RT Journal Article
T1 Environmental Implications and Chalcolithic Ornamental Use of Marine Barnacle Shells Present in the Tholos of ‘La Pastora’ (Valencina de la Concepción, Sevilla, Spain)
A1 Muñiz Guinea, Fernando
A1 Cáceres Puro, Luis Miguel
A1 Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Marta
A1 Vargas Jiménez, Juan Manuel
A1 Bocherens, Hervé
A1 Nebelsick, James H.
A1 Donaire Romero, Teodosio
A1 Rodríguez Vidal, Joaquín
AB The study of a set of marine arthropod shells from an archaeological excavation carried out in1991–1992 in the tholos of La Pastora (Cooper Age Mega-site of Valencina-Castilleja, S Spain),has highlighted the environmental implications and ornamental use as beads not cited so farfor this purpose. It is the barnacle species Chthamalus montagui Southward, 1976, of which arepreserved 71 complete specimens. In this study a taxonomic analysis of these organisms iscarried out, determining their classification and their physical and ecological characteristics,which make them especially suitable for this use. The interpretation is made regarding theenvironment in which these organisms were collected during the 3rd millennium BCE. Thus,it points towards a protected coastal area, but with a predominant marine influence, such asthe wide marine bay that formed the mouth of the Guadalquivir River in those times.Finally, a radiocarbon analysis of one of these beads and two specimens of another speciesof barnacle collected in the rocks of the monument, provide a time range of 2760–2200 yrBCE. This range is consistent with the period of activity in the monument estimated byother authors.
PB Association for Environmental Archaeology
SN 1749-6314 (electrónico)
SN 1461-4103
YR 2021
FD 2021-03-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19534
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19534
LA eng
NO Muñiz Guinea, F., Cáceres Puro, L. M., Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, M., Vargas Jiménez, J. M., Bocherens, H., Nebelsick, J. H., Donaire Romero, T., & Rodríguez Vidal, J. (2021). Environmental Implications and Chalcolithic Ornamental Use of Marine Barnacle Shells Present in the Tholos of ‘La Pastora’ (Valencina de la Concepción, Sevilla, Spain). Environmental Archaeology, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.1891813
NO Trabajo científico sobre unas cuentas de collar halladas en el monumento prehistórico del tholos de La Pastora. Estas cuentas son conchas de una especie de Balanus (Chthamalus montagui), siendo la primera vez que se documenta este uso en este tipo de organismos litorales. En el trabajo se extraen conclusiones paleoambientales, del medio del que se extranjeron y cronológicas absolutas del uso del tholos.
NO -Ayuntamiento de Valencina de la Concepción "Projecto de Investigación Geoarqueológica en el área de el tholos de La Pastora".-EPIT-2020 de la Universidad de Huelva (Proyectos IP Noveles 636). -Grupo de Investigación RNM 293 "Geomorfología Ambiental y Recursos Hídricos", Universidad de Huelva.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026