Papers by Lidia Cabello Ligero
Takurunna, 2021
Homenaje y reconocimiento al amigo y compañero Pedro Cantalejo Duarte con motivo de su jubilación... more Homenaje y reconocimiento al amigo y compañero Pedro Cantalejo Duarte con motivo de su jubilación. Reflexiones sobre investigación de base, gestión, conservación y socialización del Patrimonio Histórico.
Human populations underwent range contractions during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) which had la... more Human populations underwent range contractions during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) which had lasting and dramatic effects on their genetic variation. The genetic ancestry of individuals associated with the post-LGM Magdalenian technocomplex has been interpreted as being derived from groups associated with the pre-LGM Aurignacian. However, both these ancestries differ from that of central European individuals associated with the chronologically intermediate Gravettian. Thus, the genomic transition from pre-to post-LGM remains unclear also in western Europe, where we lack genomic data associated with the intermediate Solutrean, which spans the height of the LGM. Here we present genome-wide data from sites in Andalusia in southern Spain, including from a Solutrean-associated individual from Cueva del Malalmuerzo, directly dated to ~23,000 cal yr bp. The Malalmuerzo individual carried genetic ancestry that directly connects earlier Aurignacian-associated individuals with post-LGM Magdalenian-associated ancestry in western Europe. This scenario differs from Italy, where individuals associated with the transition from preand post-LGM carry different genetic ancestries. This suggests different dynamics in the proposed southern refugia of Ice Age Europe and posits Iberia as a potential refugium for western European pre-LGM ancestry. More, individuals from Cueva Ardales, which were thought to be of Palaeolithic origin, date younger than expected and, together with individuals from the Andalusian sites Caserones and Aguilillas, fall within the genetic variation of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age individuals from southern Iberia. The peopling of Europe was marked by human population expansions and contractions associated with major climatic events. Numerous studies indicate a dramatic population contraction in Palaeolithic Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, ~26.6-19 cal kyr bp (refs. 1-4)). Human presence in the archaeological record is documented predominantly by artifacts, mainly stone tools assigned to so-called technocomplexes, rather than by skeletal remains, which are rare in the Palaeolithic record. With the onset of the LGM, a population decline is observed in central Europe and human populations associated with the Gravettian technologies (33-25 cal kyr bp) retreated to southern latitudes, to regions in today's Italy and central/southeastern Europe 1. In southwestern Europe, a singular Upper Palaeolithic (UP) technocomplex, the Solutrean, emerged in regions of today's southern France and Iberia by ~24-19 cal kyr bp (refs. 5-7), which coincides in time with the intensive
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The Mediterranean coast of Spain is marked by several clusters of Palaeolithic sites: to the sout... more The Mediterranean coast of Spain is marked by several clusters of Palaeolithic sites: to the south of the Pyrenees, in the area around the Ebro River, in the central part, and on the south coast, one of the southernmost regions in Europe. The number of sites is small compared with northern Iberia, but like that region, the Palaeolithic occupations are accompanied by several rock art ensembles. The archaeological material (both biotic and abiotic resources) and radiocarbon dates presented here were obtained during archaeological fieldwork of professor J. Fortea in the Late Pleistocene deposits in Cueva Victoria, located near the modern coastline and about 150 km north of the Strait of Gibraltar. In the three occupation phases, marine resources were acquired by shell-fishing (focusing almost exclusively on the clam Ruditapes decussatus), fishing, and the use of beached marine mammals. This contrasts with the limited data about the exploitation of terrestrial resources by hunting and gathering animals and plants. The study is completed by the study of artefacts (lithic and bone industry and objects of adornment) that help to understand the subsistence strategies of the cave occupants and enable a comparison with other groups inhabiting the Mediterranean coasts of the Iberian Peninsula during Greenland Interstadial 1, between ca. 15.1 and 13.6 cal BP.
Jornadas de Arqueología y Geología: Alcaucín (Málaga) 2021, 2021, ISBN 978-84-09-31570-3, págs. 27-38, 2021
It presents an update about the human occupations of the prehistoric societies in the geographica... more It presents an update about the human occupations of the prehistoric societies in the geographical zone in Betica western mountain ranges in the province of Cadiz. It analyzes the natural environment and the potential resources used. A brief summary of the History of research is presented. It indicates the documentary bases that are available to organize the study of neolithic community tribal societies in a regional context and ideas of the political centralization that lead the early class societies of the late Prehistory in this territory are given.
An international interdisciplinary team is carrying out new research in Cueva de Ardales (Ardales... more An international interdisciplinary team is carrying out new research in Cueva de Ardales (Ardales, Málaga) and Sima de las Palomas (Teba, Málaga), framed in a General Research Project authorized
by the Junta de Andalucía. We present here preliminary data of Neanderthal occupations and related Middle Palaeolithic technology from both cavities.
Quaternary International, 2011
Yacimiento paleolítico al aire libre en Montejaque (Málaga), con industrias líticas realizadas en... more Yacimiento paleolítico al aire libre en Montejaque (Málaga), con industrias líticas realizadas en areniscas mayoritariamente frente a cuarcitas, sílex o radiolaritas y cuyo estudio morfotécnico permite una atribución al Paleolítico medio.
En esta tesis doctoral recogemos de manera exhaustiva las evidencias arqueologicas del poblamient... more En esta tesis doctoral recogemos de manera exhaustiva las evidencias arqueologicas del poblamiento humano paleolitico en la comarca del rio Guadalteba (Malaga) durante el Pleistoceno. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es mostrar la relacion directa entre los yacimientos del Pleistoceno y las fuentes de materias primas, localizadas estas ultimas en las terrazas fluviales, en los afloramientos geologicos y en los propios yacimientos. Hemos llevado a cabo una revision de los yacimientos arqueologicos ya conocidos, asi como el estudio de los nuevos yacimientos localizados en el transcurso de nuestra investigacion. Podemos destacar la importancia del analisis del registro arqueologico de superficie, donde la prospeccion se convierte en la herramienta mas efectiva para detectar las localizaciones al aire libre, sobre todo para Paleolitico inferior y medio. En el trabajo que hemos realizado nos ha interesado especialmente el reconocimiento y la caracterizacion espacial y territorial, e...
espanolEl abundante conjunto grafico del tipo esquematico conservado en la provincia de Malaga, r... more espanolEl abundante conjunto grafico del tipo esquematico conservado en la provincia de Malaga, refleja diversos temas, tecnicas y soportes, pero tiene en comun la presencia de esquemas antropomorfos. Con esta tematica se pretenderia abordar, probablemente, el reflejo de unas sociedades dedicadas ya a la produccion. EnglishThe comprehensive set schematic graph of the type preserved in the province of Malaga, reflecting various themes, techniques and media, but have in common the presence of anthropomorphic patterns. With this theme would aim to address, probably a reflection of societies dedicated and production
Revista Atlántica-Mediterránea de Prehistoria y ArqueologÃa Social, 2015
New archaeological data on the upper Paleolithic site of cueva de Malalmuerzo (Moclín, Granada, Spain), 2020
The Malalmuerzo cave (Moclín, Granada, Spain) has been known since the 1980s for its archaeologic... more The Malalmuerzo cave (Moclín, Granada, Spain) has been known since the 1980s for its archaeological remains and rock art, dated to the Neolithic and the Solutrean periods respectively. However, following thirty years of neglect, our team carried out a brief archaeological intervention after looters destroyed parts of the sediment fill of the cave. The refreshing of disturbed surfaces and the examination of a small undisturbed profile produced many archaeological remains attributed to several Magdalenian levels. The levels partially covered the depiction of a red horse, which probably dates to the Solutrean period.
New archaeological data on the upper Paleolithic site of cueva de Malalmuerzo (Moclín, Granada, Spain), 2020
La Cueva de Malalmuerzo en Granada es conocida por su Arte rupestre Paleolítico. En 2006 un nuevo... more La Cueva de Malalmuerzo en Granada es conocida por su Arte rupestre Paleolítico. En 2006 un nuevo muestreo permitió añadir una nueva figura asociada a un paquete arqueológico fechado durante el Magdaleniense. El análisis de los restos vegetales aporta datos singulares sobre el ecosistema que rodeó a este importante yacimiento de Andalucía, España.
Excavations in Solutrean Levels of Ardales Cave.
Dos contribuciones al estudio del Paleolítico superior del sur de la Península Ibérica: el Solutr... more Dos contribuciones al estudio del Paleolítico superior del sur de la Península Ibérica: el Solutrense de la Cueva de Ardales (Málaga) y el Arte rupestre de la Cueva de Malalmuerzo (Granada).
Les Migrations entre Méditerranée et terre promise, 2019
El análisis geoarqueológico de los productos arqueológicos con respecto a la tecnología y a las m... more El análisis geoarqueológico de los productos arqueológicos con respecto a la tecnología y a las materias primas nos permite conocer las estrategiasde captación, distribución y consumo en el seno de estas sociedades. A través del conocimiento de los aspectos socioeconómicos de las formaciones sociales queocuparon el territorio del Círculo del Estrecho podemos abordar las posibles relaciones y contactos entre ambas orillas durante el Pleistoceno y el Holoceno
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Papers by Lidia Cabello Ligero
by the Junta de Andalucía. We present here preliminary data of Neanderthal occupations and related Middle Palaeolithic technology from both cavities.
by the Junta de Andalucía. We present here preliminary data of Neanderthal occupations and related Middle Palaeolithic technology from both cavities.
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los yacimientos arqueológicos con estratigrafía. Es bien conocida en la historiografía los pros y los
contras de este tipo de registro, sin embargo, desde principios de los años 80 se asiste a un cambio en
el que los estudios de localizaciones al aire libre adquieren una mayor valoración, sobre todo para los
grupos de cazadores-recolectores del Pleistoceno, que en su mayoría aparecen en superficie. El
estudio preliminar del depósito pleistocénico del Hundilón, en el valle del río Turón (Ardales, Málaga),
nos ha permitido constatar una ocupación humana muy antigua, vinculada a espacios fluviales, con
una industria lítica encuadrable en el Paleolítico medio.
Después de más de treinta años de olvido y abandono, en los años 2015/2016, ha sido objeto de una intervención arqueológica de urgencia, que ha permitido volver a protegerla y revisar los contenidos gráficos de la cavidad, incorporando al corpus ya conocido un motivo que representa la parte delantera de la figura de un équido en rojo. Las formas de este nuevo animal representado en Malalmuerzo, abunda en una clara antigüedad del repertorio gráfico Paleolítico conservado.