Radiocarbono, cronoestratigrafía y episodios ocupacionales en el Pleistoceno superior y Holoceno de la Cueva de Nerja (Málaga, Andalucía, España)
Journal:
Zona Arqueológica
Number:
1
Volume:
7
Year:
2006
Pages:
578-597
Keywords:
Radiocarbon, Calibrated dates, Chronostratigraphy, Late Pleistocene; Holocene, Nerja's Cave, South of Spain
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Abstract:
During the late Upper Pleistocene and the Lower and Middle Holocene an important stratigraphical series was deposited in the entry of Nerja's Cave (Málaga province, Andalusia, Spain). This large vertical record constitutes one of the most important archaeological and palaeobiological sequences of the western Mediterranean, which contains remains of the Gravettian, Solutrian, Magdalenian, Epipaleolithic, Neolithic and Cooper Age. In this deposit, the teams of the professors Pellicer and Jordá have obtained up to the moment forty two 14C dates, that in this work are valued the first time all together. All these dates have been calibrated using the CALPAL program obtaining a chronological extension for the archaeological record of Nerja's Cave that spreads between 30000 and 5000 years cal. BP. The results of the dendrochronological calibration have been compared, as a hole set and for his archaeological contexts, with the palaeoclimatological curves provided by the cores obtained in the ices of Greenland (GISP2 and GRIP) and in Alborán's Sea (MD95-2043). This has allowed us to verify empirically our previous palaeoclimatological interpretations of the sequence, establish a narrower correlation between the main palaeoclimatological events detected in Alborán's Sea and the occupational episodes of the cave, and to advance in the consideration of the archaeological record of the cavity as a unit, in the territorial context of the South of the prehistoric Iberia.
