- Botany, Prehistoric Archaeobotany, Archaeobiology, Ethnobotany, Palynology, palaeoecology, palynology, Quaternary, archaeobotany, and 49 moreQuaternary environments, Coprophilous Fungi, Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Holocene, Holocene environmental change, Jean Guilaine, Neolithic Archaeology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Protohistoric Iberian Peninsula, Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), Origins of Agriculture, Iron Age, Archaeobotany, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Ancient Agriculture & Farming (Archaeology), Neolithic Europe, Mesolithic/Neolithic, Late Bronze Age, Mediterranean archaeology, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Medieval Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, Climate Change, Palaeoenvironment, Megalithic Monuments, Chronology, Mesolithic Archaeology, Neolithic Transition, Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Prehistory, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Prehistoric Settlement, Mediterranean prehistory, Neolithic, Megaliths (Archaeology), Radiocarbon Dating (Archaeology), Conservation Biology, Environmental Archaeology, Paleoenvironment, Paleoclimate, Ecology, European Prehistory (Archaeology), Spanish archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Romanization, and Prehistoric Archeologyedit
Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from... more
Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists. Synthesis of knowledge contributed by more than 250 archaeologists highlighted gaps in archaeological expertise and data quality, which peaked for 2000 yr B.P. and in traditionally studied and wealthier regions. Archaeological reconstruction of global land-use history illuminates the deep roots of Earth’s transformation and challenges the emerging Anthropocene paradigm that large-scale anthropogenic global environmental change is mostly a recent phenomenon.
The effects of climate change on forest growth are not homogeneous across tree species distribution ranges because of inter-population variability and spatial heterogeneity. Although latitudinal and thermal gradients in growth patterns... more
The effects of climate change on forest growth are not homogeneous across tree species distribution ranges because of inter-population variability and spatial heterogeneity. Although latitudinal and thermal gradients in growth patterns have been widely investigated, changes in these patterns along longitudinal gradients due to the different timing and severity of regional droughts are less studied. Here, we investigated these responses in Mediterranean Black pine (Pinus nigra Arn.). We built a tree-ring width dataset comprising 77 forests (1202 trees) across the Mediterranean Basin. The biogeographical patterns in growth patterns and the relationships between growth and mean temperature, precipitation, drought and atmospheric circulations patterns (NAO-North Atlantic Oscillation-, SOI-Southern Oscillation Index-and MOI-Mediterranean Oscillation index-) were analyzed. Then, we evaluated the spatial and temporal growth synchrony between and within east and west populations. We found different growth and climate patterns in west vs. east Black pine populations, although in both regions growth was driven by similar temperature and precipitation variables. MOI significantly influenced tree growth, whilst NAO and SOI showed weaker effects. Growth of east and west Black pine populations desynchronized after the 1970s when several and uncoupled regional droughts occurred across the Mediterra-nean Basin. We detected a climate shift from the 1970s to the 1980s affecting growth patterns, changing growth-climate relationships, and reducing forest growth from west to east Black pine forests. Afterwards, j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. e l s e v i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / s c i t o t e n v climate and growth of east and west populations became increasingly more divergent. Our findings imply that integral bioclimatic and biogeographical analyses across the species distribution area must be considered to adequately assess the impact of climate change on tree growth under warming and more arid conditions.
Estudios recientes indican que las motillas, asentamientos de la Edad del Bronce de La Mancha, pudieron ser las más antiguas captaciones de agua subterránea en la Península Ibérica. Pero ¿por qué no existen mo-tillas en el Campo de... more
Estudios recientes indican que las motillas, asentamientos de la Edad del Bronce de La Mancha, pudieron ser las más antiguas captaciones de agua subterránea en la Península Ibérica. Pero ¿por qué no existen mo-tillas en el Campo de Montiel, territorio ubicado tradi-cionalmente en esta área cultural? En Castillejo del Bonete, sitio arqueológico situado en esa comarca, existe una cueva que fue utilizada y sellada durante la Prehistoria Reciente. Se presenta ahora la primera in-vestigación paleohidrogeológica interdisciplinar en La Mancha, que ha analizado manantiales y niveles de agua subterránea del acuífero de Campo de Montiel, así como el interior de la sima de Castillejo del Bonete. Las conclusiones avanzan una relación entre el sustra-to hidrogeomorfológico y la distribución espacial de las motillas. Además permiten descartar que la sima de Castillejo del Bonete fuera utilizada como mina o como acceso al acuífero, dos de las hipótesis de trabajo plan-teadas. De ese modo cobra fuerza que Castillejo del Bonete fuera un excepcional monumento funerario y simbólico durante el Calcolítico y la Edad del Bronce, perteneciente a una nueva clase de asentamientos des-conocidos hasta ahora en el grupo cultural de la Edad del Bronce de La Mancha.
Recent studies show that the motillas of the Bronze Age in La Mancha contain the oldest wells in the Ibe-rian Peninsula. But why are there no motillas in Cam-po de Montiel, a territory traditionally placed inside this cultural area? In Castillejo del Bonete, an archaeological site located in Campo de Montiel, there is a cave used and sealed during Late Prehistory. We here report the first paleohidrogeological interdisciplinary
research in La Mancha, analyzing some spring and
freatic levels from the Campo de Montiel aquifer, as
well as from inside the Castillejo del Bonete chasm.
Our findings suggest an association between the hydrogeological
substrate and the spatial distribution of
the motillas, discarding the idea that the chasm at
Castillejo del Bonete could be a mine or an aquifer
access. This supports the idea that Castillejo del
Bonete was an exceptional symbolic monument during
the Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age, within a new type
of site of the cultural group of the Bronze Age of La
Mancha.
Recent studies show that the motillas of the Bronze Age in La Mancha contain the oldest wells in the Ibe-rian Peninsula. But why are there no motillas in Cam-po de Montiel, a territory traditionally placed inside this cultural area? In Castillejo del Bonete, an archaeological site located in Campo de Montiel, there is a cave used and sealed during Late Prehistory. We here report the first paleohidrogeological interdisciplinary
research in La Mancha, analyzing some spring and
freatic levels from the Campo de Montiel aquifer, as
well as from inside the Castillejo del Bonete chasm.
Our findings suggest an association between the hydrogeological
substrate and the spatial distribution of
the motillas, discarding the idea that the chasm at
Castillejo del Bonete could be a mine or an aquifer
access. This supports the idea that Castillejo del
Bonete was an exceptional symbolic monument during
the Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age, within a new type
of site of the cultural group of the Bronze Age of La
Mancha.
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Castillejo del Bonete es un complejo tumular situado en el borde meridional de la Meseta Ibérica, ocupado en fechas calcolíticas y de la Edad del Bronce, vinculado a la Cultura de las Motillas. Materiales arqueológicos muy diversos han... more
Castillejo del Bonete es un complejo tumular situado en el borde meridional de la Meseta Ibérica, ocupado en fechas calcolíticas y de la Edad del Bronce, vinculado a la Cultura de las Motillas. Materiales arqueológicos muy diversos han sido recuperados asociados a las arquitecturas del lugar (túmulos, corredores, potentes muros, etc.). Se presenta un avance de la investigación paleoecológica sobre las colecciones de carbón, polen y microvertebrados. Además se presentan cuentas de piedra y madera, colgantes de concha, material lítico,
la colección cerámica, nuevas metalografías e industria metálica y botones de marfil. El conjunto de estas evidencias arqueológicas pone de manifiesto la celebración ritual de banquetes y ofrendas durante la Prehistoria Reciente en una cueva monumentalizada mediante túmulos en el interior de la Península Ibérica.
Castillejo del Bonete is a tumulus complex located on the southern edge the Iberian Plateau, occupied during Chalcolithic and Bronze Age periods, and linked to the Culture known as Motillas. Diverse archaeological objects have been recovered in association with their architectures (barrows, corridors, walls, etc.). Based on charcoal, pollen and microvertebrates a paleoecological study will be discussed. Furthermore, the analysis of different materials such as wood, shell, stone and ivory ornaments together with pottery vessels and metallic
objets will also be carried out. All this evidence could be related to feasting practices and offerings.
la colección cerámica, nuevas metalografías e industria metálica y botones de marfil. El conjunto de estas evidencias arqueológicas pone de manifiesto la celebración ritual de banquetes y ofrendas durante la Prehistoria Reciente en una cueva monumentalizada mediante túmulos en el interior de la Península Ibérica.
Castillejo del Bonete is a tumulus complex located on the southern edge the Iberian Plateau, occupied during Chalcolithic and Bronze Age periods, and linked to the Culture known as Motillas. Diverse archaeological objects have been recovered in association with their architectures (barrows, corridors, walls, etc.). Based on charcoal, pollen and microvertebrates a paleoecological study will be discussed. Furthermore, the analysis of different materials such as wood, shell, stone and ivory ornaments together with pottery vessels and metallic
objets will also be carried out. All this evidence could be related to feasting practices and offerings.
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The aim of this work is to reconstruct the periods of growth and decline of human populations in Morocco and their potential impacts on the landscape over the past 10,000 years. In order to estimate the trends in the human population size... more
The aim of this work is to reconstruct the periods of growth and decline of human populations in Morocco and their potential impacts on the landscape over the past 10,000 years. In order to estimate the trends in the human population size between 10,000 and 3000 years ago, we used a summed probability distribution (SPD) of radiocarbon dates from a wide range of archaeological sites throughout Morocco. Landscape changes were identified and quantified from a dataset of fossil pollen records. Different anthropogenic pollen markers, as well as natural vegetation groups and taxonomic richness were used to analyse the relationship between long-term trends in human population expansion or regression and type of impact on the landscape. The sub-regions of Morocco have different topographies and climates, which have either favoured or prevented the establishment and/or spread of human populations. In order to identify the areas most significantly impacted by humans and the timing of such impacts, we have reconstructed and compared the same past anthropogenic and landscape proxies along with the population trends within the lowlands and mountainous areas. The lowlands were more strongly impacted earlier in the Holocene than the mountainous areas. Anthropogenic markers indicate that farming expanded in the lowlands during the first major expansion of human populations between ca. 7200 and 6700 cal. yr BP at the start of the Neolithic period. In the Atlas and Rif Mountains, anthropogenic impact is not clearly detectable in any of these areas before 4000 cal. BP.
Research Interests: Landscape Ecology, Demography, Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Mediterranean prehistory, and 10 morePopulation ecology, Vegetation Ecology, Mediterranean archaeology, Mediterranean and North Africa, North African prehistory (Archaeology), Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Holocene, Radiocarbon Dating (Archaeology), Pollen analysis, and Land-use/ Land-cover Change
Agrarian landscapes are among the least understood features of first millennium B.C. societies in the western Mediterranean. Studies of such landscapes in the context of the Iberian Iron Age have been based essentially on the... more
Agrarian landscapes are among the least understood features of first millennium B.C. societies in the western Mediterranean. Studies of such landscapes in the context of the Iberian Iron Age have been based essentially on the archeological record in places used for purposes other than farming, particularly settlements and areas reserved for burials and rituals, or on the identification of the possible use of fertilizers. Here we present a multiproxy analysis of an agrarian landscape based on geoarchaeological and paleoenvironmental studies in a mountainous region in southeastern Iberia. The findings confirmed the existence of farmland cultivated as early as the first millennium B.C. in the high Jutia Valley in the Spanish province of Albacete. These results suggest that coordinated analyses can be highly useful for identifying enduring agricultural practices, while contributing to a fuller understanding of western Mediterranean agrarian landscapes and their millenarian resilience, attributable to the coevolution of human communities and the environment.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Agricultural landscapes, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, and 9 moreMediterranean archaeology, Ancient Agriculture & Farming (Archaeology), Iron Age, Agrarian Archaeology, Protohistoric Iberian Peninsula, Iron Age archaeology, Mundo ibérico, Long-term evolution of agricultural landscapes, and Mountain Archaeology
[EN]: In this article we present and discuss the archaeological data obtained in the 2012 and 2013 excavations carried out in the hillfort of El Castru, in Vigaña (Balmonte de Miranda, Asturias, NW Iberia). The excavations have showed a... more
[EN]: In this article we present and discuss the archaeological data obtained in the 2012 and 2013 excavations carried out in the hillfort of El Castru, in Vigaña (Balmonte de Miranda, Asturias, NW Iberia). The excavations have showed a long-sequence occupation of the hillfort since the Early Iron Age to the early Roman period. The site constitutes a good example of the small Iron Age hillforts of the western Cantabrian Mountains. For this reason, the analysis of the information collected during fieldwork and its contextualization at regional level provide us with interesting considerations for discussing about the settlement patterns and subsistence systems adopted by the I millennia BC communities in NW Iberia.
The manuscript is opened by a general overview of the hillfort, including a contextualisation of its surrounding landscape. Then, a detailed description of the six stratigraphic phases we identified during the excavations is presented, paying attention to the stratigraphic relations between different layers and structures. In addition, five radiocarbon dates are presented to build up the chronology of the site. Three huts and metallurgical production areas were explored, resulting on a significant collection of materials. The structures and layers that create each stratigraphic group are characterised considering a broad discussion about the archaeological materials that were discovered through the excavations, paying particular attention to pottery assemblages. The study and discussion of an outstanding zooarchaeological remains collection, some seeds and four pollen samples offers a relevant window to understand the anthropization of the surrounding landscape along the biography of this site. Diverse agricultural activities were developed in connection with a complex arrangement of pastoralist strategies, where we envision a growing specialization on cattle herding along the biography of this site, while agriculture is based in a wide range of complementary crops including several types of cereals. The discussion of these data considering Landscape Archaeology as our theoretical and methodological framework becomes a relevant case study in the geographical context of the western Cantabrian Mountains, where we lack this kind of approaches.
The archaeological dataset under examination in El Castru allows us to argue that the small peasant community who inhabited the hillfort along the Iron Age and the earlier decades of the Roman period could be characterised particularly by their socio-political autonomy and productive self-sufficiency. This way, we understand Iron Age social landscapes in this area under the umbrella of non-hierarchical models for social organisation, such as heterarchical societies or ‘deep rural communities’, following some of the interpretations recently raised by several scholars in NW Iberia.
[SP]: Este artículo presenta los datos arqueológicos recuperados en las excavaciones del poblado castreño de El Castru, en Vigaña (Balmonte de Miranda, Asturias) realizadas en 2012 y 2013. Dicho yacimiento constituye un buen ejemplo de los pequeños castros de la Edad del Hierro en las montañas del área occidental cantábrica. Por ello, el análisis de las informaciones obtenidas y su contextualización a escala regional ofrecen interesantes aportaciones al debate sobre las formas de poblamiento y subsistencia adoptadas por las comunidades del I milenio a.C. en el Noroeste ibérico.
The manuscript is opened by a general overview of the hillfort, including a contextualisation of its surrounding landscape. Then, a detailed description of the six stratigraphic phases we identified during the excavations is presented, paying attention to the stratigraphic relations between different layers and structures. In addition, five radiocarbon dates are presented to build up the chronology of the site. Three huts and metallurgical production areas were explored, resulting on a significant collection of materials. The structures and layers that create each stratigraphic group are characterised considering a broad discussion about the archaeological materials that were discovered through the excavations, paying particular attention to pottery assemblages. The study and discussion of an outstanding zooarchaeological remains collection, some seeds and four pollen samples offers a relevant window to understand the anthropization of the surrounding landscape along the biography of this site. Diverse agricultural activities were developed in connection with a complex arrangement of pastoralist strategies, where we envision a growing specialization on cattle herding along the biography of this site, while agriculture is based in a wide range of complementary crops including several types of cereals. The discussion of these data considering Landscape Archaeology as our theoretical and methodological framework becomes a relevant case study in the geographical context of the western Cantabrian Mountains, where we lack this kind of approaches.
The archaeological dataset under examination in El Castru allows us to argue that the small peasant community who inhabited the hillfort along the Iron Age and the earlier decades of the Roman period could be characterised particularly by their socio-political autonomy and productive self-sufficiency. This way, we understand Iron Age social landscapes in this area under the umbrella of non-hierarchical models for social organisation, such as heterarchical societies or ‘deep rural communities’, following some of the interpretations recently raised by several scholars in NW Iberia.
[SP]: Este artículo presenta los datos arqueológicos recuperados en las excavaciones del poblado castreño de El Castru, en Vigaña (Balmonte de Miranda, Asturias) realizadas en 2012 y 2013. Dicho yacimiento constituye un buen ejemplo de los pequeños castros de la Edad del Hierro en las montañas del área occidental cantábrica. Por ello, el análisis de las informaciones obtenidas y su contextualización a escala regional ofrecen interesantes aportaciones al debate sobre las formas de poblamiento y subsistencia adoptadas por las comunidades del I milenio a.C. en el Noroeste ibérico.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, and 13 moreLandscape History, Upland Archaeology, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Fortified Settlements (Archaeology), Iron Age (Archaeology), Prehistory, Iron Age, Protohistoric Iberian Peninsula, Iron Age Hillforts, Landscape and Land-use-history, and Roman Archaeology
Mid-mountain ecosystems provide a broad diversity of resources, heterogeneous relief, and a mild climate, which are all very useful for human necessities. These features enable different strategies such as the terracing of the slopes as... more
Mid-mountain ecosystems provide a broad diversity of resources, heterogeneous relief, and a mild climate, which are all very useful for human necessities. These features enable different strategies such as the terracing of the slopes as well as wide crop diversification. Their relations lead to a parallel co-evolution between the environment and human societies, where fire and grazing become the most effective landscape management tools. This paper presents the results obtained from a multi-proxy study of the Bermú paleoenvironmental record, which is a minerotrophic mire located in the Quintos de Mora National Hunting Reserve (Toledo Mountains, central Spain). The bottom of this core has been dated in the Islamic period (ca. 711–1100 cal AD), and the study shows how the landscape that was built over time in the Toledo Mountains up to the present day is narrowly linked to human development. This study shows the increasing human pressure on the landscape, as well as the subsequent strategies followed by the plant and human communities as they faced diverse environmental changes. Thus, it is possible to attest the main role played by the humans in the Toledo Mountains, not only as a simple user, but also as a builder of their own reflexion in the environment.
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Although the Iberian Peninsula is a key area for understanding the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and the demise of the Neandertals, valuable evidence for these debates remains scarce and problematic in its interior regions.... more
Although the Iberian Peninsula is a key area for understanding the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and the demise of the Neandertals, valuable evidence for these debates remains scarce and problematic in its interior regions. Sparse data supporting a late Neandertal persistence in the Iberian interior have been recently refuted and hence new evidence is needed to build new models on the timing and causes of Neandertal disappearance in inland Iberia and the whole peninsula. In this study we provide new evidence from Los Casares, a cave located in the highlands of the Spanish Meseta, where a Neandertal-associated Middle Paleolithic site was discovered and first excavated in the 1960’s. Our main objective is twofold: (1) provide an updated geoarcheological, paleoenvironmental and chronological framework for this site, and (2) discuss obtained results in the context of the time and nature of the last Neandertal presence in Iberia.
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Resumen La explotación de la sal en el complejo lagunar de Villafáfila (Tierra de Campos, Zamora) es uno de los even-tos más importantes de la meseta norte de la península ibérica desde la Prehistoria. La producción de sal se documenta a... more
Resumen La explotación de la sal en el complejo lagunar de Villafáfila (Tierra de Campos, Zamora) es uno de los even-tos más importantes de la meseta norte de la península ibérica desde la Prehistoria. La producción de sal se documenta a partir del periodo Campaniforme (ca. 2450 cal BC). En 2013, se efectuó un sondeo mecánico en los pastizales húmedos anexos a la Laguna de las Salinas. El análisis de polen y microfósiles no polínicos de este registro sugiere el origen de la laguna hace al menos ocho mil años vinculado al evento climático 8,2 ka cal BP, un ambiente muy antropizado desde los inicios del Calcolítico ca. 3300 cal BC y la posterior explotación de la sal, la degradación paulatina y definitiva del bosque de encinas a partir de la Edad del Bronce, y, en general, una amplia variabilidad climática alternando fases húmedas y áridas a lo largo de toda la secuencia paleoambiental.
Resumen: En el seno de un paisaje de someras lagunas de agua salada y entre un elevado número de estaciones ar-queológicas de época prehistórica, presentamos los trabajos de excavación en los sitios de Molino Sanchón II y Santioste. En... more
Resumen: En el seno de un paisaje de someras lagunas de agua salada y entre un elevado número de estaciones ar-queológicas de época prehistórica, presentamos los trabajos de excavación en los sitios de Molino Sanchón II y Santioste. En ellos hemos podido documentar huellas de briquetage y de producción de sal a través de ebullición a finales del Calcolítico y durante el Bronce Antiguo. Algunos indicios nos desvelan, además, que esta actividad se encontraba rodeada de ciertos gestos de naturaleza ritual. Abstract: The results of the archaeological excavations carried out at the sites of Molino Sanchón II and Santioste, located in a landscape dotted with shallow salty lakes and prehistoric sites, are presented here. There is evidence of salt production by the method of boiling brine, as indicated by the presence of briquetage, which dates back to the end of the Copper Age and the Early Bronze Age. We can therefore surmise that salt-processing activities were accompanied by ritual practices.
La formación de un nuevo paisaje en el centro de la península ibérica en el periodo posromano: el yacimiento de La Genestosa (Casillas de Flores, Salamanca)
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En los últimos años la prehistoria ha sufrido una profunda transformación. Procedimientos, protocolos y técnicas de la geología, biología, antropología, arte, etc. se han ido incorporando a “lo prehistórico”, nutriendo y enriqueciendo el... more
En los últimos años la prehistoria ha sufrido una profunda transformación. Procedimientos, protocolos y técnicas de la geología, biología, antropología, arte, etc. se han ido incorporando a “lo prehistórico”, nutriendo y enriqueciendo el estudio e interpretación de las conductas humanas pasadas.
Con este libro, estructurado a modo de manual, se pretende dar al lector las claves para el estudio de los materiales arqueológicos: huesos, piedras, obras artísticas, carbones, sedimento, etc. Por ello se aborda, de modo multi e interdisciplinar y en 31 capítulos escritos por especialistas de cada materia, una amplia variedad de temas de conocimiento: la prospección y excavación, la cronología, el análisis de los depósitos arqueológicos, el análisis macro y microespacial, analíticas de índole ambiental y de explotación del paisaje, estudio de huesos humanos y de animales, estudio de materiales arqueológicos (líticos, óseos, cerámicos, metalúrgicos, etc.) y gráficos, funcionalidad, arqueología experimental y enfoques etnográficos básicos en muchos casos para la interpretación.
Con este libro, estructurado a modo de manual, se pretende dar al lector las claves para el estudio de los materiales arqueológicos: huesos, piedras, obras artísticas, carbones, sedimento, etc. Por ello se aborda, de modo multi e interdisciplinar y en 31 capítulos escritos por especialistas de cada materia, una amplia variedad de temas de conocimiento: la prospección y excavación, la cronología, el análisis de los depósitos arqueológicos, el análisis macro y microespacial, analíticas de índole ambiental y de explotación del paisaje, estudio de huesos humanos y de animales, estudio de materiales arqueológicos (líticos, óseos, cerámicos, metalúrgicos, etc.) y gráficos, funcionalidad, arqueología experimental y enfoques etnográficos básicos en muchos casos para la interpretación.
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This paper presents the combined results of archaeobotanical studies, of both macro-remains (carbonised wood, seeds and fruit) and micro-remains (pollen, spores and non-pollen microfossils), at three sites in Sierra de Cantabria (Basque... more
This paper presents the combined results of archaeobotanical studies, of both macro-remains (carbonised wood, seeds and fruit) and micro-remains (pollen, spores and non-pollen microfossils), at three sites in Sierra de Cantabria (Basque Country, northern Iberian Peninsula): Peña Larga, Peña Parda and San Cristóbal, dated from the early Neolithic to the Bronze Age (5500–900 cal BC). The main results show that, despite the abundance of deciduous trees, the taxa used as fuel included both deciduous species (deciduous Quercus, Corylus avellana and birch) and conifers, mainly Taxus baccata. Yew (Taxus baccata) was the wood most used in the Neolithic, but its importance declines in the Chalcolithic and it disappears in the final occupation phases at the rock-shelters, in the Bronze Age. Instead, the use of deciduous Quercus increases.
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In southwest Asia, the accelerated impact of human activities on the landscape has often been linked to the development of fully agricultural societies during the middle and late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period (around 10.2–7.9 ka... more
In southwest Asia, the accelerated impact of human activities on the landscape has often been linked to the development of fully agricultural societies during the middle and late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period (around 10.2–7.9 ka cal. BP). This work contributes to the debate on the environmental impact of the so-called Neolitisation process by identifying the climatic and anthropogenic factors that contributed to change local and regional vegetation at the time when domesticated plants appeared and developed in southern Syria (around 10.7–9.9 ka cal. BP). In this work a multidisciplinary analysis of plant microremains (pollen and phytoliths) and macroremains (wood charcoal) is carried out along with stable carbon isotope discrimination of wood charcoals in an early PPNB site (Tell Qarassa North, west of the Jabal al-Arab area). Prior to 10.5 ka cal. BP, the results indicate a dynamic equilibrium in the local and regional vegetation, which comprised woodland-steppe, Mediterranean evergreen oak-woodlands, wetland vegetation and coniferous forests. Around 10.5–9.9 ka cal. BP, the elements that regulated the vegetation system changed, resulting in reduced proportions of arboreal cover and the spread of cold-tolerant and wetlands species. Our data show that reinforcing interaction between the elements of the anthropogenic (e.g. herding, fire-related activities) and climatic systems (e.g. temperature, rainfall) contributed to the transformation of early Holocene vegetation during the emergence of fully agricultural societies in southern Syria.
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An integrated archaeobotanical study carried out in the medieval village of Gasteiz (Basque Country, Northern Iberian Peninsula) was able to establish a diachronic view of the evolution of the vegetal landscape, the plant economy and the... more
An integrated archaeobotanical study carried out in the medieval village of Gasteiz (Basque Country, Northern Iberian Peninsula) was able to establish a diachronic view of the evolution of the vegetal landscape, the plant economy and the forest management in this rural community between the 8th and 12th centuries AD, through the study of seeds, fruits, firewood, pollen, spores and non-pollen palynomorphs. The main results show the presence of an anthropogenic vegetal landscape, shaped by the economic activities of the inhabitants of the village, based on cereal crops, legumes and animal husbandry. Also new data are provided about forest management related to metallurgical activities.
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Estudio comparativo de los resultados obtenidos en dos análisis arqueobotánicos en el yacimiento de Peña Parda (Laguardia, Álava). Mediante la combinación de los estudios antracológico y palinológico se pretende una certera aproximación a... more
Estudio comparativo de los resultados obtenidos en dos análisis arqueobotánicos en el yacimiento de Peña Parda (Laguardia, Álava). Mediante la combinación de los estudios antracológico y palinológico se pretende una certera aproximación a la composición del paisaje vegetal y la dinámica antrópica de esta zona de la Sierra de Cantabria durante la Edad del Bronce. This paper presents a comparative study of the results obtained from two different archaeobotanical analyses from the archaeological site of Peña Parda (Laguardia, Álava). Thanks to the combination of both types of analyses , wood charcoal and pollen, we try to carry out a more accurate reconstruction of the vegetal landscape and the anthropic dynamics at this area of the Sierra de Cantabria during the Bronze Age.
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This paper presents an overview of the vegetation history and human influence in the Sierra de Cantabria (Álava) during the Middle/Late Holocene, taking into account the results of palynological, anthracological and carpological studies... more
This paper presents an overview of the vegetation history and human influence in the Sierra de Cantabria (Álava) during the Middle/Late Holocene, taking into account the results of palynological, anthracological and carpological studies of three archaeological sites, covering a time frame from the Early Neolithic to the bronze Age. It has been detected some climatic variability, from warm and humid to more dry conditions and agro-pastoral practices have also been registered. Síntesis sobre la evolución de la vegetación y la influencia del ser humano en la Sierra de Cantabria (Álava) durante el Holoceno Medio/Final. Se tienen en cuenta los resultados de los estudios palinológico, antracológico y carpológico de tres yacimientos arqueológicos, que abarcan un marco cronocultural desde el Neolítico Antiguo hasta la Edad del bronce. Se ha identificado cierta evolución climática, pasando de unas condiciones templadas y húmedas a otras más secas. También se han detectado prácticas agro-pastoriles.
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An integrated archaeobotanical study carried out in the medieval village of Gasteiz (Basque Country, Northern Iberian Peninsula) was able to establish a diachronic view of the evolution of the vegetal landscape, the socioeconomic bases... more
An integrated archaeobotanical study carried out in the medieval village of Gasteiz
(Basque Country, Northern Iberian Peninsula) was able to establish a diachronic view
of the evolution of the vegetal landscape, the socioeconomic bases and the forest
management in this rural community between the 8th and 12th centuries AD, through
the study of seeds, firewood, pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs. The main results
show the presence of an anthropogenic vegetal landscape, shaped by the economic
activities of the inhabitants of the village, based on cereal crops, legumes and animal
husbandry. Also new data are provided about forest management related to
metallurgical activities.
Springer, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (2015).
(Basque Country, Northern Iberian Peninsula) was able to establish a diachronic view
of the evolution of the vegetal landscape, the socioeconomic bases and the forest
management in this rural community between the 8th and 12th centuries AD, through
the study of seeds, firewood, pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs. The main results
show the presence of an anthropogenic vegetal landscape, shaped by the economic
activities of the inhabitants of the village, based on cereal crops, legumes and animal
husbandry. Also new data are provided about forest management related to
metallurgical activities.
Springer, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (2015).
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En el presente trabajo se ha llevado a cabo la reconstrucción paleoecológica y paleoeconómica, mediante análisis polínico, carpológico y antracológico del entorno de Vitoria-Gasteiz (Alava), complementando dos tipos de contextos... more
En el presente trabajo se ha llevado a cabo la reconstrucción paleoecológica y paleoeconómica, mediante análisis polínico, carpológico y antracológico del entorno de Vitoria-Gasteiz (Alava), complementando dos tipos de contextos sedimentarios: el yacimiento arqueológico de la catedral de Santa María de Vitoria, y la turbera de Prados de Randulanda en el Condado de Treviño. En conjunto, ambos contextos nos han permitido realizar una lectura diacrónica de la historia de la vegetación y las bases paleoeconómicas del área de estudio entre los siglos VI a XV d.C., tanto a nivel local como regional. La reconstrucción paleoambiental da cuenta de un paisaje antropizado desde el siglo VI, con un elenco arbóreo relativamente rico de quercíneas caducifolias y perennifolias, hayedos, abedules, etc. Ganadería y agricultura parecen ser los factores que delimitan la dinámica antrópica de estos ecosistemas, detectándose desde el siglo VIII, en el entorno de la catedral, el cultivo de trigo, cebada, y leguminosas; entre los siglos XII-XIV se detecta el cultivo de centeno.
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This paper presents the combined results of archaeobotanical studies, of both macro-remains (carbon-ised wood, seeds and fruit) and micro-remains (pollen, spores and non-pollen microfossils), at three sites in Sierra de Cantabria (Basque... more
This paper presents the combined results of archaeobotanical studies, of both macro-remains (carbon-ised wood, seeds and fruit) and micro-remains (pollen, spores and non-pollen microfossils), at three sites in Sierra de Cantabria (Basque Country, northern Iberian Peninsula): Pe~ na Larga, Pe~ na Parda and San Crist obal, dated from the early Neolithic to the Bronze Age (5500e900 cal BC). The main results show that, despite the abundance of deciduous trees, the taxa used as fuel included both deciduous species (deciduous Quercus, Corylus avellana and birch) and conifers, mainly Taxus baccata. Yew (Taxus baccata) was the wood most used in the Neolithic, but its importance declines in the Chalcolithic and it disappears in the final occupation phases at the rock-shelters, in the Bronze Age. Instead, the use of deciduous Quercus increases.
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Resumen: Análisis arqueopalinológicos se llevaron a cabo en contextos del yacimiento de La Vereda (Burguillos, Sevilla), en el sur de España, ubicados cronológicamente en el siglo III d.C. en el momento de abandono hasta la actualidad del... more
Resumen: Análisis arqueopalinológicos se llevaron a cabo en contextos del yacimiento de La Vereda (Burguillos, Sevilla), en el sur de España, ubicados cronológicamente en el siglo III d.C. en el momento de abandono hasta la actualidad del área excavada. Los datos aportados por el estudio de pólenes y mi-crofósiles no polínicos contribuyen notablemente a detallar la función de determinadas estructuras documentadas en el sitio. En época romana se cultivaron cereales, lino y olivos, en un paisaje muy alterado por las actividades antrópicas. Abstract: Palynological analyses were carried out on layers from the site of La Vereda in Burguillos (Sevilla), in southern Spain. The layers dated to the 3 rd century AD, around the time of the abandonment of the present excavated area. Data from pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs contributed to add details on the function of the site and their structures. During Roman times, cereals, flax and olive were cultivated, and human activities highly influenced the landscape. Recepción: 1 de junio de 2016. Aceptación: 23 de noviembre de 2016
Se presenta en este trabajo un estudio comparativo de los resultados obtenidos en dos análisis arqueobotánicos en el yacimiento de Peña Parda (Laguardia, Álava). Mediante la combinación de los estudios antracológico y palinológico se... more
Se presenta en este trabajo un estudio comparativo de los resultados obtenidos en dos análisis arqueobotánicos en el yacimiento de Peña Parda (Laguardia, Álava). Mediante la combinación de los estudios antracológico y palinológico se pretende una certera aproximación a la composición del paisaje vegetal y la dinámica antrópica de esta zona de la Sierra de Cantabria durante la Edad del Bronce.
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Palynological studies on sediments from Central Iberia show palaeoclimatic changes at the end of the third millennium BC as a consequence of the 4.2. ka BP event. In the archaeological record it is at that time when the peak and decline... more
Palynological studies on sediments from Central Iberia show palaeoclimatic changes at the end of the third millennium BC as a consequence of the 4.2. ka BP event. In the archaeological record it is at that time when the peak and decline of the Ciempozuelos group, one of the Late Regional Styles of the Bell Beaker culture in Iberia, took place. In this paper we examine both palynological and archaeological data in order to analyse the possible impact of such climatic fluctuations in the cultural dynamics of the prehistoric societies from the Spanish Northern Plateau
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RESUMEN Se analiza el origen de la explotación del paisaje de dehesa en Extremadura a partir de los análisis palinológicos de los yacimientos neolíticos de Los Barruecos y el Cerro de la Horca. Con los datos obtenidos se puede afirmar que... more
RESUMEN Se analiza el origen de la explotación del paisaje de dehesa en Extremadura a partir de los análisis palinológicos de los yacimientos neolíticos de Los Barruecos y el Cerro de la Horca. Con los datos obtenidos se puede afirmar que desde el IV milenio cal BC la ...
Seis mil años de gestión y dinámica antrópica en el entorno del Parque Natural de los Collados del Asón (Cordillera Cantábrica Oriental) Six thousand years of management and anthropic dynamics in Collados del Asón Natural Park (Eastern... more
Seis mil años de gestión y dinámica antrópica en el entorno del Parque Natural de los Collados del Asón (Cordillera Cantábrica Oriental) Six thousand years of management and anthropic dynamics in Collados del Asón Natural Park (Eastern Cantabrian Range) Resumen El conocimiento acerca de la evolución de los espacios de montaña resulta ser una problemática de gran interés tanto desde el punto de vista paleoambiental como en relación con las ocupaciones humanas. En este trabajo analizamos la composición y evolución de la vegetación de la turbera de Sotombo, en las cercanías del Parque Natural de los Collados del Asón (Cantabria) en los últimos 6000 años, a través del estudio de pólenes, esporas y microfósiles no polínicos, apoyados por una serie de 8 dataciones radiocarbónicas. Los principales resultados señalan en el inicio de la secuencia el dominio de los bosques caducifolios junto con pinares ca. 5926-2418 cal BP. A partir de este momento se evidencia claramente la antropización del paisaje, en fechas contemporáneas a la expansión de los hayedos. Con posterioridad (desde ca. 596 cal BP) se inicia el desarrollo de las praderas montanas que dominan el paisaje actual. Palabas clave: Análisis palinológico; Impacto antrópico; Historia de la vegetación; Holoceno; Norte de la Península Ibérica.
La síntesis del registro palinológico de Andalucía Occidental permite ubicar los primeros impactos antrópicos y las primeras evidencias de actividades agrícolas en el V y IV milenios cal BC. La dinámica espacio-temporal de la... more
La síntesis del registro palinológico de Andalucía Occidental permite ubicar los primeros impactos antrópicos y las primeras evidencias de actividades agrícolas en el V y IV milenios cal BC. La dinámica espacio-temporal de la paleovegetación se interpreta en relación con el poblamiento prehistórico y la transformación de las prácticas económicas.
Palabras clave: Antropización, agricultura, Andalucía Occidental, Mesolítico, Neolítico, Holoceno, Palinología.
The detailed synthesis of pollen records from western Andalusia confirms the first human impact on the landscape and the primary evidence of farming in the 5th and the 4th millennia cal BC. The spatial and temporal dynamics of plant communities have been interpreted as a result of interactions among human settlements as well as the transformation of economic practices.
Keywords: Anthropization, Agriculture, Western Andalusia, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Holocene, Palynology.
Palabras clave: Antropización, agricultura, Andalucía Occidental, Mesolítico, Neolítico, Holoceno, Palinología.
The detailed synthesis of pollen records from western Andalusia confirms the first human impact on the landscape and the primary evidence of farming in the 5th and the 4th millennia cal BC. The spatial and temporal dynamics of plant communities have been interpreted as a result of interactions among human settlements as well as the transformation of economic practices.
Keywords: Anthropization, Agriculture, Western Andalusia, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Holocene, Palynology.
Research Interests: Landscape Archaeology, Mesolithic Archaeology, Neolithic Archaeology, Palinology, Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), and 17 moreCharcoal analysis (Archaeology), Mediterranean archaeology, Prehistory, Archeobotany, Holocene, Prehistoria, Arqueología del Paisaje, Arqueología Prehistórica, Neolítico, Mesolítico, Prehistoria Reciente, Palinología, Prehistoria, Neolítico, Mesolítico, Holoceno, Arqueobotánica, Paleovegetation, and Menga. Revista de Prehistoria de Andalucía
As a cultural construction, the result of the interaction between human beings and nature, the study of the landscape must be considered within a dimension Historical and archaeological. This is basically articulated at two scales, the... more
As a cultural construction, the result of the interaction between human beings and nature, the study of the landscape must be considered within a dimension
Historical and archaeological. This is basically articulated at two scales, the spatial and the temporal, which delimit the rhythmicity of the process and its typology.
From a historical perspective, this type of dimensional approach requires that the human-medium relationship be framed within research
With a marked multidisciplinary nature, where the disciplines involved share different opinion spaces for hypothesis.
and common problems.
Historical ecology centers its dialectic on the interrelation between human beings and nature, manifested through the ‘landscape’, whose conceptualization
It is never easy, 1 since this term has been used in many fields of science and the arts under very different prisms.
In any case, the landscape, identical in its background, is different in the way it is interpreted. To put it another way, the landscape is not an entity
physical in itself, but the way in which each person perceives the biotic and abiotic environment that surrounds it, and, therefore, each of them would be able to
interpret, signify or define the landscape in a different way, even in several ways before different emotional or sensitive states. It is therefore about
a term with numerous interpretations and meanings, a difficult and polysemic concept
Historical and archaeological. This is basically articulated at two scales, the spatial and the temporal, which delimit the rhythmicity of the process and its typology.
From a historical perspective, this type of dimensional approach requires that the human-medium relationship be framed within research
With a marked multidisciplinary nature, where the disciplines involved share different opinion spaces for hypothesis.
and common problems.
Historical ecology centers its dialectic on the interrelation between human beings and nature, manifested through the ‘landscape’, whose conceptualization
It is never easy, 1 since this term has been used in many fields of science and the arts under very different prisms.
In any case, the landscape, identical in its background, is different in the way it is interpreted. To put it another way, the landscape is not an entity
physical in itself, but the way in which each person perceives the biotic and abiotic environment that surrounds it, and, therefore, each of them would be able to
interpret, signify or define the landscape in a different way, even in several ways before different emotional or sensitive states. It is therefore about
a term with numerous interpretations and meanings, a difficult and polysemic concept
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"SEGUNDA EDAD DEL HIERRO. VOL. 2 CONTEXTOS Los yacimientos celtibéricos del Alto Tajo y Alto Jalón: el I Milenio a.C. en la Meseta Oriental. María Luisa Cerdeño Plaza de Moros y los recintos amurallados carpetanos. Dionisio... more
"SEGUNDA EDAD DEL HIERRO. VOL. 2
CONTEXTOS
Los yacimientos celtibéricos del Alto Tajo y Alto Jalón: el I Milenio a.C. en la Meseta Oriental.
María Luisa Cerdeño
Plaza de Moros y los recintos amurallados carpetanos.
Dionisio Urbina
El final de la Edad del Hierro: el hábitat fortificado del Cerro de la Gavia
Jorge Morín, Dionisio Urbina, Francisco J. López Fraile, Marta Escolà, Amalia Pérez- Juez, Ernesto Agustí y Rafael Barroso
NUEVOS YACIMIENTOS
Hoyo de la Serna, poblado y necrópolis de los inicios de la II Edad del Hierro en la meseta de Ocaña.
Dionisio Urbina y Catalina Urquijo
Cerro Colorado, una necrópolis de los primeros poblados de la II Edad del Hierro.
Dionisio Urbina y Catalina Urquijo
La Guirnalda: un yacimiento de la Edad del Hierro en la provincia de Guadalajara
Ernesto Agustí, Dionisio Urbina, Jorge Morín, Ruth Villaverde, Antxoka Martínez Velasco, Enrique Navarro, Rui de Almeida, Francisco J. López Fraile y Laura Benito
LA CULTURA MATERIAL
Imágenes de la Segunda Edad del Hierro en el Centro Peninsular.
Dionisio Urbina
Estudio de material cerámico en el yacimiento del Cerro de la Gavia, Villa de Vallecas (Madrid).
Jorge Morín y Dionisio Urbina
Conjunto cerámico de una estructura doméstica de la II Edad del Hierro en el yacimiento de la Guirnalda (Quer, Guadalajara).
Sandra Azcárraga, Jorge Morín y Dionisio Urbina
Estudio de la industria lítica en el yacimiento del Cerro de la Gavia, Villa de Vallecas (Madrid)
Germán López y Jorge Morín
TÉCNICAS APLICADAS
Zoorarqueología. La fauna en la Primera Edad del Hierro.
José Yravedra Sainz de los Terreros
Paleoambientes y dinámica antrópica en la Meseta Sur (Madrid) durante la I y II Edad del Hierro.
José Antonio López y Sebastián Pérez Díaz
Estudio arqueobotánico de Las Camas (Villaverde, Madrid): un ejemplo de
interdisciplinariedad para el conocimiento del paisaje vegetal y los usos de las plantas en la Meseta durante el 1er Milenio a.C.
Ethel Allué, Dan Cabanes, Isabel Expósito, Itxaso Euba, Anna Rodríguez, Mario Casas y Francesc Burjachs
INTERPRETACIÓN, DIVULGACIÓN Y DIFUSIÓN
De la arqueología al Patrimonio arqueológico: cuestiones a debate.
Isabel Baquedano
Ética frente a los medios. Destruir y conservar con criterio. El yacimiento de Cerrocuquillo como ejemplo (Villanueva de la Sagra- Toledo).
Montserrat Cruz, Alicia Torija e Isabel Baquedano
Museos Arqueológicos del siglo XXI. El Museo Arqueológico de la Comunidad de Madrid y la difusión de la Edad del Hierro.
Antonio F. Dávila
La utopía del acondicionamiento del Cerro de la Gavia. Un viaje al pasado desde el paisaje postmoderno.
Jorge Morín y Esperanza de Coig O’Donnell
Modelización en 3D como método de investigación y conocimiento de las arquitecturas de la Edad del Hierro.
Francisco J. López Fraile"
CONTEXTOS
Los yacimientos celtibéricos del Alto Tajo y Alto Jalón: el I Milenio a.C. en la Meseta Oriental.
María Luisa Cerdeño
Plaza de Moros y los recintos amurallados carpetanos.
Dionisio Urbina
El final de la Edad del Hierro: el hábitat fortificado del Cerro de la Gavia
Jorge Morín, Dionisio Urbina, Francisco J. López Fraile, Marta Escolà, Amalia Pérez- Juez, Ernesto Agustí y Rafael Barroso
NUEVOS YACIMIENTOS
Hoyo de la Serna, poblado y necrópolis de los inicios de la II Edad del Hierro en la meseta de Ocaña.
Dionisio Urbina y Catalina Urquijo
Cerro Colorado, una necrópolis de los primeros poblados de la II Edad del Hierro.
Dionisio Urbina y Catalina Urquijo
La Guirnalda: un yacimiento de la Edad del Hierro en la provincia de Guadalajara
Ernesto Agustí, Dionisio Urbina, Jorge Morín, Ruth Villaverde, Antxoka Martínez Velasco, Enrique Navarro, Rui de Almeida, Francisco J. López Fraile y Laura Benito
LA CULTURA MATERIAL
Imágenes de la Segunda Edad del Hierro en el Centro Peninsular.
Dionisio Urbina
Estudio de material cerámico en el yacimiento del Cerro de la Gavia, Villa de Vallecas (Madrid).
Jorge Morín y Dionisio Urbina
Conjunto cerámico de una estructura doméstica de la II Edad del Hierro en el yacimiento de la Guirnalda (Quer, Guadalajara).
Sandra Azcárraga, Jorge Morín y Dionisio Urbina
Estudio de la industria lítica en el yacimiento del Cerro de la Gavia, Villa de Vallecas (Madrid)
Germán López y Jorge Morín
TÉCNICAS APLICADAS
Zoorarqueología. La fauna en la Primera Edad del Hierro.
José Yravedra Sainz de los Terreros
Paleoambientes y dinámica antrópica en la Meseta Sur (Madrid) durante la I y II Edad del Hierro.
José Antonio López y Sebastián Pérez Díaz
Estudio arqueobotánico de Las Camas (Villaverde, Madrid): un ejemplo de
interdisciplinariedad para el conocimiento del paisaje vegetal y los usos de las plantas en la Meseta durante el 1er Milenio a.C.
Ethel Allué, Dan Cabanes, Isabel Expósito, Itxaso Euba, Anna Rodríguez, Mario Casas y Francesc Burjachs
INTERPRETACIÓN, DIVULGACIÓN Y DIFUSIÓN
De la arqueología al Patrimonio arqueológico: cuestiones a debate.
Isabel Baquedano
Ética frente a los medios. Destruir y conservar con criterio. El yacimiento de Cerrocuquillo como ejemplo (Villanueva de la Sagra- Toledo).
Montserrat Cruz, Alicia Torija e Isabel Baquedano
Museos Arqueológicos del siglo XXI. El Museo Arqueológico de la Comunidad de Madrid y la difusión de la Edad del Hierro.
Antonio F. Dávila
La utopía del acondicionamiento del Cerro de la Gavia. Un viaje al pasado desde el paisaje postmoderno.
Jorge Morín y Esperanza de Coig O’Donnell
Modelización en 3D como método de investigación y conocimiento de las arquitecturas de la Edad del Hierro.
Francisco J. López Fraile"
Research Interests: Archaeology, Roman History, Zooarchaeology, Museum Studies, Palinology, and 54 moreLithic Technology, Roman Pottery, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), 3D printing, 3D Modelling (Architecture), Celtiberian History, Museology, Lithics, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Hispania (Archaeology), Iron Age (Archaeology), Archeologia, Mediterranean archaeology, Arqueología, Protohistory, Iron Age, Oppida, Protohistoric Iberian Peninsula, Early Iron Age, Incineration, Hispania, Museologia, Edad Del Hierro, Late Bronze Age, Mediterranean Protohistory, Archéologie, Phisical anthropology, Campaniense, Cerâmica campaniense, Iron Age pottery, Celtiberian, Cerámica ática de barniz negro, Protohistoria, Commensality, Protohistoire, Phoenician trade, Protohistoric Archaeology, Hispania romana, Ritual Practices, Carpology, Cerámica De Barniz Negro, Republicano, Imitación, Palinología, Roman Archaeology, Celtiberian Archaeology, Carpologia, La ceràmica campaniense de Emporion y Rhode, Archeology, Carpologie, Carpetanos, Carpetanians, Cerro De La Gavia, 3D archeology, and 3D Reconstructions in Archeology
Abstract (Late Pleistocene population dynamics in Central Iberia: a new geoarchaeological project): We present a new research project aimed at investigating population dynamics and human-environment interactions during the second half of... more
Abstract (Late Pleistocene population dynamics in Central Iberia: a new geoarchaeological project): We present a new research project aimed at investigating population dynamics and human-environment interactions during the second half of the Late Pleistocene in Central Iberia. In this communication we discuss the state-of-the-art on the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic settlement of the Iberian plateau and we propose new avenues of research for testing the validity of the currently accepted interpretations. It is our hypothesis that models on Late Pleistocene population dynamics in the Iberian interior lands are still biased by the poor quantity and quality of data available, especially for the Upper Palaeolithic. Our project is focused on the geoarchaeological study of 3 selected sites located in the Upper Tagus basin (Northern area of Guadalajara province, Spain).Our methods include micromorpholgy, high resolution sedimentology, 14C, OSL and U/Th dating, pollen, phytolith, microfaunal and anthracological analyses, as well as lithic technology, taphonomy and zooarchaeology.
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(Late Pleistocene population dynamics in Central Iberia: a new geoarchaeological project): We present a new research project aimed at investigating population dynamics and human-environment interactions during the second half of the Late... more
(Late Pleistocene population dynamics in Central Iberia: a new geoarchaeological project): We present a new research project aimed at investigating population dynamics and human-environment interactions during the second half of the Late Pleistocene in Central Iberia. In this communication we discuss the state-of-the-art on the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic settlement of the Iberian plateau and we propose new avenues of research for testing the validity of the currently accepted interpretations. It is our hypothesis that models on Late Pleistocene population dynamics in the Iberian interior lands are still biased by the poor quantity and quality of data available, especially for the Upper Palaeolithic. Our project is focused on the geoarchaeological study of 3 selected sites located in the Upper Tagus basin (Northern area of Guadalajara province, Spain).Our methods include micromorpholgy, high resolution sedimentology, 14C, OSL and U/Th dating, pollen, phytolith, microfaunal and anthracological analyses, as well as lithic technology, taphonomy and zooarchaeology.
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Segundo volumen de la serie Primer Milenio a.C. en la meseta central. Creemos que con las contribuciones aquí presentadas se agranda la comprensión de la Edad del Hierro en el centro peninsular, y que poco a poco se va superando ese... more
Segundo volumen de la serie Primer Milenio a.C. en la meseta central. Creemos que con las contribuciones aquí presentadas se agranda la comprensión de la Edad del Hierro en el centro peninsular, y que poco a poco se va superando ese estadio en el que el panorama historiográfi co estaba dominado por la precariedad del registro, y es tiempo de comenzar a elaborar hipótesis fundadas sobre los procesos históricos que rigieron el desarrollo de las sociedades del último Milenio a.n.e. en esas tierras.
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Segundo volumen donde se recogen distintos trabajos sobre la Segunda Edad del Hierro en el centro de España, desde sus inicios hasta la llegada de los romanos, con contribuciones sobre contextos generales, nuevos yacimientos, estudios... more
Segundo volumen donde se recogen distintos trabajos sobre la Segunda Edad del Hierro en el centro de España, desde sus inicios hasta la llegada de los romanos, con contribuciones sobre contextos generales, nuevos yacimientos, estudios sobre aspectos de la cultura material, tesnologías aplicadas y un anexo sobre divulgación y difusión.
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Recent studies show that the motillas of the Bronze Age in La Mancha contain the oldest wells in the Iberian Peninsula. But why are there no motillas in Campo de Montiel, a territory traditionally placed inside this cultural area? In... more
Recent studies show that the motillas of the Bronze Age in La Mancha contain the oldest wells in the Iberian Peninsula. But why are there no motillas in Campo de Montiel, a territory traditionally placed inside this cultural area? In Castillejo del Bonete, an archaeological site located in Campo de Montiel, there is a cave used and sealed during Late Prehistory. We here report the first paleohidrogeological interdisciplinary research in La Mancha, analyzing some spring and freatic levels from the Campo de Montiel aquifer, as well as from inside the Castillejo del Bonete chasm. Our findings suggest an association between the hydrogeological substrate and the spatial distribution of the motillas, discarding the idea that the chasm at Castillejo del Bonete could be a mine or an aquifer access. This supports the idea that Castillejo del Bonete was an exceptional symbolic monument during the Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age, within a new type of site of the cultural group of the Bronze Age of La Mancha.
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RESUMEN: Castillejo del Bonete es un complejo tumular situado en el borde meridional de la Meseta Ibérica, ocupado en fechas calcolíticas y de la Edad del Bronce, vinculado a la Cultura de las Motillas. Materiales arqueológicos muy... more
RESUMEN: Castillejo del Bonete es un complejo tumular situado en el borde meridional de la Meseta Ibérica, ocupado en fechas calcolíticas y de la Edad del Bronce, vinculado a la Cultura de las Motillas. Materiales arqueológicos muy diversos han sido recuperados asociados a las arquitecturas del lugar (túmulos, corredores, potentes muros, etc.). Se presenta un avance de la investigación paleoecológica sobre las colecciones de carbón, polen y microvertebrados. Además se presentan cuentas de piedra y madera, colgantes de concha, material lítico, la colección cerámica, nuevas metalografías e industria metálica y botones de marfil. El conjunto de estas evidencias arqueológicas pone de manifiesto la celebración ritual de banquetes y ofrendas durante la Prehistoria Reciente en una cueva monumentalizada mediante túmulos en el interior de la Península Ibérica.
PALABRAS CLAVE: cerámica, piedra, metal, madera, marfil, malacofauna, microvertebrados, variscita, carbón, polen, cultura megalítica.
ABSTRACT: Castillejo del Bonete is a tumulus complex located on the southern edge of Iberian Plateau, occupied during Chalcolithic and Bronze Age periods, and linked to the Culture of the Motillas. Diverse archaeological objects have been recovered in association with the architectures of the site (barrows, corridors, big walls, etc.). A preview of paleoecological research on coal, pollen or microvertebrates studied are presented, wirh stone and wood accounts, shell pendants, lithic materials, pottery, new metallographies and metallic tools and ivory buttons. All these archaeological evidence may reflect the ritual celebration of feasts and offerings during Late Prehistory in a cave monumentalised in the interior of Iberian Peninsula.
Key words: Pottery, stone, metal, wood, ivory, malacofauna, microvertebrates, variscite, charcoal, pollen, Megalithic Culture.
PALABRAS CLAVE: cerámica, piedra, metal, madera, marfil, malacofauna, microvertebrados, variscita, carbón, polen, cultura megalítica.
ABSTRACT: Castillejo del Bonete is a tumulus complex located on the southern edge of Iberian Plateau, occupied during Chalcolithic and Bronze Age periods, and linked to the Culture of the Motillas. Diverse archaeological objects have been recovered in association with the architectures of the site (barrows, corridors, big walls, etc.). A preview of paleoecological research on coal, pollen or microvertebrates studied are presented, wirh stone and wood accounts, shell pendants, lithic materials, pottery, new metallographies and metallic tools and ivory buttons. All these archaeological evidence may reflect the ritual celebration of feasts and offerings during Late Prehistory in a cave monumentalised in the interior of Iberian Peninsula.
Key words: Pottery, stone, metal, wood, ivory, malacofauna, microvertebrates, variscite, charcoal, pollen, Megalithic Culture.
Research Interests: Funerary Archaeology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Chalcolithic Archaeology, Burial mounds (Archaeology), and Late Neolithic Copper Age Personal Ornaments Beads Pendents Bracelets Jewelry Portugal Spain Iberia Social Complexity Craft Specialization Political Economy Exchange Exotic Raw Materials Ivory Variscite Slate Plaques
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En este artículo presentamos un nuevo proyecto interdisciplinar dirigido a investigar los depósitos del Pleistoceno Superior aún conservados en el Seno A de la Cueva de Los Casares (Riba de Saelices, Guadalajara). Tras una reconstrucción... more
En este artículo presentamos un nuevo proyecto interdisciplinar dirigido a investigar los depósitos del Pleistoceno Superior aún conservados en el Seno A de la Cueva de Los Casares (Riba de Saelices, Guadalajara). Tras una reconstrucción histórica de las investigaciones desarrolladas en la cavidad, sintetizamos los objetivos, hipótesis de trabajo y métodos de nuestro proyecto, para acabar presentando los resultados preliminares obte-nidos en la primera campaña de excavación en Los Casares. A través de la recogida de columnas de sedimento para análisis micromorfológicos y sedimentológicos, muestras de sedimento para análisis polínicos y de fitolitos, o carbones, hueso y espeleotemas para dataciones cronométricas, pretendemos obtener información que per-mita comprender los procesos de formación del depósito arqueológico del Seno A, conocer su cronología, e in-vestigar las adaptaciones al medio de los Neandertales que habitaron en Los Casares. Nuestras investigaciones en esta cavidad se enmarcan en un proyecto más amplio que estudia la relación entre las dinámicas de pobla-miento y los cambios ecológicos ocurridos en la región central de la Península Ibérica durante el Pleistoceno Su-perior.
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The integration of data provided by different archaeobotanical disciplines, in this case and palynology and anthracology, offers interesting possibilities in paleoenvironmental studies. While both offer different information, both are... more
The integration of data provided by different archaeobotanical disciplines, in this case and palynology and anthracology, offers interesting possibilities in paleoenvironmental studies. While both offer
different information, both are complementary. The results obtained in the Sierra de Cantabria archaeobotanical studies indicate the presence from the Early Neolithic of deciduous forests, which are reduced gradually due to human action. Deforestation is increasing along the sequence in parallel with the progressive introduction of agriculture and pastures for livestock. From all the fuels that are available in the environment, human groups selected the most appreciated according to their needs. Is especially evident exploitation yew and deciduous Quercus.
different information, both are complementary. The results obtained in the Sierra de Cantabria archaeobotanical studies indicate the presence from the Early Neolithic of deciduous forests, which are reduced gradually due to human action. Deforestation is increasing along the sequence in parallel with the progressive introduction of agriculture and pastures for livestock. From all the fuels that are available in the environment, human groups selected the most appreciated according to their needs. Is especially evident exploitation yew and deciduous Quercus.
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Palaeobotanical data show that during the middle Holocene a major expansion of yew populations occurred, occupying places that were not previously registered.