Paleoecologia e ocupação humana da Lapa do Picareiro: resultados preliminares

Abstract

This paper presents the preliminary results of faunal, charcoal and lithic analyses resulting from excavations in Picareiro Cave. This archaeological work took place between 1994 and 2001. The project was funded by IPPAR, IPA, JNIC, National Geographic Society and Archaeological Association of Algarve. The process of cave filling started in OIS 4 and lasted until recent times, and there are Gravettian, Magdalenian, Epipaleolithic, Early Neolithic and Bronze age occupations. The paper will focus only on the Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic human occupations dating between c. 25 and 8 000 BP. This study, still preliminary, focus on aspects of local and regional paleoecology and paleoenvironment. Other relevant aspects presented in this study are data on the use of space inside the cave by the Paleolithic hunter-gatherers, as well as the use of new technologies of hunting, fishing and transportation, and its impact on the local and regional natural resources. Finally, these data allow the formulation of models on settlement system and land use patterns of Upper Paleolithic of Estremadura.

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