From the Mountain and the Sea: Provenance of the Stones of the Prehistoric La Pastora Tholos (Valencina de la Concepción, Seville, Spain)-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

From the Mountain and the Sea: Provenance of the Stones of the Prehistoric La Pastora Tholos (Valencina de la Concepción, Seville, Spain)

Published:2024-02-12 Issue:2 Volume:14 Page:194
ISSN:2075-163X
Container-title:Minerals
language:en
Short-container-title:Minerals

Author:

Cáceres Luis Miguel¹²^ORCID,Donaire Teodosio¹,Ramírez-Cruzado Samuel³,Vargas Juan Manuel⁴,Muñiz Fernando⁵,Martín Mónica⁶,Rodríguez-Vidal Joaquín¹²,Ruiz Francisco¹²^ORCID,Sanjuán Leonardo García³

Affiliation:

1. Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Huelva, Avda. Tres de Marzo, s/n, 21071 Huelva, Spain

2. Centro de Investigación en Patrimonio Histórico, Cultural y Natural (CIPHCN), Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Huelva, Avda. Tres de Marzo s/n, 21071 Huelva, Spain

3. Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad de Sevilla, C/Doña María de Padilla, 41004 Sevilla, Spain

4. Servicio de Arqueología, Ayuntamiento de Valencina de la Concepción, Plaza de España 9, 41907 Valencina de la Concepción, Seville, Spain

5. Departamento de Cristalografía, Mineralogía y Química Agrícola, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Sevilla, C/Prof. García González, s/n, 41012 Seville, Spain

6. Área de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad C.E.U. Cardenal Espínola CEU, 41930 Bormujos, Sevilla, Spain

Abstract

La Pastora tholos is the most complete and characteristic megalithic monument of the Valencina de la Concepción-Castilleja de Guzmán mega-site. This monument was built using three types of rock, each with different functions and coming from three different places: Paleozoic quartzarenite, granite, and Tertiary calcareous sandstone. A detailed petrological study of the rocks of the tholos and outcrops of similar rocks in the surroundings has been carried out, locating the possible source areas in areas at least 30 km to the N of the monument for the quartzarenite, 15 km for the granite, and 15 km to the S for the sandstone. Therefore, the community that built the monument has a high knowledge of the nature by, which allows them to locate these resources, and a sufficient social organization to exploit them and move them to the mega-site. In this sense, the layout of the outcrops suggests the possible use of boats or rafts to facilitate their displacement, or at least part of their movement.

Funder

University of Huelva

Andalusian Government

Research Center in Historical, Cultural, and Natural Heritage (CIPHCN) of the University of Huelva

Publisher

MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/14/2/194/pdf

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