Dealing with “Second-Rated” Raw Materials: The Management of Quartz and Quartzite by the Westernmost Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic Groups

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Northwest Iberia is a Paleozoic territory almost void of flint outcrops. The arrival of Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic groups, used to flintknapping, to a new lithological region implied a reorganization of their technological basis. The analysis of four lithic assemblages, ranging from the Aurignacian to the Final Magdalenian/Azilian, allows us to understand the role of the lithological constraints and the technological strategies developed during the Upper Pleistocene. Changes in raw material acquisition, spatial fragmentation of *chaînes opératoires and new technical choices are examined in those records aiming at overcome the presumed raw material constraints.

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Dealing with “Second-Rated” Raw Materials: The Management of Quartz and Quartzite by the Westernmost Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic Groups. Arturo De Lombera-Hermida, Geoffrey Clark, Xosé Pedro Rodríguez-Álvarez, Ramón Fábregas-Valcarce. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467622)

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min long: -13.711; min lat: 35.747 ; max long: 8.965; max lat: 59.086 ;

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Abstract Id(s): 33063