Estudio geoarqueológico preliminar de la ocupación de la Cueva del Ocho durante el Neolítico antiguo (Complejo Kárstico del Cerro de Santiago, Cazalla de la Sierra, Sevilla)

From a geoarchaeological viewpoint it has been studied the Profile A of the Cueva del Ocho (Cave of the Eight) archaeological site (Karst complex of the Cerro de Santiago, CKCS) located at the northern Sierra Morena (in Cazalla de la Sierra, Seville, Spain), in the section of the Ossa-Morena Cambrian limestones (Meridional Hesperian Massif). This profile's sedimentary register is interpreted as a model of very short occupation settlement in cave between 5000-4840 cal. BC and 5210-5000 cal. BC, more intensive at the beginning, with abundance of rests of ceramics “a la almagra” (red ochre) and impressed potteries without Cardium features, as well as lithic and in bone industries. The assemblage has been characterized as Late Early Neolithic from the South of the Iberian Peninsula.