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1 online resource |
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Preamble : la Cueva del Mirón : a grand cave site in the Cantabrian cordillera of northern Spain / Lawrence Guy Straus -- The excavation of El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus -- The Río Asón drainage in eastern Cantabria / Lawrence Guy Straus -- El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus -- Stratigraphy of El Mirón Cave (1996-2007) / Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales -- Sedimentology of El Mirón Cave / William R. Farrand -- El Mirón Cave radiocarbon dates / Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales -- Preliminary archaeomagnetic and rock-magnetic results from the Holocene fire lenses in El Mirón Cave / Ángel Carrancho and Juan José Villalaín -- The vegetational contexts of El Mirón Cave throughout the early to middle Holocene : contributions from the palynological study / María José Iriarte Chiapusso -- Analysis of phytoliths from Holocene levels of El Mirón Cave / Débora Zurro -- Neolithic, chalcolithic, and Bronze Age plant remains from El Mirón Cave : evidence on the first farming communities in the Cantabrian region / Leonor Peña-Chocarro |
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Holocene wood charcoal from El Mirón Cave : vegetation and wood use / Lydia Zapata -- Holocene biostratigraphy and climatic change in Cantabria : the micromammalian faunas of El Mirón Cave / Gloria Cuenca Bescós and Juan Carlos García Pimienta -- Bird remains from the post-Azilian levels of El Mirón Cave / Mikelo Elorza -- The Holocene herpetofauna of El Mirón Cave / Borja Sanchiz, Jorge M. Lobo, and Salvador Bailon -- Taphonomic study of the large and medium mammals from the post-Paleolithic occupations in El Mirón Cave / Manuel Pérez Ripoll and María Dolores López Gila -- Macromammalian remains from the Holocene levels of El Mirón cave / Jesús Altuna and Koro Mariezkurrena -- Descriptions of the post-paleolithic pit and hearth features of El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales -- The post-Paleolithic stone industries of El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus, Manuel R. González Morales, and John D. Rissetto -- The ceramics of El Mirón Cave : production, morphology, and discard / Cristina Vega Maeso -- Conclusions : preliminary overview and focus on the post-Paleolithic occupations of El Mirón Cave / Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales |
| Summary |
Archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians will be drawn to this study of El Mirón Cave and its extensive findings, dated by some seventy-five radiocarbon assays |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Neolithic period -- Spain -- Cantabria
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Mesolithic period -- Spain -- Cantabria
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Spain -- Cantabria
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Geology, Stratigraphic -- Holocene.
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Paleobotany -- Holocene.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Geology, Stratigraphic
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Holocene Geologic Period
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Mesolithic period
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Neolithic period
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Paleobotany
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Mirón Cave (Spain) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011005192
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Cantabria (Spain) -- Antiquities
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Spain -- Cantabria
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Spain -- Mirón Cave
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Straus, Lawrence Guy
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González Morales, Manuel R
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| LC no. |
2011043902 |
| ISBN |
9780826351500 |
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0826351506 |
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6613949078 |
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9786613949073 |
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1283636611 |
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9781283636612 |
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