Caves in Context: The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe

Contents
List of contributors ............................................................................................................................................................. v
Preface ................................................................................................................................................................................ vii
Chapter 1: Caves in context: an introduction ..............................................................................................................1
Knut Andreas Bergsvik and Robin Skeates
The British Isles and Scandinavia
Chapter 2: From Assynt to Oban: some observations on prehistoric cave use in western Scotland ................10
Clive Bonsall, Catriona Pickard and Graham A. Ritchie
Chapter 3: Mesolithic caves and rockshelters in Western Norway ........................................................................22
Knut Andreas Bergsvik and Ingebjørg Storvik
Chapter 4: Rockshelters in central Norway: long-term changes in use, social organization
and production ...........................................................................................................................................39
Anne Haug
Chapter 5: On the outer fringe of the human world: phenomenological perspectives
on anthropomorphic cave paintings in Norway ....................................................................................48
Hein Bjartmann Bjerck
Iberia and France
Chapter 6: On the (l)edge: the case of Vale Boi rockshelter (Algarve, Southern Portugal) .................................65
Nuno Bicho, João Cascalheira and João Marreiros
Chapter 7: The use of caves and rockshelters by the last Neandertal and fi rst Modern Human
societies in Cantabrian Iberia: similarities, diff erences, and territorial implications .......................82
Javier Ordoño
Chapter 8: La Garma (Spain): long-term human activity in a karst system ........................................................101
Pablo Arias and Roberto Ontañón
Chapter 9: Shedding light on dark places: Deposition of the dead in caves and cave-like
features in Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia ......................................................................................118
Estella Weiss-Krejci
Chapter 10: The Bronze Age use of caves in France: reinterpreting their functions
and the spatial logic of their deposits through the chaîne opératoire concept .................................138
Sébastien Manem
The Central Mediterranean
Chapter 11: Caves in Context: the late medieval Maltese scenario .........................................................................153
Keith Buhagiar
Chapter 12: Caves in need of context: prehistoric Sardinia ....................................................................................166
Robin Skeates
Contents
Chapter 13: Discovery and exploratory research of prehistoric sites in caves and rockshelters
in the Barbagia di Seulo, South-Central Sardinia ................................................................................188
Giusi Gradoli and Terence Meaden
Chapter 14: Notes from the underground: caves and people in the Mesolithic and Neolithic Karst ..............199
Dimitrij Mlekuž
Central and Eastern Europe
Chapter 15: Cave Burials in Prehistoric Central Europe .........................................................................................212
Jörg Orschiedt
Chapter 16: Late Caucasian Neanderthals of Barakaevskaya cave: chronology,
palaeoecology and palaeoeconomy .......................................................................................................225
Galina Levkovskaya, Vasiliy Lyubin and Elena Belyaeva
Chapter 17: Interstratifi cation in layers of unit III at Skalisty rockshelter
and the origin of the Crimean fi nal Palaeolithic .................................................................................254
Valery A. Manko