Ignacio Clemente-Conte
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 80530 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ignacio Clemente-Conte |
| NOMBRES | Ignacio |
| APELLIDO | Clemente-Conte |
| FIRMA | CLEMENTE-CONTE I |
| AFILIACIONES | Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3190-215X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 228 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Complementarity between morphological and proteomic taxonomic identification methods of Late Upper Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic bone fragments from the NE Iberian Peninsula
Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) has been widely used for taxonomic identification of fragmented bones, yet most direct comparisons with morphological identifications originate from European Palaeolithic contexts. This study provides a general assessment of the two taxonomic identification approaches of one Late Upper Palaeolithic and three Early Neolithic bone assemblages, all located in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. The results…
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A recommendation of: Aline Galland, Ignacio Clemente-Conte, Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Anne Delagnes How depositional environments impact the microwear preservation of quartz artifacts: insights from the Oldowan of the Shungura Formation (Ethiopia) https://doi.org/10.31233/osf.io/9k8p3_v3
Microscopic Use-Wear Evidence for an Itaparica Uniface as a Hafted Multifunctional Tool
This report presents the results of a microscopic use-wear analysis on a unifacial tool from an Itaparica-like context at the Toca dos Coqueiros site, in Serra da Capivara National Park, Northeastern Brazil. The analysis focuses on evidence of hafting and multifunctionality. These artifacts, found in central and northeastern Brazil from the late Pleistocene to the early Holocene, are associated with the Itaparica technocomplex. We present evidenc…
How depositional environments impact the microwear preservation of quartz artifacts
The function of Oldowan tools is a key aspect of early hominin subsistence in eastern Africa. The rarity of the sites, the preservation of the assemblages and raw materials are limiting factors in the functional study of Early Pleistocene assemblages. The archaeological occurrences from Member F of the Shungura Formation (Ethiopia) have a precise chronostratigraphic framework (2.324 ± 0.020 Ma to 2.271 ± 0.041 Ma), a detailed reconstruction of de…
Transport wear and its role in understanding prehistoric lithic raw materials management strategies
Mobility is a crucial feature of the territorial exploitation strategies of hunter-gatherer groups. Generally, in archaeological studies, the reconstruction of the displacements of humans carrying lithic artefacts and materials relies on identifying raw material outcrops or indirect evidence of transportation, i.e. inferences based on the absence of expected technological categories. On the other hand, some specific wear patterns can hint at the …
Neolithic cordage-making implements at La Draga, Spain (5292-4729 cal BC)
How depositional environments impact the microwear preservation of quartz artifacts
The function of Oldowan tools is a key aspect of early hominin subsistence in eastern Africa. The rarity of the sites, the preservation of the assemblages and raw materials are limiting factors in the functional study of Early Pleistocene assemblages. The archaeological occurrences from Member F of the Shungura Formation (Ethiopia) have a precise chronostratigraphic framework (2.324 ± 0.020 Ma to 2.271 ± 0.041 Ma), a detailed reconstruction of de…
Mid Holocene human adaptation at the Ras al Jinz 3 site
The south-eastern Arabian coastline, with its diverse habitats and high levels of bio productivity, is characterised by an abundance of archaeological sites spanning from the Neolithic to the Islamic periods. Since the Early Holocene, populations of hunters, fishers, herders, and gatherers developed cultural and behavioural knowledge that allowed them to flourish and endure the climatic fluctuations affecting the region. Here we present the resul…
Early husbandry practices in highland areas during the Neolithic
Research on animal management strategies in high mountain areas during the early Neolithic (5,700–4,500 cal BC) has been conditioned by the presumption that human occupations in highland areas had a prominent seasonal character and the economic practices focused mainly on the exploitation of wild resources. The results obtained in the framework of research developed recently on settlement dynamics during the early Neolithic in the highland areas …
From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers
Archaeological investigations of the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene human occupation of the nearly 3 million square kilometres that make up the vast and diverse landscapes of the Arabian Peninsula are hampered by a series of shortcomings. Some of the problems when trying to reconstruct human occupation and behaviour based on material culture are imposed by the state of preservation of archaeological finds. The shift from dry to wet and b…
Análisis macro y microscópico de puntas de proyectil del sitio Rincón de los Indios en las tierras bajas del este de Uruguay (ca. 8800-700 años aP)
Los cazadores recolectores del este de Sudamérica ajustaron, durante el Holoceno, sus conductas territoriales a las fluctuaciones climáticas y ambientales. Estas sociedades implementaron una estrategia económica con una tecnología caracterizada por puntas de proyectil en piedra tallada. Estos cazadores fueron responsables de innovaciones técnicas y variabilidad en las formas y dimensiones de las puntas. Dichos cambios fueron estimulados por el me…
From Anatolia to Algarve
The introduction and spread of the Neolithic “way of life” in Europe was a process that took several millennia, followed by different rhythms and displayed singularities in each geographic area. It was therefore a very complex phenomenon that, despite highly significant advances in research in recent decades, is yet to be fully understood. To deepen our understanding of the very early stages of the introduction of herding and agriculture througho…
Les occupations humaines du Nord du Maroc, du Paléolithique Moyen et du Paléolithique Supérieur. Nouvelles données sur la base des recherches archéologiques des projets de 2005 à 2020
Traceological analysis of lithics from the Camel Site, al-Jawf, Saudi Arabia
The Camel Site is in the north of Saudi Arabia in the province of al-Jawf. It is characterised by three decaying sandstone hillocks with life-sized 3D engravings (or reliefs) of camels and equids likely carved during later prehistory. A survey in the central area of the site identified clusters of flakes and other flintknapping remains in the lower areas between the sandstone spurs and larger silcrete tools directly underneath the animal depictio…
Experimentación en Torno Al Proyecto De Investigación Sobre El Yacimiento Neolítico De La Draga (Banyoles-Girona)
Experimental programs focused on various techno-functional issues have been carried out for more than a decade around the research project of the La Draga lacustrine Neolithic site (Banyoles-Girona).The extraordinary conservation of archaeological materials made from both inorganic and organic materials has allowed the development of programs that have replicated technical processes of production and use of different tools and artifacts of bone, …
Mountains, Herds and Crops
After years of intense fieldwork, our knowledge about the Neolithisation of the Pyrenees has considerably increased. In the southern central Pyrenees, some previously unknown Neolithic sites have been discovered at subalpine and alpine altitudes (1,000–1,500 m a.s.l.). One of them is Cueva Lóbrica, 1,170 m a.s.l., which has an occupation phase with impressed pottery dated ca. 5400 cal BCE. Another is Coro Trasito, 1,558 m a.s.l., a large rock she…
Shell tools and productive strategies of hunter-gatherer groups
Fish resource exploitation in the southern Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula
Digging sticks and agriculture development at the ancient Neolithic site of la Draga (Banyoles, Spain)
Magdalenian knappers in the Asón Valley
The Occupation of Benzú Cave (Ceuta) by Neolithic and Bronze Age Societies
Raw materials, technology and use-wear analysis of scrapers and points of the rock shelter of Benzú
Early Holocene Occupations at Ashash Rock Shelter (Zemmur, Western Sahara)
The archaeological record of the Western Sahara remains extremely fragmentary, with very few sites systematically excavated. The excavation at Ashash rock shelter (Zemmur region) has provided, for the first time in the region, the evidence of superimposition of two prehistoric occupations that have been radiocarbon dated to the early 9th millennium cal. BP and to the mid-7th millennium cal. BP . The Epipalaeolithic occupation is strongly marked b…
Woodworking sites from the Late Paleolithic of South Arabia
San Quirce (Palencia, Spain). A Neanderthal open air campsite with short term-occupation patterns
A new late Pleistocene archaeological sequence in South America
The date of the first settlement of the Americas remains a contentious subject. Previous claims for very early occupation at Pedra Furada in Brazil were not universally accepted (see Meltzeret al.1994). New work at the rockshelter of Boqueirão da Pedra Furada and at the nearby open-air site of Vale da Pedra Furada have however produced new evidence for human occupation extending back more than 20 000 years. The argument is supported by a series o…
Shell Technology, Rock Art, and the Role of Marine Resources during the Upper Paleolithic
During the Upper Paleolithic, marine resources have traditionally been considered to be low-efficiency resources. However, in recent years, new data have emerged to demonstrate that their importance for human utilization was probably greater than previously thought. The assessment of their value has generally been from the perspective of their nutritional or ornamental value, not from the technological potential that these resources might have. A…
Early use of marine resources by Middle/Upper Pleistocene human societies
Working Processes on Cereals
A use-wear analysis of wood technology of patagonian hunter–gatherers. The case of Cerro Casa de Piedra 7, Argentina
Contribution of landscape analysis to the characterisation of Palaeolithic sites
Use and Sonority of a 23,000-Year-Old Bone Aerophone from Davant Pau Cave (NE of the Iberian Peninsula)
The production of sound is a significant human capacity that is used, through the generation of feelings and emotions, for conditioning social and biological reproduction. Despite this elevance and although several hundred instruments have been attributed to the production of sound along the Upper Paleolithic, our knowledge of how and in what contexts music was played during this period is still quite limited. In this paper, the aerophone found i…
Macro- and micro-traces of hafting on quartz tools from Pleistocene sites in the Sierra de Capivara in Piaui (Brazil)
Raw materials, technology and use-wear analysis of scrapers and points of the rock shelter of Benzú
Microwear Analysis of Retouched Glass Fragments from Fortlet Miñana, Azul, Argentina, 1860–1863
Woodworking sites from the Late Paleolithic of South Arabia
Insights into the economic organization of the first agro-pastoral communities of the NE of the Iberian Peninsula
Middle Palaeolithic Mode 3 lithic technology in the rock-shelter of Benzú (North Africa) and its immediate environmental relationships
Utilización de instrumentos de concha durante el Mesolítico y Neolítico inicial en contextos litorales de la región cantábrica
Uno de los debates más extendidos en la historiografía sobre el Mesolítico y el Neolítico inicial en la región cantábrica es el de la escasez de tecnologías “tradicionales” en la mayor parte de los contextos existentes, especialmente en aquellos con grandes acumulaciones de conchas. Actualmente, varias de las hipótesis propuestas atribuyen este fenómeno a diferencias en la organización espacial de los asentamientos, al aumento en la utilización d…
The Occupation of Benzú Cave (Ceuta) by Neolithic and Bronze Age Societies
The first farming communities in the Southwest European Coast
Shell tools and productive strategies of hunter-gatherer groups
From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers
Archaeological investigations of the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene human occupation of the nearly 3 million square kilometres that make up the vast and diverse landscapes of the Arabian Peninsula are hampered by a series of shortcomings. Some of the problems when trying to reconstruct human occupation and behaviour based on material culture are imposed by the state of preservation of archaeological finds. The shift from dry to wet and b…
Digging sticks and agriculture development at the ancient Neolithic site of la Draga (Banyoles, Spain)
Early Holocene Occupations at Ashash Rock Shelter (Zemmur, Western Sahara)
The archaeological record of the Western Sahara remains extremely fragmentary, with very few sites systematically excavated. The excavation at Ashash rock shelter (Zemmur region) has provided, for the first time in the region, the evidence of superimposition of two prehistoric occupations that have been radiocarbon dated to the early 9th millennium cal. BP and to the mid-7th millennium cal. BP . The Epipalaeolithic occupation is strongly marked b…
Instrumentos para siega y procesado de plantas desde el Calcolítico al Bronce antiguo de Chibanes (Palmela, Portugal)
El análisis funcional ha reconocido rastros de uso en artefactos de sílex (foicinhas) que caracterizan la identidad socio-cultural del III milenio cal BC en la Estremadura portuguesa. Esos artefactos tienen rasgos tecnológicos y tipológicos específicos y su funcionalidad ha sido discutida durante mucho tiempo sin resultados positivos. El presente estudio funcional permitió su clasificación como elementos de hoz, proporcionando información sobre l…
Not all were Spears and Facones
Otamendi fortlet is located in Buenos Aires province (Argentina) and was occupied from 1858 to 1869. Previous archaeological research has yielded large quantities of artefacts from the site; the present study focuses on firearms and related material. The aim of this project is to identify and characterize the firearms to establish their function, place of origin and chronology. They are compared to the archaeological record of Minaña fortlet to u…
How depositional environments impact the microwear preservation of quartz artifacts
The function of Oldowan tools is a key aspect of early hominin subsistence in eastern Africa. The rarity of the sites, the preservation of the assemblages and raw materials are limiting factors in the functional study of Early Pleistocene assemblages. The archaeological occurrences from Member F of the Shungura Formation (Ethiopia) have a precise chronostratigraphic framework (2.324 ± 0.020 Ma to 2.271 ± 0.041 Ma), a detailed reconstruction of de…
How depositional environments impact the microwear preservation of quartz artifacts
The function of Oldowan tools is a key aspect of early hominin subsistence in eastern Africa. The rarity of the sites, the preservation of the assemblages and raw materials are limiting factors in the functional study of Early Pleistocene assemblages. The archaeological occurrences from Member F of the Shungura Formation (Ethiopia) have a precise chronostratigraphic framework (2.324 ± 0.020 Ma to 2.271 ± 0.041 Ma), a detailed reconstruction of de…
Análisis macro y microscópico de puntas de proyectil del sitio Rincón de los Indios en las tierras bajas del este de Uruguay (ca. 8800-700 años aP)
Los cazadores recolectores del este de Sudamérica ajustaron, durante el Holoceno, sus conductas territoriales a las fluctuaciones climáticas y ambientales. Estas sociedades implementaron una estrategia económica con una tecnología caracterizada por puntas de proyectil en piedra tallada. Estos cazadores fueron responsables de innovaciones técnicas y variabilidad en las formas y dimensiones de las puntas. Dichos cambios fueron estimulados por el me…
Working Processes on Cereals
Investigaciones etnoarqueológicas en Tierra del Fuego (1986-2006)
Durante 20 años se han llevado a cabo en Tierra del Fuego investigaciones dirigidas a contrastar etnográficamente el registro arqueológico de sociedades cazadoras recolectoras. Se trataba de elaborar una metodología específica de abordaje arqueológico para estas sociedades que pudiera aplicarse a otros contextos arqueológicos. Aquí se exponen los diferentes proyectos y sus conclusiones más importantes haciendo especial hincapié en dos aspectos fu…
Microwear Analysis of Retouched Glass Fragments from Fortlet Miñana, Azul, Argentina, 1860–1863
Not all were Spears and Facones
Otamendi fortlet is located in Buenos Aires province (Argentina) and was occupied from 1858 to 1869. Previous archaeological research has yielded large quantities of artefacts from the site; the present study focuses on firearms and related material. The aim of this project is to identify and characterize the firearms to establish their function, place of origin and chronology. They are compared to the archaeological record of Minaña fortlet to u…
Utilización de instrumentos de concha durante el Mesolítico y Neolítico inicial en contextos litorales de la región cantábrica
Uno de los debates más extendidos en la historiografía sobre el Mesolítico y el Neolítico inicial en la región cantábrica es el de la escasez de tecnologías “tradicionales” en la mayor parte de los contextos existentes, especialmente en aquellos con grandes acumulaciones de conchas. Actualmente, varias de las hipótesis propuestas atribuyen este fenómeno a diferencias en la organización espacial de los asentamientos, al aumento en la utilización d…
Utilización de instrumentos de concha para la realización de actividades productivas en sociedades tribales comunitarias del sur de la Península Ibérica. El ejemplo de Campo de Hockey (San Fernando, C…
Functional analysis has focused mainly on the study of lithic instruments and to a lesser extent instruments made on animal materials. Using functional analysis we identified ten shell tools from the archaeological sites of Campo de Hockey and SET Parralejos, located in the Atlantic coast of Cádiz (southern Spain). Both sites date to the IV-V millennium BC. The interpretation of use wear present on the surface of the shells has enabled us to esta…
Apuntes en torno al uso de los arpones magdalenienses
Se presenta el análisis microscópico de tres arpones magdalenienses procedentes de la cueva de El Horno (Ramales, Cantabria). Su fin era la identificación, en superficie, de rastros susceptibles de aportar información preliminar sobre el uso de los arpones. Las observaciones sobre uno de ellos revelan que se empleó en distintas ocasiones, quizá para la captura de presas con una piel más resistente que la de los peces. Las trazas identificadas en …
Shell Technology, Rock Art, and the Role of Marine Resources during the Upper Paleolithic
During the Upper Paleolithic, marine resources have traditionally been considered to be low-efficiency resources. However, in recent years, new data have emerged to demonstrate that their importance for human utilization was probably greater than previously thought. The assessment of their value has generally been from the perspective of their nutritional or ornamental value, not from the technological potential that these resources might have. A…
Use-Wear and Residue Analysis in Archaeology
Instrumentos para siega y procesado de plantas desde el Calcolítico al Bronce antiguo de Chibanes (Palmela, Portugal)
El análisis funcional ha reconocido rastros de uso en artefactos de sílex (foicinhas) que caracterizan la identidad socio-cultural del III milenio cal BC en la Estremadura portuguesa. Esos artefactos tienen rasgos tecnológicos y tipológicos específicos y su funcionalidad ha sido discutida durante mucho tiempo sin resultados positivos. El presente estudio funcional permitió su clasificación como elementos de hoz, proporcionando información sobre l…
The peopling of South America
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A new late Pleistocene archaeological sequence in South America
The date of the first settlement of the Americas remains a contentious subject. Previous claims for very early occupation at Pedra Furada in Brazil were not universally accepted (see Meltzeret al.1994). New work at the rockshelter of Boqueirão da Pedra Furada and at the nearby open-air site of Vale da Pedra Furada have however produced new evidence for human occupation extending back more than 20 000 years. The argument is supported by a series o…
Insights into the economic organization of the first agro-pastoral communities of the NE of the Iberian Peninsula
Contribution of landscape analysis to the characterisation of Palaeolithic sites
A use-wear analysis of wood technology of patagonian hunter–gatherers. The case of Cerro Casa de Piedra 7, Argentina
Middle Palaeolithic Mode 3 lithic technology in the rock-shelter of Benzú (North Africa) and its immediate environmental relationships
Use and Sonority of a 23,000-Year-Old Bone Aerophone from Davant Pau Cave (NE of the Iberian Peninsula)
The production of sound is a significant human capacity that is used, through the generation of feelings and emotions, for conditioning social and biological reproduction. Despite this elevance and although several hundred instruments have been attributed to the production of sound along the Upper Paleolithic, our knowledge of how and in what contexts music was played during this period is still quite limited. In this paper, the aerophone found i…
New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America
Sítio do Meio, discovered in the 1990s, showed a sedimentary sequence clearly composed of two sets of deposits separated by a zone of large rockfall from the massive collapse of the shelter's overhang. The bottom set, slightly more than 60 cm thick, was trapped between the bedrock (upon which it rested) and the lower part of the roof fall (reaching more than 1 m in the excavation area), and yielded some charcoal without other archaeological mater…
Del medio natural a los paisajes pastorales. Ocupación de las zonas de alta montaña en los Pirineos centrales de Cataluña desde el Mesolítico a la Edad del Bronce (c. 9000-1000 cal ANE)
En este artculo presentamos los resultados de los trabajos de investigacin arqueolgica y paleoambiental llevados a cabo entre 2000 y 2014 en el Parque Nacional de Aigestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici (PNAESM) y en su rea perifrica. Dichos trabajos comprenden la prospeccin sistemtica de la mayor parte del territorio, entre 1500 y 3000 m de altitud, que ha permitido documentar 350 sitios arqueolgicos, proporcionando 78 dataciones radiocarbnicas que…
Ocupaciones de montaña en el marco de los primeros grupos agro-pastorales del Pirineo Central en el VI-V milenio cal ANE
En este trabajo vamos a realizar una revisin de las evidencias disponibles sobre las primeras ocupaciones de las zonas de media y alta montaa del Pirinceo Central por parte de grupos agro-pastorales. En particular, nos vamos a fijar sobre dos practicas economicas relevantes: la caza y el cutlivo de cereales. Nuestro objectivo es entender el rol que estas dos actividades tuvieron dentro del sistema econmico de los primeros pobladores neolticos y c…
Macro- and micro-traces of hafting on quartz tools from Pleistocene sites in the Sierra de Capivara in Piaui (Brazil)
Early use of marine resources by Middle/Upper Pleistocene human societies
The first farming communities in the Southwest European Coast
San Quirce (Palencia, Spain). A Neanderthal open air campsite with short term-occupation patterns
Early Holocene Occupations at Ashash Rock Shelter (Zemmur, Western Sahara)
The archaeological record of the Western Sahara remains extremely fragmentary, with very few sites systematically excavated. The excavation at Ashash rock shelter (Zemmur region) has provided, for the first time in the region, the evidence of superimposition of two prehistoric occupations that have been radiocarbon dated to the early 9th millennium cal. BP and to the mid-7th millennium cal. BP . The Epipalaeolithic occupation is strongly marked b…
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