TY - JOUR
T1 - Sedimentological and archaeological fabrics in Palaeolithic levels of the South-Eastern Pyrenees: Cova Gran and Roca dels Bous Sites (Lleida, Spain)
AU - Benito-Calvo, Alfonso
AU - Martínez-Moreno, Jorge
AU - Jordá Pardo, Jesús F.
AU - de la Torre, Ignacio
AU - Torcal, Rafael Mora
PY - 2009/1/1
Y1 - 2009/1/1
N2 - The comparative study of sedimentary fabrics in relation to archaeological fabrics in various levels of the sites of Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic) and the Roca dels Bous (Middle Palaeolithic) has made it possible to analyse the formation dynamics of the deposits and determine the extent of disturbance of the archaeological levels by natural processes. To achieve this, diagrams and two- and three-dimensional indices were calculated from the azimuth and dip angle of natural clasts and artefacts. The results indicate that the sedimentary levels were formed mainly by planar fabric shape gravitational processes (low depositional angles), which differ notably from the archaeological fabrics they contain, characterised by a greater degree of isotropy. This difference in the fabrics would reflect human activity and indicates that the archaeological levels both in Cova Gran and Roca dels Bous have not been subject to significant natural modifications, and are preserved in situ. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
AB - The comparative study of sedimentary fabrics in relation to archaeological fabrics in various levels of the sites of Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic) and the Roca dels Bous (Middle Palaeolithic) has made it possible to analyse the formation dynamics of the deposits and determine the extent of disturbance of the archaeological levels by natural processes. To achieve this, diagrams and two- and three-dimensional indices were calculated from the azimuth and dip angle of natural clasts and artefacts. The results indicate that the sedimentary levels were formed mainly by planar fabric shape gravitational processes (low depositional angles), which differ notably from the archaeological fabrics they contain, characterised by a greater degree of isotropy. This difference in the fabrics would reflect human activity and indicates that the archaeological levels both in Cova Gran and Roca dels Bous have not been subject to significant natural modifications, and are preserved in situ. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW - Archaeological fabrics
KW - Cova Gran
KW - Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic
KW - Roca dels Bous
KW - Sedimentary fabrics
KW - Site formation processes
KW - Upper Pleistocene
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.07.012
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.07.012
M3 - Article
SN - 0305-4403
VL - 36
SP - 2566
EP - 2577
JO - Journal of Archaeological Science
JF - Journal of Archaeological Science
ER -