El conjunto industrial achelense del embalse de Urrúnaga (Álava)

  1. Sáenz de Buruaga Blázquez, Andoni
  2. Urigoitia Ajuria, Tomás
  3. Fernández Eraso, Javier
Journal:
Zephyrus: Revista de prehistoria y arqueología

ISSN: 0514-7336

Year of publication: 1988

Issue: 41-42

Pages: 27-54

Type: Article

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Abstract

From 1985 till now (1990), a great number of stone materials (choppers, chopping-tools, nuclei centripetal and Levallois bifacial stones and other flake) have been gathered around certain places on the banks of the Urrunaga reservoir (Alava-Spain). The predominant raw materials �with the excepción of a bifacial flint� are mineralized limestone, very rich in ferric elements. Even if the lack of stratigraphic registers highly conditions its assessment or valuation as a whole, the analysis of the morphotechnical artefacts, would define it, culturally, in the context of the late Lower Palaeolithic (Upper Acheulean).