Aportaciones de los estudios arqueozoológicos al conocimiento de las relaciones hombre-fauna durante la Prehistoria y la Historia Antigua en Andalucía

Abstract

The present work undertakes a brief survey of four important assemblages, one of them still under analysis, from the andalusian region. In the oldest of them all, corresponding to the Solutrean levels from Cueva de Nerja, the samples evidence the practice of a hunting strategy that aims at the spanish ibex, Capra pyrenaica, with secondary effort concentrating on the rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, being characteristic of other Upper Paleolithic mediterranean sites of Iberia. At both Ronda and Acinipo, on the other hand, the animal economy appears to have been based, since the Neolithic, on stockbreeding practices on cattle, ovicaprines and pig although their decrease since this period until late Bronce Age times, and the concominant increase of wild game at this moment seems to be a prevalent pattern that we most parsimoniously attribute to a progressive intensification of human impact on the environment, in particular deforestation, that claimed new land for agriculture ever since it got started.