El depósito sepulcral Calcolítico de la cueva Pico Ramos ( Muskiz, Bizkaia) The Chalcolithic burial deposit of the cave Pico Ramos (Muskiz, Biskay

The results of the archaeological excavation of levels 1, 2 and 3 of the cave Pico Ramos (Biscay, Basque Country) are explained. On the level 3 of this site a Chalcolithic burial has been recovered. Non calibrated 14 C dates are: 4790 ± 110, 4210 ± 110 and 4100 ± 110 B.P. The cave was used for funerary purposes from the beginning of the Chalcolithic until Beaker times. The ritual of this multiple tomb consists of an accumulation of individual priman/deposits and the mni is 104. Together with the human bones, numerous artifacts made of flint, bone, ceramics. lignit, moluscs, copper and polished stone have been recovered, all of them within tipical Chalcolithic types of Western Europe. The human group that used the cave practised broad subsistence strategies which included hunting-gathering as wellas farming.