Manuel R González-Morales
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 88100 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Manuel R González-Morales |
| NOMBRES | Manuel R |
| APELLIDO | González-Morales |
| FIRMA | GONZÁLEZ-MORALES M R |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidad de Cantabria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7277-7837 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 87 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1043 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 19 |
Western European Micro-Blade Technology in “Pre-Clovis” Times
Bladelets (micro-blades) were key artifacts in the technologies of many Upper Paleolithic cultures in the Old World, among them the Magdalenian (∼21–14 ka) in Western Europe. Contemporary with claimed late pre-Clovis sites in the Americas, it succeeded the Solutrean technocomplex (∼25–21 ka) characterized by large foliate, concave-base, shouldered, and tanged lithic projectile points. Magdalenian bladelets were often inserted as replaceable eleme…
Was fire use a cultural trait of the Gravettian? New micro-archaeological data from Fuente del Salín cave (Val de San Vicente, Cantabria)
Micro-archaeological data from sites located in central and eastern Europe show that, in comparison with other Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers, Gravettian foragers used fire more intensively and for a wider range of purposes. At these sites, this shift in pyrotechnology overlaps with the onset of periglacial conditions. Gravettian occupations of non-periglacial regions have been poorly investigated with micro-archaeological methods, and it rem…
Seasonal exploitation of intertidal resources at El Mazo (N Iberia) reveals optimized human subsistence strategies during the Mesolithic in Atlantic Europe
Over the last few decades, research has significantly enhanced our understanding of the role played by shellfish in human subsistence during the Mesolithic period along the Atlantic coast of Europe. Instrumental to this advance has been the analysis of stable oxygen isotope measurements (δ 18 O) from mollusc shells, which offers valuable insights into the seasonality of shellfish exploitation. The δ 18 O values serve as reliable indicators of pas…
Living in the shore
Recent research on human exploitation of molluscs, echinoderms and crustaceans during the Mesolithic in the Cantabrian region (northern Iberia) has shown significant variability in the intensity of the use of coastal resources by the last hunter-fisher-gatherers throughout the ~ 4000-year expanse of the Mesolithic (10,700 - 6,700 cal BP). Previous studies have proposed hypotheses related to demographic changes to explain intensification events. I…
Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age and Additional Magdalenian Radiocarbon Dates for El Mirón Cave (Ramales De La Victoria, Cantabria, Spain). Date List Vii
There are now 101 radiocarbon dates from the long Paleolithic and post-Paleolithic culture-stratigraphic sequence in El Mirón Cave, Cantabrian Spain. Here we report on two dates on bone from two different humans whose remains were found in disturbed surface sediments in the cave vestibule rear and that confirm the existence of burials in addition to previously reported residential occupations in the vestibule front pertaining to the Chalcolithic …
Coastal and Inland subsistence strategies during the Gravettian in the Cantabrian Region (northern Iberian Peninsula)
The Gravettian site of Fuente del Salín Cave is located in the northern Iberian Peninsula (Cantabrian Region, Spain). In 2016, excavations conducted at the site yielded numerous faunal remains, including mammals and fish. Researchers also recovered molluscs remains during the 1990, 1991, and 2000 campaigns. This study presents the results of the archaeozoological and taphonomical analyses of the large mammals and fish remains recovered during the…
Seasonality of Human Occupations in El Mirón Cave
Bone weathering in an Atlantic environment
Weathering constitutes one of the most investigated taphonomic processes for understanding the formation of archaeological and paleontological assemblages. Despite being studied for decades through numerous monitoring experiments, no homogeneous methodology exists to compare the results obtained in different regions and climates. Here, we present the protocols and the preliminary results of an experimental research started four years ago in a coa…
Structuring domestic space in the Lower Magdalenian
Documenting the intentional structuring of space by hunter-gatherers can be challenging, especially in complex cave contexts. One approach is the spatial analysis of discard patterns. Here, the authors consider the spatial distribution of faunal remains from the Lower Magdalenian Level 115 in El Mirón Cave, Cantabria, to assess a possible structuring function for an unusual alignment of rocks. Although it is impossible to determine whether the al…
Objetos de arte mueble y funcionales del Magdaleniense inferior e inicial de la Cueva del Mirón (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria, España) ligados al Procesamiento del Ocre
Presentamos documentación y análisis detallados de un nódulo de ocre con una retícula grabada, un fragmento de ocre con incisiones profundas y un abrasionador de cuarcita con restos de ocre procedentes de los niveles del Magdaleniense inferior e inicial de la Cueva del Mirón. Estos objetos se añaden al inventario de hallazgos notables de los depósitos de este periodo en el yacimiento, y muestran la importancia de las actividades ligadas al proces…
Initial and Lower Magdalenian Large Mammal Faunas and Human Subsistence at El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain)
Assessing the Chronostratigraphy of El Mirón Cave, Cantabrian Spain
El Mirón is an important archaeological cave site in Cantabria (Spain) with a stratigraphy covering the late Middle Paleolithic to the Modern Period. The Magdalenian levels are especially rich in artifacts, faunal remains, and features, and included the burial of an adult female (“the Red Lady”), as well as other scattered human remains, while the Neolithic levels contained the oldest combined evidence of ceramics, domesticated grain and livestoc…
Ceramic productions and human interactions during the Early Bronze Age in northern Iberia
The Early Bronze Age ceramic collection found into the caves of La Llana and El Toral III in Asturias (Spain) presents common decoration such as that found in the centre of Cantabrian Spain from the same period, which resembles others found in the Ebro Valley and Atlantic Europe. Therefore, the main objective of this study it is to identify the raw material origin and understand the pottery production process during the Early Bronze Age in the Ca…
El Mirón Cave
Diet, mobility and death of Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic groups of the Cantabrian Region (northern Spain). A multidisciplinary approach towards studying the Los Avellanos I and II burial caves
Osteolytic lesions on the os petrosum of a Bronze Age individual from La Llana cave (Northern Spain) compatible with a possible case of otitis media. A multifaceted methodological approach
Art in the Making
Beyond the Bounds of Western Europe
Still no archaeological evidence that Neanderthals created Iberian cave art
The Upper Paleolithic sequence in el Mirón Cave (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria, Spain)
Birds of prey and humans in prehistoric Europe
Stable oxygen isotope analysis of Phorcus lineatus (da Costa, 1778) as a proxy for foraging seasonality during the Mesolithic in northern Iberia
The Mesolithic period in the Cantabrian region, a coastal area located in northern Spain, is characterised by a marked increase in the human use of coastal resources in comparison with previous periods, resulting in the formation of so-called "shell middens". Archaeological investigations have provided insights into the formation processes of these shell middens, as well as long-term changes in human exploitation of different marine resources and…
Expanding the horizons of Palaeolithic rock art
La industria ósea del Magdaleniense Inferior del Nivel 17 de la Cueva de El Mirón (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria)
Level 17 is the principal Cantabrian Lower Magdalenian horizon in the outer vestibule area of El Mirón Cave, dating by radiocarbon to c. 15,500 uncal bp. It has yielded very rich faunal and artifactual collections associated with numerous hearths and abundant fire-cracked rocks. Among the many osseous artifacts are a striation-engraved red deer scapula and a spearthrower reported on elsewhere. This article presents a description and preliminary t…
Sources of the ochres associated with the Lower Magdalenian “Red Lady” human burial and rock art in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain)
Archaeological implications of human-derived manganese coatings
Still no archaeological evidence that Neanderthals created Iberian cave art
El Mirón Cave and the 14 C Chronology of Cantabrian Spain
Excavations since 1996 in the large El Mirón Cave in the Cantabrian Cordillera of northern Spain have revealed a cultural sequence of late Mousterian, early Upper Paleolithic, Solutrean, Magdalenian, Azilian, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, and Medieval occupations. These components have been dated by 51 generally coherent radiocarbon determinations, all run by the Geochron labs, in association with the Lawrence Livermore labs fo…
On stone-boiling technology in the Upper Paleolithic
Last Glacial Human Settlement in Eastern Cantabria (Northern Spain)
Extraordinary Early Magdalenian finds from El Mirón Cave, Cantabria (Spain)
The authors describe three splendid and newly discovered objects from the Upper Palaeolithic in northern Spain: an engraved scapula, a possible spearthrower and a decorated stone pendant. As well as adding to the corpus of iconic artefacts from the period, these new finds have the special virtue of being meticulously excavated and recorded in context
The Pleistocene–holocene Transition in the Iberian Peninsula
Further Radiocarbon Dates for the Upper Paleolithic of El Mirón Cave (Ramales De La Victoria, Cantabria, Spain)
This article expands the date list from the Stone Age cave site of El Mirón in the Cantabrian Cordillera of northern Spain to a total of 62 radiocarbon determinations, one of the longest series from a single prehistoric site in Iberia. All the assays (accelerator mass spectrometry [AMS] and conventional, run on charcoal and bone collagen) were done by a single laboratory (Geochron, GX). The 11 new dates confirm 1) the late spread of Neolithic eco…
Microremains from El Mirón Cave human dental calculus suggest a mixed plant–animal subsistence economy during the Magdalenian in Northern Iberia
The Magdalenian settlement of the Cantabrian region (Northern Spain)
Late Quaternary small mammal turnover in the Cantabrian Region
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…
Lower Magdalenian secondary human burial in El Mirón Cave, Cantabria, Spain
The authors describe the discovery of the first human burial of Magdalenian age to be found in the Iberian Peninsula-the partial skeleton of a young adult whose bones were stained with red ochre. The burial was well stratified in a sequence at the vestibule rear running from the Mousterian to the Mesolithic, and was adjacent to a large block that had fallen from the cave roof and been subsequently engraved. A preliminary AMS radiocarbon date on a…
Painting Altamira Cave? Shell tools for ochre-processing in the Upper Palaeolithic in northern Iberia
The reconstruction of past environments through small mammals
Paleoecology at La Riera (Asturias, Spain) [and Comments and Reply]
Excavations were conducted at La Riera to test hypotheses concerning variability among Upper Paleolithic/Mesolithic artifact assemblages and to define and begin to explain changing hunter-gatherer adaptations to the coastal region at the end of the Wurm and the beginning of the Holocene. The 36 strata contain assemblages that can be assigned to Aurignacian(?), Solutrean, Magdalenian, Azilian, and Asturian culture-stratigraphic units. However, the…
Lithic raw material conveyance and hunter-gatherer mobility during the Lower Magdalenian in Cantabria, Spain
Comportamiento económico de los últimos cazadores- recolectores y primeras evidencias de domesticación en el occidente de Asturias. La Cueva de Mazaculos II
El estudio del comportamiento económico desarrollado por los últimos grupos de cazadores-recolectores del Mesolítico Cantábrico, fundamentalmente dominado por el abundante registro de la explotación del medio marino, cuenta con reducidas evidencias del consumo de mamíferos terrestres, en lo que supone una ruptura con la tendencia observada durante el Paleolítico Superior. Las causas de este cambio y su implicación en la demografía de la región se…
The Radiocarbon Chronology of El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain)
Three additional radiocarbon assays were run on samples from 3 levels lying below the classic (±15,500 BP) Lower Cantabrian Magdalenian horizon in the outer vestibule excavation area of El Mirón Cave in the Cantabrian Cordillera of northern Spain. Although the central tendencies of the new dates are out of stratigraphic order, they are consonant with the post-Solutrean, Initial Magdalenian period both in El Mirón and in the Cantabrian region, ind…
Early Magdalenian Variability
One of the most important and longstanding debates in Paleolithic prehistory is over the significance of interassemblage variability. The problem of variability among artifact assemblages pertaining to the Lower Cantabrian Magdalenian phenomenon (ca. 16,000–14,000 uncalibrated years B.P.) is much like the Mousterian facies question, but with far less international attention. Are the different assemblage types temporal, stylistic, or functional in…
Paleolithic Art
The oldest agriculture in northern Atlantic Spain
Expanding the horizons of Palaeolithic rock art
The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain)
The Red Lady of El Mirón”. Lower Magdalenian life and death in Oldest Dryas Cantabrian Spain
The Asturian Shell Midden of Cueva de Mazaculos II (La Franca, Asturias, Spain)
Paleoecology at La Riera (Asturias, Spain) [and Comments and Reply]
Excavations were conducted at La Riera to test hypotheses concerning variability among Upper Paleolithic/Mesolithic artifact assemblages and to define and begin to explain changing hunter-gatherer adaptations to the coastal region at the end of the Wurm and the beginning of the Holocene. The 36 strata contain assemblages that can be assigned to Aurignacian(?), Solutrean, Magdalenian, Azilian, and Asturian culture-stratigraphic units. However, the…
El contexto del arte parietal. La tecnología de los artistas en la Cueva de Tito Bustillo (Asturias)
El trabajo coincide parcialmente con la comunicación presentada al «Colloque International d'Art Parietal Paléolithique» celebrado en Perigueux-Le Thot, en diciembre de 1984. Se analizan las respuestas tecnológicas contenidas en un área de decoración de la cueva de Tito Bustillo (Asturias), así como las actividades en áreas de estancia relacionadas con la preparación y ejecución del arte parietal
Las pinturas rupestres paleolíticas de la cueva de Covalanas (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria)
El trabajo se inserta en una de las líneas de investigación del área de Prehistoria del Departamento de Ciencias Históricas de la Universidad de Cantabria, que tiene por objeto la documentación del arte rupestre de la región. Las figuras paleolíticas de Covalanas forman un conjunto sincrónico y ordenado que emplea la técnica del tamponado y otros procedimientos pictóricos próximos a la misma. A partir del análisis estilístico de las figuraciones …
The Pleistocene–holocene Transition in the Iberian Peninsula
La Cueva del Mirón (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria)
Las cuatro campañas de excavación desarrolladas en la Cueva del Mirón, con una estratigrafía continua que abarca por ahora desde el Bronce inicial hasta el Solutrense, han puesto de manifiesto la importancia de este yacimiento para el conocimiento de las sociedades humanas de las áreas interiores de la Región Cantábrica a lo largo de buena parte de la Prehistoria. Los procedimientos de excavación aplicados han permitido documentar en detalle espa…
Paleoclimate and intersite correlations from Late Pleistocene/Holocene cave sites
During the last 10 years or so, magnetic susceptibility (MS) measurements of cave sediments from archaeological sites have been used for intrasite correlation and paleoclimate estimation. This is possible, if the context is appropriate, because the MS of these sediments result from climate processes active outside caves causing variations in magnetic properties of the sediments ultimately accumulating inside of caves. Once deposited, these materi…
Sedimentological and stratigraphic observations in El Mirón, a late Quaternary cave site in the Cantabrian Cordillera, Northern Spain
El Mirón cave on the northern edge of the Cantabrian Cordillera is one of the first montane sites in this area to be the object of modern interdisciplinary research. Five excavation seasons have revealed an archaeological sequence attributable to the Medieval, Bronze, Chalcolithic, Neolithic, Mesolithic, Azilian, Magdalenian, and Solutrean periods, and early Upper and Middle Paleolithic levels have just been reached. Forty‐four radiocarbon ages r…
Paleoclimate and intersite correlations from Late Pleistocene/Holocene cave sites
During the last 10 years or so, magnetic susceptibility (MS) measurements of cave sediments from archaeological sites have been used for intrasite correlation and paleoclimate estimation. This is possible, if the context is appropriate, because the MS of these sediments result from climate processes active outside caves causing variations in magnetic properties of the sediments ultimately accumulating inside of caves. Once deposited, these materi…
Last Glacial Human Settlement in Eastern Cantabria (Northern Spain)
L’art bourgeois de la fin du XIXe siècle face à l’art mobilier Paléolithique
El Mirón Cave and the 14 C Chronology of Cantabrian Spain
Excavations since 1996 in the large El Mirón Cave in the Cantabrian Cordillera of northern Spain have revealed a cultural sequence of late Mousterian, early Upper Paleolithic, Solutrean, Magdalenian, Azilian, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, and Medieval occupations. These components have been dated by 51 generally coherent radiocarbon determinations, all run by the Geochron labs, in association with the Lawrence Livermore labs fo…
L'analogie et la représentation de l'art primitif à la fin du XIXe siècle
The spread of agriculture in northern Iberia
The oldest agriculture in northern Atlantic Spain
L’art Paléolithique est-il un « art »
Thinking About ‘Style’ in the ‘Post‐stylistic Era’
Over the past decade, new radiocarbon dating from several art caves has conflicted with the traditional stylistic sequence of Palaeolithic art. Using Chauvet as a paradigm, some archaeologists have suggested that stylistic approaches to Palaeolithic art should be rejected in favour of more sophisticated methods, such as AMS radiocarbon dating. Contrary to this proposal, we suggest that the high antiquity of the Chauvet paintings (dated to c .32,0…
Archaeological implications of human-derived manganese coatings
Further Radiocarbon Dates for the Upper Paleolithic of El Mirón Cave (Ramales De La Victoria, Cantabria, Spain)
This article expands the date list from the Stone Age cave site of El Mirón in the Cantabrian Cordillera of northern Spain to a total of 62 radiocarbon determinations, one of the longest series from a single prehistoric site in Iberia. All the assays (accelerator mass spectrometry [AMS] and conventional, run on charcoal and bone collagen) were done by a single laboratory (Geochron, GX). The 11 new dates confirm 1) the late spread of Neolithic eco…
Hacia una historia crítica del arte paleolítico
Algunos trabajos recientes han subrayado la emergencia, durante los años noventa, de una historia crítica de la arqueología opuesta a la historiografía tradicional. Como estos autores señalan, el principal objetivo de la nueva generación de historiadores es que la historia de la arqueología asuma una posición más central en el conjunto de la disciplina. En este contexto, pensamos que el proyecto de la historia social de las ciencias sociales de P…
The reconstruction of past environments through small mammals
Early Magdalenian Variability
One of the most important and longstanding debates in Paleolithic prehistory is over the significance of interassemblage variability. The problem of variability among artifact assemblages pertaining to the Lower Cantabrian Magdalenian phenomenon (ca. 16,000–14,000 uncalibrated years B.P.) is much like the Mousterian facies question, but with far less international attention. Are the different assemblage types temporal, stylistic, or functional in…
On stone-boiling technology in the Upper Paleolithic
Paleolithic Art Studies at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
In the past two decades, several scholars have suggested that Paleolithic art studies have been undergoing a revolution. This disciplinary transformation is generally related to the discovery of new sites, such as Chauvet or Blombos Cave; the development of new methodologies, such as AMS radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dating; and the rise of new theories concerning human cognitive evolution. These firsts are not only revolutionizing the chron…
Comportamiento económico de los últimos cazadores- recolectores y primeras evidencias de domesticación en el occidente de Asturias. La Cueva de Mazaculos II
El estudio del comportamiento económico desarrollado por los últimos grupos de cazadores-recolectores del Mesolítico Cantábrico, fundamentalmente dominado por el abundante registro de la explotación del medio marino, cuenta con reducidas evidencias del consumo de mamíferos terrestres, en lo que supone una ruptura con la tendencia observada durante el Paleolítico Superior. Las causas de este cambio y su implicación en la demografía de la región se…
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