El IV milenio ANE en el Guadalquivir Medio: Intensificación agrícola y fragua de la comunidad doméstica aldeana

ISBN-13: 9781407311845 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2013 / 462 str.

Rafael Ma Martainez Saanchez; Rafael M. Martinez Sanchez

Opis

This volume presents an integrated study of the middle Guadalquivir lowlands from the beginnings of agriculture in the region to the birth of the Chalcolithic. Chapters review the evidence for landscape and settlement pattersn, pottery production, the knapped stone industry, the non-carved lithic industry, the bone industry, and animal consumption and exploitation. In particular the author demonstrates a fundamental shift in agriculture during the fourth millennium BC, associated with the systematic occupation of lowland sites, and intensified cereal production, as well as specialised pastoral farming centred on goats in the lowlands and pigs in the Guadalquivir floodplain.

This study aims to represent an integrated approach of the historical process that took place in the Middle Guadalquivir lowlands (SW Spain) between the onset of agriculture in this area and the beginning of copper metallurgy. In particular, there is a focus on the IV millennium BC, period in which archaeological evidence suggests that the first agricultural occupation with remarkable density occurred by ca. 3500 BC in the lowlands of the Guadalquivir Basin. In this period, some visible changes arise in material culture, such as the emergence of carinated forms with low height and a large diameter (pottery), bifacial arrowheads and the development of standardized long flint blades (lithic), as well as the proliferation of archaeological sites with silo-shaped pits both in the vicinity of the floodplain, and especially in the east of Cordovan Campiña.