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Multi-periodSite Name: La Draga
Country: Spain
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Region: Cataluña Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Banyoles
Latitude: 42.126900N  Longitude: 2.759200E
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La Draga submitted by dodomad : Silex and bone projectiles used at La Draga for hunting purposes. Image credit: UAB Site in Cataluña Spain (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Cataluña. The only lakeside prehistoric village (5200BCE) in Spain, partly reconstructed. Finds are on show in the Museu Archeologic Comarcal de Banyoles

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Note: Hunting with bow and arrow may have fostered social cohesion during the Neolithic, see the latest comment on our page
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La Draga submitted by FXF : Site in Cataluña Spain (Vote or comment on this photo)

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La Draga submitted by dodomad : Bucranium recovered from the site and corresponding to the now extinct urus which was hunted during the Neolithic period by the community at La Draga. Image credit: UAB Site in Cataluña Spain (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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La Draga submitted by dodomad : Bow recovered from La Draga in 2012. Of the three bows discovered, this is the only one which remained intact. Image credit: UAB Site in Cataluña Spain (Vote or comment on this photo)

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La Draga submitted by dodomad : The oldest Neolithic Bow discovered in Europe - the complete bow. Image courtesy of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Site in Cataluña Spain (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Hunting with bow and arrow may have fostered social cohesion during the Neolithic by Andy B on Thursday, 05 February 2015
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Hunting with bow and arrow during the Neolithic period may have been one of the pillars of unity as a group. This is one of the main conclusions reached by a team of Spanish archaeologists with the participation of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), which has analyzed the Neolithic bows found in La Draga (Girona, Spain).

"Comparing the scarce remains of wild animals and the abundant hunting gear found in the site, we conclude that nutrition was not the main aim of developing hunting objects. Neolithic archery could have had a significant community and social role, as well as providing social prestige to physical activity and individuals involved in it", explains researcher Xavier Terradas, from the Milá i Fontanals Institution (IMF-CSIC).

In some cases, prestige was linked to the type of hunted animal and, at other times, had more to do with the distribution of the prey than with the capture of the animal itself. Raquel Piqué, UAB’s researcher, adds: "As a collective resource, larger preys may have played an important role, even in those cases when they constituted a punctual or sporadic resource".

Among the material included in the study, there are three yew bows found in La Draga in 2012. The analysis of the pieces confirms that they have an estimated age of between 7,400 and 7,200 years old, the oldest of their kind found in Europe so far.

The only of the three bows completely recovered has a length of 1080mm, a maximum width of 25mm, and a thickness of 15mm. These dimensions are lower than the average for the rest of Neolithic bows found elsewhere in Europe. However, the dimensions of the conserved parts of the other two found in La Draga make researchers assume that they were larger, similar to the European ones.

The study concludes that the bows recovered in La Draga, besides being unique material documentation of early Neolithic archery and hunting technology, become part of the earliest archaeological evidence available on the social role of hunting in the first farming societies, especially in order to evaluate structural aspects such as economic specialization, division of labour and the nature of resource access.

The research was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Characterizing prehistoric archery: technical and functional analyses of the Neolithic bows from La Draga (NE Iberian Peninsula) by Raquel Piqué, Antoni Palomo, Xavier Terradas, Josep Tarrús, Ramon Buxó, Àngel Bosch, Júlia Chinchilla, Igor Bodganovic, Oriol López, Maria Saña. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2015.01.005.

Source: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
http://www.uab.cat/web/newsroom/news-detail-1345668003610.html?noticiaid=1345680765195
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Neolithic bow found in Spain by Andy B on Wednesday, 18 July 2012
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Researchers at UAB (Universitat AutÒnoma de Barcelona) and CSIC have discovered the most ancient Neolithic bow found to date in Euope at the lake site of La Draga, Banyoles. The bow is complete, measures 108 cm and is made out of yew wood. It will be added to the collection of fragments from two other bows discovered in 2002 and 2005. The excavations were conducted with the participation of students enrolled in the UAB degree in Archaeology.

Archaeological research carried out at the Neolithic site of La Draga, near the lake of Banyoles, has yielded the discovery of an item which is unique in the western Mediterranean and Europe. The item is a bow which appeared in a context dating from the period between 5400-5200 BCE, corresponding to the earliest period of settlement. It is a unique item given that it is the first bow to be found in tact at the site. According to its date, it can be considered chronologically the most ancient bow of the Neolithic period found in Europe. The study will permit the analysis of aspects of the technology, survival strategies and social organisation of the first farming communities which settled in the Iberian Peninsula. The bow is 108 cm long and presents a plano-convex section. Worth mentioning is the fact that it is made out of yew wood (Taxus baccata) as were the majority of Neolithic bows in Europe.

In previous archaeological campaigns, fragments of two bows were found (in 2002 and 2005) also from the same time period, but since they are fragmented it is impossible to analyse the characteristics of these tools. The current discovery opens new perspectives in understanding how these farming communities lived and organised themselves. These bows could have served different purposes, such as hunting, although if one takes into account that this activity was not all that common in the La Draga area, it cannot be ruled out that the bows may have represented elements of prestige or been related to defensive or confrontational activities.

Remains have been found of bows in Northern Europe (Denmark, Russia) dating from between the 8th and 9th centuries BCE among hunter-gatherer groups, although these groups were from the Paleolithic period, and not the Neolithic. The majority of bows from the Neolithic period in Europe can be found in central and northern Europe. Some fragments of these Neolithic bows from central Europe date from the end of the 6th millennium BCE, between 5200-5000 BCE, although generally they are from later periods, often more than a thousand years younger than La Draga. For this reason archaeologists can affirm that the three bows found at La Draga are the most ancient bows in Europe from the Neolithic period.

The research carried out at the La Draga site is financed by the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia and the Spanish Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness. This project is being conducted under the coordination of the County Archaeological Museum of Banyoles, with the participation of the UAB Department of Prehistory, the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology of the CSIC Institute Milà i Fontanals, the National Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia and the Centre for Underwater Archaeology of Catalonia. The excavation includes the participation of archaeology students from UAB and other universities in Spain and Europe.

The Neolithic people of La Draga

La Draga is located in the town of Banyoles, belonging to the county of Pla de l?Estany, and is an archaeological site corresponding to the location in which one of the first farming communities settled in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula. The site is located on the eastern part of the Banyoles Lake and dates back to 5400 and 5000 BCE. The site occupies 8000 sq m and stretches out 100 m along the lake's shore and 80 m towards the east. Part of the site is totally submerged in the lake, while other parts are located on solid ground. The first digs were conducted between the years 1990 and 2005, under

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    Re: Neolithic bow found in Spain by Anonymous on Thursday, 19 July 2012
    Aaaaah - sweet sweet yew wood . . .
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