La Cueva del Ángel (Lucena, Córdoba), a site of the Middle and Early Upper Pleistocene in the South of the Iberian Peninsula

Authors

  • Daniel Botella Ortega Museo Arqueológico y Etnológico de Lucena (Córdoba)
  • Cecilio Barroso Ruiz
  • José Antonio Riquelme Cantal Dpto. de Prehistoria y Arqueología. Universidad de Granada
  • Salah Abdessadok Dpto. de Prehistoria del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Francia.
  • Miguel Caparrós
  • Luis Verdú Bermejo
  • Guadalupe Monge Gómez CEMOSA. Control y estudio de materiales. S.A. Sevilla
  • José Antonio García Solano Museo Geominero. IGME.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2006.v63.i2.22

Keywords:

U/Th Dates, Fauna, Geology, Acheulian, Mousterian, Lithic industries, Andalusian,

Abstract


In this paper we offer a preview of the excavations of a Palaeolithic site in the southern Iberian Peninsula: the Cueva del Ángel (Lucena, Córdoba). Since 1995, year in which its archaeological potential was discovered, there have been four excavation campaigns and there is now a 5- meter deep stratigraphic sequence. Together with the on-site excavations, there is also the technological and typological analysis of the lithic industry, on-going zoological study, as well as a geological approach, both of the cavity and the sedimentary deposit that filled it. The fauna and lithic industry recovered, together with the absolute dating offered by the stratigraphic sequence, allow us to conclude that we are studying a Middle and Old Upper Pleistocene, which makes this cave an exceptional site in the Iberian Peninsula.

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Published

2006-12-30

How to Cite

Botella Ortega, D., Barroso Ruiz, C., Riquelme Cantal, J. A., Abdessadok, S., Caparrós, M., Verdú Bermejo, L., Monge Gómez, G., & García Solano, J. A. (2006). La Cueva del Ángel (Lucena, Córdoba), a site of the Middle and Early Upper Pleistocene in the South of the Iberian Peninsula. Trabajos De Prehistoria, 63(2), 153–165. https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2006.v63.i2.22

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Vol. 63 No. 2 (2006)

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