We Will Be Known by the Tracks We Leave Behind: Exotic Lithic Raw Materials, Mobility and Social Networking Among the Côa Valley Foragers (Portugal)
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology xxx (2012) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Anthropological Archaeology journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jaa We will be known by the tracks we leave behind: Exotic lithic raw materials, mobility and social networking among the Côa Valley foragers (Portugal) a, a b c Thierry Aubry ⇑, Luís Luís , Javier Mangado Llach , Henrique Matias a Côa Parque, Fundação para a Salvaguarda e Valorização do Vale do Côa, Rua do Museu, 5150-610 Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal b Departament de Prehistòria, Història Antiga i Arqueologia, 1er pis, Despatx 1011SERP (Seminari d’Estudis i Recerques Prehistòriques), Fac. de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona, C/Montalegre 6-8, 08001 BCN, Spain c UNIARQ, Centro de Arqueologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa, Portugal article info abstract Article history: The aim of this study is to establish different socio-cultural models based on lithic raw material sourcing Received 23 January 2012 integrated with regional rock art distributions to infer social behaviours within the context of central Ibe- Revision received 19 May 2012 rian Upper Palaeolithic societies. Specifically, we focus on Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer mobility Available online xxxx and social interaction in the Côa Valley. This study relies on a knowledge of regional geology and field work to identify the sources of the lithic raw material found at Côa Valley Upper Palaeolithic sites. We Keywords: expose the context of use and discard of flint, which is naturally absent from the region, and other local Toolstone sources materials.
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