Berta Morell

The Neolithic in Northeast Iberia: Chronocultural Phases and 14C

This paper is the result of the research project “Aproximacion a las primeras comunidades neoliticas del NE peninsular a traves de sus practicas funerarias,” HAR2011-23149. F Xavier Oms’ work is supported by the 2014SGR-108 (Generalitat de Catalunya) and HAR2011-26193 (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion) projects. Berta Morell has been supported by an FI (Generalitat de Catalunya) predoctoral grant.

Human diet and the chronology of neolithic societies in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula: the necropolises of Puig d’en Roca and Can Gelats (Girona, Spain)

Radiocarbon and palaeodiet information has been obtained for two Neolithic necropolises in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula: Puig d’en Roca and Can Gelats (Girona, Spain). Although Puig d’en Roca is one of the most important necropolises in this period, it is also one of the least known as, following its excavation in the 1950s and 1960s, it has scarcely been restudied archaeologically. Can Gelats is one of the latest funerary sites of this period to be excavated and therefore is little known to the scientific community. Two key issues in the study of Neolithic communities in the western Mediterranean are addressed here. Few radiocarbon determinations have been obtained at funerary sites and they have usually been applied to a very small number of individuals in each cemetery (one or two dates). In a similar way, palaeodiet analysis of Neolithic cemeteries has rarely been attempted, and therefore the information presented here is of great importance to understand the diet in those societies. This paper presents a new series of dates for two of the most important Neolithic necropolises in north-east Iberia and approaches the subsistence patterns of the populations buried there.

The Chronology of the Neolithic Necropolis Bòbila Maduell-Can Gambús in the Northeast Iberian Peninsula: Dating the Pit Burials Cultural Horizon and Long-Range Raw Material Exchange Networks

Some of the analyses presented in this paper were carried out within the project: “Aproximacion a las primeras comunidades neoliticas del NE peninsular a traves de sus practicas funerarias” (HAR2011-23149), “Aproximacion a las primeras comunidades neoliticas del Mediterraneo nordoccidental: construyendo respuesta desde los analisis paleoantropologicos y geneticos” (HAR2015-67323-C2-1-P y HAR2015-67323-C2-2-P), and “La difusion del neolitico en el Mediterraneo centro-occidental: agricultura, innovaciones tecnologicas y carbono 14” (HAR2016-75201-P) funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government. This project was conducted thanks to the collaboration and the agreement between the Mila i Fontanals Institution (Spanish National Research Council), the National Accelerator Centre (CNA) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). We also would like to thank the assistance of the Department of Archaeology of the Catalan Government and the various museums that we visited to study the materials deposited from Bobila Madurell-Can Gambus necropolis (Museum of History of Sabadell, Barcelona Archaeological Museum, and the History Museum of Catalonia). This work has also been possible thanks to a predoctoral fellowship (FI-DGR2014) enjoyed byMs. BertaMorell and funded by the Catalan Government. We would also like to thank Mr. Jordi Sala for his willingness to help in some formatting issues during the drafting of this paper.