Siliceous Raw Material Exploitation at Hort de la Boquera Site (Margalef de Monsant, Tarragona, España): First Results from La-Icp-Ms Analysis

Mar Rey-Solé; Anders Scherstén; Tomas Naeraa; Deborah Olausson; Xavier Mangado

Siliceous Raw Material Exploitation at Hort de la Boquera Site (Margalef de Monsant, Tarragona, España): First Results from La-Icp-Ms Analysis

Mar Rey-Solé, Anders Scherstén, Tomas Naeraa, Deborah Olausson, Xavier Mangado

University of Barcelona

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Research on the sourcing of siliceous raw materials in Prehistory has taken a step forward with the addition of geochemical techniques and elemental analysis to the archaeopetrological method. Counter to the macroscopic techniques, which retain an elevated subjective percentage in their results, geochemical techniques and especially LA-ICP-MS analysis generate objective, quantifiable and usable data, helping us to complete another mineralogical analysis.
95% of the siliceous raw material from the Hort de la Boquera archaeological site (Margalef de Montsant, Tarragona, Spain) is a type of flint from an evaporitic origin that petrografically is characterized by a chalcedonic matrix with gypsum lenticules as inclusions.
Siliceous Raw Material Exploitation at Hort De La Boquera Site 235
Multiple flint outcrops from an evaporitic origin (Eocene-Oligocene) and with many closed characteristics such as the lithic raw material from Hort de la Boquera are located near the site (Cornudella Group-Ulldemolins Complex), making them very suitable to supply the inhabitants of the Hort de la Boquera site.
We have two different but complementary goals in this research: on the one hand, to characterize, describe and create a database for all the different types of flint recovered, emphasizing their geochemical marks. On the other hand, we have the aim to compare these results with those obtained from the raw materials recovered at the site, which would provide a range of complementary data to discover the potential catchment areas and help us to understand certain behaviours of the prehistoric communities from the Hort de la Boquera site.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory
Subtitle of host publication	Sourcing, Processing and Distribution
Editors	Telmo Pereira, Xavier Terradas, Nuno Bicho
Place of Publication	Newcastle upon Tyne
Publisher	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages	234-249
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4438-9597-2, 1-4438-9597-0
Publication status	Published - 2017 Sept 1
Event	Raw Materials Exploitation in Prehistory: Sourcing, Processing and Distribution - University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal Duration: 2016 Mar 10 → 2016 Mar 12 http://www.rawmaterials2016.com/

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Conference	Raw Materials Exploitation in Prehistory
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Faro
Period	2016/03/10 → 2016/03/12
Internet address	http://www.rawmaterials2016.com/

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Archaeology
Geology

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LA-ICP-MS
siliceous raw materials
Hort de la Boquera
sourcing
archaeopetrology

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The Use of Non-Destructive Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) Analysis for Sourcing Flint in Northern Europe: Progress to Date and Prospects for the Future: Progress to Date and Prospects for the Future
Olausson, D., Högberg, A. & Hughes, R., 2017 Sept 1, The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory: Sourcing, Processing and Distribution. Pereira, T., Terradas, X. & Bicho, N. F. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 98-112 15 p.
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Rey-Solé, M., Scherstén, A., Naeraa, T., Olausson, D., & Mangado, X. (2017). Siliceous Raw Material Exploitation at Hort de la Boquera Site (Margalef de Monsant, Tarragona, España): First Results from La-Icp-Ms Analysis. In T. Pereira, X. Terradas, & N. Bicho (Eds.), The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory: Sourcing, Processing and Distribution (pp. 234-249). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Rey-Solé, Mar ; Scherstén, Anders ; Naeraa, Tomas et al. / Siliceous Raw Material Exploitation at Hort de la Boquera Site (Margalef de Monsant, Tarragona, España) : First Results from La-Icp-Ms Analysis. The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory: Sourcing, Processing and Distribution. editor / Telmo Pereira ; Xavier Terradas ; Nuno Bicho. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. pp. 234-249

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Siliceous Raw Material Exploitation at Hort de la Boquera Site (Margalef de Monsant, Tarragona, España): First Results from La-Icp-Ms Analysis. / Rey-Solé, Mar; Scherstén, Anders ; Naeraa, Tomas et al.
The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory: Sourcing, Processing and Distribution. ed. / Telmo Pereira; Xavier Terradas; Nuno Bicho. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. p. 234-249.

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Siliceous Raw Material Exploitation at Hort de la Boquera Site (Margalef de Monsant, Tarragona, España): First Results from La-Icp-Ms Analysis

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The Use of Non-Destructive Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) Analysis for Sourcing Flint in Northern Europe: Progress to Date and Prospects for the Future: Progress to Date and Prospects for the Future

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