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Late Mesolithic burials at Casa Corona (Villena, Spain): direct radiocarbon and palaeodietary evidence of the last forager populations in Eastern Iberia

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Late Mesolithic burials at Casa Corona (Villena, Spain): direct radiocarbon and palaeodietary evidence of the last forager populations in Eastern Iberia

dc.contributor.author	Salazar García, Domingo Carlos
dc.contributor.author	Fernández López de Pablo, Javier
dc.contributor.author	Subirà Galdácano, Maria Eulàlia
dc.contributor.author	Roca de Togores Muñoz, Consuelo
dc.contributor.author	Gómez Puche, Magdalena
dc.contributor.author	Richards, Michael P.
dc.contributor.author	Esquembre Bebia, Marco Aurelio
dc.date.accessioned	2015-02-20T09:34:41Z
dc.date.available	2015-02-20T09:34:41Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.identifier.citation	Salazar García, Domingo Carlos Fernández López de Pablo, Javier Subirà Galdácano, Maria Eulàlia Roca de Togores Muñoz, Consuelo Gómez Puche, María Magdalena Richards, Michael P. Esquembre Bebia, Marco Aurelio. 2013 Late Mesolithic burials at Casa Corona (Villena, Spain): direct radiocarbon and palaeodietary evidence of the last forager populations in Eastern Iberia Journal of Archaeological Science 40 671 680
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10550/42076
dc.description.abstract	Current knowledge about the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Central and Western Mediterranean European regions is deeply limited by the paucity of Late Mesolithic human osteological data and the presence of chronological gaps covering several centuries between the last foragers and the first archaeological evidence of farming peoples. In this work, we present new data to fill these gaps. We provide direct AMS radiocarbon dating and carbon (d13C) and nitrogen (d15N) stable isotope analysis were carried out on bone collagen samples of two single burials from the recently discovered open-air Late Mesolithic site of Casa Corona (Villena, Spain). The results shed new light on the chronology and subsistence patterns of the last Mesolithic communities in the Central Mediterranean region of the Iberian Peninsula. Radiocarbon results date the human remains and funerary activity of the site to 6059e5849 cal BC, statistically different from other Late Mesolithic sites and the earliest Neolithic contexts, and bridging the 500 yrs chronological gap of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition from the area. Isotopic evidence shows that diet was based on terrestrial resources despite the proximity to the site of lagoon and marine ecosystems. This and previous isotope studies from the region suggest a lower reliance upon marine resources than for Atlantic and Cantabrian sites, although intra-regional patterns of neighbouring Mesolithic populations exhibit both fully terrestrial diets and diets with significant amounts of aquatic resources in them. We hypothesize that in the Central Mediterranean region of Spain the Late Mesolithic dietary adaptations imposed structural limits on demographic growth of the last foragers and favoured rapid assimilation by the earliest Neolithic populations.
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Archaeological Science, 2013, num. 40, p. 671-680
dc.subject	Arqueologia
dc.title	Late Mesolithic burials at Casa Corona (Villena, Spain): direct radiocarbon and palaeodietary evidence of the last forager populations in Eastern Iberia
dc.type	journal article	es_ES
dc.date.updated	2015-02-20T09:34:42Z
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.jas.2012.09.005
dc.identifier.idgrec	081225
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	es_ES