Studying La Dehesilla tools (Cádiz, Andalusia)

For several weeks we have been working in the Neolithic settlement of La Dehesilla (Cádiz, Andalusia). This is one of the most well-known sites in the South of Spain. Is was excavated at the end of the 20th century by Manuel Pellicer and Pilar Acosta, and recently taken up by Daniel Garcia Rivero (University of Seville).

The results will help us to know the tooling of the first Neolithic communities of the SW of the Iberian Peninsula, of which we had very little information.

More information in:http://institucional.us.es/evocultura/dehesilla/index.php?page=historiografia

Professor Pellicer has recently died. From this blog we thank you for your excellent work

Thanks also to Daniel Garcia for being able to work with him in the study of the materials found in the last excavations

New Paper in Arkeogazte

We are happy to present a new paper that has been published in Arkeogazte journal. It is a final revision of the data we currently have on the Neolithic sickles from Italy to Portugal.

Authors: Juan F. Gibaja, Niccolo Mazzucco, Juan José Ibáñez, Mario Mineo, Amelia Rodríguez, Bernard Gassin, Unai Perales, Ignacio Martín-Lerma and Cristina López-Rodríguez

Title: Reconociendo el camino seguido por las primeras comunidades neolíticas asentadas en el Mediterráneo centro-occidental a través del análisis de sus hoces.

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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.