David Cuenca-Solana
Biographic Data
| ID | 80232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Cuenca-Solana |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Cuenca-Solana |
| SIGNATURE | CUENCA-SOLANA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Cantabria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9710-8998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 228 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Vegetation and plant resource exploitation during the 8.2 ka event
El Mazo rock shelter (Asturias, northern Iberia) contains a Mesolithic shell-midden with a high chronological resolution, which offers great possibilities as an empirical scenario to develop palaeoenvironmental research. This study aims to approach vegetation dynamics and the exploitation of plant resources during the Early Holocene in the Cantabrian region and to assess the regional effects of the 8.2 ka cal BP abrupt climate change event. The r…
Knives, canoes, and invisible technologies
The archipelagos of southwestern Patagonia were historically inhabited by hunter-gatherer societies characterized by a maritime-oriented lifeway and a knowledge of navigation techniques. These canoeros societies inhabited this extensive territory from approximately 7500 years BP until the processes of social disintegration and ethnocide that took place during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The use of shells as tools constituted a distinc…
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…
Changes in lithic raw material and technological management during the Mesolithic
This study investigates the lithic industry at the Mesolithic shell midden site of El Mazo (Andrín, Asturias), on the Asturian coastline in Northern Iberia, focusing on resource management, production strategies, and mobility patterns of the last hunter-gatherer-fishers. El Mazo provides a unique opportunity to examine lithic resource use across the Early-Middle Holocene transition, with a particular emphasis on the dynamic of the 8.2 ka climate …
Manufacturing and decorating cardial pottery
Traditional research approaches on pottery production based on typological and morphometric classifications have changed in favour of new lines of research. One of them is based on the study of the technological equipment used in ceramic manufacturing processes. For example, ethnographic evidence shows the use of shell tools as technological equipment in different phases of ceramic production. In this study, the methodology of use-wear analysis h…
Shell tool technology and new insights into techno-cultural strategies during the Neolithic in Eastern Arabia. An initial case study from Umm al-Quwain (United Arab Emirates)
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…
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 …
Taphonomic effects in Archaelogical contexts
Today, it is clear that the study of malacological remains in archaeology has a great potential to reconstruct techno-economic, social, and territorial patterns in the past. In recent years, pioneering research has set a methodological basis for the study of shells from a behavioural perspective. However, taphonomic bias is still poorly understood. In this paper, we present the results of the first phase of the ArchaeoENHANCE project developed wi…
Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis
Prehistoric and Archaeological research has pointed out the role of marine resources in modern humans’ cognitive and cultural developments. Maritime adaptations constitute a key component of the sociocultural evolution in Eastern Arabia. During the Neolithic (c. 6500–3300 BCE), it is expressed by the colonisation of offshore islands supported by advanced seafaring and the exploitation of marine resources not only for staple food but also for obta…
Shell tools and productive strategies of hunter-gatherer groups
Cinquante ans après la découverte
Le site de la République est localisé en bordure de microfalaise à Talmont-Saint-Hilaire en Vendée (France). Il s’intègre au sein d’un vaste réseau d’occupations campaniformes observable tout le long du littoral vendéen, où près d’une quinzaine de sites sont attestés. Il a été découvert en 1968 par R. Joussaume suite à des prospections de surface et a fait l’objet de plusieurs opérations archéologiques de sauvetage entre 1988 et 2015 (B. Poissonn…
The Occupation of Benzú Cave (Ceuta) by Neolithic and Bronze Age Societies
Le macro-outillage en pierre du Mésolithique atlantique Un référentiel bien daté sur l’habitat littoral de Beg-er-Vil (Quiberon, Morbihan)
Les macro-outils sont très peu décrits pour les industries lithiques mésolithiques du territoire français, malgré leur omniprésence dans les habitats. L’habitat côtier de Beg-er-Vil (Quiberon, Morbihan) fouillé entre 2012 et 2018 est une référence particulièrement cohérente d’un point de vue chronologique et stratigraphique pour le septième millénaire avant notre ère. Elle autorise une relecture des autres assemblages lithiques du Mésolithique at…
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…
Mesolithic dwelling structures
Pasado, Presente Y Futuro Del Análisis Funcional Aplicado Al Estudio De Los Instrumentos De Concha Prehistóricos
El análisis funcional orientado al estudio de la tecnología lítica ha tenido un gran desarrollo durante las últimas décadas, tanto a nivel metodológico cómo en variedad y cantidad de aplicaciones. Sin embargo, el estudio del utillaje manufacturado con materias duras de origen animal, especialmente los instrumentos de concha, a partir de la traceología ha tenido menor interés en la investigación arqueológica. En este sentido, numerosa y variada in…
Time for the tide. New perspectives on hunter–fisher–gatherer exploitation of intertidal resources in Atlantic Europe and Mediterranean regions
Collection and consumption of echinoderms and crustaceans at the Mesolithic shell midden site of El Mazo (northern Iberia)
Painting Altamira Cave? Shell tools for ochre-processing in the Upper Palaeolithic in northern Iberia
Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Effect in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Coastal Waters off Northern Iberia
Radiocarbon dating of closely associated marine mollusk shells and terrestrial material (mammal bones or charred wood) collected from archaeological contexts in northern Atlantic Iberian coastal areas is used to quantify the marine 14 C reservoir effect (ΔR) for the coastal waters off the Cantabrian coast of northern Iberia. For the first time, ΔR values were reliably determined for these coastal waters and, also for the first time, a ΔR was calc…
Ornaments from the Magdalenian burial area in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, northern Spain). Were they grave goods
The Magdalenian human burial of El Mirón Cave (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria, Spain)
Use-wear analysis
Estudio de la manufactura y/o uso de instrumentos de trabajo y elementos de adorno de concha desde la metodología del análisis funcional
Since its inception, traceology or functional analysis (Semenov, 1957) has been shown as a discipline within Archeology to effectively examine tool manufacture and use of various archaeological material elements. This methodology is based on the macroscopic and microscopic analyses of traces generated on the surface of an object during its manufacture and/or use. These analyses, as well as inference, are used through analytical experiments to emp…
On stone-boiling technology in the Upper Paleolithic
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…
The Use of Mollusc Shells as Tools by Coastal Human Groups
In European archaeology, the malacological remains recovered in archaeological contexts have traditionally been considered almost exclusively as food waste. In other cases, this view has been broadened in order to study these remains as an expression of aspects of the social organization of the human groups, based on the use of perforated shells as objects of personal ornamentation. However, the study of these natural resources as raw materials f…
Painting Altamira Cave? Shell tools for ochre-processing in the Upper Palaeolithic in northern Iberia
The Use of Shells by Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers and Farmers From the Early Upper Palaeolithic to the Neolithic in the European Atlantic Façade
The role marine resources played in the subsistence strategies of groups, especially during the Palaeolithic, has been widely discussed in historiography. Much of this debate has been based on the information obtained from the consumption of marine resources as food and, to a lesser extent, their use as objects of adornment. This article presents a new approach to this debate, covering a long period from the Early Upper Palaeolithic to the late N…
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…
Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Effect in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Coastal Waters off Northern Iberia
Radiocarbon dating of closely associated marine mollusk shells and terrestrial material (mammal bones or charred wood) collected from archaeological contexts in northern Atlantic Iberian coastal areas is used to quantify the marine 14 C reservoir effect (ΔR) for the coastal waters off the Cantabrian coast of northern Iberia. For the first time, ΔR values were reliably determined for these coastal waters and, also for the first time, a ΔR was calc…
Use-wear analysis
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…
The Magdalenian human burial of El Mirón Cave (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria, Spain)
La ocupación de la costa durante el Mesolítico en el Oriente de Asturias
The discovery of Paracentrotus lividus remains in archaeological sites is an important source of information that is not always possible to assess due to the difficulty of quantifying the debris and its contribution to the overall study. Recently, several authors have designed systems for the MNI calculation based on the mouthparts of the sea urchin or interspecific identification systems based on the genital tract. This paper presents an MNI cal…
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
Shell tools and productive strategies of hunter-gatherer groups
Estudio de la manufactura y/o uso de instrumentos de trabajo y elementos de adorno de concha desde la metodología del análisis funcional
Since its inception, traceology or functional analysis (Semenov, 1957) has been shown as a discipline within Archeology to effectively examine tool manufacture and use of various archaeological material elements. This methodology is based on the macroscopic and microscopic analyses of traces generated on the surface of an object during its manufacture and/or use. These analyses, as well as inference, are used through analytical experiments to emp…
Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis
Prehistoric and Archaeological research has pointed out the role of marine resources in modern humans’ cognitive and cultural developments. Maritime adaptations constitute a key component of the sociocultural evolution in Eastern Arabia. During the Neolithic (c. 6500–3300 BCE), it is expressed by the colonisation of offshore islands supported by advanced seafaring and the exploitation of marine resources not only for staple food but also for obta…
Cinquante ans après la découverte
Le site de la République est localisé en bordure de microfalaise à Talmont-Saint-Hilaire en Vendée (France). Il s’intègre au sein d’un vaste réseau d’occupations campaniformes observable tout le long du littoral vendéen, où près d’une quinzaine de sites sont attestés. Il a été découvert en 1968 par R. Joussaume suite à des prospections de surface et a fait l’objet de plusieurs opérations archéologiques de sauvetage entre 1988 et 2015 (B. Poissonn…
Changes in lithic raw material and technological management during the Mesolithic
This study investigates the lithic industry at the Mesolithic shell midden site of El Mazo (Andrín, Asturias), on the Asturian coastline in Northern Iberia, focusing on resource management, production strategies, and mobility patterns of the last hunter-gatherer-fishers. El Mazo provides a unique opportunity to examine lithic resource use across the Early-Middle Holocene transition, with a particular emphasis on the dynamic of the 8.2 ka climate …
Le macro-outillage en pierre du Mésolithique atlantique Un référentiel bien daté sur l’habitat littoral de Beg-er-Vil (Quiberon, Morbihan)
Les macro-outils sont très peu décrits pour les industries lithiques mésolithiques du territoire français, malgré leur omniprésence dans les habitats. L’habitat côtier de Beg-er-Vil (Quiberon, Morbihan) fouillé entre 2012 et 2018 est une référence particulièrement cohérente d’un point de vue chronologique et stratigraphique pour le septième millénaire avant notre ère. Elle autorise une relecture des autres assemblages lithiques du Mésolithique at…
On stone-boiling technology in the Upper Paleolithic
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 Use of Mollusc Shells as Tools by Coastal Human Groups
In European archaeology, the malacological remains recovered in archaeological contexts have traditionally been considered almost exclusively as food waste. In other cases, this view has been broadened in order to study these remains as an expression of aspects of the social organization of the human groups, based on the use of perforated shells as objects of personal ornamentation. However, the study of these natural resources as raw materials f…
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…
The role of shellfish in hunter–gatherer societies during the Early Upper Palaeolithic
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…
Estudio de la manufactura y/o uso de instrumentos de trabajo y elementos de adorno de concha desde la metodología del análisis funcional
Since its inception, traceology or functional analysis (Semenov, 1957) has been shown as a discipline within Archeology to effectively examine tool manufacture and use of various archaeological material elements. This methodology is based on the macroscopic and microscopic analyses of traces generated on the surface of an object during its manufacture and/or use. These analyses, as well as inference, are used through analytical experiments to emp…
La ocupación de la costa durante el Mesolítico en el Oriente de Asturias
The discovery of Paracentrotus lividus remains in archaeological sites is an important source of information that is not always possible to assess due to the difficulty of quantifying the debris and its contribution to the overall study. Recently, several authors have designed systems for the MNI calculation based on the mouthparts of the sea urchin or interspecific identification systems based on the genital tract. This paper presents an MNI cal…
The Use of Shells by Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers and Farmers From the Early Upper Palaeolithic to the Neolithic in the European Atlantic Façade
The role marine resources played in the subsistence strategies of groups, especially during the Palaeolithic, has been widely discussed in historiography. Much of this debate has been based on the information obtained from the consumption of marine resources as food and, to a lesser extent, their use as objects of adornment. This article presents a new approach to this debate, covering a long period from the Early Upper Palaeolithic to the late N…
Ornaments from the Magdalenian burial area in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, northern Spain). Were they grave goods
The Magdalenian human burial of El Mirón Cave (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria, Spain)
Use-wear analysis
Time for the tide. New perspectives on hunter–fisher–gatherer exploitation of intertidal resources in Atlantic Europe and Mediterranean regions
Collection and consumption of echinoderms and crustaceans at the Mesolithic shell midden site of El Mazo (northern Iberia)
Painting Altamira Cave? Shell tools for ochre-processing in the Upper Palaeolithic in northern Iberia
Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Effect in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Coastal Waters off Northern Iberia
Radiocarbon dating of closely associated marine mollusk shells and terrestrial material (mammal bones or charred wood) collected from archaeological contexts in northern Atlantic Iberian coastal areas is used to quantify the marine 14 C reservoir effect (ΔR) for the coastal waters off the Cantabrian coast of northern Iberia. For the first time, ΔR values were reliably determined for these coastal waters and, also for the first time, a ΔR was calc…
Pasado, Presente Y Futuro Del Análisis Funcional Aplicado Al Estudio De Los Instrumentos De Concha Prehistóricos
El análisis funcional orientado al estudio de la tecnología lítica ha tenido un gran desarrollo durante las últimas décadas, tanto a nivel metodológico cómo en variedad y cantidad de aplicaciones. Sin embargo, el estudio del utillaje manufacturado con materias duras de origen animal, especialmente los instrumentos de concha, a partir de la traceología ha tenido menor interés en la investigación arqueológica. En este sentido, numerosa y variada in…
Mesolithic dwelling structures
The Occupation of Benzú Cave (Ceuta) by Neolithic and Bronze Age Societies
Le macro-outillage en pierre du Mésolithique atlantique Un référentiel bien daté sur l’habitat littoral de Beg-er-Vil (Quiberon, Morbihan)
Les macro-outils sont très peu décrits pour les industries lithiques mésolithiques du territoire français, malgré leur omniprésence dans les habitats. L’habitat côtier de Beg-er-Vil (Quiberon, Morbihan) fouillé entre 2012 et 2018 est une référence particulièrement cohérente d’un point de vue chronologique et stratigraphique pour le septième millénaire avant notre ère. Elle autorise une relecture des autres assemblages lithiques du Mésolithique at…
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…
Cinquante ans après la découverte
Le site de la République est localisé en bordure de microfalaise à Talmont-Saint-Hilaire en Vendée (France). Il s’intègre au sein d’un vaste réseau d’occupations campaniformes observable tout le long du littoral vendéen, où près d’une quinzaine de sites sont attestés. Il a été découvert en 1968 par R. Joussaume suite à des prospections de surface et a fait l’objet de plusieurs opérations archéologiques de sauvetage entre 1988 et 2015 (B. Poissonn…
Shell tools and productive strategies of hunter-gatherer groups
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 …
Taphonomic effects in Archaelogical contexts
Today, it is clear that the study of malacological remains in archaeology has a great potential to reconstruct techno-economic, social, and territorial patterns in the past. In recent years, pioneering research has set a methodological basis for the study of shells from a behavioural perspective. However, taphonomic bias is still poorly understood. In this paper, we present the results of the first phase of the ArchaeoENHANCE project developed wi…
Geography (27 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (25 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (24 works) · Archaeology (22 works) · Archaeological and Geological Studies (16 works) · Art (10 works) · Cave (10 works) · Geology (10 works) · Mesolithic (10 works) · Biology (9 works)