During the month of July 2019, the last excavation campaign was carried out in the Els Trocs cave, in the Aragonese Alta Ribagorza. It is the right time to make an overall assessment of the ten years of archaeological interventions in a site that has yielded spectacular scientific results that are being studied by a large multidisciplinary and international team.
Both its location next to the axial Pyrenees and at a junction of communications and traditional paths possibly used since the Neolithic period, and the enormous archaeological evidence recovered in its archaeological levels make Els Trocs a reference site for studying the early Neolithisation of mountain areas. Through the different archaeological, genetic, faunal, isotopic and palaeoenvironmental studies, etc., we will try to get to know a human group that in very early dates (last third of the 6th millennium BC) carried out a seasonal exploitation of the environment and used the cave to carry out certain ritual and subsistence activities. The knowledge and/or conquest of the territory must not have been an easy task, since among the human remains recovered inside the cave we find evidence of unusual violence. Nevertheless, in the last campaign, and in a very special place in the cave, we found the only structured tomb in the whole complex; a child’s tomb which we will present as a preview in this talk.
Collection: Multimedia
Project: 0. What is Europe? The European Spaces in the history of Europe.
Chronology: -
Scope: Secondary Education
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwLoiZjxWZ8
Resource type: Video
Format: Multimedia
Owner: Arqueological National Museum of Spain (MAN) (Modernalia)
Abstract: During the month of July 2019, the last excavation campaign was carried out in the Els Trocs cave, in the Aragonese Alta Ribagorza. It is the right time to make an overall assessment of the ten years of archaeological interventions in a site that has yielded spectacular scientific results that are being studied by a large multidisciplinary and international team. Both its location next to the axial Pyrenees and at a junction of communications and traditional paths possibly used since the Neolithic period, and the enormous archaeological evidence recovered in its archaeological levels make Els Trocs a reference site for studying the early Neolithisation of mountain areas. Through the different archaeological, genetic, faunal, isotopic and palaeoenvironmental studies, etc., we will try to get to know a human group that in very early dates (last third of the 6th millennium BC) carried out a seasonal exploitation of the environment and used the cave to carry out certain ritual and subsistence activities. The knowledge and/or conquest of the territory must not have been an easy task, since among the human remains recovered inside the cave we find evidence of unusual violence. Nevertheless, in the last campaign, and in a very special place in the cave, we found the only structured tomb in the whole complex; a child's tomb which we will present as a preview in this talk.
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