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80 JESÚS F. JORDÁ, J. EMILI AURA, CARLOS MARTÍN & BÁRBARA AVEZUELA Figure 1. Nerja Cave (Málaga province, South of Spain): 1: Geographical location. 2: Cave map. 3: Access chambers with archaeological excavations. 4: Vestíbulo chamber and its archaeological excavations by professor Francisco Jordá Cerdá. 5: Stratigraphy of Vestíbulo chamber. MUNIBE Suplemento - Gehigarria 31, 2010 S.C. <strong>Aranzadi</strong>. Z.E. Donostia/San Sebastián
Archaeomalacological remains from the Upper Pleistocene – Early Holocene record of the Vestíbulo of Nerja Cave (Malaga, Spain) 81 with the quaternary conglomerates produced by alluvial fans that form the coastal plain. The cave, discovered in 1959, has a large subterranean extension (Fig. 1.2), but the archaeological deposits are located in its external chambers. During their occupation by humans, these chambers (Fig. 1.3) formed a great rock shelter; while at the present these chambers are partially filled by sediments. At the moment, there are three outer chambers: Torca, Mina and Vestíbulo. This study focuses on the Vestíbulo chamber. During the Late Upper Pleistocene and the Lower and Middle Holocene an important stratigraphical series was deposited in the entry of Nerja Cave (Jordá et al. 1990). This large vertical record constitutes one of the most important archaeological and palaeobiological sequences of the western Mediterranean, containing evidence in the Gravettian, Solutrean, Magdalenian, Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age. A recent paper summarizes the extensive bibliography on the archaeological record of Nerja Cave (Villalba et al. 2007, with references). The first excavations in the Vestíbulo chamber were undertaken by Ana M. de la Quadra Salcedo between 1962 and 1963. Later, Professor Francisco Jordá Cerdá carried out archaeological excavations between 1982 and 1987 (Fig. 1.4). The stratigraphic sequence of the Vestíbulo rests on a basal speleothem and is articulated in five lithostratigraphic units (Jordá et al. 1990) that correspond to different cultural periods: Gravettian, Solutrean, Mediterranean Upper Magdalenian, Mediterranean Microblade Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic (Fig. 1.5), and are separated by four hiatuses. Between 1979 and 1986 we studied the molluscs of the archaeological record of Nerja Cave recovered during the excavations of Professor Francisco Jordá Cerdá at La Mina chamber (campaigns of 1979, 1980 and 1981) and the Vestíbulo chamber (campaigns of 1982, 1983 and 1984). This research has been extensively published. (Jordá 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984-85, 1986, González-Tablas et al. 1984; Jordá et al. 1987; Aura et al. 1993; Jordá et al. 2003). However, in this research, we studied only the mollusc record recovered in a square metres test unit in the Vestíbulo chamber (C-4). Later, other scholars studied the molluscs from the excavations of professors Manuel Pellicer Catalán (La Mina and La Torca chambers; see Serrano et al., 1995, 1997, 1998) and Ana M. de la Quadra Salcedo (Vestíbulo chamber; see Lozano-Francisco et al. 2003, 2004, Vera et al. 2003), with results similar to ours. In this paper we present the preliminary results obtained from the study of the molluscs recovered during the archaeological excavations in Vestíbulo chamber of Nerja Cave made by Professor Francisco Jordá between 1983 and 1987 (Fig. 1.4), excluding the materials already published of the C-4 test unit, which were studied using a different methodology. These excavations recovered the archaeological record of the Vestíbulo sequence between the Gravettian and the Neolithic. 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS The malacological collection of Vestíbulo occupied 77 standard trays (38 x 29 x 4 cm) that were housed in the Department of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Salamanca; when we completed our study, the collections were placed in the Provincial Museum of Malaga. The studied material was recovered directly during the excavation and from screened sediments; all the sediments were washed and selected by sizes across a triple sieve, and later sorted. The invertebrate remains were further sorted later in the laboratory, where the molluscs were separated from the rest of the invertebrates. The mollusc assemblage was packed in cardboard trays; every tray was identified with contextual information and/or the excavation unit. During the excavations from 1983 to 1987 (Fig. 1.4) in the Vestibulo, a series of tests left from the excavations of Ana M. de la Quadra in 1962 and 1963 were excavated. For this reason, some units correspond to portions of several grids; this is reflected in the labeling of the boxes. This differential excavation suggests that the volume of excavated sediment changes very much from one level to another, between 3,94 m 3 of the Solutrean levels and 1,22 m 3 of the Magdalenian ones. In relation to the archaeological levels, we have studied all the detected ones in the Vestíbulo during the excavations of Professor Francisco Jordá Cerdá: from the NV13 up to the NV 1, excluding the NV11, detected in C-4, but that does not appear in the rest of the excavation. To identify the molluscs to species, as well as for information on habitat and distribution, we consulted a variety of references on both marine molluscs (Malatesta, 1963, 1974, Cox and cols., 1969-1972, Nordsieck, 1968, 1969; Parenzan, 1976, Ghisotti and Melone, 1975, Lindner, 2000; D'Angelo and Gargiullo, 1978, Luque, 1984, Riedl, 1986, Poppe and Goto, 1991, 1993, Mexía, 2000) and continental ones (Macan, 1969, Gasull, 1971, MUNIBE Suplemento - Gehigarria 31, 2010 S.C. <strong>Aranzadi</strong>. Z.E. Donostia/San Sebastián
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