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T1 “Mucientes Chert” in the Northern Iberian Plateau (Spain)
A1 Fuertes Prieto, María Natividad
A1 Neira Campos, Ana Isabel
A1 Fernández Martínez, Esperanza
A1 Gómez Fernández, Fernando
A1 Alonso Herrero, Eduardo
A2 Prehistoria
K1 Prehistoria
K1 Chert
K1 Iberian North Plateau
K1 Duero Basin
K1 Raw Materials
K1 5504.05 Prehistoria
AB [EN] The so-called “Mucientes chert" is a variety that appears in the central area of the Iberian North Plateau, in the Duero Basin. It is widely known in the geological and archaeological literature and its use for knapping was especially important in Prehistory. From a macroscopic point of view it is a nodular chert, with white and very porous cortex, and brown to blackish or beige colour in the inner part.In this work we carried out a more accurate petrographic, mineralogical and chemical characterization of this lithology using SEM, XRD and XRF techniques in samples coming from “Las Canteras” (Mucientes village), a chert outcrop of the “Cuestas” Unit (Vallesian-Aragonian, Miocene Age). Also, we have made a review of its geological occurrence and archaeological distribution areas. It is intended to sketch the delimitation of the geographical area of occurrence taking into account the geological and archaeological references.
PB School of History, Classics and Archaeology. University of Edinburgh
SN 2055-0472
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/20596
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/20596
NO Fuertes-Prieto, M. N., Neira-Campos, A., Fernández-Martínez, E., Gómez-Fernández, F., & Alonso-Herrero, E. (2014). “Mucientes Chert” in the Northern Iberian Plateau (Spain). Journal of Lithic Studies, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.2218/JLS.V1I1.785
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 27-jun-2024