RT Book, Section
T1 Site catchment analysis and human behaviour during the Upper Palaeolithic in the Cantabrian Region. Coímbre cave (Asturias, Spain) as case study
A1 De Andrés Herrero, María
A1 Álvarez Alonso, David
A1 Arrizabalaga, Álvaro
A1 Becker, Daniel
A1 Weniger, Gerd-Christian
A1 Yravedra, José
A2 Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 
AB This paper analyses the territoriality and mobility of hunter-gatherer groups that inhabited Coímbre in its different occupation periods (Magdalenian and Gravettian). With the objective of developing this study a Geographic Information System was used, allowing us to get new information of Coímbre cave in relation to the lithic raw materials unearthed in the excavations developed between 2008 and 2012: we have calculated the cost of the movement in the territory, and using Least Cost Paths (LCPs) in order to calculate the distances in kilometres and hours to different outcrops of lithic raw materials and to the areas in which the archaeological record reveals the existence of movements such as, for example, the coastal area. The above-mentioned analysis provides very useful information to analyse the human behaviour in Coímbre between the Magdalenian and Gravettian.
PB Cambridge Scholars Publishing
SN 978-1-4438-9597-2
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/117267
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/117267
LA eng
NO Andrés-Herrero, M. de, Álvarez-Alonso, D., Arrizabalaga, A., Becker, D., Weniger, G-C., Yravedra, J. (2017): The explotation of raw materials in Prehistory: sourcing, processing and distribution En Pereira, T., Terradas, X. Bicho, N (eds.) The explotation of raw materials in Prehistory: sourcing, processing and distribution, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 368-381.
NO German Research Foundation
NO Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson
NO Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi
NO Basque Country University
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025