Person: Panera Gallego, Joaquín
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First Name
Joaquín
Last Name
Panera Gallego
Affiliation
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Faculty / Institute
Geografía e Historia
Department
Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología
Area
Prehistoria
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Item Intervenciones arqueológicas en los valles del Manzanares y Jarama (Madrid): puesta en valor de sus depósitos pleistoncenos.(Paleolítico da Península Ibérica, 2000) Panera Gallego, Joaquín; Rubio Jara, Susana; Martos Romero, Juan AntonioPese a que las primeras noticias sobre paleolítico en el Manzanares se remontan al último tercio del siglo XIX, a la intensa labor investigadora hasta la Guerra Civil, e importantes intervenciones a fines de los setenta en el Jarama, que han dejado constancia del gran potencial arqueológico de la zona, el conocimiento sobre las ocupaciones humanas durante el Pleistoceno en estas áreas es muy limitado, debido a que los proyectos de investigación que se han sucedido no han tenido una suficiente continuidad en el tiempo. Por este motivo, y debido al grave y acelerado deterioro que está sufriendo la zona por la explotación, en ocasiones incontrolada, de áridos, venimos trabajando desde septiembre de 1998 en la elaboración de una secuencia estratigráfica de las distintas ocupaciones paleolíticas, mediante la prospección intensiva, localización de yacimientos, y excavación de los potencialmente más importantes.Item Hominins and Proboscideans in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in the Central Iberian Peninsula(Quaternary International, 2019) Yravedra Sainz De Los Terreros, José; Rubio Jara, Susana; Panera Gallego, Joaquín; Martos, Juan AntonioSince the middle of the 19th Century, when the first elephant remains were excavated near Madrid (Spain), continuous discoveries of proboscideans have taken place on the riverbanks of the middle and lower courses of the Manzanares and Jarama rivers. The pioneering research carried out by Aguilera y Gamboa in Torralba and Ambrona (Soria, Spain) in the early 20th Century was followed decades later by Howell and others. These various studies have ensured that the Iberian Peninsula is central to the debate over the human exploitation of proboscideans during the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in Europe. An updated revision of the relationship between hominins and proboscideans in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula, specifically in the area located along the valleys of the Manzanares and Jarama rivers, has been carried out by the authors and is presented in this paper. European sites which show evidence of proboscidean exploitation are substantially greater in number during the Lower Palaeolithic than during the Middle Palaeolithic. In the Manzanares and Jarama valleys, a substantial number of sites with Acheulean lithic industry associated with elephant remains have been recorded, although plenty of evidence dating to the Middle Palaeolithic has also been found. This implies that Mousterian groups made use of these animal resources in a similar way to the Acheulean groups, and that there were no substantial changes to their subsistence strategies in relation to these mammals. Therefore, the exploitation of mega-mammals for food was a recurrent phenomenon during the Acheulean and Middle Palaeolithic in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula.Item Rodents, rabbits and pellets in a fluvial terrace (PRERESA site, Madrid, Spain)(Quaternary International, 2018) García Morato, Sara; Sevilla García, María Paloma; Panera Gallego, Joaquín; Rubio Jara, Susana; Sesé, Carmen; Fernández Jalvo, SeséThe aim of this work is to study from a taphonomic view the small mammals assemblage located on the Pleistocene site known as PRERESA. The small mammal fossiliferous layer is a silt level located at a fluvial terrace. The samples studied included remains from rodents (Minimum Number of Elements: MNE=373) and lagomorphs (MNE=372). During the excavation seasons, a distinct high concentration of small mammals was recovered apart, named as fossil ‘pellet’. We consider this ‘fossil pellet’ to be an aggregation of several pellets and it has been taphonomically analyzed apart and included in this study. The presence of such concentrations/ aggregations is uncommon in this type of open-air sites. This aggregation contains 253 MNE fossil bones. The taphonomic study has considered three main aspects: anatomical representation, fragmentation, and corrosion by digestion. Due to the location of the site on a fluvial system, transport effects and abrasion were analyzed as well. The results obtained show a high representation of cranial elements (especially lagomorphs) as well as a high fragmentation of both cranial and postcranial elements. Digestion observed in this assemblage affects dental remains below 30% in both rodents and lagomorphs, being light and moderate digestion the most frequent degrees, but all samples reach extreme grades of digestion (in molars < 3%). Transport was analyzed using Voorhies groups (1969). All groups were present, even the easiest to transport. Group III (cranial remains) was the best represented. The simultaneous presence of all Voorhies groups suggests a low or null rate of transport. Results could indicate that the small mammal assemblage of PRERESA were produced by a nocturnal raptor, most likely an Eagle owl (Bubo bubo), whose nest or roosting site was installed near the fluvial channel.Item Middle Pleistocene human occupation in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula during cold climate conditions: Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of ETB-H02 site in the Manzanares valley (Madrid, Spain)(Quaternary International, 2019) Yravedra Sainz De Los Terreros, José; Panera Gallego, Joaquín; Rubio Jara, Susana; Pérez González, Alfredo José; Gallego Letjós, Nuria; González, IvánEvidence suggesting human occupation in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula during cold periods of the Middle Pleistocene is scarce. The Estanque de Tormentas (ETB-H02) site (Manzanares Valley, Madrid) matches with a MIS 6 or MIS 7 cold event, which allows us to tackle the study of the human occupation of the highlands of the Spanish Meseta during a cold climate event. ETB-H02 is one of the few Middle Pleistocene open air sites of the Iberian Peninsula where lithic industry associated with faunal remains has been preserved. The bone remains have been recovered from several different stratigraphic levels excavated in an area 1029m2. It can be inferred from the taphonomic and zooarcheological analyses of those remains that occasional human occupations occurred at this site, during which lithic tools were used for processing individuals of aurochs, horses, wild donkeys and deer. In addition, carcasses of animals that probably died due to natural causes have been preserved. Some were modified by carnivores although not intensively, judging by the scarce number of tooth marks. In conclusion, ETB-H02 supports the hypothesis that the continental climate and the height of the highlands of the Iberian Peninsula were not an obstacle to occupation in the Middle Pleistocene cold times. Besides, unlike other sites of the interior of the Iberian Peninsula that show occasional occupations, in ETB-H02 the human occupation happened recurrently, as human-processed faunal remains have been recovered from different levels and sub-levels, implying repeated visits to this environment, which would offer specific advantages regarding the exploitation of animal resources.