(2010) Occupation, fuctionality and culture. Preliminary results from microliths technoogy and use-wear analysis of Cabeço da Amoreira (Muge, Portugal) (original) (raw)

Abstract

The Mesolithic in Portuguese territory has been, since the beginning of Archaeology in Portugal, very importance. By the late nineteenth century the first excavations took place and since then studies in various disciplines have focused their interest in the Mesolithic shell middens in Portuguese territory. The Cabeço da Amoreira is one of the best known shell middens with almost 150 years of research. Data from a recent multidisciplinary project, initiated in 2008, seemed to have uncovered the presence of an epipaleolithic level below the Mesolithic occupatio n and a Neolithic at the close by locus, suggesting a possible technological, cultural and genetic carry-over. The present work, although preliminary, based on technological lithic analysis, as well as a functional and stylistic approach, will try to understand patterns of occupation and exploitation of the territory during the devolpment of the Muge Mesolithic community.

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