Starting points for dendroarchaeology in Catalonia
| Autor: | Ravotto, Alessandro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya) Recercat: Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya instname |
| Popis: | Despite the fact that dendroarchaeology in Catalonia (Spain) has been a field somewhat neglected in comparison to other Mediterranean regions, nowadays there are the conditions for a relatively quick recover of such delay, thanks to mainly two factors. In the first place, the tradition of a series of fields complementary to dendroarchaeology has created a well established framework, which dendroarchaeologists could take advantage of: it’s the case of dendroecological studies, that allowed the building of numerous chronologies from living trees (some of which are more than 600 years long, see Gutierrez et al 1998); pollen studies, that can reconstruct to some extent the ancient distribution of tree population from prehistory to recent times (Riera 2005; Miras et al 2007); and finally a series of localized studies about agriculture and tree culture in antiquity based on carpological data and plant remains (Buxò 2005). In the second place, in Catalonia archaeology is a well integrated discipline in the development of urban planning and therefore a great quantity of archaeological digs are carried on. In this sense, it has to be noted that, even if from the point of view of climate conditions this territory is not among the most suitable ones for preserving organic material, wooden artifacts are being found more frequently in recent years. This is partly due to the fact that the so called “salvage archaeology” – that forms the immense majority of archaeological activity on the territory – deals with building activity, whose technological continuous improvement allows to always reach deeper strata. Here, the presence of the water table enhances the possibility of wood preservation, especially parts of wells, that, it has to be kept in mind, were one of the most common, because necessary, equipment in most of the historical settlements. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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