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- Title
Nuevas referencias cronométricas para el yacimiento de Buenavista (Teguise, Lanzarote): contrastando la fiabilidad del método de datación <sup>14</sup>C a través de análisis de fitolitos, coprolitos y osteológicos.
- Authors
ATOCHE PEÑA, PABLO; CUELLO DEL POZO, PALOMA; TALAVERA DÁVILA, FANY C.; RAMÍREZ RODRÍGUEZ, MARIA ÁNGELES; MARTÍN RODRÍGUEZ, ALBERTO J.; MÉNDEZ GUERRA, PEDRO F.; AFONSO VARGAS, JOSÉ A.; BUENO GARCÍA, ANTONIO
- Abstract
We focus our attention on one of the most debated questions of the Canary Protohistory of the Canary Island: The chronology of archaeological events and the reliability of 14C as a procedure for accessing this knowledge. The archaeological work we have been carrying out at the Buenavista site (Lanzarote) has provided a huge amount of data which, analysed in an interdisciplinary manner, contributing with an appropriate archaeological context in which to verify the validity of the use we have been making of 14C dating, a procedure which has provided us with a wide series of dates associated with indigenous material groups integrated into stratigraphic sequences which also incorporate objects imported from Mediterranean Punic and Roman culture spheres of undoubted diagnostic value. These aspects constitute solid bases on which to try to contrast the reliability of the available chronologies in different ways and to add historical meaning to the indigenous archaeological contexts, for which we have started with the chronometric analysis of four samples of different types collected at the same level of occupation, which in turn would be subject to other analytical procedures focused on those components that could show the existence of alteration in the radiometric results (phytoliths, palaeopollens in coprolites, archaeozoology...). The deductions reached let us propose some positive conclusions about the 14C analyses and call into question the tendency to assign a short/long lived label to a sample without a proper understanding of the contextual circumstances surrounding its deposition and subsequent recovery.
- Subjects
CANARY Islands; ARCHAEOLOGICAL chronology; SEQUENCE stratigraphy; COPROLITES; PHYTOLITHS; CANARIES
- Publication
Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueologia, 2023, Vol 49, Issue 2, p131
- ISSN
0211-1608
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15366/cupauam2023.49.2.005