El consumo de moluscos marinos durante el Neolítico antiguo en la región central del Mediterráneo peninsular

Abstract

This paper deals with the consumption of marine molluscs during the early Neolithic in the central region of eastern Iberia. We analyse the bromatological features of six malacological collections recovered from six coastal sites in Valencia: Cova de les Cendres, Cova de Bolumini, Cova Ampla, Costamar, El Barranquet and Tossal de les Basses. We identify two groups that refer to two different ecosystems. On the one hand, there is a rocky coastal ecosystem where Patella outnumbers Osilinus and Stramonita. On the other hand, the explotation of coastal lagoons to gather Cerastoderma glaucum has been recorded in other archaeological sites.