El Mirón Cave, Cantabrian Spain
Subtitle: the site and its Holocene archaeological record
By: edited by Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780826351487; 9780826351500
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology); Paleobotany; Stratigraphic Geology; Antiquities; Neolithic period; Mesolithic period
Other titles: Mirón Cave, Cantabrian Spain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preamble : la Cueva del Mirón : a grand cave site in the Cantabrian cordillera of northern Spain / Lawrence Guy Straus; title: The excavation of El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus; title: The Río Asón drainage in eastern Cantabria / Lawrence Guy Straus; title: El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus; title: Stratigraphy of El Mirón Cave (1996-2007) / Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales; title: Sedimentology of El Mirón Cave / William R. Farrand; title: El Mirón Cave radiocarbon dates / Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales; title: Preliminary archaeomagnetic and rock-magnetic results from the Holocene fire lenses in El Mirón Cave / Ángel Carrancho and Juan José Villalaín; title: The vegetational contexts of El Mirón Cave throughout the early to middle Holocene : contributions from the palynological study / María José Iriarte Chiapusso; title: Analysis of phytoliths from Holocene levels of El Mirón Cave / Débora Zurro; title: Neolithic, chalcolithic, and Bronze Age plant remains from El Mirón Cave : evidence on the first farming communities in the Cantabrian region / Leonor Peña-Chocarro.; title: Holocene wood charcoal from El Mirón Cave : vegetation and wood use / Lydia Zapata; title: Holocene biostratigraphy and climatic change in Cantabria : the micromammalian faunas of El Mirón Cave / Gloria Cuenca Bescós and Juan Carlos García Pimienta; title: Bird remains from the post-Azilian levels of El Mirón Cave / Mikelo Elorza; title: The Holocene herpetofauna of El Mirón Cave / Borja Sanchiz, Jorge M. Lobo, and Salvador Bailon; title: Taphonomic study of the large and medium mammals from the post-Paleolithic occupations in El Mirón Cave / Manuel Pérez Ripoll and María Dolores López Gila; title: Macromammalian remains from the Holocene levels of El Mirón cave / Jesús Altuna and Koro Mariezkurrena; title: Descriptions of the post-paleolithic pit and hearth features of El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales; title: The post-Paleolithic stone industries of El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus, Manuel R. González Morales, and John D. Rissetto; title: The ceramics of El Mirón Cave : production, morphology, and discard / Cristina Vega Maeso; title: Conclusions : preliminary overview and focus on the post-Paleolithic occupations of El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales.