance area...

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Autores principales: Ramos-Muñoz, José, Cantalejo, Pedro, Blumenröther, Julia, Bolin, Viviane, Otto, Taylor, Rotgänger, Miriam, Kehl, Martin, Nielsen, Trine Kellberg, Espejo, Mar, Fernández-Sánchez, Diego, Moreno-Márquez, Adolfo, Vijande-Vila, Eduardo, Cabello, Lidia, Becerra, Serafín, Martí, África Pitarch, Riquelme, José A., Cantillo-Duarte, Juan J., Domínguez-Bella, Salvador, Ramos-García, Pablo, Tafelmaier, Yvonne, Weniger, Gerd-Christian
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9159608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35648733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266788
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author Ramos-Muñoz, José
Cantalejo, Pedro
Blumenröther, Julia
Bolin, Viviane
Otto, Taylor
Rotgänger, Miriam
Kehl, Martin
Nielsen, Trine Kellberg
Espejo, Mar
Fernández-Sánchez, Diego
Moreno-Márquez, Adolfo
Vijande-Vila, Eduardo
Cabello, Lidia
Becerra, Serafín
Martí, África Pitarch
Riquelme, José A.
Cantillo-Duarte, Juan J.
Domínguez-Bella, Salvador
Ramos-García, Pablo
Tafelmaier, Yvonne
Weniger, Gerd-Christian
author_facet Ramos-Muñoz, José
Cantalejo, Pedro
Blumenröther, Julia
Bolin, Viviane
Otto, Taylor
Rotgänger, Miriam
Kehl, Martin
Nielsen, Trine Kellberg
Espejo, Mar
Fernández-Sánchez, Diego
Moreno-Márquez, Adolfo
Vijande-Vila, Eduardo
Cabello, Lidia
Becerra, Serafín
Martí, África Pitarch
Riquelme, José A.
Cantillo-Duarte, Juan J.
Domínguez-Bella, Salvador
Ramos-García, Pablo
Tafelmaier, Yvonne
Weniger, Gerd-Christian
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description The Cueva de Ardales is a hugely important Palaeolithic site in the south of the Iberian Peninsula owing to its rich inventory of rock art. From 2011–2018, excavations were carried out in the cave for the first time ever by a Spanish-German research team. The excavation focused on the entrance area of the cave, where the largest assemblage of non-figurative red paintings in the cave is found. A series of 50 AMS dates from the excavations prove a long, albeit discontinuous, occupation history spanning from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Neolithic. The dating of the Middle Palaeolithic layers agrees with the U/Th dating of some red non-figurative paintings in the entrance area. In addition, a large assemblage of ochre lumps was discovered in the Middle Palaeolithic layers. Human visits of the cave in the Gravettian and Solutrean can be recognized, but evidence from the Aurignacian and Magdalenian cannot be confirmed with certainty. The quantity and nature of materials found during the excavations indicate that Cueva de Ardales was not a campsite, but was mainly visited to carry out non-domestic tasks, such as the production of rock art or the burial of the dead.
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spelling pubmed-91596082022-06-02 The nature and chronology of human occupation at the Galerías Bajas, from Cueva de Ardales, Malaga, Spain Ramos-Muñoz, José Cantalejo, Pedro Blumenröther, Julia Bolin, Viviane Otto, Taylor Rotgänger, Miriam Kehl, Martin Nielsen, Trine Kellberg Espejo, Mar Fernández-Sánchez, Diego Moreno-Márquez, Adolfo Vijande-Vila, Eduardo Cabello, Lidia Becerra, Serafín Martí, África Pitarch Riquelme, José A. Cantillo-Duarte, Juan J. Domínguez-Bella, Salvador Ramos-García, Pablo Tafelmaier, Yvonne Weniger, Gerd-Christian PLoS One Research Article The Cueva de Ardales is a hugely important Palaeolithic site in the south of the Iberian Peninsula owing to its rich inventory of rock art. From 2011–2018, excavations were carried out in the cave for the first time ever by a Spanish-German research team. The excavation focused on the entrance area of the cave, where the largest assemblage of non-figurative red paintings in the cave is found. A series of 50 AMS dates from the excavations prove a long, albeit discontinuous, occupation history spanning from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Neolithic. The dating of the Middle Palaeolithic layers agrees with the U/Th dating of some red non-figurative paintings in the entrance area. In addition, a large assemblage of ochre lumps was discovered in the Middle Palaeolithic layers. Human visits of the cave in the Gravettian and Solutrean can be recognized, but evidence from the Aurignacian and Magdalenian cannot be confirmed with certainty. The quantity and nature of materials found during the excavations indicate that Cueva de Ardales was not a campsite, but was mainly visited to carry out non-domestic tasks, such as the production of rock art or the burial of the dead. Public Library of Science 2022-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9159608/ /pubmed/35648733 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266788 Text en © 2022 Ramos-Muñoz et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Ramos-Muñoz, José
Cantalejo, Pedro
Blumenröther, Julia
Bolin, Viviane
Otto, Taylor
Rotgänger, Miriam
Kehl, Martin
Nielsen, Trine Kellberg
Espejo, Mar
Fernández-Sánchez, Diego
Moreno-Márquez, Adolfo
Vijande-Vila, Eduardo
Cabello, Lidia
Becerra, Serafín
Martí, África Pitarch
Riquelme, José A.
Cantillo-Duarte, Juan J.
Domínguez-Bella, Salvador
Ramos-García, Pablo
Tafelmaier, Yvonne
Weniger, Gerd-Christian
The nature and chronology of human occupation at the Galerías Bajas, from Cueva de Ardales, Malaga, Spain
title The nature and chronology of human occupation at the Galerías Bajas, from Cueva de Ardales, Malaga, Spain
title_full The nature and chronology of human occupation at the Galerías Bajas, from Cueva de Ardales, Malaga, Spain
title_fullStr The nature and chronology of human occupation at the Galerías Bajas, from Cueva de Ardales, Malaga, Spain
title_full_unstemmed The nature and chronology of human occupation at the Galerías Bajas, from Cueva de Ardales, Malaga, Spain
title_short The nature and chronology of human occupation at the Galerías Bajas, from Cueva de Ardales, Malaga, Spain
title_sort nature and chronology of human occupation at the galerías bajas, from cueva de ardales, malaga, spain
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9159608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35648733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266788
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