Papers by Eduardo Vijande
ABSTRACT From so-called Social Archaeology boarded an analysis of the exploitation of marine reso... more ABSTRACT From so-called Social Archaeology boarded an analysis of the exploitation of marine resources for hunter-gatherer-shellfish and tribal community mode social formations in the historic region of the Gibraltar Strait. His analysis brings us closer to the lifestyles and ways of working of the societies from the Medium Pleistocene to the Early Holocene of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. Advances in recent year’s research are showing archaeo-malacological results of great interest in this area, demonstrating the importance of fishing and shelling such as activities of great importance in the alimentary sustenance from societies linked to a technology of Mode III- Mousterian, to tribal groups, when real lifestyles of fishing and shellfish are defining.
ABSTRACT Abstract: We expose our theoretical position from the Social Archaeology of the Neolithi... more ABSTRACT Abstract: We expose our theoretical position from the Social Archaeology of the Neolithic tribal community and early classist societies of the Recent Prehistory. The geological features of the Cadiz area are described, noticing the absence of lithic materials capable of producing this type of blades in an extensive way. This affects the necessity of possessing blades of an allochthonous origin. These blades must be placed in circulation processes in the tribal societies scope (V-IV millenniums B.C.) and of redistribution from nuclear centres in the early classist societies sphere (the III and IInd millenniums B.C.)
by Joaquin Rodriguez-Vidal, José Ramos Muñoz, Eduardo Vijande-Vila, Antonio Barrena-Tocino, Salvador Domínguez-Bella, Sergio Almisas Cruz, Joaquín Vidal, Paloma Uzquiano Ollero, Ignacio Clemente Conte, Jesús Toledo, and Eduardo Vijande
Setúbal Arqueológica 86: 85-112, 2013
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We expose in this paper a synthesis of the current knowledge of the Neolithic tribal so... more Abstract
We expose in this paper a synthesis of the current knowledge of the Neolithic tribal societies
on the Atlantic Coast of Cadiz province, SW Spain. We present their situation in the historical region
of the Strait of Gibraltar and provide the corresponding data to the exploitation of marine resources in
the Holocene, as fundamental basis of the ways of life. We hypothesize that the exploitation of salt was
important for food consumption and for product distribution processes. Salt could have been exploited
from the sea and from sources located within Triassic, Keuper materials. Moreover, it could have been
considered a valuable product among the exotic materials which entered in distribution networks -
variscite, quartz, sillimanite, talc, amber ...- and which were controlled by the social elite.
Quaternary International 239: 127-136. Doi: 10.1016/jj.quaint.2010.12.029, 2011
Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 2210-2218. Doi: 10.10.1016/jquascirev.2008.030, 2008
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The rockshelter of Benzu´ has a Middle–Upper Pleistocene stratigraphic sequence ... more a b s t r a c t
The rockshelter of Benzu´ has a Middle–Upper Pleistocene stratigraphic sequence with ten levels, seven
with evidence of human occupation. Speleothems have been dated by U/Th and the sedimentary levels
by OSL and TL, showing that the sequence extends from 250 ka to 70 ka. In this paper, we summarise the
results of geomorphology, chronostratigraphy and excavation, and provide preliminary results on the
pollen, faunal and lithic remains. The location of the site on the North African coast of the Strait of
Gibraltar offers the potential to throw light on contacts and relationships between prehistoric communities
in North Africa and the South Iberian Peninsula, for whom the Strait may have served as a bridge
rather than a barrier
Book chapters by Eduardo Vijande
Ramos, J., Weniger, G.-C., Cantalejo, P., Espejo, M.M. (Coords.): Cueva de Ardales 2011-2014. Intervenciones arqueológicas: 119-146. Ediciones Pinsapar. Málaga, 2014
Ramos, J., Weniger, G.-C., Cantalejo, P., Espejo, M.M. (Coords.): Cueva de Ardales 2011-2014. Intervenciones arqueológicas: 155-199. Ediciones Pinsapar. Málaga, 2014
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Papers by Eduardo Vijande
We expose in this paper a synthesis of the current knowledge of the Neolithic tribal societies
on the Atlantic Coast of Cadiz province, SW Spain. We present their situation in the historical region
of the Strait of Gibraltar and provide the corresponding data to the exploitation of marine resources in
the Holocene, as fundamental basis of the ways of life. We hypothesize that the exploitation of salt was
important for food consumption and for product distribution processes. Salt could have been exploited
from the sea and from sources located within Triassic, Keuper materials. Moreover, it could have been
considered a valuable product among the exotic materials which entered in distribution networks -
variscite, quartz, sillimanite, talc, amber ...- and which were controlled by the social elite.
The rockshelter of Benzu´ has a Middle–Upper Pleistocene stratigraphic sequence with ten levels, seven
with evidence of human occupation. Speleothems have been dated by U/Th and the sedimentary levels
by OSL and TL, showing that the sequence extends from 250 ka to 70 ka. In this paper, we summarise the
results of geomorphology, chronostratigraphy and excavation, and provide preliminary results on the
pollen, faunal and lithic remains. The location of the site on the North African coast of the Strait of
Gibraltar offers the potential to throw light on contacts and relationships between prehistoric communities
in North Africa and the South Iberian Peninsula, for whom the Strait may have served as a bridge
rather than a barrier
Book chapters by Eduardo Vijande
We expose in this paper a synthesis of the current knowledge of the Neolithic tribal societies
on the Atlantic Coast of Cadiz province, SW Spain. We present their situation in the historical region
of the Strait of Gibraltar and provide the corresponding data to the exploitation of marine resources in
the Holocene, as fundamental basis of the ways of life. We hypothesize that the exploitation of salt was
important for food consumption and for product distribution processes. Salt could have been exploited
from the sea and from sources located within Triassic, Keuper materials. Moreover, it could have been
considered a valuable product among the exotic materials which entered in distribution networks -
variscite, quartz, sillimanite, talc, amber ...- and which were controlled by the social elite.
The rockshelter of Benzu´ has a Middle–Upper Pleistocene stratigraphic sequence with ten levels, seven
with evidence of human occupation. Speleothems have been dated by U/Th and the sedimentary levels
by OSL and TL, showing that the sequence extends from 250 ka to 70 ka. In this paper, we summarise the
results of geomorphology, chronostratigraphy and excavation, and provide preliminary results on the
pollen, faunal and lithic remains. The location of the site on the North African coast of the Strait of
Gibraltar offers the potential to throw light on contacts and relationships between prehistoric communities
in North Africa and the South Iberian Peninsula, for whom the Strait may have served as a bridge
rather than a barrier