Osteological and paleodietary investigation of burials from Cova de la Pastora,Alicante, Spain |
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| Authors: | Sarah B. McClure Oreto García Consuelo Roca de Togores Brendan J. Culleton Douglas J. Kennett |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Anthropology and Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA;2. Departament de Prehistòria i Arqueología, Universitat de València, 46010 Valencia, Spain;3. Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Alicante, Spain;4. Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA;1. Department of Prehistory, University of Valladolid, Spain;2. Arcadia-General Foundation of the University of Valladolid, Spain;3. Aragon Government, Spain;1. Department of Human Evolution, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany;2. Departament de Prehistòria i Arqueologia, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain;3. Research Group on Plant Foods in Hominin Dietary Ecology, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany;4. Departament de Historia, Geografía y Arte, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain;5. Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;6. Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, Durham, UK |
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| Abstract: | We present results of osteological and isotopic analyses of human remains from Cova de la Pastora (Alcoi, Alicante, Spain) and discuss the implications in light of a new sequence of radiocarbon dates indicating that the cave was used as a burial site in the Late Neolithic (ca. 3800–3000 cal BC), Chalcolithic (ca. 3000–2500 cal BC), Bell Beaker Transition (Horizonte Campaniforme Transicional - HCT; ca. 2500–2200 cal BC) and the Bronze Age (ca. 2200–1500 cal BC). Similarities in stable isotopic values of C and N indicate little variation in subsistence between men and women, and a similar nutritional base from the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age. This pattern of stability is augmented by evidence of trauma and disease found on numerous skulls in the collection. Since no clear associations of specific grave goods with certain individuals based on sex or age could be determined, the only suggestion of social inequality lies in the burial practice itself, where certain individuals were interred in caves while others were not. |
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