Agriculture between the third and first millennium bc in the Balearic Islands: the archaeobotanical data

Pérez‐Jordà, Guillem; Peña‐Chocarro, Leonor; Picornell-Gelabert, Llorenç; Marco, Yolanda Carrión

doi:10.1007/s00334-017-0618-y

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“…Naviform society constitutes the first sedentary megalithic culture established on the archipelago, occupying all the islands' biotopes. The productive economy was based on cultivation of cereals and pulses(Pérez-Jordà et al, 2017) and on sheep/goat, pigs and cattle husbandry, the former being the most numerous livestock…”

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From influence to impact: The multifunctional land use in Mediterranean prehistory emerging from palynology of archaeological sites (8.0-2.8 ka BP)

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Archaeobotany is used to discover details on local land uses in prehistoric settlements developed during the middle and beginning of late Holocene. Six archaeological sites from four countries (Spain, Italy, Greece, and Turkey) have pollen and charcoal records showing clear signs of the agrarian systems that had developed in the Mediterranean basin during different cultural phases, from pre-Neolithic to Recent Bronze Age. A selected list of pollen taxa and sums, including cultivated trees, other woody species, crops and annual or perennial synanthropic plants are analysed for land use reconstructions. In general, cultivation has a lower image in palynology than forestry, and past land uses became visible when oakwoods were affected by human activities. On-site palynology allows us to recognise the first influence of humans even before it can be recognised in off-site sequences, and off-site sequences can allow us to determine the area of influence of a site. Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological sites show similar land use dynamics implying oak exploitation, causing local deforestation, and cultivation of cereal fields in the area or around the site. Although a substantial difference makes the Neolithic influence quite distant from the Bronze Age impact, mixed systems of land exploitation emerged everywhere. Multiple land use activities exist (multifunctional landscapes) at the same time within the area of influence of a site. Since the Neolithic, people have adopted a diffuse pattern of land use involving a combination of diverse activities, using trees–crops–domesticated animals. The most recurrent combination included wood exploitation, field cultivation and animal breeding. The lesson from the past is that the multifunctional land use, combining sylvo-pastoral and crop farming mixed systems, has been widely adopted for millennia, being more sustainable than the monoculture and a promising way to develop our economy.

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“…There are problems in attempting to define the content of the amphorae arriving from Ibiza. It is thought that a great part of those produced in Ibiza served to export wine [35] in spite of practically no archaeobotanical data on the island characterising its agricultural activity except the presence of fruit from the 7th to 6th centuries BC [177]. Much of the basis for local wine production stems from the discovery of trenches excavated into the bedrock thought to be linked to planting vines [178,179] despite the problem that the dating of these features is not secure.…”

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The Emergence of Arboriculture in the 1st Millennium BC along the Mediterranean’s “Far West”

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This paper presents the history of the introduction and expansion of arboriculture during the 1st millennium BC from the South of the Iberian Peninsula to the South of France. The earliest evidence of arboriculture at the beginning of the 1st millennium hails from the south of the Iberia from where it spread northward along the peninsula’s eastern edge. The different fruits (grape, olive, fig, almond, pomegranate and apple/pear) arrived together in certain areas in spite of uneven distribution and acceptance by local communities. Grape was the crop with the greatest diffusion. The greater diversity of crops in the southern half of the peninsula is also noteworthy. Their development paved the way for a commercial agricultural model in some territories where fruits and their derivatives, such as wine and oil, played vital roles.

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“…BCE, representing stable human occupation of the island . Although the bioarchaeological information is scarce, it seems clear that from this period onwards, wellestablished agriculture and husbandry developed in the archipelago (Pérez-Jordà et al 2018;Ramis 2018).…”

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“…Poaceae pollen is well-detected in all samples, reaching important percentages in many cases and confirming the existence of open areas near the sites. Accordingly, archaeopalynological results suggest that the landscape surrounding the prehistoric settlements on Mallorca were open landscapes in which crop fields and pasturelands were farmed since the settlement of the Naviform villages(Mercuri et al 2019), as also attested by carpological results(Pérez-Jordà et al 2018). The territories adjacent to human settlements would then be characterised by a mosaic landscape composed of a patchy distribution of crop fields, pasturelands…”

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Late Holocene Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Miller) woodlands in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean): Investigation of their distribution and the role of human management based on anthracological, dendro-anthracological and archaeopalynological data

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Vives

Marco

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Agriculture between the third and first millennium bc in the Balearic Islands: the archaeobotanical data

Cited by 25 publications

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From influence to impact: The multifunctional land use in Mediterranean prehistory emerging from palynology of archaeological sites (8.0-2.8 ka BP)

From influence to impact: The multifunctional land use in Mediterranean prehistory emerging from palynology of archaeological sites (8.0-2.8 ka BP)

The Emergence of Arboriculture in the 1st Millennium BC along the Mediterranean’s “Far West”

Late Holocene Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Miller) woodlands in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean): Investigation of their distribution and the role of human management based on anthracological, dendro-anthracological and archaeopalynological data

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