RT Journal Article
T1 Spatial analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic kill/butchering site: the case of the Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, Spain)
A1 Moclán, Abel
A1 Cobo Sánchez, Lucía
A1 Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel
A1 Méndez Quintas, Eduardo
A1 Rubio Jara, Susana
A1 Panera Gallego, Joaquín
A1 Pérez González, Alfredo José
A1 Santonja, Manuel
AB Kill/butchering sites are some of the most important places for understanding the subsistence strategies of hunter-gatherer groups. However, these sites are not common in the archaeological record, and they have not been sufficiently analysed in order to know all their possible variability for ancient periods of the human evolution. In the present study, we have carried out the spatial analysis of the Early Middle Palaeolithic (MIS 9–8) site of Cuesta de la Bajada site (Teruel, Spain), which has been previously identified as a kill/butchering site through the taphonomic analysis of the faunal remains. Our results show that the spatial properties of the faunal and lithic tools distribution in levels CB2 and CB3 are well-preserved although the site is an open-air location. Both levels show a similar segregated (i.e. regular) spatial point pattern (SPP) which is different from the SPP identified at other sites with similar nature from the ethnographic and the archaeological records. However, although the archaeological materials have a regular distribution pattern, the lithic and faunal remains are positively associated, which is indicating that most parts of both types of materials were accumulated during the same occupation episodes, which were probably sporadic and focused on getting only few animal carcasses at a time.
PB Springer
SN 1866-9557
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91868
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91868
LA eng
NO Moclán, A., Cobo Sánchez, L., Domínguez Rodrigo, M. et al. «Spatial Analysis of an Early Middle Palaeolithic Kill/Butchering Site: The Case of the Cuesta de La Bajada (Teruel, Spain)». Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, vol. 15, n.o 7, julio de 2023, p. 91.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01792-7.
NO Junta de Castilla y León
NO European Commission
NO Xunta de Galicia
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 4 abr 2025