@article{10902/27572, year = {2022}, month = {2}, url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/27572}, abstract = {The wooden assemblage recovered from Hoyo de los Herreros cave (Reocín, Cantabria, Spain) in northern Iberia has provided an exceptional opportunity to enlarge our knowledge about perishable material culture from a unique medieval context. This case study enhances the information related to ephemeral material culture associated with the occupation of caves during the Middle Ages in northern Iberia, and the role played by wooden crafts in relation to activities performed within these dark and subterrain areas. All the wooden objects have been systematically studied and dated, combining wood analysis and morpho-technological study with the examination of entomological remains recovered from one of the objects which was in an advanced state of decay. The three bowls and a pointed twig recovered inside the cave were probably related to two different episodes of use, the first dated between 9th to 11th centuries CE, and the second between 11th and 12th centuries CE. It was possible to identify different stages of their chaîne-opératoires and the analysis of different aspects of their lifecycle, in tandem with the study of medieval wood crafting, specifically lathe-turning.}, organization = {MMS was funded by a RETOS call mod. JIN “Born to be wild. Crafting wild plants resources during Iron Age in the North of Iberia (B-WILD)” (PID2019-105302RJ-I00) and a Beatriz Galindo program as Junior Distinguished Researcher (BG20/00076) leading the project “WILDCrafting wild plants resources during Bronze and Iron Age in the North of Iberia”. The radiocarbon dating has been funded in the framework of the project “MATERIAL-Materiality and Material Culture: Wood and Other Plant-based Materials in Archaeological Contexts” of the Post-Doc Grant Plan I2C mod. B (ED481D 2017/16) and by the grant “Ayudas para la aplicaci´on de metodologías y técnicas de las ciencias experimentales/analiticas en arqueo-paleontología” funded by Fundación PALARQ.}, publisher = {Elsevier}, publisher = {Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2022, 41, 103317}, title = {Ephemeral materiality arising from the darkness: Medieval wooden crafts from Hoyo de los Herreros cave (Cantabria, Spain)}, author = {Martín Seijo, María and Panagiotakopulu, Eva}, }