This is the blog of the project "Neo-Innova: The diffusion of Neolithic in the Central-Western Mediterranean: agriculture, technological innovations and radiocarbon dating" (HAR2016-75201-P). This research project focuses on one of the main turning points of human history: the diffusion of Neolithic. Even if it is well established that the Near East was the first focus of the invention of farming, around X-IX milenium BC, the mechanisms and the paths of its spreading in the rest of the Mediterranean are yet to be unfolded. During the last decades, the origin of European Neolithic has been explained as result of a diffusion process through two main axes: a Northern one, crossing central Europe, and a Southern one along the Mediterranean coasts. The current project is aimed to analyse the process of Neolithic diffusion through the Central-Western Mediterranean through analysis of the techniques and tools associated with the crop-harvesting and -processing tools. Analysis of those tools has to be supported by an extensive program of radiocarbon dating and a cross-analysis of the crop-harvesting/14C with the information proceeding from the environmental/ecological, the technological and the cereals consumed.

Thursday 3 August 2017

Analysis of Lithic Tools from Cova d'en Pardo and Cova Randero. Alicante's Archaeological Museum

Recently we went to Alicante's Archaeological Museum, in order to study the lithic tools from Cova d'en Pardo and Cova Randero. It was awesome to share the tasks with Ignacio Martín and the archaeologists managing the archaeological fieldworks: Gabriel García Atienzar, Laura Sirvent and Jorge Soler.

It was a great experience with excellent results. With these two archaeological sites, we are further completing the studies of Neolithic sites in Valencia region. The results from these recent works will be soon published in a monographic book about Cova d'en Pardo.

Thanks to Gabriel, Laura and Jorge for the friendship and their collaboration; and also thanks to the curators and technicians from the museum for their professionalism and kindness.