TY - JOUR
T1 - Wandering through the Mesolithic. An archaeostatistical approach to explore the mobility patterns in eastern Iberia
AU - Cortell-Nicolau, Alfredo
AU - García-Puchol, O.
AU - Barton, C. Michael
AU - Diez-Castillo, Agustín
AU - Pardo-Gordó, Salvador
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness , grant HAR2015-68962-P (EVOLPAST): “Dinámicas evolutivas y patrones de variabilidad cultural de los últimos caza-recolectores y el primer Neolítico en el este peninsular (circa 7000-4500 cal BC)” and grant PGC2018-096943-B-C21 (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities): “CHRONOEVOL: High resolution chronology and cultural evolution in the east of the Iberian Peninsula (circa 7000-4000 cal BC): a multiscalar approach”. ACN is supported by MINECO pre-doctoral grant BES-2016-076578 . SPG is supported by MINECO post-doctoral grant FJDC-2016-30588 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - Tracing hunter-gatherer's mobility has been a recurring topic both in anthropological and archaeological literature. Following Binford's approach (1980), ethnographic comparisons have been brought out in order to better understand mobility patterns among Palaeolithic and Mesolithic groups, and how they relate with their environment, thus formulating a system where a main difference in mobility structure is pronounced on the distinction between residential and logistical camps. After some efforts made in order to relate the lithic record with such model (Clark and Barton, 2017), in this work we explore how lithic industry can be a reliable proxy for understanding the mobility patterns of the last hunter-gatherers of the Eastern Iberian Peninsula by studying a number of Late Mesolithic lithic collections. We try to bring a new insight into Clark and Barton's analysis, both by combining different sites -implementing geographical variability- and by taking into account functionality and its possible statistical traces, as shown by blades, bladelets and geometric microliths. We focus on the differences found at each site and how they relate with lithic industry in order to test hypotheses regarding mobility patterns.
AB - Tracing hunter-gatherer's mobility has been a recurring topic both in anthropological and archaeological literature. Following Binford's approach (1980), ethnographic comparisons have been brought out in order to better understand mobility patterns among Palaeolithic and Mesolithic groups, and how they relate with their environment, thus formulating a system where a main difference in mobility structure is pronounced on the distinction between residential and logistical camps. After some efforts made in order to relate the lithic record with such model (Clark and Barton, 2017), in this work we explore how lithic industry can be a reliable proxy for understanding the mobility patterns of the last hunter-gatherers of the Eastern Iberian Peninsula by studying a number of Late Mesolithic lithic collections. We try to bring a new insight into Clark and Barton's analysis, both by combining different sites -implementing geographical variability- and by taking into account functionality and its possible statistical traces, as shown by blades, bladelets and geometric microliths. We focus on the differences found at each site and how they relate with lithic industry in order to test hypotheses regarding mobility patterns.
KW - Blades
KW - Geometrics
KW - Iberian Peninsula
KW - Mesolithic
KW - Mobility
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101892
DO - 10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101892
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85068470554
SN - 2352-409X
VL - 26
JO - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
JF - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
M1 - 101892
ER -