Unraveling Early Holocene occupation patterns at El Arenal de la Virgen (Alicante, Spain) open-air site: an integrated palimpsest analysis
dc.contributor.author | Rabuñal Gayo, José Ramón | |
dc.contributor.author | Gómez Puche, Magdalena | |
dc.contributor.author | Polo Díaz, Ana | |
dc.contributor.author | Fernández-López de Pablo, Javier | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-18T16:46:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-09-18T16:46:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-08 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 15(8) : (2023) // Article ID 108 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 1866-9557 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1866-9565 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/62576 | |
dc.description.abstract | Palimpsests are ubiquitous in the open-air archaeological record. Yet, integrated intra-site research strategies of palimpsest dissection to infer occupational histories, spatial behavioural patterns and site formation processes remain scarce in the postglacial archaeology. In this work, we apply an integrated protocol of palimpsest analysis to the Mesolithic Unit IV of El Arenal de la Virgen site, radiocarbon dated in two different occupation phases (9.3–9.1 k and 8.6–8.3 k cal BP). While the archaeostratigraphic analysis identified the absence of sterile layers between both phases, the lithic refits confirmed the good preservation of the spatial properties of the assemblage. Using different point pattern analysis and geostatistical techniques, we further investigate the overall distribution pattern, the spatial correlation between lithic remains and occupation features according to different artefact categories, and the variability of spatial autocorrelation in the frequency of burnt microdebris. Our results suggest a behavioural pattern of different, and spatially recurrent, short-term camp occupation episodes. Built on explicit quantitative and reproducible standards, our research approach can be applied to other open-air sites to conduct comparative studies on open-air occupation patterns. This study underscores the importance of considering the palimpsest as an analytical unit and the need for assessing assemblage integrity and site formation processes through multidisciplinary approaches, to better characterise site occupation dynamics. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was developed within the PALEODEM project, funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (ref. ERC-CoG 2015-683018), granted to JFLdP. JRR is currently supported by a Margarita Salas fellowship (ref. MARSALAS21-22) funded by the European Union-Next Generation EU, the Spanish Ministry of Universities and the University of Alicante. JF-LdP is additionally supported by the Plan Gen-T program (ref. CIDEGENT-18/040) from the Generalitat Valenciana. AP-D is currently supported by a María Zambrano fellowship funded by the European Union-Next Generation EU and the Spanish Ministry of Universities. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Springer | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/683018 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | open-air sites | es_ES |
dc.subject | Mesolithic | es_ES |
dc.subject | palimpsests | es_ES |
dc.subject | intra-site spatial analysis | es_ES |
dc.subject | lithic refitting | es_ES |
dc.subject | Iberian Peninsula | es_ES |
dc.title | Unraveling Early Holocene occupation patterns at El Arenal de la Virgen (Alicante, Spain) open-air site: an integrated palimpsest analysis | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | © The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attri- bution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adapta- tion, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución 3.0 España | * |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-023-01805-5 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s12520-023-01805-5 | |
dc.contributor.funder | European Commission | |
dc.departamentoes | Geografía, prehistoria y arqueología | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Geografia,historiaurrea eta arkeologia | es_ES |
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