Papers by Rafael Laborda Lorente
Acta Numismàtica núm. 53, pp. 57-64, 2023
Se da a conocer el hallazgo de una moneda romana en el interior de una tumba islámica en la maqba... more Se da a conocer el hallazgo de una moneda romana en el interior de una tumba islámica en la maqbara (necrópolis) de Tauste (Zaragoza). Dicha pieza se trata de un as del emperador Tiberio, acuñado en Caesaraugusta durante la primera mitad del siglo I d.C. Su localización en un enterramiento islámico se debe a que fue preservada dentro de los adobes que conformaban la cubierta/ relleno de la tumba.
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The Upper Arba de Biel constitutes a small valley in northeastern Spain where a detailed study of... more The Upper Arba de Biel constitutes a small valley in northeastern Spain where a detailed study of five archaeological sites (Pe~ na-14, Legunova/Rambla, Valcervera and Paco-Pons) has been performed, defining the recurrent prehistoric occupation from the Late Magdalenian until the Chalcolithic. The aim of this study focuses on exploring the main drivers of long-term human persistence on a particular humid shelter located in the Pre-Pyrenean area. The combination of a multiproxy dataset evidenced by the detailed synthesis of lithic tools and pottery, faunal remains, pollen and charcoal assemblages has been integrated with a GIS approach and a regional cultural and palaeoenvironmental contextualization. After an occupation gap that coincides with the second half of the Younger Dryas and the first Holocene millennia synchronous to other archaeological records found in NE Iberia, the Arba de Biel valley was recurrently visited by small hunteregatherer groups along the Mesolithic and by herders during the Neolithic. These people profited this territory, independently of environmental changes, because the easy access to a wide spectre of economic resources (flint nodules, diverse vegetation supplies, varied preys, etc.,) in a heterogeneous mosaic-type landscape. The valley main habitation spots (Pe~ na-14, Legunova/Rambla and Valcervera) could have been occupied at the same time by small groups that did not interfere each other. The use of the fifth rockshelter (Paco-Pons) seems to be related to the exploitation of copper mineral outcrops in the Neolithic and for metallurgical activities during the Chalcolithic. These last prehistoric visits to the valley reflect a notable shift in the human employment of the shelters: they cease to be living points to be used as funerary deposits.
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Se presentan los resultados de la campaña de prospección intensiva realizada durante el 2015 en l... more Se presentan los resultados de la campaña de prospección intensiva realizada durante el 2015 en la Sima del Ciervo II (también
conocida como Cueva Salaber o Gabasa 2), situada en el término de Peralta de Calasanz, Huesca.
Las Cuevas de los Moros se sitúan en un farallón calizo localizado a menos de un kilómetro al norte de Gabasa y son de sobra
conocidas gracias a los trabajos realizados desde los años ochenta por la Universidad de Zaragoza. El conjunto lo forman cinco
cuevas pertenecientes a la misma formación kárstica, cuyas bocas se abren a diferentes alturas en el frente del farallón. La sima
del Ciervo II en concreto, presenta un desarrollo básicamente vertical lo cual ha impedido la investigación pormenorizada
hasta la fecha, siendo necesario equipo y conocimientos de espeleología. En esta campaña se han visitado todos los tramos
y repisas susceptibles de albergar materiales. Se han hallado numerosos restos que muestran un uso reiterado de la cavidad
durante el Neolítico Antiguo y la Edad del Bronce, tanto en su posición primaria como revueltos y caídos desde salas superiores.
Además se han constatado visitas a la sima durante los siglos IV-VI d.C. como denuncian unos pocos fragmentos de cerámica
gris estampillada y una pequeña lámina de bronce con remaches. Esto añade un caso más que demuestra el uso recurrente de
simas y cuevas difícilmente accesibles como depósitos durante los momentos más convulsos de la Antigüedad Tardía.
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I CAPA. ACTAS DEL I CONGRESO DE ARQUEOLOGÍA Y PATRIMONIO ARAGONÉS, 2016
This paper reports the main results of the first archaeological excavation campaign in the Cueva ... more This paper reports the main results of the first archaeological excavation campaign in the Cueva del Búho (Ibdes, Zaragoza). It is a well-oriented cave with good habitability conditions, despite its difficult access due to its hanged position in a 50 mts. high calcareous escarpment. From this height, the cave dominates the gorges of the lower Mesa River, which are nowadays flooded by the Tranquera reservoir. This inaccessibility could have contribute to the a good preservation of its archaeological remains. Surface remains and digging results have given an interesting artefact collection that reveals this cave as an intense dwelling
site, during the Bronze Age. In this respect, the position of the cave in the basin of the Jalon River places this archaeological site in the centre of an area where different cultural influences were operating in that time. Bronze Age cultures from the Castilian Meseta are present in some archaeological sites in the western Iberian Ranges, while Bronze Age cultures from the eastern ones reached the central Ebro Basin. In addition to this, the presence of archaeological remains from different chronologies gives evidence of the use of this cave during the Late Roman Empire, and the Middle Ages up to recent times, although the shortage of modern remains suggests a less intense use of this cave than in the Bronze Age.
KEYWORDS: Bronze Age; Roman; Middle Ages; Iberian Ranges; Cave.
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Presentamos a continuación un avance de los resultados más importantes obtenidos tras las últimas... more Presentamos a continuación un avance de los resultados más importantes obtenidos tras las últimas campañas de excavación y estudio del abrigo de El Esplugón (Billobas-Sabiñánigo, Huesca). Este yacimiento destaca por su posición geoestratégica, su buen estado de conservación y su riqueza arqueológica, con varios niveles mesolíticos geométricos y neolíticos. A pesar de que solo hemos intervenido en algunos cuadros podemos decir que estamos ante uno de los referentes de este periodo crono- cultural para comprender el proceso de neolitización en el Valle del Ebro.
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The Upper Arba de Biel constitutes a small valley in north-eastern Spain where a detailed study o... more The Upper Arba de Biel constitutes a small valley in north-eastern Spain where a detailed study of five archaeological sites (Pen~a-14, Legunova/Rambla, Valcervera and Paco-Pons) has been performed, defining the recurrent prehistoric occupation from the Late Magdalenian until the Chalcolithic. The aim of this study focuses on exploring the main drivers of long-term human persistence on a particular humid shelter located in the Pre-Pyrenean area. The combination of a multiproxy dataset evidenced by the detailed synthesis of lithic tools and pottery, faunal remains, pollen and charcoal assemblages has been integrated with a GIS approach and a regional cultural and palaeoenvironmental contextualization. After an occupation gap that coincides with the second half of the Younger Dryas and the first Holocene millennia synchronous to other archaeological records found in NE Iberia, the Arba de Biel valley was recurrently visited by small hunteregatherer groups along the Mesolithic and by herders during the Neolithic.
These people profited this territory, independently of environmental changes, because the easy access to a wide spectre of economic resources (flint nodules, diverse vegetation supplies, varied preys, etc.,) in a heterogeneous mosaic-type landscape. The valley main habitation spots (Pen~a-14, Legunova/Rambla and Valcervera) could have been occupied at the same time by small groups that did not interfere each other. The use of the fifth rockshelter (Paco-Pons) seems to be related to the exploitation of copper mineral outcrops in the Neolithic and for metallurgical activities during the Chalcolithic. These last prehistoric visits to the valley reflect a notable shift in the human employment of the shelters: they cease to be living points to be used as funerary deposits.

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conocida como Cueva Salaber o Gabasa 2), situada en el término de Peralta de Calasanz, Huesca.
Las Cuevas de los Moros se sitúan en un farallón calizo localizado a menos de un kilómetro al norte de Gabasa y son de sobra
conocidas gracias a los trabajos realizados desde los años ochenta por la Universidad de Zaragoza. El conjunto lo forman cinco
cuevas pertenecientes a la misma formación kárstica, cuyas bocas se abren a diferentes alturas en el frente del farallón. La sima
del Ciervo II en concreto, presenta un desarrollo básicamente vertical lo cual ha impedido la investigación pormenorizada
hasta la fecha, siendo necesario equipo y conocimientos de espeleología. En esta campaña se han visitado todos los tramos
y repisas susceptibles de albergar materiales. Se han hallado numerosos restos que muestran un uso reiterado de la cavidad
durante el Neolítico Antiguo y la Edad del Bronce, tanto en su posición primaria como revueltos y caídos desde salas superiores.
Además se han constatado visitas a la sima durante los siglos IV-VI d.C. como denuncian unos pocos fragmentos de cerámica
gris estampillada y una pequeña lámina de bronce con remaches. Esto añade un caso más que demuestra el uso recurrente de
simas y cuevas difícilmente accesibles como depósitos durante los momentos más convulsos de la Antigüedad Tardía.
site, during the Bronze Age. In this respect, the position of the cave in the basin of the Jalon River places this archaeological site in the centre of an area where different cultural influences were operating in that time. Bronze Age cultures from the Castilian Meseta are present in some archaeological sites in the western Iberian Ranges, while Bronze Age cultures from the eastern ones reached the central Ebro Basin. In addition to this, the presence of archaeological remains from different chronologies gives evidence of the use of this cave during the Late Roman Empire, and the Middle Ages up to recent times, although the shortage of modern remains suggests a less intense use of this cave than in the Bronze Age.
KEYWORDS: Bronze Age; Roman; Middle Ages; Iberian Ranges; Cave.
These people profited this territory, independently of environmental changes, because the easy access to a wide spectre of economic resources (flint nodules, diverse vegetation supplies, varied preys, etc.,) in a heterogeneous mosaic-type landscape. The valley main habitation spots (Pen~a-14, Legunova/Rambla and Valcervera) could have been occupied at the same time by small groups that did not interfere each other. The use of the fifth rockshelter (Paco-Pons) seems to be related to the exploitation of copper mineral outcrops in the Neolithic and for metallurgical activities during the Chalcolithic. These last prehistoric visits to the valley reflect a notable shift in the human employment of the shelters: they cease to be living points to be used as funerary deposits.

conocida como Cueva Salaber o Gabasa 2), situada en el término de Peralta de Calasanz, Huesca.
Las Cuevas de los Moros se sitúan en un farallón calizo localizado a menos de un kilómetro al norte de Gabasa y son de sobra
conocidas gracias a los trabajos realizados desde los años ochenta por la Universidad de Zaragoza. El conjunto lo forman cinco
cuevas pertenecientes a la misma formación kárstica, cuyas bocas se abren a diferentes alturas en el frente del farallón. La sima
del Ciervo II en concreto, presenta un desarrollo básicamente vertical lo cual ha impedido la investigación pormenorizada
hasta la fecha, siendo necesario equipo y conocimientos de espeleología. En esta campaña se han visitado todos los tramos
y repisas susceptibles de albergar materiales. Se han hallado numerosos restos que muestran un uso reiterado de la cavidad
durante el Neolítico Antiguo y la Edad del Bronce, tanto en su posición primaria como revueltos y caídos desde salas superiores.
Además se han constatado visitas a la sima durante los siglos IV-VI d.C. como denuncian unos pocos fragmentos de cerámica
gris estampillada y una pequeña lámina de bronce con remaches. Esto añade un caso más que demuestra el uso recurrente de
simas y cuevas difícilmente accesibles como depósitos durante los momentos más convulsos de la Antigüedad Tardía.
site, during the Bronze Age. In this respect, the position of the cave in the basin of the Jalon River places this archaeological site in the centre of an area where different cultural influences were operating in that time. Bronze Age cultures from the Castilian Meseta are present in some archaeological sites in the western Iberian Ranges, while Bronze Age cultures from the eastern ones reached the central Ebro Basin. In addition to this, the presence of archaeological remains from different chronologies gives evidence of the use of this cave during the Late Roman Empire, and the Middle Ages up to recent times, although the shortage of modern remains suggests a less intense use of this cave than in the Bronze Age.
KEYWORDS: Bronze Age; Roman; Middle Ages; Iberian Ranges; Cave.
These people profited this territory, independently of environmental changes, because the easy access to a wide spectre of economic resources (flint nodules, diverse vegetation supplies, varied preys, etc.,) in a heterogeneous mosaic-type landscape. The valley main habitation spots (Pen~a-14, Legunova/Rambla and Valcervera) could have been occupied at the same time by small groups that did not interfere each other. The use of the fifth rockshelter (Paco-Pons) seems to be related to the exploitation of copper mineral outcrops in the Neolithic and for metallurgical activities during the Chalcolithic. These last prehistoric visits to the valley reflect a notable shift in the human employment of the shelters: they cease to be living points to be used as funerary deposits.