TY - JOUR
T1 - The mountains in prehistory: 10 years of research in Western Catalan Pyrenees
AU - Ballbè, Ermengol Gassiot
AU - Antón, David Rodríguez
AU - Mañosa, Albert Pèlachs
AU - Obiol, Ramon Pérez
AU - Brugués, Ramón Julià
AU - Bal-Serin, Marie Claude
AU - Mazzucco, Niccolò
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - © 2014, CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. All rights reserved. Archaeological survey and test excavations were conducted at high altitude in the western Catalan Pyrenees since 2001 to 2010. Together with palaeoecological studies of lake cores and peat bogs, these studies (including a series of 27 radiocarbon dates) permit one to discuss human occupations of the high mountains from Mesolith-ic times to the early Bronze Age. We evaluate the role played by mountain areas in the development of prehistoric communities with particular attention to the process of postglacial colonization, the introduction and development of farming and other agricultural practices, as well as complementary economic activities like mining, charcoal-burning and lumber production, with particular attention to the relation of mountain communities to those of other regions.
AB - © 2014, CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. All rights reserved. Archaeological survey and test excavations were conducted at high altitude in the western Catalan Pyrenees since 2001 to 2010. Together with palaeoecological studies of lake cores and peat bogs, these studies (including a series of 27 radiocarbon dates) permit one to discuss human occupations of the high mountains from Mesolith-ic times to the early Bronze Age. We evaluate the role played by mountain areas in the development of prehistoric communities with particular attention to the process of postglacial colonization, the introduction and development of farming and other agricultural practices, as well as complementary economic activities like mining, charcoal-burning and lumber production, with particular attention to the relation of mountain communities to those of other regions.
KW - Holo-cene
KW - Landscape archaeology
KW - Mountains areas occupation
KW - Neolithic
KW - Pyrenees
U2 - https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2014.12134
DO - https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2014.12134
M3 - Article
VL - 71
SP - 261
EP - 281
JO - Trabajos de Prehistoria
JF - Trabajos de Prehistoria
SN - 0082-5638
ER -