Papers by Cecilio Barroso
1. INTRODUCCIÓN Durante la primera semana de noviembre de 1987 se celebró en la población oscense... more 1. INTRODUCCIÓN Durante la primera semana de noviembre de 1987 se celebró en la población oscense de Barbastro la "11 Reunión de Prehistoria Aragonesa", la cual , bajo el lema "La terminología en el arte rupestre post-paleolítico", abordó, como tema monográfico, los problemas terminológicos y conceptuales que actualmente tiene planteado s la investigación de las expresiones pictóricas encuadrables cronológicamente en un momento posterior al desarrollo del arte' parietal de época paleolítica. Para dicho fin, estuvo trabajando un grupo de especialistas en la materia, cuya lista, en orden alfabético, se expone a continuación: Ramón VIÑAS. Se pensó en un número reducido de participantes para hacer más operativas las di scusiones y para facilitar en cierta forma la unificación de criterios y el establecimiento de unas conclusiones unánimes. Así pues, no se ha pretendido en absoluto reunir a todos y cada uno de los investigadores que hoy por hoy se ocupan de la cue...
Data from: A Western route of prehistoric human migration from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula
Zephyrus, 2009
El conjunto de pinturas esquemáticas que presentamos en este trabajo, se encuentra situado en el ... more El conjunto de pinturas esquemáticas que presentamos en este trabajo, se encuentra situado en el término municipal de Jimena de la Frontera, ciudad situada al Este de la provincia de Cádiz, al Norte de San Roque, entre los ríos Hozgarganta y Guadiaro. Posee una situación geográfica muy favorable para los contactos entre el Campo de Gibraltar y la Serranía de Ronda, siendo un lugar de paso necesario para las relaciones económicas, sociales y culturales entre las tierras altas de la serranía y la costa. No es la primera vez que aparecen pinturas esquemáticas en esta zona, pues hacia 1929, H. Breuil y Burkitt estudiaron una serie de conjuntos rupestres, que aparecieron en Chinchilla, Risco del Tajo Gordo, Chorreón del Salado y en el Rancho Valdechuelo, todas ellas pertenecientes al fenómeno esquemático.
Quaternary International, 2016
Deciphering human activities in archaeological sites is a priority issue in archaeological studie... more Deciphering human activities in archaeological sites is a priority issue in archaeological studies, nevertheless its geochemical fingerprints on sediments are poorly known. In sites belonging to the recent prehistory these geochemical signals have been taken into account, but in oldest sites this subject has not been studied sufficiently. The aim of this paper consists on tracking geochemical proxies that can be attributed to anthropogenic processes in endokarstic Pleistocene deposits. Recognize these elements can be a key factor in order to explore the potential of non-excavated archeological levels and find out activities performed in those sediments more accurately. For that purpose a MiddleeUpper Pleistocene endokarstic deposit (Cueva del Angel) belonging to the Iberian Peninsula has been chosen. This site provides numerous evidences of human activities, as butchering and cooking of predated animals or the habitual use of fire throughout its main stratigraphic sequence. This geochemical/archaeological approach highlights that the upper units consist of anthropogenic influenced sediments, while the lower unit shows a greater percentage of geogenic inputs. Based on P and ZneCueSr, several levels with higher anthropogenic inputs have been identified. These two attributes can be suggested as proxies of human activities for this site. High values of P appear to be linked with "butchering highly occupied" levels, and high levels of ZneCueSr seem to be related with fires. This geochemical information has been compared and tested with previous archeological information.
Estudios Geológicos, 2013
Contribution des paramètres magnétiques à l'identification des niveaux stratigraphiques et de la ... more Contribution des paramètres magnétiques à l'identification des niveaux stratigraphiques et de la pédogenèse (Grotte del Angel, Espagne) Título (traducido, EN): Title (translated, EN): Contribution of magnetic parameters to the identification of stratigraphic levels and pedogenesis (Angel Cave, Spain
Clay mineral assemblages as tracers of fireplaces in Pleistocene archaeological sites (Cueva del Ángel, Spain)
Applied Clay Science
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We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the largely unsampl... more We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect of the Iberian Peninsula. We document high genetic substructure between northwestern and southeastern hunter-gatherers before the spread of farming. We reveal sporadic contacts between Iberia and North Africa by ~2500 BCE and, by ~2000 BCE, the replacement of 40% of Iberia’s ancestry and nearly 100% of its Y-chromosomes by people with Steppe ancestry. We show that, in the Iron Age, Steppe ancestry had spread not only into Indo-European–speaking regions but also into non-Indo-European–speaking ones, and we reveal that present-day Basques are best described as a typical Iron Age population without the admixture events that later affected the rest of Iberia. Additionally, we document how, beginning at least in the Roman period, the ancestry of the peninsula was transformed by gene flow from North Africa and the east...
Le site moustérien de la grotte du Boquete de Zafarraya, province de Malaga en Andalousie, Espagne /
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La Fauna De Pequeños Mamíferos De La Cueva Del Boquete De Zafarraya
Les lagomorphes (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) du Pléistocène supérieur de la Grotte du Boquete de Zafarraya
Cuadro Bioestratigráfico y Geocronológico De Los Depósitos Cuaternarios De La Cueva Del Boquete De Zafarraya
El relleno cuaternario de la cueva ha sido dividido en tres complejos: - el complejo estratigráfi... more El relleno cuaternario de la cueva ha sido dividido en tres complejos: - el complejo estratigráfico inferior, constituido de limos arcillosos plásticos de rojo a beig. - el complejo estratigráfico medio, constituido por pequeños clastos angulosos con matriz areno-limosa. - el complejo estratigráfico superior, constituido por tierras marrones o negras, ricas en materia orgánica, en gran parte revuelto y conteniendo fragmentos de vasijas. El espesor de cada uno de estos complejos no es constante: discordancias erosivas de gran amplitud han cortado el techo de estos tres complejos sobre un espesor que puede alcanzar varios metros.
Caracterización mineralógica de restos óseos pertenecientes al depósito endokárstico de la Cueva del Ángel, Lucena (Córdoba)
Caracterización mineralógica del relleno de edad Pleistocena de la Cueva del Ángel (Lucena, Córdoba)
La cueva del Ángel (Lucena), un gisement du Pléistocène moyen et supérieur du Sud de la Península Ibérique
Quaternary International, 2015
Bone retouchers are more common during the Middle Palaeolithic (from MIS 7 to 3) and are now cons... more Bone retouchers are more common during the Middle Palaeolithic (from MIS 7 to 3) and are now considered as a part of the tool kit of Neanderthals. In Middle Pleistocene and Lower Palaeolithic assemblages, they are few in number and attest to the scarcity of use of bones as material for shaping tools. Some MIS 11 to MIS 9 sites allow the description of the onset of bone use and its multiplication after the MIS 9 attests of another functional relationship between bones and hominins. Our aim is to provide details about the bone retouchers found in some MIS 11e9 sites with lithic assemblages, often described as late Acheulean, that include handaxes and heavy-duty tools. The sites sampled are Terra Amata (south-east France, MIS 11), Orgnac 3 (south-east France, MIS 9e8), Cagny l'Epinette (Northern France, MIS 9) and Cueva del Angel (Spain, MIS 11e7). The study examined the number of retouchers, their support and type of animal, types of marks, bone sizes, and the lithic and faunal contexts. While bone retouchers sometimes total several hundreds of pieces in Middle Palaeolithic sites, our Lower Palaeolithic corpus yields generally between 1 and 6 retouchers. Retouchers are always made on fragments of bones from the main hunted species (horses, large bovids and cervids). Marks on bone retouchers indicate specific processes for selecting fragments of bones, and hypotheses are provided on their method of use. Categories may be suggested according to their types of support (diaphysis, epiphysis) as well as their types of marks, and allow us to suggest hypotheses for the retouching of both bifacial tools and flake-tools as well as for direct percussion. The results are compared with other sites from which bone retouchers were already published (Cueva del Bolomor, Gran Dolina TD10 in Spain, and La Micoque in France and Qesem in Israel). They are also compared with younger Acheulean assemblages such as Lazaret cave in France.
The Acheulian at Cueva and abrigo del Ángel (Lucena, Córdoba)
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