La industria lítica de las facies coluviales del yacimiento achelense de As Gándaras de BudiñoEl Locus V en las excavaciones de Vidal Encinas

Abstract

Emiliano Aguirre�s excavations in As Gándaras de Budiño site begin the study of the most important site in the Galician Paleolithic and one of most important of Iberian Peninsula. Since this moment, the controversy for its chronology and lithic industry is constant. Aguirre�s excavations affected exclusively at �coluvial� levels, where the industry was displaced of its original position. Attempt dating of K. W. Butzer, by C14 method, provided totally anomalous results. Leaning in this datation, they situated the Acheulian occupation of the site in a advanced moment of the Late Pleistocene. However, neither the application range of dating method, nor the own context of the industry (secondary position), justify the chronological propose. Later works, of Julio Vidal Encinas, show the existence of Acheulean industries in different stratigraphic context (fluvial terrace) and without important postdeposicional alterations. Morphostratigraphic position of terrace is own of second half of Middle Pleistocene. Also, characteristics of these industries are identical to those of any other Middle Pleistocene site of the Iberian Peninsula. In this article we analyzed the materials (unpublished) coming from �Locus V� of Vidal Encinas� excavations. This industry comes from analogous levels to identified ones in Aguirre�s excavations. The comparison with the materials, recovered in the fluvial deposits, suggests is similar sets, which are to say, that comprise of a same occupation (in ample sense). Only appreciable differences derive from the sedimentary processes (classification by sizes mainly), that took part in the industry deposition of �coluvial� levels.