Transhumant herding systems in Iberia

Mier, Margarita Fernández; Tente, Catarina

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“…Although there are some examples of long-20 distance livestock movements during the Early Middle Ages, the long distance movement of herds was definitively established during the 12th and 13th centuries, as in other Iberian mountains, e.g. the Gredos Sierra in the Central Range (López-Sáez et al, 2014, 2018 and the western Cantabrian Mountains (Fernández Mier et al, 2013;Fernández Mier and Tente, 2018).…”

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“…The term "transterminance", or "valley transhumance" (Fernández Mier et al, 2013), refers to local livestock movements within a mountain, in which there is no exploitation of grasslands outside the mountain. In this case, livestock remains in the valley bottom around villages and hamlets during the cold season and moves about 10 to 25 km to the high mountain region during summer, so that all management occurs within the same mountain (Fernández Mier and Tente, 2018;Fernández Lozano and Cabero Diéguez, 2017). Antolín et al (2018) noted there is confusion in use of the terms "transhumance" and "transterminance" because the literature does not provide clear definitions and because there are multiple interpretations of transhumance (Costello and Svensson, 2018).…”

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Transhumance and long-term deforestation in the subalpine belt of the central Spanish Pyrenees: An interdisciplinary approach

García‐Ruiz

Tomás-Faci

Blasco

et al. 2020

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Section: The Late Middle Ages (10th To 15th Centuries): a Key Period ...mentioning

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Transhumance and long-term deforestation in the subalpine belt of the central Spanish Pyrenees: An interdisciplinary approach

García‐Ruiz

Tomás-Faci

Blasco

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“…This has implications both for the methods and policies used to protect them and for our understanding of their historical survival and expansion. Although several recent studies have explored the possibilities for reintroducing (pre)historic management practices such as heathland farming and burning (Jansen & Diemont, 2005 ; Mier & Tente, 2018 ; Woestenburg, 2018 ), there is yet no consistent knowledge about how human management practices translate into heathlands with different turnover rates.…”

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Mapping the ecological resilience of Atlantic postglacial heathlands

Løvschal

Damgaard

2022

Journal of Applied Ecology

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Anthropogenic heathlands are semi‐natural ecosystems with a unique cultural and biodiversity value, considered worthy of preservation across most of the world. Their rate of loss, however, is alarming. Currently, we know little about the heathlands' actual span of resilience affordances and their association with abiotic and anthropogenic factors, including how much additional intervention they need to persist. Consequently, we are missing out on vital knowledge for conservation, management and the historical persistence of heathlands. This paper develops a method to assess the ecological resilience affordances of Atlantic postglacial heaths in the absence of human management. We use 12 existing cases of heathland succession to establish a four‐step resilience grade for each site, which we regress onto a series of explaining factors and use it in predicting heath resilience across postglacial Atlantic Northern Europe. We find that temperature, humidity, elevation and sandiness have a positive correlation with high heathland resilience. Our predictive mapping shows an uneven distribution of ecological heath resilience across Atlantic Northern Europe within an area of 1,000 × 1,200 km of 5 × 5 km resolution. Historic heathland distributions far exceed areas that afford high heath resilience, suggesting that heath distribution and persistence depend on both abiotic and anthropogenic factors. Policy implications: The map predicting the ecological resilience of Atlantic postglacial heaths can be used by managers working towards heath preservation and restoration to prioritize conservation efforts and to plan management practices across Atlantic Northern Europe. Together with the predictive model, it provides an important initial screening tool to assess heathland resilience in the absence of management as well as the impact of atmospheric nitrogen. The results are equally relevant for scholars who are interested in humans' role in increasing and decreasing ecosystem resilience. Our predictive method can be applied in other regions across the world by adding regionally specific variables.

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“…Some huts built in perishable materials were identified, as well as the remains of a wall and a collapsed palisade. Given its location on a high mountain plateau, Soida probably specialized in the seasonal mountain grazing of sheep and goats (Fernández-Mier and Tente 2018;Tente and Fernández-Mier 2021).…”

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“…These sites share some common features such as the position in discreet spots in the landscape, but normally near a small valley, the use of perishable materials to build domestic units and palisades; the pottery ware and the use of a wall/palisade to surround the settlement. At all the sites, a fire was identified and dated around the second half of the 10th century and the beginning of the following (Tente and Carvalho 2011;Tente 2018). With the exception of Senhora do Barrocal, most of the sites possess a single occupation level, which was destroyed by the fire that allowed the preservation of plant remains, which are presented and discussed below.…”

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Agriculture, gathering, and food processing in the 10th century in central-north Portugal

TENTE¹,

SEABRA²,

TERESO³

2022

Paisajes, Espacios Y Materialidades: Arqueología Rural Altomedieval en La Península Ibérica

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Archaeological excavations at several 10th century villages in the north-central region of Portugal have recovered large numbers of plant macroremains that have been preserved due to fires that affected the sites. The burned remains allow an approach to issues of the agriculture, collection and food consumption carried out by the rural communities that inhabited these sites.This paper presents and discusses the results of the analysis of carpological and anthracological remains. It also discusses some questions of sampling methodology. In fact, different approaches to sample collection greatly affect the results and, consequently, the image that can be built of the consumption and production of food by early medieval rural populations.The results are indicative of communities with a great diversity of cultivation solutions (cereals and legumes) that would be complemented by gathered products such as berries and fruits. The way in which food was stored and processed for consumption can also be detected by other archaeological indicators such as pottery and grinding elements. There is also evidence that points to the cultivation and working of flax. Some weaving elements recovered are thought to have been used to work flax and wool.

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Transhumant herding systems in Iberia

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Transhumance and long-term deforestation in the subalpine belt of the central Spanish Pyrenees: An interdisciplinary approach

Transhumance and long-term deforestation in the subalpine belt of the central Spanish Pyrenees: An interdisciplinary approach

Mapping the ecological resilience of Atlantic postglacial heathlands

Agriculture, gathering, and food processing in the 10th century in central-north Portugal

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