RT journal article
T1 Excavating in breccia: new methods
developed at the Benzú rockshelter
A1 Domínguez Bella, Salvador
A1 Ramos Muñoz, José Francisco
A1 Bernal Casasola, Darío
A1 Vijande Vila, Eduardo
A1 Cantillo Duarte, Juan Jesús
A1 Cabral, Antonio
A1 Manuela, Pérez
A1 Barrena Tocino, Antonio
A2 HistoriaGeografía y Filosofía
K1 North Africa
K1 Ceuta
K1 Benzú rockshelter
K1 Palaeolithic
K1 excavation method
K1 breccia
AB Excavators examining breccia deposits arefaced with the prospect of extracting findsfrom a material akin to concrete. Neverthelesssuch deposits are sometimes the only witness ofearly Palaeolithic occupation. Our inventiveauthors put aside the hammers, acids andexplosives of earlier days, and used quarrytechniques to cut the breccia into smallblocks, which they then freed from their findsin the laboratory, using tools developed inpalaeontology. As a result, they gathered a hugeharvest of stone tools, bones and shells. It allgoes to show that archaeological excavationis an exercise of infinite variety: to everyproblem, its solution; to every terrain, itsmethod.
PB Antiquity Publications
SN 0003-598X
YR 2012
FD 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/17299
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/17299
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 08-nov-2026