The shell midden of Pico Ramos and the exploitation of molluscs in the Cantabrian region (northern Spain)

ABSTRACT: Human groups exploited molluscs during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition (MNT) at Pico Ramos. Results show that the most exploited species were limpets and topshells collected in rocky open shores, while other species were collected in estuaries. Therefore, different environments were ex...

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Autor: Gutiérrez Zugasti, Fernando Igor|||0000-0002-7041-532X
Tipo de recurso: libro
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Shell midden
Archaeomalacology
Mesolithic Neolithic transition
Hunter-fisher-gatherers
Cantabrian region
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spelling The shell midden of Pico Ramos and the exploitation of molluscs in the Cantabrian region (northern Spain)Gutiérrez Zugasti, Fernando Igor|||0000-0002-7041-532XShell middenArchaeomalacologyMesolithic Neolithic transitionHunter-fisher-gatherersCantabrian regionABSTRACT: Human groups exploited molluscs during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition (MNT) at Pico Ramos. Results show that the most exploited species were limpets and topshells collected in rocky open shores, while other species were collected in estuaries. Therefore, different environments were exploited by human groups. This pattern is related to the location of the cave in the mouth of the estuary. The exploitation pattern suggests that collection was carried out in several short visits to the cave. The characteristics of the accumulation also fit the pattern of intensification identified in the region, which show that molluscs were important for human groups during the Mesolithic and the early Neolithic. However, it is difficult to establish if Pico Ramos was used by hunter-gatherers resisting the introduction of agriculture and domestication, or if on the contrary it was a specialized site used by food producers for hunting-fishing-gathering activities.This paper was written as part of the project HAR2010-22115-C02-01, funded by the Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation.TRRRESUniversidad de Cantabria20172017-01-01bookhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/bookhttp://hdl.handle.net/10902/13516Humans on the Basque coast during the 6th and 5th millenium B.C. The shell midden of Pico Ramos (Muskiz, Bizkaia), 2017, pp. 53-57reponame:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabriainstname:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/135162026-06-02T12:39:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The shell midden of Pico Ramos and the exploitation of molluscs in the Cantabrian region (northern Spain)
title The shell midden of Pico Ramos and the exploitation of molluscs in the Cantabrian region (northern Spain)
spellingShingle The shell midden of Pico Ramos and the exploitation of molluscs in the Cantabrian region (northern Spain)
Gutiérrez Zugasti, Fernando Igor|||0000-0002-7041-532X
Shell midden
Archaeomalacology
Mesolithic Neolithic transition
Hunter-fisher-gatherers
Cantabrian region
title_short The shell midden of Pico Ramos and the exploitation of molluscs in the Cantabrian region (northern Spain)
title_full The shell midden of Pico Ramos and the exploitation of molluscs in the Cantabrian region (northern Spain)
title_fullStr The shell midden of Pico Ramos and the exploitation of molluscs in the Cantabrian region (northern Spain)
title_full_unstemmed The shell midden of Pico Ramos and the exploitation of molluscs in the Cantabrian region (northern Spain)
title_sort The shell midden of Pico Ramos and the exploitation of molluscs in the Cantabrian region (northern Spain)
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gutiérrez Zugasti, Fernando Igor|||0000-0002-7041-532X
author Gutiérrez Zugasti, Fernando Igor|||0000-0002-7041-532X
author_facet Gutiérrez Zugasti, Fernando Igor|||0000-0002-7041-532X
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad de Cantabria
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Shell midden
Archaeomalacology
Mesolithic Neolithic transition
Hunter-fisher-gatherers
Cantabrian region
topic Shell midden
Archaeomalacology
Mesolithic Neolithic transition
Hunter-fisher-gatherers
Cantabrian region
description ABSTRACT: Human groups exploited molluscs during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition (MNT) at Pico Ramos. Results show that the most exploited species were limpets and topshells collected in rocky open shores, while other species were collected in estuaries. Therefore, different environments were exploited by human groups. This pattern is related to the location of the cave in the mouth of the estuary. The exploitation pattern suggests that collection was carried out in several short visits to the cave. The characteristics of the accumulation also fit the pattern of intensification identified in the region, which show that molluscs were important for human groups during the Mesolithic and the early Neolithic. However, it is difficult to establish if Pico Ramos was used by hunter-gatherers resisting the introduction of agriculture and domestication, or if on the contrary it was a specialized site used by food producers for hunting-fishing-gathering activities.
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