Introducción al estudio de las minas neolíticas de sílex de la Sierra de Araico (Condado de Teviño)campaña de excavación del 2011
- Tarriño Vinagre, Antonio
- Lobo, P.J.
- García Rojas, Maite
- Elorrieta Baigorri, Irantzu
- Orue Sola, Izaskun
- Benito Calvo, Alfonso
- Karampaglidis, Theodoros
ISSN: 0425-3507
Year of publication: 2011
Issue: 27
Type: Article
More publications in: Estudios de Arqueología Alavesa
Abstract
The south-Pyrenean tertiary synclinal of Miranda-Treviño has whitish lacustrine-palustrine carbonates where silicifications appear. The layers surface with a soft homoclinal layout towards the NW. Its mountainsides present slighter slopes towards the NW as well. This geomorphologic disposition causes the silicificated stratums which present not very consolidated surrounding rocks to be easily extracted. Occasionally the mining works appear associated to dumps where the detritus have been accumulating. Various archaeological prospections in the 50�s detected several lithic remains, hundreds of hammers and dozens of sledgehammers in ophite, etc. Recent investigations indicate that the circulation of Treviño�s flints during the Prehistory arrived to many archaeological sites, both of the Holocene and Pleistocene, located hundreds of kilometers away. The recent archaeological actuation confirms the existence of a Neolithic dump with a chronology between 6,000-5,600 BP (uncal.), where lots of lithic remains associated to the extraction and first shaping of flint were collected, as well as mining tools. All this makes the site one of the few prehistoric flint mines identified in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe.