[PublicAdministrativeSpace:Corchón Rodríguez, M. S.], [PublicAdministrativeSpace:Mateos Cachorro, Ana], [PublicAdministrativeSpace:Álvarez Fernández, Esteban], [PublicAdministrativeSpace:Penalver, Enrique], [PublicAdministrativeSpace:Delclòs, Xavier], [PublicAdministrativeSpace:van der Made, J.]
Title:
Ressources complèmentaires et mobilitè dans le Magdalènien cantabrique. Nouvelles donnèes sur les mammifères marins, les crustacès, les mollusques et les roches organogènes de la Grotte de Las Caldas (Asturies, Espagne) - Complementary resources and mobility during the Magdalenian on the Cantabrian Coast. New data on marine mammals, crustaceans, molluscs and organogenic rocks in the Las Caldas Cave
Some animal and mineral resources, rarely identified in the levels of the Cantabrian Magdalenian, were exploited by the Paleolithic populations of the Nalón Valley (western Asturias) at the end of the Pleistocene. In this research, we present some of them, preserved in Las Caldas Cave: dental remains and representations of marine mammals, marine crustaceans and molluscs, and diverse remains of amber and jet. These were selected, collected in ecosystems far away from the cave and, finally, transformed by the groups. These remains seem to complement the common resources exploited in Magdalenian paleoeconomy (e.g., ungulates, birds, fish, small carnivores, vegetables, flint, quartzite, quartz) recovered and exploited biotopes closest to the site. Our aim is thus to confirm a certain mobility of these communities towards the specific sources of raw material in search of subsistence resources potentially used in the activities of these communities (e.g., food, technology, social and symbolic expression, exchange).
