As anywhere else, GIS is an essential tool in Galician archaeological research for examining and analysing spatial data. This is something quite clear in megalithic studies where in the last years these methods have been used for contrasting hypotheses regarding locational preferences drawn from fieldwork. As such, in this paper, a study of locational patterns of the megalithic sites located in the flattened top territories of A Serra do Barbanza (Galicia, NW Spain) is carried out. Using a site-predictive modelling approach, several environmental covariates were analysed to see their role in the distribution of mounds. Next, we study the clustering of megaliths via second-order modelling. The results obtained led us to conclude that the distribution of sites shows an aggregation at very local scales, a trend that can only be explained by intended site spacing dynamics that may have taken place over millennia. Using significance testing via Monte Carlo Simulation, the outcomes of this research allowed us to identify possible preferences regarding the selection of particular landscapes for the location of
The mound phenomenon is one of the most common topics in the studies of the Prehistory of the Iberian Nortwest and, more specifically, of the Barbanza Peninsula. A topic still determined today by a whole series of questions that have been around for a long time, in spite of the advances in the discipline. In order to help to solve some of them, we will carry out the spatial analysis of the mounds in the study area, comparing their characteristics by means of the joint use of Geographical Information Systems (GRASS GIS) and statistical tools (R), The results suggest that the distribution of the tombs in the Barbanza Peninsula is highly conditioned by the mountain slopes and that mounds are located in open spaces, but not in particularly prominent points
Procédese á revisión dos traballos previos de prospección na serra do Barbanza, agora ampliados aos montes de Macenda e Bealo na procura de asentamentos gandeiros/pastorís. No curso deses traballos localizáronse, ademais, un interesante xacemento de cronoloxía calcolítica e un castro inédito. Asemade, dáse conta dos resultados das intervencións en dous xacementos: un de carácter gandeiro, que presenta un palimpsesto estrutural e cronolóxico (Río Barbanza); e outro, relacionado con sistemas de control territorial (Outeiro da Torre).
A Serra do Barbanza espertou especial interese entre os investigadores galegos para o estudo do fenómeno tumular dada a gran concentración que presenta, contrastando coa total ausencia de xacementos domésticos; pero nos últimos anos están aflorando un conxunto de xacementos arqueolóxicos extraordinarios, tanto pola densidade dos mesmos como polas súas características, que modifica substancialmente a imaxe que se tiña da Serra como unha área marxinal cara un espazo intensamente ocupado e explotado. A escavación de varios destes novos xacementos permitiron constatar a presenza de hábitats domésticos e de ocupacións reiteradas no tempo dende o Bronce Final ou Idade do Ferro ata a Alta Idade Media.
Se analizan algunas problemáticas de la geolocalización de yacimientos arqueológicos en relación con los aprovechamientos forestales a raíz de una serie de cambios normativos. La puesta en marcha de un portal web corporativo destinado a la tramitación de los procedimientos relativos a aprovechamientos forestales pone en evidencia una serie de disfunciones en la clasificación de los bienes, la delimitación de áreas afectadas, la localización de los bienes y la calidad del registro arqueológico.
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