Moving to the land: First archaeometric study of chert procurement at Cueva de la Cocina (Eastern Iberia)

IF 1.4 3区地球科学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-21 DOI:10.1002/gea.21903

Mirco Ramacciotti, Oreto García-Puchol, Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, Gianni Gallello, Angel Morales-Rubio, Agustín Pastor

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Abstract

The present work represents the first attempt using an archaeometric approach to characterize the potential chert outcrops and retrace the provenance of the chert raw materials in the Mesolithic and Neolithic contexts of the Eastern Iberia central site of Cueva de la Cocina (Dos Aguas, Valencia). Therefore, a research project aimed at identifying and characterizing potential sources in the surroundings of the site was carried out, as a first step, to test some hypotheses related to raw material provenance. Elemental profiles of several archaeological artifacts and of geological samples collected in different local and nonlocal outcrops were obtained using X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. These chemical data were processed using multivariate statistics to investigate the possible links between the outcrops and archaeological artifacts. Preliminary results point to the use of local raw materials and also the presence of rocks outcropping in a perimeter of more than 50 km around Cueva de la Cocina, opening a new window to investigate the socioecological dynamics of the last hunter-gatherer and the first farmer inhabitants from a diachronic point of view in this region.

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迁移到陆地上:对Cueva de la Cocina(东伊比利亚)燧石采掘的首次考古研究

目前的工作是第一次尝试使用考古学方法来描述潜在的燧石露头，并在Cueva de la Cocina (Dos Aguas, Valencia)的东伊比利亚中心遗址的中石器时代和新石器时代背景下追溯燧石原料的来源。因此，作为第一步，开展了一项旨在确定和描述该遗址周围潜在来源的研究项目，以检验与原材料来源有关的一些假设。利用x射线荧光光谱法和电感耦合等离子体质谱法获得了在不同的本地和非本地露头采集的若干考古文物和地质样品的元素剖面。这些化学数据是用多元统计来处理的，以调查露头和考古文物之间可能的联系。初步结果表明，在Cueva de la Cocina周围50多公里的范围内，使用了当地的原材料，并且出现了露头的岩石，这为从历时的角度研究该地区最后一个狩猎采集者和第一个农民居民的社会生态动态打开了一扇新的窗口。

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Geoarchaeology-An International Journal 地学-地球科学综合

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Geoarchaeology is an interdisciplinary journal published six times per year (in January, March, May, July, September and November). It presents the results of original research at the methodological and theoretical interface between archaeology and the geosciences and includes within its scope: interdisciplinary work focusing on understanding archaeological sites, their environmental context, and particularly site formation processes and how the analysis of sedimentary records can enhance our understanding of human activity in Quaternary environments. Manuscripts should examine the interrelationship between archaeology and the various disciplines within Quaternary science and the Earth Sciences more generally, including, for example: geology, geography, geomorphology, pedology, climatology, oceanography, geochemistry, geochronology, and geophysics. We also welcome papers that deal with the biological record of past human activity through the analysis of faunal and botanical remains and palaeoecological reconstructions that shed light on past human-environment interactions. The journal also welcomes manuscripts concerning the examination and geological context of human fossil remains as well as papers that employ analytical techniques to advance understanding of the composition and origin or material culture such as, for example, ceramics, metals, lithics, building stones, plasters, and cements. Such composition and provenance studies should be strongly grounded in their geological context through, for example, the systematic analysis of potential source materials.