Lipid Biomarkers Analysis in Cueva Pintada de Gáldar (Gran Canaria, Spain): A Study of Possibly Charred Organic Sediments

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Charred Organic Matter in the Archaeological Sedimentary Record" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Cueva Pintada de Gáldar is a pre-european archaeological complex in Gran Canaria that was discovered in 1873 and nowadays is an Archaeological Park and Museum. It comprises a hillslope with numerous dwellings, some of them partially carved into the hill, and "Cueva Pintada", a ritual cave at the core of the settlement. The complex constitutes a referential archaeological monument in Gran Canaria and in aboriginal times, it was possibly of importance to the island’s pre-European society. Although the site’s material record has been extensively studied, including pottery, lithics and faunal and shell remains, the anthropogenic sedimentary record remains unexplored. Our team is currently carrying out integrated microscopic and biomolecular studies to gain further behavioral information. As part of this research program, we analyzed two samples of black, apparently charred sediment from one of the dwelling. Here, we present the results from lipid biomarker analyses of these two samples.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Charred Organic Matter in the Archaeological Sedimentary Record   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25480