Publication: Poblamiento y antropización de la montaña occidental cantábrica durante la Prehistoria reciente: una aproximación desde la Arqueología del Paisaje
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2016-10-10
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Esta tesis doctoral estudia el proceso de antropización de las montañas occidentales cantábricas a lo largo de la Prehistoria reciente desde una perspectiva diacrónica. La Arqueología del Paisaje constituye el marco teórico-metodológico de partida para una investigación centrada en comprender las relaciones que establecen las comunidades humanas con su entorno en el sector asturleonés de la Cordillera Cantábrica. Para ello, se analizan las pautas de poblamiento y de subsistencia desplegadas por los grupos humanos en estas montañas durante los cinco milenios que median entre la aparición de la agricultura y la ganadería (ca. 4800 cal a.C.) y la conquista romana de este territorio (finales del siglo I a.C.). El trabajo nace como un proyecto de investigación interdisciplinar atento a la producción de los campos científicos próximos a la Arqueología. La investigación se desarrolla a tres escalas territoriales de análisis, con un estudio a escala micro alrededor de la actual aldea de Vigaña (Miranda, Asturias), en donde se han realizado prospecciones arqueológicas intensivas y excavaciones de asentamientos y espacios productivos de diferentes cronologías; un área de estudio a escala intermedia en la cuenca del río Pigüeña (Asturias) y la comarca de Babia (León), en la que se han conducido prospecciones, análisis territoriales y estudios de poblamiento para los diferentes períodos considerados; y un contexto más amplio para la discusión de las propuestas interpretativas enunciadas en las anteriores escalas de análisis en el contexto geográfico más amplio del Occidente Cantábrico. A la luz de estos datos, se reflexiona acerca de las experiencias humanas y los procesos históricos que mediaron en la construcción social de los paisajes culturales en los que se vieron inmersas las comunidades de la Prehistoria reciente en este territorio. A partir del Neolítico se produce el desarrollo de la producción de alimentos, con la extensión de la agricultura y la ganadería. Como resultado de ello, los grupos humanos dieron lugar a nuevas formas de relación con su entorno, iniciándose procesos de humanización del territorio que dieron forma a paisajes caracterizados por una alta movilidad residencial, unas fórmulas productivas itinerantes y la monumentalización del paisaje a través de construcciones megalíticas que se concentran en puntos nodales para las comunicaciones, así como en los espacios productivos más destacados en sus modos de vida...
This volume investigates the anthropization of the Western part of the Cantabrian Mountains during the Later Prehistory from a diachronic perspective drawing on the theoretical and methodological framework of Landscape Archaeology. The aim of this volume is to understand the relationships between human communities and their environment in the areas of Asturias and León comprised within the Cantabrian Mountains range. This is achieved by analysing the patterns of settlement and subsistence deployed by human groups during the five millennia that mediate between the emergence of agriculture and animal farming (ca. 4800 BC) and the Roman conquest of the area under study (late first century BC). The investigation has adopted an interdisciplinary perspective that takes into account the works of other scientific fields closely related to archaeology. The study addresses three territorial levels of analysis. First, a micro-scale scale of analysis deals with the contemporary village of Vigaña (Miranda, Asturias), where intensive field surveys and excavations have been carried out with a focus on productive areas and settlements of different chronologies. A second, mid-scale of analysis, focuses on the basin of the river Pigüeña (Asturias) and on the region of Babia (León). Here, intensive surveys and settlement pattern analyses have been carried out for the different periods in question. The third level of analysis concerns the incorporation of the former data and interpretations within the archaeological debates in the broader context of the West Cantabrian area. In light of these data, the investigation reflects about the human experiences and the historical processes that intervened in the social construction of the cultural landscapes of the Later Prehistory in the area. The dissertation is structured as follows. First, it addresses the Neolithic period, which witnesses the development of food production in parallel with the spread of agriculture and farming. This resulted in human communities developing new forms of relation with their environment, and the emergence of humanisation processes characterised by high patterns of mobility, itinerary forms of production, and the monumentalization of the landscape through megalithic constructions that focus on nodal points of communication and on the most salient areas of production...
This volume investigates the anthropization of the Western part of the Cantabrian Mountains during the Later Prehistory from a diachronic perspective drawing on the theoretical and methodological framework of Landscape Archaeology. The aim of this volume is to understand the relationships between human communities and their environment in the areas of Asturias and León comprised within the Cantabrian Mountains range. This is achieved by analysing the patterns of settlement and subsistence deployed by human groups during the five millennia that mediate between the emergence of agriculture and animal farming (ca. 4800 BC) and the Roman conquest of the area under study (late first century BC). The investigation has adopted an interdisciplinary perspective that takes into account the works of other scientific fields closely related to archaeology. The study addresses three territorial levels of analysis. First, a micro-scale scale of analysis deals with the contemporary village of Vigaña (Miranda, Asturias), where intensive field surveys and excavations have been carried out with a focus on productive areas and settlements of different chronologies. A second, mid-scale of analysis, focuses on the basin of the river Pigüeña (Asturias) and on the region of Babia (León). Here, intensive surveys and settlement pattern analyses have been carried out for the different periods in question. The third level of analysis concerns the incorporation of the former data and interpretations within the archaeological debates in the broader context of the West Cantabrian area. In light of these data, the investigation reflects about the human experiences and the historical processes that intervened in the social construction of the cultural landscapes of the Later Prehistory in the area. The dissertation is structured as follows. First, it addresses the Neolithic period, which witnesses the development of food production in parallel with the spread of agriculture and farming. This resulted in human communities developing new forms of relation with their environment, and the emergence of humanisation processes characterised by high patterns of mobility, itinerary forms of production, and the monumentalization of the landscape through megalithic constructions that focus on nodal points of communication and on the most salient areas of production...
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Departamento de Prehistoria, leída el 18/01/2016