Abstract
A series of samples extracted from the stratigraphic profile of a possible cultivation terrace located in the surroundings of an Iron Age hillfort in Galicia were used for pollen analysis. The combined results of both the stratigraphic information and the pollen analysis allow the proposal of a sequence of landscape transformation where, rather unexpectedly, the greater intensification in the use of the area, corresponding to the occupation of the hillfort and the construction of cultivation structures, coincides with an increase in the forested areas in the environment. However, the results of the analysis also document the construction of a landscape in which the effects of human action are progressively more visible.
Highlights
A series of samples extracted from the stratigraphic profile of a possible cultivation terrace located in the sur
Roundings of an Iron Age hillfort in Galicia were used for pollen analysis
The combined results of both the stratigraphic information and the pollen analysis allow the proposal of a sequence of landscape transformation where, rather unexpectedly, the greater intensification in the use of the area, corresponding to the occupation of the hillfort and the construction of cultivation structures, coincides with an increase in the forested areas in the environment
Summary
El análisis de las formas de los espacios agrarios es una de las líneas más exploradas dentro de algunas corrientes de la arqueología del paisaje, especialmente las desarrolladas en Francia o Italia (p.e. Chouquer y Favory 1991; Guilaine (ed.) 1991, entre otros muchos). Para el caso de la Península Ibérica, hay también una ya larga tradición centrada en las formas de los paisajes de. La lectura arqueológica de este conjunto de evidencias permitió una publicación de las mismas a partir de su interpretación estratigráfica (Parcero-Oubiña 1999) y de la combinación de ésta con un análisis contextual de su localización (Parcero-Oubiña 2006). En este trabajo aportamos un nuevo nivel de significación, que viene dado por la disponibilidad de resultados de analíticas realizadas sobre muestras tomadas en algunas de estas estructuras, y que permiten ofrecer una caracterización más detallada de las mismas desde una perspectiva paleoambiental hasta ahora no explorada
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