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Title El Mirón Cave, Cantabrian Spain : the site and its Holocene archaeological record / edited by Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales.

Publication Info. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preamble : la Cueva del Mirón : a grand cave site in the Cantabrian cordillera of northern Spain / Lawrence Guy Straus -- The excavation of El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus -- The Río Asón drainage in eastern Cantabria / Lawrence Guy Straus -- El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus -- Stratigraphy of El Mirón Cave (1996-2007) / Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales -- Sedimentology of El Mirón Cave / William R. Farrand -- El Mirón Cave radiocarbon dates / Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales -- Preliminary archaeomagnetic and rock-magnetic results from the Holocene fire lenses in El Mirón Cave / Ángel Carrancho and Juan José Villalaín -- The vegetational contexts of El Mirón Cave throughout the early to middle Holocene : contributions from the palynological study / María José Iriarte Chiapusso -- Analysis of phytoliths from Holocene levels of El Mirón Cave / Débora Zurro -- Neolithic, chalcolithic, and Bronze Age plant remains from El Mirón Cave : evidence on the first farming communities in the Cantabrian region / Leonor Peña-Chocarro.
Holocene wood charcoal from El Mirón Cave : vegetation and wood use / Lydia Zapata -- Holocene biostratigraphy and climatic change in Cantabria : the micromammalian faunas of El Mirón Cave / Gloria Cuenca Bescós and Juan Carlos García Pimienta -- Bird remains from the post-Azilian levels of El Mirón Cave / Mikelo Elorza -- The Holocene herpetofauna of El Mirón Cave / Borja Sanchiz, Jorge M. Lobo, and Salvador Bailon -- Taphonomic study of the large and medium mammals from the post-Paleolithic occupations in El Mirón Cave / Manuel Pérez Ripoll and María Dolores López Gila -- Macromammalian remains from the Holocene levels of El Mirón cave / Jesús Altuna and Koro Mariezkurrena -- Descriptions of the post-paleolithic pit and hearth features of El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales -- The post-Paleolithic stone industries of El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus, Manuel R. González Morales, and John D. Rissetto -- The ceramics of El Mirón Cave : production, morphology, and discard / Cristina Vega Maeso -- Conclusions : preliminary overview and focus on the post-Paleolithic occupations of El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales.
Summary Archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians will be drawn to this study of El Mirón Cave and its extensive findings, dated by some seventy-five radiocarbon assays.
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Subject Mirón Cave (Spain)
Neolithic period -- Spain -- Cantabria.
Neolithic period.
Spain -- Cantabria.
Mesolithic period -- Spain -- Cantabria.
Mesolithic period.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Spain -- Cantabria.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Holocene.
Geology, Stratigraphic.
Chronological Term Holocene
Subject Paleobotany -- Holocene.
Paleobotany.
Cantabria (Spain) -- Antiquities.
Chronological Term From 10 thousand years ago
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Straus, Lawrence Guy.
González Morales, Manuel R.
Added Title Mirón Cave, Cantabrian Spain
Other Form: Print version: Mirón Cave, Cantabrian Spain. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2012 9780826351487 (DLC) 2011043902 (OCoLC)760970739
ISBN 9780826351500 (electronic book)
0826351506 (electronic book)
6613949078
9786613949073
1283636611
9781283636612
9780826351487
0826351484