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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.

Publisher:

University of New Mexico Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xxviii, 444 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Mirón Cave (Spain)
Neolithic period--Cantabria.--Cantabria.
Mesolithic period--Cantabria.--Cantabria.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Cantabria.--Cantabria.
Geology, Stratigraphic--Holocene.
Paleobotany--Holocene.
Cantabria (Spain)--Antiquities.

Other Authors:

Straus, Lawrence Guy.
González Morales, Manuel R.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN:

0826351506 (electronic)
9780826351500 (electronic)
0826351484 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780826351487 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)760970739

LCCN:

2011043902

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)