Labores de mantenimiento y uso identificadas en las agujas de la cueva de Las Caldas (Asturias, España)

Abstract

This research, a continuation of previous work on the manufacture of Palaeolithic needles in this site, studies a set of 57 needles that come from the Solutrean and Magdalenian levels of the Las Caldas Cave (Priorio, Oviedo, Spain). Technological analysis of the sample and the statistical evaluation carried out on the entire set allow us to establish trends in the different ways the needles were made and to note the changes in how this was done over a period of 8000 years. The experimental analysis and reconstruction of the manufacture work done on the Palaeolithic needles as well as the circumstances surrounding their use and maintenance can give us an idea of the daily life of the social groups of the Cantabrian Upper Palaeolithic that goes beyond the usual economic view.