Holocene environmental change in Eastern Spain reconstructed through the multiproxy study of a pedo-sedimentary sequence from Les Alcusses (Valencia, Spain)

Tallón-Armada, Rebeca; Costa-Casais, Manuela; Schellekens, Judith; Rodríguez, Teresa Taboada; Sánchez, Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz; García, Carlos Ferrer; Schaad, Daniel Abel; López‐Sáez, José Antonio; Marco, Yolanda Carrión; Cortizas, Antonio Martínez

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2014.03.023

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“…and contemporary eras. In the Iberian era in SU 4, it appeared in conjunction with high values of Glomus and anthropogenic nitrophilous herbs (primarily Cardueae and Cichorioideae), associated with deforestation‐mediated erosion (declining numbers of evergreen Quercus ) and farming (Tallón‐Armada et al, , p. 35). Physical‐chemical analysis also detected higher Ca levels in SU 4 than in the rest of the sequence, possibly denoting practices such as fertilization or liming (Ferro‐Vázquez, Martínez‐Cortizas, Nóvoa‐Muñoz, Ballesteros‐Arias & Criado‐Boado, 2014, p. 28).…”

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Agrarian landscapes in the Iberian Iron Age: Mountain communities and land use in southeastern Iberia

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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.

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Agrarian landscapes in the Iberian Iron Age: Mountain communities and land use in southeastern Iberia

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“…Before radiocarbon analysis, soil samples (3B, 2Ab, Ah‐C) were treated in the Department of Edaphology and Organic Chemistry of the University of Santiago de Compostela. The fine earth fraction (<2 mm) was shaken in ultrapure distilled water for 16 hr, and the suspension filtrated using a 50‐mm mesh‐size sieve, thereby removing sand, roots, and large undecomposed organic remains (Ferro‐Vázquez, Martínez‐Cortizas, Nóvoa‐Muñoz, Balleteros‐Arias, & Criado‐Boado, ; Kaal, Martínez Cortizas, Buurman, & Criado Boado, ; Tallón‐Armada et al, ). The charcoal sample (Terrace 0, on top of horizon 2C2) was obtained through flotation with a floating tank equipped with a 0.5 mm mesh.…”

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Reconstructing past terraced agrarian landscapes in the Ebro valley: The deserted village of Torrentejo in the Basque Country, Spain

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Nicosia

2019

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The historical agrarian landscape features of the deserted medieval village of Torrentejo (Ebro Valley, southern Basque Country, Rioja Alavesa region) are presented here. This study relies on analyses of agricultural lands on terraces and, secondarily, of domestic occupation, funerary spaces, and of a medieval church. An archaeological excavation was carried out around the church, covering 800 m 2 , and exposing more than 2 m of archaeological deposits. The detailed study of 6 ha of terraced land made use of oral and written sources, historical aerial photos, and fieldwalking survey and mapping of each feature and retaining wall. Trial trenches were studied by means of soil analyses and micromorphology. The integration of buried and surface evidence provided a comprehensive sequence of phases of terrace construction and allowed us to document the progressive expansion of vineyard production. Three main phases within the last 1,300 years were identified and dated using radiocarbon. This paper examines the correlations between terrace fields, landscape history, settlement changes, and agrarian practices. K E Y W O R D S ancient agriculture, medieval settlements, micromorphology, terraces, vineyards SUPPORTING INFORMATION Additional supporting information may be found online in the Supporting Information section at the end of the article.

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“…El paleopaisaje inferido en Limoneros se asemeja ciertamente al documentado en la Cova dels Calderons durante el Neolítico antiguo (Ruiz Alonso et al 2018), igualmente emplazada en el valle del Vinalopó, paisaje éste que progresivamente iría reduciendo su cobertura arbóreo-arbustiva fruto de una ingente antropización tal y como se desprende de los datos arqueopalinológicos de Galanet, un yacimiento del IV-III milenios cal BC ubicado también en Elche (López Sáez et al 2014). Los datos de Limoneros también guardan cierta concordancia con otros registros polínicos de zonas precosteras del Levante peninsular obtenidos en depósitos naturales con la misma cronología (Burjachs et al 1997;Tallón et al 2014;Llorente et al 2016), mostrando la dominancia de formaciones vegetales termófilas en estos momentos del Holoceno medio.…”

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El asentamiento neolítico de Limoneros (Elche, Alicante)

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En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de las intervenciones de urgencia llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento de Limoneros, asentamiento al aire libre ocupado durante la primera mitad del V milenio cal BC localizado al sur de la ciudad de Elche (Alicante), en la llanura aluvial del río Vinalopó. Durante los trabajos de excavación se reconocieron distintas estructuras negativas entre las que destacan dos tramos de foso, silos y cubetas, estructuras que quedaron amortizadas en última instancia como zonas de desecho. El análisis global de las evidencias recuperadas permite caracterizar las actividades desarrolladas por una comunidad campesina en un espacio geográfico articulado por el Vinalopó, ámbito en el cual se han documentado un buen número de asentamientos asociados a este momento, convirtiéndose en un marco referente para explicar la expansión y consolidación de las sociedades neolíticas en el sur del Levante peninsular.

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Holocene environmental change in Eastern Spain reconstructed through the multiproxy study of a pedo-sedimentary sequence from Les Alcusses (Valencia, Spain)

Cited by 18 publications

References 68 publications

Agrarian landscapes in the Iberian Iron Age: Mountain communities and land use in southeastern Iberia

Agrarian landscapes in the Iberian Iron Age: Mountain communities and land use in southeastern Iberia

Reconstructing past terraced agrarian landscapes in the Ebro valley: The deserted village of Torrentejo in the Basque Country, Spain

El asentamiento neolítico de Limoneros (Elche, Alicante)

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