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ALICIA ESTRADA, JOSÉ M. TEJERO, XAVIER MANGADO, MARIA A. PETIT, JOSEP M. FULLOLA, XAVIER ESTEVE & RAÚL BARTROLÍ
Figure 1. Location and plane of Parco's Cave.
Morphologically, Parco’s Cave consists of a cave
that opens to the west into a rockshelter. The cave
gallery is 10.5 m. long. The rockshelter is rectangular
in shape, approximately 5.5 m. wide (Fig. 1).
Level II covers an area of approximately 16 m 2
into the cave and 30 m 2 in the rockshelter (Fullola et
al. 2006).
The site presents a long stratigraphical sequence
corresponding from the Bronze Age to Upper
Magdalenian levels and probably Middle
Magdalenian. In this paper we will present only the
malacofauna data corresponding to the Magdalenian
levels excavated until now. They are dated between
the 13 th and 14 th millennia BP (Table 1).
GEOLOGICAL LEVELS
Level Dates Level Dates Fire pits
II 12,605+60 BP Epigonal Level
12,560+130 BP EC17
12,460+60 BP EC18
13,175+ 60 BP EC19
13,025+ 50 BP EC25
13,090+50 BP EC39
III 13,070+140 BP
IV 12,900+130 BP
v 13,890+130 BP
VIb 13,950+150 BP
VII 13,720+140 BP
XI 14,300+150 BP
Table 1. 14 C datations
ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEVELS
Lithic and bone industry are related to final upper
Magdalenian and upper Magdalenian periods. A
high number of different kinds of fire pits and debris
deposits have been documented.
Lithic assemblage is mainly based on blade technology
to obtain blades and bladelets as supports for
a wide number of different tools as end-scrapers,
burins, retouched and pointed bladelets. Some
microburins and scalene bladelets have been also
documented (Fig. 2).
Raw material analyses allow us to define a double
catchment strategy. On one hand, local chert is the
main raw material used for the manufacture of chipped
stone tools. On the other hand, a regional chert
source is privileged for tool manufacture of retouched
bladelets and some end-scrapers and burins
(Mangado 2005).
The best types represented in the bone industry
are projectiles, needles and ornaments which we
present in this paper (Fig. 2).
A strict correspondence between raw material
and type is observed. The projectile points are made
of red deer antler (Cervus elaphus), whereas for the
needles people used bones more likely obtained
from food remains.
Two types of spear points have been recognized,
both characteristic of this upper Palaeolithic phase:
spear points with simple or double bevel.
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