- Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (Incipit), CSIC
Av. de Vigo s/n
E-15705 - Santiago de Compostela
Spain
- Iron Age Britain (Archaeology), Public Archaeology, Roman Army, Archaeological GIS, Nomadic Peoples, Roman military archaeology, and 35 moreLandscape Archaeology, Upland Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Megalithic Monuments, Settlement Patterns, Folklore Archeology, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Prehistoric Settlement, Nomadism, Cultural Landscapes, Archaeological Method & Theory, Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), Pastoral landscapes (Archaeology), Archaeological Theory, Archaeological Methodology, Archaeological Prospection, Household Archaeology, Agrarian Archaeology, Cantabrian Wars, Nationalism and Archaeology, Prehistory, Neolithic Archaeology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Megaliths (Archaeology), Iron Age, Archaeology, Archaeology of Buildings, Landscape, Environmental Archaeology, Anthropocene, Landscape History, Landscape and Land-use-history, Prehistoric Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, and Iron Age (Archaeology)edit
- Dr. González-Álvarez is a Ramón y Cajal fellow (RYC2021-034313-I) at the INCIPIT-CSIC, where he leads research on lan... moreDr. González-Álvarez is a Ramón y Cajal fellow (RYC2021-034313-I) at the INCIPIT-CSIC, where he leads research on landscape archaeology. His research explores the long-term biographies of cultural landscapes in rural environs, combining archaeological, palaeoenvironmental, and ethnographic datasets.
His PhD (2016) received the highest honours and the 2015-2016 Doctoral Extraordinary Award at the UCM, where he obtained a FPU fellowship (AP2008-00390 August 2009-July 2013). His postdoctoral career began with a contract funded by the Galician Science & Innovation Agency (IN606B-2016/007 June 2016-March 2019) that allowed him to spend 2 years as Visiting Fellow at Durham University. Later he obtained a JdC-Formación postdoctoral contract (FJCI-2017-33731 April 2019-April 2021) followed by a JdC-Incorporación postdoctoral contract (IJC2019-040603-I May 2021-December 2022) postdoctoral contract and at the INCIPIT-CSIC.
He is an archaeologist with a strong leadership background both in academic and commercial-led field projects: supervising excavations, coordinating interdisciplinary research teams, and managing public outreach programs. Besides being a team member in several projects related to Landscape Archaeology, Late Prehistory, and Public Archaeology, the candidate shows independence in leading his own field projects in NW Spain since 2016. These investigations aim to understand the cultural and social processes underpinning the formation of rural landscapes, paying attention to the anthropization of mountainous areas in Late Prehistory, the social landscapes of Iron Age communities, and the expansion of the Roman state in NW Iberia. These projects bolster the potential of archaeology to inform policy-making on tourism, heritage, and land-use management, challenging the nature/culture divide in public perceptions about landscapes. The candidate obtained funding from diverse institutions, setting up an emerging research team with MA and PhD students. At the Incipit he contributes to the research line Interdisciplinary Cultural Heritage Studies, particularly on the theme of Landscape Archaeology and Cultural Landscapes.edit
This paper addresses an experimental approach to the archaeological study of Roman camps in NW Iberia using ground-penetrating radar (henceforth GPR). The main goal is to explore the capabilities of GPR to extract datasets from ephemeral... more
This paper addresses an experimental approach to the archaeological study of Roman camps in NW Iberia using ground-penetrating radar (henceforth GPR). The main goal is to explore the capabilities of GPR to extract datasets from ephemeral features, such as temporary camps or siege works, among others. This information aims to maximise the data available before excavation, orienting it to areas that could provide good results in terms of feature detection and contrast between soil matrix and archaeological deposits. This paper explores the potential of the GPR approach and volumetric data visualisation to improve our understanding of four ephemeral sites: Alto da Raia (Montalegre, Portugal–Calvos de Randín, Spain), Sueros de Cepeda (Villamejil, Spain), Los Andinales (Villsandino, Spain), and Villa María (Sasamón, Spain). Despite the focus of this paper, other survey techniques (namely LiDAR, aerial photography, and magnetometry) were used in combination with GPR. Further excavation of the sites provided ground truthing for all data remotely gathered.
Keywords: ground-penetrating radar (GPR); remote sensing; roman army; Roman camps; Iberian Peninsula; volumetric visualisation
Keywords: ground-penetrating radar (GPR); remote sensing; roman army; Roman camps; Iberian Peninsula; volumetric visualisation
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[ES] En el marco de un proyecto de investigación que estudia la genealogía cultural de los paisajes de alta montaña en la Cordillera Cantábrica (Noroeste de la península ibérica), este trabajo describe las transformaciones recientes de... more
[ES] En el marco de un proyecto de investigación que estudia la genealogía cultural de los paisajes de alta montaña en la Cordillera Cantábrica (Noroeste de la península ibérica), este trabajo describe las transformaciones recientes de los espacios rurales con una mirada arqueológica. Centra su atención en el declive del sistema de producción campesino frente a la extensión del capitalismo y la globalización, así como en los discursos que tratan estos procesos en la esfera pública del estado español. Además, se reflexiona acerca de las posibilidades de la Arqueología para complejizar los debates sociales sobre la crisis del medio rural en España, y evalúa el papel que nuestra disciplina podría desempeñar en los conflictos que sufren las comunidades rurales en caso de asumir una actitud políticamente situada.
[EN] This paper describes the recent transformations of rural spaces following an archaeological approach within the context of a research project that investigates the cultural genealogy of high mountain landscapes in the Cantabrian Mountains (Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula). It focuses on the decline of the peasant production system, and the spread of capitalism and globalization. The discourses that deal with these processes in the Spanish public sphere are also analysed. In addition, this work reflects on the possibilities for Archaeology to enrich social debates about the crisis of rural areas in Spain, and assess the role that our discipline may play in relation with the conflicts suffered by rural communities, in case of assuming a politically situated attitude for archaeological research.
[PT] No âmbito de um projeto de pesquisa que estuda a biografia cultural das paisagens de alta montanha na Cordilheira Cantábrica (Noroeste da península ibérica), este trabalho descreve as transformações recentes dos espaços rurais, a partir de uma perspectiva arqueológica. O texto centra sua atenção no declive do sistema de produção camponês frente a expansão do capitalismo e da globalização, assim como nos discursos que tratam estes processos na esfera pública do Estado espanhol. Além disso, reflete sobre as possibilidades da Arqueologia para complexificar os debates sociais sobre a crise no meio rural na Espanha e avalia o papel que nossa disciplina poderia desempenhar nos conflitos que sofrem as comunidades rurais ao assumir uma atitude politicamente situada.
[EN] This paper describes the recent transformations of rural spaces following an archaeological approach within the context of a research project that investigates the cultural genealogy of high mountain landscapes in the Cantabrian Mountains (Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula). It focuses on the decline of the peasant production system, and the spread of capitalism and globalization. The discourses that deal with these processes in the Spanish public sphere are also analysed. In addition, this work reflects on the possibilities for Archaeology to enrich social debates about the crisis of rural areas in Spain, and assess the role that our discipline may play in relation with the conflicts suffered by rural communities, in case of assuming a politically situated attitude for archaeological research.
[PT] No âmbito de um projeto de pesquisa que estuda a biografia cultural das paisagens de alta montanha na Cordilheira Cantábrica (Noroeste da península ibérica), este trabalho descreve as transformações recentes dos espaços rurais, a partir de uma perspectiva arqueológica. O texto centra sua atenção no declive do sistema de produção camponês frente a expansão do capitalismo e da globalização, assim como nos discursos que tratam estes processos na esfera pública do Estado espanhol. Além disso, reflete sobre as possibilidades da Arqueologia para complexificar os debates sociais sobre a crise no meio rural na Espanha e avalia o papel que nossa disciplina poderia desempenhar nos conflitos que sofrem as comunidades rurais ao assumir uma atitude politicamente situada.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Cultural Heritage, Landscape Archaeology, and 15 morePastoralism (Social Anthropology), Cultural Landscapes, Historic Landscapes, Landscape History, Vernacular Architecture, Contemporary Archaeology, Spanish archaeology, Archaeology of the Spanish Civil War, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Arqueología, Anthropocene studies, Arqueología histórica, Anthropocene, and Landscape and Land-use-history
[EN]: Current debates around the Anthropocene tend to focus on recent planetary-scale processes. However, regional and small-scale processes can be very telling about human agency in the shaping of landscapes overtime. Indeed,... more
[EN]: Current debates around the Anthropocene tend to focus on recent planetary-scale processes. However, regional and small-scale processes can be very telling about human agency in the shaping of landscapes overtime. Indeed, anthropogenic impacts of different intensities can be observed on landscapes since Prehistory – even in such remote and allegedly marginal areas as deserts, wetlands or mountains. In this article, I reflect on the long-term anthropization of alpine and subalpine areas in the western area of the Cantabrian Mountains (North-West of Iberia) in Later Prehistory. Studying the earlier anthropogenic pressure on upland environs in this period reminds us of the potential of landscape archaeology to enhance interdisciplinarity in debates about the Anthropocene. With the aim of emphasizing the role of archaeology as a mediating arena between social sciences, humanities and earth sciences, I analyse the scarce archaeological information available for upland landscapes of this study area to show how these datasets can nuance evolutionary interpretations of paleo-environmental sequences studied at natural deposits. Only through integrated and comprehensive discussions around the cultural and environmental traits of landscapes will we be able to fully understand the complex social contexts where agrarian labour and collective action shaped the alpine and subalpine areas in the Cantabrian Mountains since the spread of the Neolithic.
[ES]: Los debates actuales sobre el Antropoceno suelen estar centrados en procesos de escala planetaria, mientras procesos a menor escala pueden mostrarnos mucha información sobre la capacidad de acción humana en la formación de los paisajes a lo largo del tiempo. De hecho, se pueden observar impactos antropogénicos con diferentes intensidades desde la Prehistoria, incluso en áreas remotas o pretendidamente marginales como los desiertos, las zonas pantanosas o las montañas. En este trabajo, se reflexiona sobre el proceso diacrónico de antropización de las zonas alpinas y subalpinas del área occidental de la Cordillera Cantábrica (Noroeste de Iberia) durante la Prehistoria reciente. Estudiando la más temprana presión humana sobre los ambientes altimontanos en este período podemos reclamar el potencial de la Arqueología del Paisaje como estímulo para la interdisciplinariedad en los debates acerca del Antropoceno. Con el ánimo de enfatizar el papel que la Arqueología puede desempeñar como ámbito para la mediación entre las Ciencias Sociales, las Humanidades y las Ciencias de la Tierra, se examina la escasa información arqueológica disponible en los paisajes de alta montaña del área de estudio para mostrar cómo estos datos pueden matizar las interpretaciones evolucionistas de las secuencias paleoambientales estudiadas en depósitos naturales. Sólo a través de discusiones integradas y comprehensivas sobre los complejos contextos sociales en los que el trabajo agrario y la acción colectiva modeló las áreas alpinas y subalpinas en la Cordillera Cantábrica a partir de la expansión del Neolítico.
[ES]: Los debates actuales sobre el Antropoceno suelen estar centrados en procesos de escala planetaria, mientras procesos a menor escala pueden mostrarnos mucha información sobre la capacidad de acción humana en la formación de los paisajes a lo largo del tiempo. De hecho, se pueden observar impactos antropogénicos con diferentes intensidades desde la Prehistoria, incluso en áreas remotas o pretendidamente marginales como los desiertos, las zonas pantanosas o las montañas. En este trabajo, se reflexiona sobre el proceso diacrónico de antropización de las zonas alpinas y subalpinas del área occidental de la Cordillera Cantábrica (Noroeste de Iberia) durante la Prehistoria reciente. Estudiando la más temprana presión humana sobre los ambientes altimontanos en este período podemos reclamar el potencial de la Arqueología del Paisaje como estímulo para la interdisciplinariedad en los debates acerca del Antropoceno. Con el ánimo de enfatizar el papel que la Arqueología puede desempeñar como ámbito para la mediación entre las Ciencias Sociales, las Humanidades y las Ciencias de la Tierra, se examina la escasa información arqueológica disponible en los paisajes de alta montaña del área de estudio para mostrar cómo estos datos pueden matizar las interpretaciones evolucionistas de las secuencias paleoambientales estudiadas en depósitos naturales. Sólo a través de discusiones integradas y comprehensivas sobre los complejos contextos sociales en los que el trabajo agrario y la acción colectiva modeló las áreas alpinas y subalpinas en la Cordillera Cantábrica a partir de la expansión del Neolítico.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Cultural Landscapes, and 15 moreLandscape History, Neolithic Archaeology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Upland Archaeology, Palaeoecology, Mountain communities, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Iron Age (Archaeology), Pastoralism (Archaeology), Prehistory, Iron Age, Anthropocene, Longue durée, High Mountain Archaeology, and Landscape and Land-use-history
As in other rural areas in Spain, the Asturian countryside suffers from a profound demographic and economic crisis. Since tourism emerged as one of the main hopes for the reactivation of rural economy, the regional government has made a... more
As in other rural areas in Spain, the Asturian countryside suffers from a profound demographic and economic crisis. Since tourism emerged as one of the main hopes for the reactivation of rural economy, the regional government has made a particular effort in promoting rural tourism. This paper intends to assess the effects that naturalistic and atemporal narratives of Asturian landscapes exert on the rural farming communities, which define the ‘tourism imaginaries’ as they become established as identity referents not only for visitors, but for the inhabitants of the region themselves. Archaeology can enhance the local communities’ agency through the appreciation of cultural values attached to these landscapes. To this end, the diachronic depth of the social and productive processes which shaped the Asturian landscapes is emphasised by relying on Landscape Archaeology. The relevant role played by farmers and herders in these activities merits their involvement in actively designing future policies.
Research Interests: History, Archaeology, Tourism Studies, Environmental Archaeology, Tourism Planning and Policy, and 15 moreLandscape Archaeology, Archaeological Method & Theory, Tourism Geography, Cultural Landscapes, Landscape History, Cultural Tourism, Sustainable Tourism, Sustainable Tourism Marketing, Land-use planning, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Tourism, Travel and Tourism Industry, Landscape Planning, Landscape and Land-use-history, and Tourism Imaginaries
[ES]: Este estudio analiza procesos contemporáneos de cambio cultural en dos áreas rurales del Noroeste de España. Ambas estuvieron habitadas por grupos sociales con una marcada identidad cultural que ha dejado su impronta en la cultura... more
[ES]: Este estudio analiza procesos contemporáneos de cambio cultural en dos áreas rurales del Noroeste de España. Ambas estuvieron habitadas por grupos sociales con una marcada identidad cultural que ha dejado su impronta en la cultura material: los vaqueiros d’alzada y los maragatos. Mediante una metodología arqueológica, se analizan las casas de tres pueblos en cada caso de estudio, desvelando cómo la materialidad juega un papel fundamental en los procesos de cambio cultural. En líneas generales, se produce un tránsito entre las lógicas preindustriales de la domesticidad campesina y la concepción de la casa como un instrumento representacional que sirve para exhibir capital simbólico y social a personas de ámbitos urbanos con mentalidades individualizadas. El estudio muestra cómo la combinación de metodologías arqueológicas y etnográficas puede politizar contextos de cambio cultural contemporáneos aparentemente neutros.
[EN]: This paper explores contemporary processes of cultural change in two rural areas of northwest Spain. These areas were inhabited by social groups with strong cultural identities that have made its mark in the material culture: the Vaqueiros d’Alzada and the Maragatos. The houses of three villages in each case study are analyzed through an archaeological methodology, revealing the key role materiality plays in processes of cultural change. Overall, there is a transition between preindustrial forms of peasant domesticity towards a conception of the house as a representational device used to display social and symbolic capital by highly individualized people from urban areas. The study shows how a combination of archaeological and ethnographic methodologies can politicize contemporary contexts of cultural change that are apparently neutral.
[EN]: This paper explores contemporary processes of cultural change in two rural areas of northwest Spain. These areas were inhabited by social groups with strong cultural identities that have made its mark in the material culture: the Vaqueiros d’Alzada and the Maragatos. The houses of three villages in each case study are analyzed through an archaeological methodology, revealing the key role materiality plays in processes of cultural change. Overall, there is a transition between preindustrial forms of peasant domesticity towards a conception of the house as a representational device used to display social and symbolic capital by highly individualized people from urban areas. The study shows how a combination of archaeological and ethnographic methodologies can politicize contemporary contexts of cultural change that are apparently neutral.
Research Interests: History, Cultural Studies, Rural Sociology, Archaeology, Anthropology, and 43 moreTourism Studies, Tourism Management, Historical Archaeology, Social Sciences, Architecture, Ethnoarchaeology, Cultural Heritage, Ethnography, Material Culture Studies, Heritage Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Vernacular Typology Studies, Contemporary History, Peasant Studies, Rural History, Heritage Tourism, Stakeholders, Governance, Archaeological Method & Theory, Rural Development, Gentrification, Vernacular Architecture, Architectural History, Cultural Tourism, Built Environment, Rural Tourism, Contemporary Vernacular Architecture, Spanish archaeology, Archaeological Theory, Cultural Heritage Management, Urban And Regional Planning, Sustainable Rural Development, Household Archaeology, Architectural Heritage, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Ethnographic fieldwork, Asturias, Tourism, History of architecture, Rural Planning and Development, Postmedieval Archaeology, Patrimonio Cultural, and Desarrollo rural
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Rural Sociology, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Archaeology, and 103 moreAnthropology, Tourism Studies, Anthropology of Tourism, Tourism Marketing, Tourism Management, Cultural Policy, Ethnoarchaeology, Cultural Heritage, Ethnography, Tourism Planning and Policy, Material Culture Studies, Heritage Studies, Popular Culture, Tourism economics, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Pastoralism (Social Anthropology), Heritage Tourism, Environmental Planning and Design, Urban Planning, Identity (Culture), Cultural Heritage Conservation, Tourism Geography, Cultural Landscapes, Heritage Conservation, Cultural Politics, Culture, Rural Development, Environmental Management, Vernacular Architecture, Cultural Tourism, Cultures and heritage tourism, Environment and natural resources conservation, Intangible cultural heritage, Cultural Identity, Travel & Tourism, Built Environment, Corruption (Corruption), Cultural Memory, National Parks, Rural Tourism, Neoliberalism, Political Corruption, Sustainable Tourism, Cultural Political Economy, Mountain communities, Cultural Heritage Management, World Cultural Heritage, Intangible Cultural Heritage (Culture), Urban And Regional Planning, Land-use planning, Sustainable Rural Development, Architectural Heritage, Ethnographic fieldwork, Heritage Management, Protected areas, Neoliberalisms and the Transformation of the Cultural Sphere, Archaeological Heritage Management, Sustainable Tourism Development, Commodification (Anthropology), Commodification of traditional knowledge, Commodification of Cutlure, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Material Culture, Vernacular, Neoliberalism (Anthropology), Heritage interpretation, Asturias, Tourism Impacts, Heritage, Tourism, Asturias, Spain, Tourism in protected areas/World Heritage, Science for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Patrimonio Cultural, Corruption, Etnografía, Commodification of Culture, Museum and Heritage Studies, Creative Tourism, Food and Gastronomy Tourism, Turismo, Eco-Tourism, Arqueología del Paisaje, Ecotourism, Tourism in National Parks and Protected Areas, Community Tourism, Marketing Planning, Commodification, Mountain Tourism, Cantabrian Region, Corporate Corruption, Turismo Rural, Pastoralism, Desarrollo rural, Patrimonio, Cantabrian mountains, High Mountain Archaeology, Patrimonio cultural inmaterial, Políticas culturales, Turismo Cultural, UNESCO world heritage, Sustainable/Responsible Tourism, Tourism Planning & Development, Environmental Preservation through Tourism, and Architectural Heritage Conservation
GONZÁLEZ ÁLVAREZ, DAVID y DÍAZ GARCÍA, FRUCTUOSO (2014): Una nueva revista científica: «Nailos: Estudios interdisciplinares de Arqueología». El Futuro del Pasado, 5: 447-455.
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[ES] Los pastizales de altura de la Cordillera Cantábrica han sido un importante recurso para las comunidades que han ocupado estos territorios a lo largo de los siglos. En este artículo presentamos los resultados iniciales de un proyecto... more
[ES] Los pastizales de altura de la Cordillera Cantábrica han sido un importante recurso para las comunidades que han ocupado estos territorios a lo largo de los siglos. En este artículo presentamos los resultados iniciales de un proyecto de investigación que tiene como objetivo comprender los procesos históricos de formación de los paisajes culturales del Noroeste peninsular. Para ello, se presta especial atención a los procesos de antropización de las zonas de montaña, interpretadas en el marco de un sistema de aprovechamiento complementario entre la ganadería y la agricultura. Los datos para época prehistórica ya permiten documentar la utilización de estos espacios, aprovechamiento que se intensificará a partir de la Edad Media. La atención a diversos tipos de fuentes (arqueológicas, documentales, etnográficas y paleoambientales) para este período nos permite calibrar la fuerte presión a la que fueron sometidos los espacios de pasto en relación con los intereses de distintos grupos sociales que competían por su control de cara al desarrollo de distintos modelos de aprovechamiento económico.
[EN] The upland pastures in the Cantabrian Mountains have been a significant resource for the communities which inhabited this territory during the last centuries. In this paper, the preliminary results of our on-going research project are presented. Our research tries to understand the historical formation processes of the cultural landscapes in the North-West of Iberia. A special attention is paid to the anthropization processes in the mountains, which is discussed in relation to the complementary exploitation system including agricultural and pastoralism practices. The archaeological data allow us to consider the exploitation of the uplands since the Later Prehistory, which will be intensified since the Middle Ages. Taking into consideration of several types of data for the medieval period —such as archaeological remains, written sources, ethnographic information or palaeoenvironmental record— we can assess the important pressure that different social groups performed for controlling the upland pastures. All of them tried to manage the grazing areas management for developing their own economic exploitation model in relation to pastoralism.
[EN] The upland pastures in the Cantabrian Mountains have been a significant resource for the communities which inhabited this territory during the last centuries. In this paper, the preliminary results of our on-going research project are presented. Our research tries to understand the historical formation processes of the cultural landscapes in the North-West of Iberia. A special attention is paid to the anthropization processes in the mountains, which is discussed in relation to the complementary exploitation system including agricultural and pastoralism practices. The archaeological data allow us to consider the exploitation of the uplands since the Later Prehistory, which will be intensified since the Middle Ages. Taking into consideration of several types of data for the medieval period —such as archaeological remains, written sources, ethnographic information or palaeoenvironmental record— we can assess the important pressure that different social groups performed for controlling the upland pastures. All of them tried to manage the grazing areas management for developing their own economic exploitation model in relation to pastoralism.
Research Interests: History, Landscape Ecology, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, and 39 moreHistorical Archaeology, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Landscape Archaeology, Medieval Studies, Pastoralism (Social Anthropology), Archaeological Method & Theory, Cultural Landscapes, Historic Landscapes, Early Medieval Archaeology, Landscape History, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Europe, Landscapes in prehistory, Upland Archaeology, Agricultural landscapes, Mountain communities, Landscape, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Ancient Husbandry & Livestock (Archaeology), Animal Husbandry, Land Use Change, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Ancient animal husbandry and agriculture, Cultural Landscape, Historia Medieval, Pastoralism, Transhumance, Pasture Management, Ethnoarchaeology Pastoralism, Uplands, Historical Landscape, High Mountain Archaeology, Nomadic Pastoralism, Settlement & Landscape research, Ancient Pastoralism, Landscape and Land-use-history, and Roman Archaeology
"[ES]: Las “excavaciones de verano” tienen gran importancia en la formación arqueológica. En el estado español, los planes de estudio universitarios están focalizados hacia los aspectos teóricos, minimizando las cuestiones prácticas y... more
"[ES]: Las “excavaciones de verano” tienen gran importancia en la formación arqueológica. En el estado español, los planes de estudio universitarios están focalizados hacia los aspectos teóricos, minimizando las cuestiones prácticas y metodológicas del trabajo arqueológico de campo. Por ello, sucesivas generaciones de arqueólogos han subsanado estas carencias participando como voluntarios en campañas estivales organizadas por universidades y OPIs. En el presente trabajo, se reflexiona acerca de la influencia que las vivencias obtenidas en estas campañas iniciáticas tienen para los estudiantes universitarios en la reproducción y naturalización de ciertos valores adosados a la idea de ser arqueólogo. Esto podría influir en la timidez de las reivindicaciones sociolaborales de los trabajadores de la Arqueología comercial. No en vano, este sector económico se caracteriza por la desregulación, la precariedad y la alta temporalidad del empleo.
[EN]: “Summer excavations” are a fundamental component of archaeological training. However, Spanish University programmes focus on theoretical aspects of Archaeology and leave practical issues and fieldwork methodologies aside. Thus, several generations of archaeologists have solved these educational shortfalls working as volunteers in University-led excavations during summer. This paper reflects on the influence these experiences have for the undergraduate students in the reproduction and naturalization of certain values which contribute to the overall idea of what being an archaeologist means. This paper argues that this could have a great influence in the little labour and social claims put forward by Commercial Archaeology workers. In fact, this productive sector is characterized by labour market deregulation, precarious work and a high rate of temporal employment."
[EN]: “Summer excavations” are a fundamental component of archaeological training. However, Spanish University programmes focus on theoretical aspects of Archaeology and leave practical issues and fieldwork methodologies aside. Thus, several generations of archaeologists have solved these educational shortfalls working as volunteers in University-led excavations during summer. This paper reflects on the influence these experiences have for the undergraduate students in the reproduction and naturalization of certain values which contribute to the overall idea of what being an archaeologist means. This paper argues that this could have a great influence in the little labour and social claims put forward by Commercial Archaeology workers. In fact, this productive sector is characterized by labour market deregulation, precarious work and a high rate of temporal employment."
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Anthropology, Education, and 45 moreHistorical Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Work, Science Education, Ethnography, Higher Education, Landscape Archaeology, Sociology of Knowledge, Educational Research, Fieldwork in Anthropology, Archaeological Method & Theory, Commercial/ Contract Archaeology, Professional Ethics, Medieval Archaeology, Gender and Work, Habitus, Sociology of Professions, Precarity, Work and Labour, Sociology of Science, Spanish archaeology, Learning And Teaching In Higher Education, Archaeological Ethics, Archaeological Education, Sociology of Practice of Science and the Professions, Ethnographic fieldwork, Archaeological Fieldwork, Financial Crisis of 2008/2009, Ethnography of Archaeology, Arqueología, Fieldwork, Archaeological Excavation, Precariousness, Precariedad, Precarious Workers, Economic Crisis, Professional Culture, Archaeology and Education, Archaeological excavations, Excavations, Sociology of Archaeology, Sociology of the Professions, Roman Archaeology, and Precarious work
"Resumen: En este trabajo se reflexiona sobre la relación entre los arqueólogos y las comunidades locales del medio rural europeo, repasando la trayectoria y las posibilidades que ofrece la atención a los relatos orales del folklore de... more
"Resumen: En este trabajo se reflexiona sobre la relación entre los arqueólogos y las comunidades locales del medio rural europeo, repasando la trayectoria y las posibilidades que ofrece la atención a los relatos orales del folklore de temática arqueológica. Para ello, se analiza al caso concreto de la investigación de la Edad del Hierro en Asturias, repasando los antecedentes de este tipo de aproximaciones y exponiendo las aplicaciones prácticas que la atención a las narraciones orales puede aportar a la Arqueología. A la vez, se exploran algunas posibles vías por las que este diálogo abierto pudiese revertir en las comunidades locales.
Abstract: In this paper we reflect on the relationship between archaeologists and local communities in rural Europe, seeking to review the history and possibilities of attention to oral stories of the folklore with archaeological themes. We analyze the specific case of the investigation on the Asturian Iron Age. We review the background of such approaches and we show the practical applications that focussing on oral history can contribute to archaeological research. At the same time, we explore some possible ways in which this dialogue could revert to local communities."
Abstract: In this paper we reflect on the relationship between archaeologists and local communities in rural Europe, seeking to review the history and possibilities of attention to oral stories of the folklore with archaeological themes. We analyze the specific case of the investigation on the Asturian Iron Age. We review the background of such approaches and we show the practical applications that focussing on oral history can contribute to archaeological research. At the same time, we explore some possible ways in which this dialogue could revert to local communities."
Research Interests: Mythology And Folklore, History, Ancient History, Ethnohistory, Rural Sociology, and 77 moreArchaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Anthropology, Folklore, Mythology, Historical Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Cultural Heritage, Ethnography, Landscape Archaeology, Cosmology (Anthropology), Peasant Studies, Rural History, History of Science, Orality-Literacy Studies, History and Memory, Local History, Archaeological Method & Theory, Oral history, Cultural Landscapes, Landscape History, Oral Traditions, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge, Intangible cultural heritage, Folk legends, Ethnology, Social and Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, Survey (Archaeological Method & Theory), Collective Memory, Folklore (Literature), Spanish archaeology, Intangible Cultural Heritage (Culture), Oral Traditions (Culture), Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience, Folklore Archeology, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), History of Folklore Theory and Method, Landscape, Ethnographic fieldwork, Archaeological Prospection, History of Archeology, Orality, New Age spirituality, Comparative mythology, Iron Age (Archaeology), Traditional Knowledge, Mythology, folklore and supersition, Folklore (Anthropology), Myth, Iron Age, History of Archaeology, Prehistoric hillfort, Asturias, Spain, Memory, Oral History and Memory, Myth, Folk Studies, Legends, Oral literature, Iron Age archaeology, Asturian language, Asturian History, Cultural Landscape, Treasure Hunting, Celtic Mythology, Oralidad, Multivocality in Archaeology, Hillforts and Enclosures, Hillforts and oppida, Castros Culture in Nortwestern Iberia, Local Knowledge, Indigenous Cosmologies, Iron Age Hillforts, Hidden treasures, and New Age Religions
"[ES]: Se revisa la información disponible sobre los itinerarios de época romana a través de la Cordillera Cantábrica entre las actuales provincias de Asturias y León. El objetivo es cuestionar estos datos a la luz de recientes... more
"[ES]: Se revisa la información disponible sobre los itinerarios de época romana a través de la Cordillera Cantábrica entre las actuales provincias de Asturias y León. El objetivo es cuestionar estos datos a la luz de recientes aportaciones sobre las características técnicas de las vías romanas, apostando así por introducir en las narrativas arqueológicas la mayor concreción que aporta el uso adecuado de los términos técnicos e ingenieriles relacionados con el viario romano en el caso concreto que nos ocupa. De este modo, podremos evaluar en mejor medida el grado de integración de la Asturia transmontana en la realidad administrativa y sociopolítica del Imperio romano.
[EN]: The available information of the Roman ways across the Cantabrian Mountains is checked, between the present-day provinces of Asturias and León. The aim is to question this information in the light of recent contributions of the technical characteristics of the Roman ways. We bet for introducing in the archaeological narratives a bigger concretion that provides the suitable use of the technical terms related to the Roman system of communications in our case of study. Thus, we will be able to assess the degree of integration of the Asturia transmontana in the administrative and socio-political reality of the Roman Empire."
[EN]: The available information of the Roman ways across the Cantabrian Mountains is checked, between the present-day provinces of Asturias and León. The aim is to question this information in the light of recent contributions of the technical characteristics of the Roman ways. We bet for introducing in the archaeological narratives a bigger concretion that provides the suitable use of the technical terms related to the Roman system of communications in our case of study. Thus, we will be able to assess the degree of integration of the Asturia transmontana in the administrative and socio-political reality of the Roman Empire."
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Roman History, and 23 moreRoman engineering, Spanish archaeology, Roman Army, Roman roads, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Roman Empire, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Hispania (Archaeology), Asturias, Spain, Archaeology of Roads, Asturian History, Roman Architecture, Ancient Roads, Medieval roads, Roman engineering (archaeology), Cantabrian mountains, History of Roads, Construction techniques of Roman roads, High Mountain Archaeology, Roman Roads, Spain, Vias Romanas, Roman Archaeology, and Ancient and Roman Roads
Abstract: In the Sierra de Carondio is one of the largest megalithic burial grounds in Asturias. It forms a complex of special interest, because it could offer new data about forms of seasonal settlement of megalith builders groups. The... more
Abstract: In the Sierra de Carondio is one of the largest megalithic burial grounds in Asturias. It forms a complex of special interest, because it could offer new data about forms of seasonal settlement of megalith builders groups. The construction of a wind farm in this area serves to raise some reflections on Heritage Management and the relationship between Archeology and Society.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Landscape Archaeology, and 34 moreWind Energy, Environmental Planning and Design, Conservation Ecology, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Cultural Landscapes, Heritage Conservation, Impact Evaluation, Commercial/ Contract Archaeology, Environmental Impact Assessment, Neolithic Archaeology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Bronze Age Archaeology, Upland Archaeology, Megalithic Monuments, Environmenatl Impact Assessment, Cultural Heritage Management, Urban And Regional Planning, Roman Army, Cultural Resource Management (Archaeology), Rescue Archaeology, Landscape, Heritage Management, Neolithic Europe, Bronze Age (Archaeology), Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment, Environmentalism, Human impacts on ancient environments, Asturias, Landscape Planning, Megalithism, Preventive Archaeology, Preventive and rescue archeology, and Cantabrian Wars
Abstract: In this paper we will try to emphasize the important role that Ethnoarchaeology can play in the renovation of the archaeological interpretations for some prehistoric periods. We centre our attention on the contributions of this... more
Abstract: In this paper we will try to emphasize the important role that Ethnoarchaeology can play in the renovation of the archaeological interpretations for some prehistoric periods. We centre our attention on the contributions of this discipline to the study of the Iron Age on the Cantabrian western area. We show some cases of study, in which the contributions of Ethnoarchaeology can enrich enormously the archaeological interpretation realized on the material record of the Iron Age communities of the western part of the Cantabrian coast.
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Resumen: Se presenta una recopilación de la información bibliográfica y potencial sobre los vaqueiros d’alzada, planteando una visión etnoarqueológica como forma de trabajo más adecuada para el estudio de estas comunidades de pastores... more
Resumen: Se presenta una recopilación de la información bibliográfica y potencial sobre los vaqueiros d’alzada, planteando una visión etnoarqueológica como forma de trabajo más adecuada para el estudio de estas comunidades de pastores trashumantes, que se movían y se mueven con sus familias y ganados entre sus residencias en los puertos de la montaña central asturiana y los valles interiores, siguiendo un ciclo biestacional. Además de la preocupación por el estudio de estas propias comunidades, se sugieren vías de trabajo a desarrollar sobre aspectos como el cambio cultural e identitario propio de la irrupción de la modernidad, las formas económicas ganaderas, la arquitectura y la espacialidad doméstica, etc. que, con base en un enfoque arqueológico de la cultura material, podría proporcionarnos apreciaciones certeras sobre cuestiones de los propios vaqueiros, así como otras que pudiéramos extraer para acudir en ayuda de otras casuísticas históricas en estudio por arqueólogos e historiadores.
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González-Álvarez, David (2019): “Humanizing the western Cantabrian Mountains in northwestern Iberia: A diachronic perspective on the exploitation of the uplands during Late Prehistory”. In C. Ray & M. Fernández-Götz (eds.), Historical... more
González-Álvarez, David (2019): “Humanizing the western Cantabrian Mountains in northwestern Iberia: A diachronic perspective on the exploitation of the uplands during Late Prehistory”. In C. Ray & M. Fernández-Götz (eds.), Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal Landscapes. New York: Routledge, 156-175. ISBN: 978-0-815-34775-0
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González Álvarez, David (2018): Interpreting the Atlantic Hillforts in NW Spain Outside Academia: Local Rural Folklore versus New Age Pan-European Discourses. In: Leskovar, Jutta and Karl, Raimund (eds.), Archaeological Sites as Space for... more
González Álvarez, David (2018): Interpreting the Atlantic Hillforts in NW Spain Outside Academia: Local Rural Folklore versus New Age Pan-European Discourses. In: Leskovar, Jutta and Karl, Raimund (eds.), Archaeological Sites as Space for Modern Spiritual Practice. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Publishing Scholars, 54-71.
Research Interests: Mythology And Folklore, Archaeology, Folklore, Landscape Archaeology, Oral history, and 8 moreCultural Landscapes, Oral Traditions, Folklore Archeology, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Hillforts and Enclosures, and Iron Age Hillforts
ESP: En este trabajo se analizan las narrativas de los organismos de promoción turística del gobierno asturiano sobre los paisajes culturales. Estos discursos ofrecen lecturas que resaltan especialmente los aspectos ambientales del medio... more
ESP: En este trabajo se analizan las narrativas de los organismos de promoción turística del gobierno asturiano sobre los paisajes culturales. Estos discursos ofrecen lecturas que resaltan especialmente los aspectos ambientales del medio rural asturiano, mientras los factores culturales ligados a las comunidades campesinas locales aparecen menos visibles. Los presupuestos teórico-metodológicos de la Arqueología del Paisaje han puesto de relieve la importancia de los procesos históricos de antropización en la construcción social de los paisajes culturales actuales. A la vista de estas observaciones, se reflexiona acerca de la relevancia de las Ciencias Sociales en el diseño de las políticas de gestión territorial del medio rural asturiano.
ENG: In this paper, the narratives on cultural landscapes made by the tourism promotion agencies of the Asturian government are analyzed. These discourses provide readings in which the environmental aspects of Asturian rural areas are especially highlighted, while cultural factors related to local peasant communities are almost invisible. The theoretical and methodological framework of Landscape Archaeology has provided useful reflections about the significance of long-term anthropization processes in the social construction of cultural landscapes. Taking into account these observations, we assess the relevance Social Sciences might play in the design of land management policies for the Asturian countryside.
ENG: In this paper, the narratives on cultural landscapes made by the tourism promotion agencies of the Asturian government are analyzed. These discourses provide readings in which the environmental aspects of Asturian rural areas are especially highlighted, while cultural factors related to local peasant communities are almost invisible. The theoretical and methodological framework of Landscape Archaeology has provided useful reflections about the significance of long-term anthropization processes in the social construction of cultural landscapes. Taking into account these observations, we assess the relevance Social Sciences might play in the design of land management policies for the Asturian countryside.
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Work, and 40 moreCultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, Sociology of Knowledge, Construction Management, Archaeological Method & Theory, Human Resource Management, Unemployment, Commercial/ Contract Archaeology, Professional Ethics, Job Satisfaction, Neoliberalism, Habitus, Sociology of Professions, Precarity, Work and Labour, Sociology of Science, Spanish archaeology, Cultural Heritage Management, Cultural Resource Management (Archaeology), Rescue Archaeology, Archaeological Fieldwork, Academic Profession, Financial Crisis of 2008/2009, Academia, Global Financial Crisis, Financial Crisis, Archaeological Excavation, Precariousness, Euro-Zone Crisis, Precarious Employment, Precarious Workers, Economic Crisis, Preventive Archaeology, Academia and Neoliberalism, Archaeology and Heritage management studies, Theory and practice in Archaeology, Working Class Archaeology, Precarious Labour, Sociology of Archaeology, and Precarious work
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, and 55 moreHistorical Archaeology, Medieval History, Environmental Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Landscape Archaeology, Environmental Studies, Agrarian Studies, Environmental History, Archaeological Method & Theory, Landscape History, Cultural Landscapes, Historic Landscapes, Medieval Iberian History, Spanish History, Early Medieval Archaeology, Landscape History, Medieval Archaeology, Archaeological GIS, Neolithic Archaeology, Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Landscapes in prehistory, Upland Archaeology, Agricultural landscapes, Landscape archaeology (Anthropology), Mountain communities, Agrarian History, Cultural Heritage Management, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Landscape, Archaeological Prospection, Pastoral landscapes (Archaeology), Neolithic Europe, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Iron Age (Archaeology), Pastoralism (Archaeology), Ancient Agriculture & Farming (Archaeology), Neolithic, Iron Age, Historia agraria, Agrarian Archaeology, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Protohistoric Iberian Peninsula, Historia Medieval de Asturias, Asturian History, Cultural Landscape, Peasant History, Longue durée, Historical Landscape, History of Agriculture, Settlement & Landscape research, Landscape and Land-use-history, Roman Archaeology, and Traditional Agriculture
In this work we study, from an ethnoarchaeological perspective, the different ways of live in the traditional communities of pastoralists in the mountain areas ofAsturias (Northern Spain). Different solutions are documented on settlement... more
In this work we study, from an ethnoarchaeological perspective, the different ways of live in the traditional communities of pastoralists in the mountain areas ofAsturias (Northern Spain). Different solutions are documented on settlement patterns and residential mobility in a very small geographic space. Rural communities in these mountainous areas have preserved, until very recently, some traditional ways of life in which livestock have had a major influence on their livelihoods. The domestic animals have been exploited with an interesting variety of specialized formulas, involving different settlement patterns and residential mobility systems. It is very interesting to contrast the coincidence of different groups of shepherds - with different ways of life - in a limited mountainous space, and the strong geographical and environmental constraints of Asturian mountains. This creates a research context where we can reflect on the great variability of social and cultural aspects within Pastoralism.We will try to understand the construction of identities in a frontier area and to discuss about the use of labels like “nomads” or “transhumants” in prehistoric archaeology
Research Interests: Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Ethnography, Landscape Archaeology, Pastoralism (Social Anthropology), and 21 moreAnthropology of Mobility, European Ethnography, Ethnographic Fieldwork (Anthropology), Upland Archaeology, Spanish archaeology, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Ethnographic fieldwork, Pastoral landscapes (Archaeology), Mobility (Archaeology), Nomadism, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Ancient Husbandry & Livestock (Archaeology), Asturias, Spain, Pastoralism, Transhumance, Ethnoarchaeology Pastoralism, GRAZING RESOURCES AND PASTORALISM, Cantabrian mountains, High Mountain Archaeology, Pastoral nomadism, and Archaeology of Nomadism
Se presenta sintéticamente la situación sociolaboral de la Arqueología comercial en la Comunidad de Madrid, haciendo hincapié en sus problemas estructurales. Se plantean unas líneas prioritarias de trabajo hacia las que deberían avanzar... more
Se presenta sintéticamente la situación sociolaboral de la Arqueología comercial en la Comunidad de Madrid, haciendo hincapié en sus problemas estructurales. Se plantean unas líneas prioritarias de trabajo hacia las que deberían avanzar los agentes implicados en el sector para superar las graves dificultades que, en particular, atraviesa el colectivo de trabajadores/as
Research Interests: Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Sociology of Work, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, and 25 moreUrban Planning, Archaeological Method & Theory, Commercial/ Contract Archaeology, Gender and Work, Work and Labour, Spanish archaeology, Archaeological Education, Cultural Heritage Management, Urban And Regional Planning, Cultural Resource Management (Archaeology), Rescue Archaeology, Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Heritage Management, Financial Crisis of 2008/2009, Ethnography of Archaeology, Precariousness, Precariedad, Precarious Workers, Economic Crisis, Preventive Archaeology, Preventive and rescue archeology, Madrid, Commercial Archaeology, and Precarious work
En este trabajo se exponen las carencias e insuficiencias que la aplicación de perspectivas histórico-culturales en la definición y estudio de la Edad del Hierro en el Noroeste peninsular y cornisa cantábrica, donde con la etiqueta... more
En este trabajo se exponen las carencias e insuficiencias que la aplicación de perspectivas histórico-culturales en la definición y estudio de la Edad del Hierro en el Noroeste peninsular y cornisa cantábrica, donde con la etiqueta “cultura castreña” se nos presentaba una realidad artificiosamente plana de las comunidades prerromanas del área. Recientemente se han puesto en claro la existencia de múltiples rasgos de variabilidad en las características culturales de estos grupos de la Edad del Hierro, aunque los estudios del poblamiento seguían acusando cierta inercia de las perspectivas teóricas tradicionales. Con el objetivo de incorporar este género de estudios a la línea renovadora que nos muestra la diversidad de las gentes castreñas, se propone desterrar el uso del concepto de “cultura arqueológica” y sustituirlo por la concepción de un mosaico de grupos arqueológicos castreños, en el que se ha de atender a la existencia de distintos modelos de poblamiento, relacionados con diferentes modelos sociopolíticos
Research Interests: Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Nationalism, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, and 10 moreNationalism and Archaeology, Spanish archaeology, Archaeological Theory, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Iron Age, History of Archaeology, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Hillforts and Enclosures, Archeology in northwestern Iberian Peninusla, and Castros Culture in Nortwestern Iberia
"Resumen: Las pautas de movilidad ganadera pueden ser entendidas como una excelente herramienta interpretativa para comprender los sistemas de poblamiento, territorialización y subsistencia de las comunidades prerromanas del Occidente... more
"Resumen: Las pautas de movilidad ganadera pueden ser entendidas como una excelente herramienta interpretativa para comprender los sistemas de poblamiento, territorialización y subsistencia de las comunidades prerromanas del Occidente cantábrico. Debido al aprovechamiento de zonas de pastos estivales, las zonas montañosas se poblaron con cierta densidad, desarrollándose procesos particulares en la construcción del paisaje sociopolítico y subsistencial. Se reconocen discursos materiales dirigidos a afianzar y reclamar el usufructo de las zonas de pastos por parte de los distintos grupos y en las distintas fases diacrónicas de la Prehistoria, en una perspectiva de tiempos largos. En el presente trabajo, se presentan sintéticamente algunas hipótesis de trabajo con el
apoyo de una serie de lecturas etnoarqueológicas que iluminarán la elaboración del discurso interpretativo.
Palabras Clave: Edad del Hierro, megalitismo, Arqueología del paisaje, movilidad ganadera, Occidente Cantábrico.
Abstract: Herding mobility can be understood as an excellent interpretive tool for understanding settlement, subsistence and territorialization patterns of pre-Roman communities in West Cantabrian area (North of Spain). Due to the use of summer pasture areas, mountains were populated with certain density and particular processes in the construction of socio-political and subsistencial landscape were developed up there. Material speeches are recognized aimed at strengthening and claiming the usufruct of the pasture areas by different groups and at different stages of Prehistory in a long durée perspective. In this paper, several working hypotheses which rely on some ethnoarchaeological readings will be presented synthetically. That will illuminate the interpretive discourse.
Keywords: Iron Age, megalithism, Landscape Archaeology, herding mobility, Western Cantabrian area (North of Spain)."
apoyo de una serie de lecturas etnoarqueológicas que iluminarán la elaboración del discurso interpretativo.
Palabras Clave: Edad del Hierro, megalitismo, Arqueología del paisaje, movilidad ganadera, Occidente Cantábrico.
Abstract: Herding mobility can be understood as an excellent interpretive tool for understanding settlement, subsistence and territorialization patterns of pre-Roman communities in West Cantabrian area (North of Spain). Due to the use of summer pasture areas, mountains were populated with certain density and particular processes in the construction of socio-political and subsistencial landscape were developed up there. Material speeches are recognized aimed at strengthening and claiming the usufruct of the pasture areas by different groups and at different stages of Prehistory in a long durée perspective. In this paper, several working hypotheses which rely on some ethnoarchaeological readings will be presented synthetically. That will illuminate the interpretive discourse.
Keywords: Iron Age, megalithism, Landscape Archaeology, herding mobility, Western Cantabrian area (North of Spain)."
Research Interests: Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Environmental History, Cultural Landscapes, and 17 moreBronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Upland Archaeology, Landscape archaeology (Anthropology), Megalithic Monuments, Mountain communities, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Landscape, Pastoral landscapes (Archaeology), Mobility (Archaeology), Pastoralism (Archaeology), Sacred Landscape (Archaeology), Iron Age, Asturias, Spain, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology Pastoralism, Cantabrian mountains, and Landscape and Land-use-history
""Resumen: Se presenta un estudio arqueológico sobre el cambio cultural e identitario realizado en un contexto de convergencia entre el mundo rural tradicional y la irrupción de la Modernidad. Se analiza la arquitectura doméstica y... more
""Resumen: Se presenta un estudio arqueológico sobre el cambio cultural e identitario realizado en un contexto de convergencia entre el mundo rural tradicional y la irrupción de la Modernidad. Se analiza la arquitectura doméstica y productiva de varios pueblos de la montaña central asturiana con una óptica arqueológica. Esto sirve para reflexionar acerca de cómo las cuestiones identitarias en contextos de cambio cultural se reflejan en la materialidad de los espacios domésticos y productivos, y cómo a su vez la materialidad funciona como un elemento fundamental en la construcción de la identidad. Se considera así que los estudios arqueológicos pueden servir de valiosas herramientas con las que repensar los procedimientos arqueológicos encaminados a estudiar estas mismas cuestiones identitarias sobre las comunidades humanas del pasado.
Palabras Clave: cambio cultural, materialidad, espacio construido, vaqueiros d’alzada, modernidad.
Abstract: We present an archaeological study about cultural and identity change that was carried out in a context of convergence between the traditional rural world and the emergence of Modernity. We analize the domestic architecture of several mountain villages in central Asturias with an archeological point of view. This is to reflect on how issues of identity can be reflected in the materiality of the domestic and productive spaces in contexts of cultural change, and how the materiality acts as a key element in the construction of identity. We considere that the archaeological studies can work as valuable tools with which to rethink the archaeological procedures designed to examine these same issues of identity human communities in the past.
Keywords: cultural change, materiality, built space, vaqueiros d’alzada, modernity.""
Palabras Clave: cambio cultural, materialidad, espacio construido, vaqueiros d’alzada, modernidad.
Abstract: We present an archaeological study about cultural and identity change that was carried out in a context of convergence between the traditional rural world and the emergence of Modernity. We analize the domestic architecture of several mountain villages in central Asturias with an archeological point of view. This is to reflect on how issues of identity can be reflected in the materiality of the domestic and productive spaces in contexts of cultural change, and how the materiality acts as a key element in the construction of identity. We considere that the archaeological studies can work as valuable tools with which to rethink the archaeological procedures designed to examine these same issues of identity human communities in the past.
Keywords: cultural change, materiality, built space, vaqueiros d’alzada, modernity.""
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Abstract: Traditional communities from rural Asturian landscape construct (or constructed) their identity based on a mythical thought, which allows them to handle oral stories which they are able to understand and explain different real... more
Abstract: Traditional communities from rural Asturian landscape construct (or constructed) their identity based on a mythical thought, which allows them to handle oral stories which they are able to understand and explain different real observations. Inside this oral tradition, there are many different stories relating to archaeological realities like sites or material objects of hillforts communities in the Western Cantabrian area (Asturias). These speeches can be relevant for the archaeological discipline, for which we raise superficially a way of work, through a few cases of study, in that after contextual ethnoarchaeological interpretation, we can take advantage of informative contributions proceeding from the traditional system of knowledge, elaborated in mythical key.
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[PT] No marco das investigações que nos últimos sete anos se estão a desenvolver no lugar do Extremo (Arcos de Valdevez) pela Unidade de Arqueologia e o Lab2PT da UMinho, foi possível estabelecer fortes redes de cooperação com a... more
[PT] No marco das investigações que nos últimos sete anos se estão a desenvolver no lugar do Extremo (Arcos de Valdevez) pela Unidade de Arqueologia e o Lab2PT da UMinho, foi possível estabelecer fortes redes de cooperação com a comunidade local que se traduziram em uma série de atividades de tipo científico, patrimonial e educacional coordenadas entre os cientistas e os agentes locais. Em 2023 obtivemos o projeto exploratório IN2PAST Da terra à Terra. Conexões para Territórios Sustentáveis (Land-CST) (EXPL/In2Past/2023/09) cujos objetivos incluem o desenvolvimento de ferramentas metodológicas para o estudo da paisagem, em colaboração com a comunidade local, com a intenção de reverter o conhecimento gerado na sustentabilidade patrimonial deste território afetado pela emigração, o despovoamento ou o envelhecimento da população. Em 2023, com o objetivo de transcender o olhar localizado neste território, convergiremos com as investigações desenvolvidas por outras equipas arqueológicas que centram o seu olhar nas paisagens rurais da época moderna e contemporânea. Em colaboração com o projeto Lectura arqueológica de tiempos largos sobre la formación de los paisajes rurales en el Noroeste ibérico (LEIRA) desenvolvido pelo Instituto de Ciencias do Patrimonio (INCIPIT-CSIC), iremos realizar um workshop para discutir metodologias de leitura arqueológica da paisagem e a reversão dos resultados em projetos co-construídos com as comunidades locais. Esta segunda parte, no sábado dia 28, será dedicada a desenvolver em Extremo várias atividades partilhadas entre os cientistas e os habitantes da aldeia.
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Research Interests: Folklore, Ethnoarchaeology, Cultural Heritage, Ethnography, Heritage Studies, and 21 morePastoralism (Social Anthropology), Heritage Tourism, Heritage Conservation, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Vernacular Architecture, Architectural History, Cultural Heritage Management, Sustainable Architecture, Architectural Heritage, Ethnographic fieldwork, Traditional Knowledge, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Asturias, History of architecture, Wooden Architecture, Asturian History, Traditional Architecture, Cantabrian Region, Pastoralism, Ethnoarchaeology Pastoralism, and Traditional house
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Póster presentado en las V Jornadas de Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica (JIA2012). Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio–Incipit (CSIC) Santiago de Compostela (9-11 de mayo de 2012)
Research Interests: Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Ethnography, Landscape Archaeology, and 14 morePastoralism (Social Anthropology), Anthropology of Mobility, Cultural Landscapes, Landscape History, Upland Archaeology, Mountain communities, Landscape, Mobility (Archaeology), Nomadism, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Cantabrian Region, Pastoralism, Transhumance, and Livestock Production Economics
""Documentary film (13, 30 minutes) directed by Pablo Alonso González about an on-going archaeological research on Landscape Archaeology in the Northern mountains of Spain. The film is in Spanish. More info:... more
""Documentary film (13, 30 minutes) directed by Pablo Alonso González about an on-going archaeological research on Landscape Archaeology in the Northern mountains of Spain. The film is in Spanish. More info: http://arqueologiaagraria.wordpress.com/"
Research Interests: Mythology And Folklore, Archaeology, Folklore, Landscape Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, and 8 moreNeolithic Archaeology, Origin Of Medieval Field Systems, Upland Archaeology, Folklore Archeology, Pastoral landscapes (Archaeology), Iron Age, Agrarian Archaeology, and Landscape and Land-use-history
Curso de Arqueología del Paisaje (20h) organizado por la Unión Cultural Arqueológica (UCA) en la Facultad de Geografía e Historia de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Research Interests: Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Environmental Studies, Cultural Landscapes, and 9 moreLandscape History, Landscapes in prehistory, Remote sensing and GIS applications in Landscape Research, Landscape, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Cultural Landscape, Landscape Planning, LiDAR for Landscape Archaeology, and Landscape and Land-use-history
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Iron Age landscapes in most of temperate Europe are characterised by the spatially dominant and persistent presence of fortified sites. Built as landmarks to organize the landscape, their imposing visibility has made them the prevalent... more
Iron Age landscapes in most of temperate Europe are characterised by the spatially dominant and persistent presence of fortified sites. Built as landmarks to organize the landscape, their imposing visibility has made them the prevalent focus of archaeological research for some time. However, Iron Age landscapes consisted of much more than that. Advances in fieldwork methods have allowed an increasing availability of data about many other types of elements beyond the hillforts, many of which have been under-researched: open settlements, agrarian structures, linear earthworks, complex settlement patterns, routeways, specialised craft-making centres. Challenges remain, however, to (1) better characterize the diversity of the rural Iron Age archaeological record and (2) understand the interpretive implications of the vast amount of new evidence that has been collected in recent decades. The aim or this session is to reflect on these topics. Papers are welcome that address (1) methodologies to better characterise and understand off-site archaeological record, (2) discuss social interpretations of such evidence and/or (3) present regional case studies from across temperate Europe.
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Call for papers – Symposium «Pukaras, castros, hillforts, pa: Approaching archaeological traditions related to fortified settlements in agro-pastoralist communities» IX SOUTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY MEETING (TAAS) Ibarra,... more
Call for papers – Symposium «Pukaras, castros, hillforts, pa: Approaching archaeological traditions related to fortified settlements in agro-pastoralist communities»
IX SOUTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY MEETING (TAAS)
Ibarra, Ecuador, 4-8 June 2018
Call for papers – Simposio «Pukaras, castros, hillforts, pa: Un acercamiento entre las tradiciones arqueológicas vinculadas a los asentamientos fortificados de comunidades agro-pastoriles»
IX REUNIÓN DE TEORÍA ARQUEOLÓGICA DE AMÉRICA DEL SUR (TAAS)
Ibarra, Ecuador, 4 al 8 de junio 2018
IX SOUTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY MEETING (TAAS)
Ibarra, Ecuador, 4-8 June 2018
Call for papers – Simposio «Pukaras, castros, hillforts, pa: Un acercamiento entre las tradiciones arqueológicas vinculadas a los asentamientos fortificados de comunidades agro-pastoriles»
IX REUNIÓN DE TEORÍA ARQUEOLÓGICA DE AMÉRICA DEL SUR (TAAS)
Ibarra, Ecuador, 4 al 8 de junio 2018
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New Archaeology journal (since 2014): Call for papers and promo flyer.
ISSN: 2340-9126; e-ISSN: 2341-1074
http://nailos.org/
ISSN: 2340-9126; e-ISSN: 2341-1074
http://nailos.org/
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Los procesos de patrimonialización – de restos arqueológicos, centros históricos, paisajes – se han convertido en un vector más de expansión de la globalización en años recientes, convirtiéndose en un referente homogeneizador que impone... more
Los procesos de patrimonialización – de restos arqueológicos, centros históricos, paisajes – se han convertido en un vector más de expansión de la globalización en años recientes, convirtiéndose en un referente homogeneizador que impone jerarquías globales de valor en contextos locales. Así, la diferenciación se convierte en un imperativo para los sujetos, los territorios y las ciudades, de forma que el mundo tiende hacia la homogenización de la diferencia. Estos procesos ensamblan una heterogeneidad muy amplia de actores en su articulación, desde instituciones globales – UNESCO, Banco Mundial –, instituciones continentales, nacionales y regionales, comunidades locales y hasta sujetos individuales. Estos procesos pueden resultar hegemónicos pero también pueden servir para empoderar sujetos desde la base contra otras formas de opresión. Igualmente, pueden reproducir la dominación económica de países centrales pero también servir para capturar rentas globales a nivel local para reproducir formas de vida en proceso de disolución.
El simposio busca entonces presentaciones donde estas contradicciones se expresen, preguntándose sobre los roles de instituciones, mercado, comunidades y sujetos en vincularse o generar formas de rechazo al discurso y la práctica patrimonial. Esto incluye procesos de gentrificación de centros históricos, producción de conocimiento arqueológico o antropológico esencializante de ciertos “otros”, apropiación de conocimientos indígenas mediante protección patrimonial, creación de destinaciones turísticas excluyentes o casos de éxito de experiencias comunitarias, etc. Se interroga igualmente sobre el rol de los académicos en todo este entramado, y cómo distintas formas de producción de conocimiento arqueológico, antropológico y patrimonial pueden subalternizar a ciertos sujetos y empoderar a otros a niveles micro y macro – aquellos que aprenden el lenguaje del patrimonio vs. aquellos que quedan a expensas de procesos de valorización y/o excluidos de los mismos o integrados como sujetos pasivos. Finalmente, el simposio busca abrir un debate sobre las distintas estratégias – políticas y epistemológicas – existentes, y las que resultaría necesario crear, para generar una respuesta coherente ante la lógica patrimonializadora y su imparable inclusión mediante diferenciación de más y más sujetos bajo una lógica homogeneizadora bajo los términos del mercado.
Enviar resúmenes de hasta 300 palabras y cinco palabras clave a pa332@cam.ac.uk
Fecha límite: 30 de Junio de 2014
El simposio busca entonces presentaciones donde estas contradicciones se expresen, preguntándose sobre los roles de instituciones, mercado, comunidades y sujetos en vincularse o generar formas de rechazo al discurso y la práctica patrimonial. Esto incluye procesos de gentrificación de centros históricos, producción de conocimiento arqueológico o antropológico esencializante de ciertos “otros”, apropiación de conocimientos indígenas mediante protección patrimonial, creación de destinaciones turísticas excluyentes o casos de éxito de experiencias comunitarias, etc. Se interroga igualmente sobre el rol de los académicos en todo este entramado, y cómo distintas formas de producción de conocimiento arqueológico, antropológico y patrimonial pueden subalternizar a ciertos sujetos y empoderar a otros a niveles micro y macro – aquellos que aprenden el lenguaje del patrimonio vs. aquellos que quedan a expensas de procesos de valorización y/o excluidos de los mismos o integrados como sujetos pasivos. Finalmente, el simposio busca abrir un debate sobre las distintas estratégias – políticas y epistemológicas – existentes, y las que resultaría necesario crear, para generar una respuesta coherente ante la lógica patrimonializadora y su imparable inclusión mediante diferenciación de más y más sujetos bajo una lógica homogeneizadora bajo los términos del mercado.
Enviar resúmenes de hasta 300 palabras y cinco palabras clave a pa332@cam.ac.uk
Fecha límite: 30 de Junio de 2014