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Treballs d'arqueologia | 2014

Métodos de excavación : del trabajo de campo a la interpretación arqueológica

Rafael Mora Torcal; Jorge Martínez Moreno; Xavier Roda Gilabert; Miquel Roy Sunyer; Susana Vega Bolívar

El registro arqueologico es la base material sobre la que se interpreta el pasado. Su recuperacion ha sido foco de discusion metodologica y en los ultimos anos se ha visto impulsado por la irrupcion de las nuevas tecnologias. En este trabajo exponemos la metodologia de campo seguida por el Centre d’Estudis del Patrimoni Arqueologic de la Prehistoria (CEPAP-UAB). La excavacion en extension se presenta como propuesta metodologica para la recuperacion del registro arqueologico. A continuacion se expone la sistematica para la adquisicion, digitalizacion, integracion de los datos y la posterior generacion de mapas tematicos dirigida a interpretar la relacion entre los distintos items o estructuras. La metodologia mostrada sirve como base para la creacion de hipotesis de trabajo que se contrastan a lo largo del trabajo de campo y sustentan la base de la investigacion.


Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences | 2018

A bunch of refits: 497D blade knapping assemblage of the Early Upper Paleolithic in Cova Gran (Northeast Iberia)

Jorge Martínez-Moreno; Rafael Mora Torcal; Alfonso Benito-Calvo; Miquel Roy Sunyer; Javier Sánchez-Martínez

Laminar knapping is a system of methods through which a recurrent series of elongated and morphometrically repetitive blanks are obtained. The appearance of this method is associated with cognitive changes that foster different paleoanthropological discussions. This article assesses the implications of the 497D lithic assemblage of Cova Gran (Northeast Pre-Pyrenees, Iberia), whose technical principles place it within the laminar knapping sphere in which the production of blades, bladelets, and flakes are interspersed. Refitting dynamic approach allows establishing physical connections, reflecting volumetric reduction integrate sequences of sequential blanks organized by the principle of technical predetermination. Techno-typological, contextual, and chronometric attributes enable the integration of 497D within an initial phase of the Upper Paleolithic. This is an important point; although laminar knapping is widely dispersed in space and time, it marks the emergence of anatomically modern Homo sapiens associated with the Aurignacian (sensulato), a tradition marking the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic. This concept has been challenged by the proposal that the Châtelperronian laminar technocomplex was made by Homo neanderthalensis. These opposing positions fostered the Middle-Upper Paleolithic “transition” debate. Technical traits identified through refitting facilitate examination of similarities and differences between 497D and the Proto/Early Aurignacian and Châtelperronian. Observations arising from refitting in 497D influence characterization of the knapping method and its possible correlation with one of these Early Upper Paleolithic technocomplexes. These inferences broaden the goals usually associated with blade knapping, and encourage reconsideration of the classical definition of the laminar system.


Treballs d'Arqueologia | 2015

Mètodes d’excavació: del treball de camp a la interpretació arqueològica

Rafael Mora Torcal; Jorge Martínez-Moreno; Xavier Roda Gilabert; Miquel Roy Sunyer; Susana Vega Bolívar

El registro arqueologico es la base material sobre la que se interpreta el pasado. Su recuperacion ha sido foco de discusion metodologica y en los ultimos anos se ha visto impulsado por la irrupcion de las nuevas tecnologias. En este trabajo exponemos la metodologia de campo seguida por el Centre d’Estudis del Patrimoni Arqueologic de la Prehistoria (CEPAP-UAB). La excavacion en extension se presenta como propuesta metodologica para la recuperacion del registro arqueologico. A continuacion se expone la sistematica para la adquisicion, digitalizacion, integracion de los datos y la posterior generacion de mapas tematicos dirigida a interpretar la relacion entre los distintos items o estructuras. La metodologia mostrada sirve como base para la creacion de hipotesis de trabajo que se contrastan a lo largo del trabajo de campo y sustentan la base de la investigacion.


Treballs d'Arqueologia | 2003

Oldowan, rather more than smashing stones

Jorge Martínez Moreno; Rafael Mora Torcal


Journal of Archaeological Science | 2009

Sedimentological and archaeological fabrics in Palaeolithic levels of the South-Eastern Pyrenees: Cova Gran and Roca dels Bous Sites (Lleida, Spain)

Alfonso Benito-Calvo; Jorge Martínez-Moreno; Jesús Francisco Jordá Pardo; Iganacio de la Torre; Rafael Mora Torcal


Journal of Archaeological Science | 2012

Pitted stone cobbles in the Mesolithic site of Font del Ros (Southeastern Pre-Pyrenees, Spain): some experimental remarks around a controversial tool type

Xavier Roda Gilabert; Jorge Martínez-Moreno; Rafael Mora Torcal


Trabajos De Prehistoria | 2009

Balma Guilanyà (Prepirineo de Lleida) y el Aziliense en el noreste de la Península Ibérica

Jorge Martínez-Moreno; Rafael Mora Torcal


L'Anthropologie | 2009

Stratégies techniques dans le Paléolithique Moyen du sud-est des Pyrénées

Joel Martí; Jorge Martínez Moreno; Rafael Mora Torcal; Ignacio de la Torre


El mesolítico de muescas y denticulados en la cuenca del Ebro y el litoral mediterráneo peninsular, 2006, ISBN 84-7821-659-6, págs. 163-190 | 2006

El Mesolítico de los Pirineos surorientales: una reflexión sobre el significado de las "facies de fortuna") del postglaciar

Jorge Martínez Moreno; Joel Martí; Rafael Mora Torcal


Journal of Cultural Heritage | 2011

Data matrix (DM) codes: A technological process for the management of the archaeological record

Jorge Martínez-Moreno; Paloma González Marcén; Rafael Mora Torcal

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Jorge Martínez Moreno

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Jorge Martínez-Moreno

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Xavier Roda Gilabert

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Miquel Roy Sunyer

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Ignacio de la Torre Sáinz

Complutense University of Madrid

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Joel Martí

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Susana Vega Bolívar

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Alfonso Benito Calvo

Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

Complutense University of Madrid

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