Abstract

Presentamos una revisión de conjunto e interpretativa de las evidencias recuperadas en la mina de sílex de Casa Montero (Madrid, España). Describimos los aspectos técnicos y sociales de la minería del sílex en el contexto histórico específico de las sociedades del Neolítico Antiguo de la Península Ibérica. La combinación de todas las evidencias recuperadas nos permite sugerir que la minería en Casa Montero fue probablemente un fenómeno generacional, donde los actos de agregación de pequeños grupos para el desarrollo de acciones colectivas sirvieron de base para establecer nuevas relaciones políticas más allá de cada grupo individual. Para ello se requirieron un conjunto de precondiciones estratégicas, tácticas y logísticas, incluyendo la habilidad y capacidad para convocar, diseñar y organizar un conjunto ordenado de acciones como las que se desarrollaron en la propia mina. Proponemos que estas precondiciones sociales son clave para ir más allá de la variabilidad formal y técnica de las minas.

Highlights

  • We present a comprehensive and interpretative overview of the evidence recovered at the mining field of Casa Montero (Madrid, Spain)

  • The Casa Montero flint mine is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, in the southern Meseta, a geographical unit divided from the northern Meseta by the central cordillera

  • CONCLUDING REMARKS The different mining actions between the first and last events at Casa Montero may have possibly been the result of a few generations of early Neolithic aggregations (Fig. 15)

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Summary

WHERE AND WHY

The Casa Montero flint mine is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, in the southern Meseta, a geographical unit divided from the northern Meseta by the central cordillera. Miners did extract flint by expanding horizontally throughout the perimeter of the shaft This is the case in sampling unit D4, with two different sets of extensive lateral excavations that configure a real — narrow— system of galleries and chambers at different depths (Fig. 7). The mining process appears to have been substantially uniform throughout the Early Neolithic, there were obvious different technical choices that would have been selected depending on circumstances such as variation of flint demand or the size and capabilities of each set of miners Procedures for both the extraction and the required quantity of mined flint seem to have social as well as technical motivations

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