Upper Palaeolithic lithic raw material sourcing in Central and Northern Portugal as an aid to reconstructing huntergatherer societies

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Autor(a) principal: Aubry, Thierry
Data de Publicação: 2016
Outros Autores: Gameiro, Cristina, Mangado Llach, Javier, Luís, Luís, Matias, Henrique, Pereiro, Tiago do
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/25885
Resumo: We present the results of the study of lithic raw materials used in Upper Palaeolithic occupations preserved in caves, rockshelters and open-air sites from two different geological environments in Portugal. For the sites located in the Lusitanian Basin, flint or silcrete sources are easily available in close vicinity. The Côa Valley sites, located in the Iberian Massif, are within a geological environment where restricted fine-grained vein quartz and siliceous metamorphic rocks are available, but no flint or silcrete, even though both are present in the archaeological assemblages. Data from the two clusters of sites are compared with a third newly located site in the Lower Vouga valley, at the limit of the Iberian Massif with the Lusitanian Basin, where quartz vein raw material types are locally available and flint is about 40 kilometres distant. This study reveals prehistoric adaptations to these different geological contexts, with shorter networks for the Lusitanian basin sites contrasting with the long distance ones for the Côa Valley, and the Vouga site at an intermediary position. Finally, we propose that lithic raw material supply networks, defined by a GIS least-cost algorithm, could be used as a proxy not only for territoriality in the case of local and regional lithic raw material sources, but also to infer long-distance social networks between different Palaeolithic human groups, created and maintained to promote the access to asymmetrically distributed resources.
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spelling Upper Palaeolithic lithic raw material sourcing in Central and Northern Portugal as an aid to reconstructing huntergatherer societiesCôa ValleyUpper PalaeolithicLithic raw material sourcingSocial networksArchaeological GISWe present the results of the study of lithic raw materials used in Upper Palaeolithic occupations preserved in caves, rockshelters and open-air sites from two different geological environments in Portugal. For the sites located in the Lusitanian Basin, flint or silcrete sources are easily available in close vicinity. The Côa Valley sites, located in the Iberian Massif, are within a geological environment where restricted fine-grained vein quartz and siliceous metamorphic rocks are available, but no flint or silcrete, even though both are present in the archaeological assemblages. Data from the two clusters of sites are compared with a third newly located site in the Lower Vouga valley, at the limit of the Iberian Massif with the Lusitanian Basin, where quartz vein raw material types are locally available and flint is about 40 kilometres distant. This study reveals prehistoric adaptations to these different geological contexts, with shorter networks for the Lusitanian basin sites contrasting with the long distance ones for the Côa Valley, and the Vouga site at an intermediary position. Finally, we propose that lithic raw material supply networks, defined by a GIS least-cost algorithm, could be used as a proxy not only for territoriality in the case of local and regional lithic raw material sources, but also to infer long-distance social networks between different Palaeolithic human groups, created and maintained to promote the access to asymmetrically distributed resources.School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of EdinburghRepositório da Universidade de LisboaAubry, ThierryGameiro, CristinaMangado Llach, JavierLuís, LuísMatias, HenriquePereiro, Tiago do2017-01-16T10:14:09Z20162016-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/25885porAUBRY, T.; GAMEIRO, C.; MANGADO LLACH, X.; LUIS, L.; MATIAS, H.; DO PEREIRO, T. (2016) - Upper Palaeolithic lithic raw material sourcing in Central and Northern Portugal as an aid to reconstructing hunter-gatherer societies. Journal of Lithic Studies 3:2, p.xx-xxx.2055-047http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/jls.v3i2.1436info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:15:26Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/25885Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:42:33.913994Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Upper Palaeolithic lithic raw material sourcing in Central and Northern Portugal as an aid to reconstructing huntergatherer societies
title Upper Palaeolithic lithic raw material sourcing in Central and Northern Portugal as an aid to reconstructing huntergatherer societies
spellingShingle Upper Palaeolithic lithic raw material sourcing in Central and Northern Portugal as an aid to reconstructing huntergatherer societies
Aubry, Thierry
Côa Valley
Upper Palaeolithic
Lithic raw material sourcing
Social networks
Archaeological GIS
title_short Upper Palaeolithic lithic raw material sourcing in Central and Northern Portugal as an aid to reconstructing huntergatherer societies
title_full Upper Palaeolithic lithic raw material sourcing in Central and Northern Portugal as an aid to reconstructing huntergatherer societies
title_fullStr Upper Palaeolithic lithic raw material sourcing in Central and Northern Portugal as an aid to reconstructing huntergatherer societies
title_full_unstemmed Upper Palaeolithic lithic raw material sourcing in Central and Northern Portugal as an aid to reconstructing huntergatherer societies
title_sort Upper Palaeolithic lithic raw material sourcing in Central and Northern Portugal as an aid to reconstructing huntergatherer societies
author Aubry, Thierry
author_facet Aubry, Thierry
Gameiro, Cristina
Mangado Llach, Javier
Luís, Luís
Matias, Henrique
Pereiro, Tiago do
author_role author
author2 Gameiro, Cristina
Mangado Llach, Javier
Luís, Luís
Matias, Henrique
Pereiro, Tiago do
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Aubry, Thierry
Gameiro, Cristina
Mangado Llach, Javier
Luís, Luís
Matias, Henrique
Pereiro, Tiago do
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Côa Valley
Upper Palaeolithic
Lithic raw material sourcing
Social networks
Archaeological GIS
topic Côa Valley
Upper Palaeolithic
Lithic raw material sourcing
Social networks
Archaeological GIS
description We present the results of the study of lithic raw materials used in Upper Palaeolithic occupations preserved in caves, rockshelters and open-air sites from two different geological environments in Portugal. For the sites located in the Lusitanian Basin, flint or silcrete sources are easily available in close vicinity. The Côa Valley sites, located in the Iberian Massif, are within a geological environment where restricted fine-grained vein quartz and siliceous metamorphic rocks are available, but no flint or silcrete, even though both are present in the archaeological assemblages. Data from the two clusters of sites are compared with a third newly located site in the Lower Vouga valley, at the limit of the Iberian Massif with the Lusitanian Basin, where quartz vein raw material types are locally available and flint is about 40 kilometres distant. This study reveals prehistoric adaptations to these different geological contexts, with shorter networks for the Lusitanian basin sites contrasting with the long distance ones for the Côa Valley, and the Vouga site at an intermediary position. Finally, we propose that lithic raw material supply networks, defined by a GIS least-cost algorithm, could be used as a proxy not only for territoriality in the case of local and regional lithic raw material sources, but also to infer long-distance social networks between different Palaeolithic human groups, created and maintained to promote the access to asymmetrically distributed resources.
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dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv AUBRY, T.; GAMEIRO, C.; MANGADO LLACH, X.; LUIS, L.; MATIAS, H.; DO PEREIRO, T. (2016) - Upper Palaeolithic lithic raw material sourcing in Central and Northern Portugal as an aid to reconstructing hunter-gatherer societies. Journal of Lithic Studies 3:2, p.xx-xxx.
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