Winter- and Spring-foddering of Sheep/Goat in the Bronze Age Site of Fiavè-Carera, Northern Italy

Karg, Sabine

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“…The wood fodder was usually exploited during the winter seasons when grazing was not possible. This strategy has been documented in other archaeological sites and recorded ethnographically (Haas et al, 1988;Rasmussen, 1993;Karg, 1998). The presence of faecal spherulites in all the samples is a clear indicator of the dung deposition in the cave (Brochier et al, 1992;Canti, 1997, Canti, 1999.…”

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Formation processes through archaeobotanical remains: The case of the Bronze Age levels in El Mirador cave, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain

Cabanes

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El Mirador site has a sequence formed by burnt dung resulting from pastoral activities during the Bronze Age and the Neolithic period. Because there is a high sediment variation in the profile, facies descriptions were used to guide the archaeologists in their work. Paleobotanical and mineralogical analyses were used to describe and understand the formation of the facies from the MIR 4 level. Furthermore, the paleobotanical results serve to reconstruct the landscape in Atapuerca during the Bronze Age. Most seeds recovered are from Triticum aestivum/durum, but other cereals and also Leguminoseae and fruits have been identified. Charcoal analysis has yielded mainly deciduous and evergreen Quercus. Pollen analysis has revealed a low arboreal cover, with Pinus, Quercus and riverside trees. Most of the pollen record corresponds to herbs, such as Poaceae and Asteraceae. All these results indicate a mosaic of different biota with forest, pastureland and cultivated fields near the site. Most of the phytoliths come from the leaves and stems of festucoid grasses. However, there are some differences in the phytolith type and number, the amount of faecal spherulites, the mineralogical composition and the percentage of multicellular structures that indicate that not all the facies in the site have been formed in the same way. Thus, the work carried out has demonstrated that some facies are related more to agricultural activities than to pastoralism activities, and that other facies have been affected by incipient diagenetic processes.

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Formation processes through archaeobotanical remains: The case of the Bronze Age levels in El Mirador cave, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain

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“…tion This study explores the effectiveness of using dung from hay-fed livestock in order to reconstruct the surrounding standing vegetation, as opposed to using archaeological dung to study prehistoric farming methods (Akeret et al 1999;Karg 1998 study, primarily because it is rarely encountered in archaeobotany. Moreover, it would require a considerable amount of extra lab work and substantial extra discussion, which is beyond the scope of this paper.…”

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Reconstructing vegetation diversity in coastal landscapes

Schepers¹

2014

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Book and cover designChristineKlein,Bremen www.christineklein.nl Photos MansSchepers,RenéCappersandIngerWoltingeProduction RoelfBarkhuis www.barkhuis.nl Financial support StichtingNederlandsMuseumvoor AnthropologieenPraehistorie © 2014 Mans SchepersAllrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproducedortransmittedinanyform or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwrittenformfromtheauthor. PEOPLE AND VEGETATION Reconstructing vegetation is far from a walk in the park - yet it is a prerequisite for a fuller understanding of past human behaviour in all its aspects. The exploitation of the landscape is not restricted to the direct use of plants. It is the grass we will not let grow under our feet, the forest we cannot see for the trees, and the nettle we are willing to grasp. To reduce vegetation to the berries we chew, the meadows we graze our livestock on, and the oaks we fell to support our roofs is an anthropocentric simplification of the complicated interaction between humans and their environment. This relationship is relevant to, and has been studied from, a variety of perspectives, both historical and contemporary (Sukopp 1969). ISBN (dissertation edition)Traditionally, archaeological studies (and archaeologists) have split into two camps. On the one hand, there are the so-called 'specialist studies', such as ceramic analysis, lithic analysis, and zooarchaeological analysis. On the other hand, General introduction 0010there are the more general studies, in which various aspects of one period are brought together. In this tradition, the study of past vegetation would be regarded as a specialist palaeobotanical (also known as archaeobotanical) study. However, the relevance of the natural environment for understanding human behaviour has long been acknowledged by more generalist archaeologists, in some cases as a result of the archaeologist's background in biology or physical geography (two Dutch examples are Louwe Kooijmans [1974, 1985] and Waterbolk [1954]).Two main research questions underlie this study, of which the first governs the second: Is it possible to improve upon the reconstruction of past vegetation at the most detailed level? To answer this first research question, several approaches are adopted. First, the potential of applying both recent and long-established methodology and data from present-day vegetation ecology to archaeobotanical data is explored. Modern ecological field studies are an essential element for the interpretation of the archaeobotanical record (Butzer 1982, 171-172). Second, the relationship between some frequently studied types of archaeological contexts and their botanical composition (as opposed to standing vegetation) is studied in detail. It is alleged that it is possible to successfully address past vegetation composition by seeking novelty in the analysis, rather than by seeking new proxies (stage 5 rather than 4 in Fig. 1.5). In this study, the emphasis lies on the...

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“…Cabe destacar que estos sedimentos representan productos de acumulación casi exclusivamente (2) Dichos sedimentos han sido descritos en yacimientos y unidades comprendidas entre el Neolítico antiguo y la Edad del Hierro, en la margen mediterránea: Arene Candide (Maggi, 1997;Macphail et al, 1997), Fiavè-Carera (Karg, 1998), Riparo Gabán (Angelucci y Boschian, e.p.) y varias cuevas del Carso de Trieste (Boschian y Montagnari-Kokelj, 2000), en Italia; Fontjuvenal (Brochier, 1988), Grotte Antonnaire (Argant et al, 1991) y Caune de Bélesta (Brochier et al, 1998) entre otros yacimientos franceses (véase también Brochier, 1983;Brochier, 1996;Courty et al, 1992); Cova del Parco, Cova de la Guineu (Bergadà, 1997) y Can Sadurní (Blasco et al, 1999), en Cataluña; Santa Maira, Bolumini y Cova de les Cendres (Badal, 1999) en el Levante peninsular; Balma de la Margineda en Andorra (Brochier y Claustre, 1994;Brochier, 1995); Egolzwil 3 (Rasmussen, 1989;Rasmussen, 1993), Arbon Bleiche 3 (Akeret et al, 1999) en Suiza.…”

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La sierra de Atapuerca durante el Holoceno: datos preliminares sobre las ocupaciones de la Edad del Bronce en la Cueva de El Mirador (Ibeas de Juarros, Burgos)

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RESUMENLas excavaciones arqueológicas iniciadas en 1999 en la cueva de El Mirador de la sierra de Atapuerca han permitido documentar hasta el momento una sucesión estratigráfica holocena de unos 2,5 m de potencia, formada por niveles del Neolítico y de la Edad del Bronce. Los datos preliminares sobre las ocupaciones de la Edad del Bronce señalan el uso de la cueva como redil, zona de habitat y espacio sepulcral. Durante su uso como redil se llevó a cabo la quema periódica del estiércol depositado en el interior del corral. Es la primera vez que dicha práctica se documenta en la Meseta y, en el ámbito europeo, en contexto geográfico continental. El uso como cueva sepulcral viene seña-

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Winter- and Spring-foddering of Sheep/Goat in the Bronze Age Site of Fiavè-Carera, Northern Italy

Cited by 14 publications

References 1 publication

Formation processes through archaeobotanical remains: The case of the Bronze Age levels in El Mirador cave, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain

Formation processes through archaeobotanical remains: The case of the Bronze Age levels in El Mirador cave, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain

Reconstructing vegetation diversity in coastal landscapes

La sierra de Atapuerca durante el Holoceno: datos preliminares sobre las ocupaciones de la Edad del Bronce en la Cueva de El Mirador (Ibeas de Juarros, Burgos)

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