Production and subsistence strategies at El Zafrín (Chafarinas Islands,Spain): new data for the early Neolithic of North-West Africa |
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Authors: | Juan F Gibaja António Faustino Carvalho Manuel Rojo Rafael Garrido Iñigo García |
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Institution: | 1. CSIC–IMF, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Researcher Contracted by the Ministry of Science and Innovation – Ramón y Cajal Sub-Programme, C/Egipciàques 15, 08001 Barcelona, Spain;2. Universidade do Algarve, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Campus de Gambelas, 8000-117 Faro, Portugal;3. Departamento de Prehistoria, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain;4. Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain;5. Fundación del Patrimonio Histórico de Castilla y León, Spain |
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Abstract: | Until a few years ago North-West Africa was ignored in our hypothesis on the neolithization of Western Mediterranean. Moreover, the few excavations focused exclusively on the test of stratigraphies in order to obtain chronological sequences. Recently developed archaeological projects allowed the inclusion of this region in the scientific debate on the origin and evolution of its Neolithic, on the contacts with the Iberian Peninsula through the Strait of Gibraltar, as well as on the documentation of ways of live, habitation structures, and economic strategies. The open area excavation of Zafrín, in the Chafarinas Isles – an archipelago located a short distance from the North African coast – and the full analysis of its lithic industry (technology, typology and use-wear), here presented, represents a novelty on the Neolithic research in North Africa. This in turn will permit us to approach subsistence strategies and the way of life developed by the Neolithic communities of the region. |
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Keywords: | North-West Africa Neolithic Cardial Subsistence activities Lithic instruments |
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