出版社:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要:Final Pleistocene palaeocommunities developed some adaptative answers to alleviate their environmental constrictions. One of them using in hunting strategies was the differential selection of some individuals by age or sex. In this study the possible ages of death are estimated from mandibles and analysed along with their processing by the human groups that lived in Caldas Cave about 13000 BP. It will try to characterize mortality patterns from the ungulates in their diet, to define the stationary character of the site and to check if it is possible to consider a tactics of intentional and differential temporal planning as an answer to a subsistence strategy. These are part of a palaeoeconomic system that organized the life of these Final Upper Paleolithic societies in face of the ecological pressures and cultural limitations that were imposed them. This analysis may allow us to estimate modes of occupation and mobility in a territory as a strategic space of resource management.
关键词:Caldas Cave;Middle magdalenian;Cantabrian area;Subsistence;Seasonality;Mortality profiles;Zooarchaeology;Cueva de Las Caldas;Magdaleniense medio;Región cantábrica;Subsistencia;Estacionalidad;Perfiles de mortalidad;Zooarqueología