El manejo de los recursos leñosos por las comunidades de la Edad del Hierro en el Noroeste de Iberiael asentamiento de São João de Rei (Portugal)

  1. María Martín Seijo 1
  2. Nuno Oliveira 2
  3. Ana M. S. Bettencourt 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Cantabria
    info

    Universidad de Cantabria

    Santander, España

    ROR https://ror.org/046ffzj20

  2. 2 Universidade do Minho
    info

    Universidade do Minho

    Braga, Portugal

    ROR https://ror.org/037wpkx04

Revista:
SPAL: Revista de prehistoria y arqueología de la Universidad de Sevilla

ISSN: 1133-4525 2255-3924

Ano de publicación: 2023

Número: 32

Páxinas: 110-126

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.12795/SPAL.2023.I32.04 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Outras publicacións en: SPAL: Revista de prehistoria y arqueología de la Universidad de Sevilla

Resumo

The settlement of São João de Rei (Póvoa de Lanhoso, Braga, Portugal) has provided new archaeobotanical data to reconstruct diverse aspects related to wood resources management by Iron Age communities in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. This site has several phases of occupation from 6th-5th BCE to the Roman Period, with several chronological hiatuses. Data provided by charcoal analysis have attested the existence of a diversified exploitation of different taxa from the mixed deciduous woodlands (Quercus spp.) and the riverine forests (Salix/Populus, Fraxinus sp.) as well as shrubby (Arbutus unedo) and scrubland (Fabaceae) formations for firewood procurement. The register of several dendrological attributes has allowed us to identify alterations in the growth of annual tree-rings that might be related to the existence of silvicultural practices.

Referencias bibliográficas

  • Alves, F. y Rieth, E. (2007) As pirogas 4 e 5 do rio Lima. Trabalhos do CNANS, 21. Lisboa: Instituto Português de Arqueologia.
  • Amigo, J., Rodríguez-Guitián, M.A., Honrado, J.J.P. y Alves, P. (2017) “The lowlands and midlands of Northwestern Atlantic Iberia”, en Loidi, J. (ed) The Vegetation of the Iberian Peninsula. Berlin: Springer, pp. 191-250. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54784-8
  • Badal E., Carrión Y. y Jordá J. F. (2012) “Charcoal analysis at the San Chuis hill fort (Allande, Asturias, Spain)”, en Wood and charcoal evidence for human and natural history, Saguntum Extra 13. Valencia: Universitat de Valencia, pp. 125–134.
  • Bettencourt, A.M.S. (2000) Estações da Idade do Bronze e Inícios da Idade do Ferro da bacia do Cávado (Norte de Portugal). Cadernos de Arqueologia - Monografias, 11. Braga: Unidade de Arqueologia da Universidade do Minho. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/80658
  • Bettencourt, A.M.S. (2001) “Considerações em torno de alguns aspetos económicos da Idade do Ferro Inicial no Noroeste portugués”, Arqueologia, 26, pp. 41-55. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/45912 (accesible en abril de 2022).
  • Bleicher, N. (2014) “Four levels of patterns in tree-rings: an archaeological approach to dendroecology”, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 23(5), pp. 615-627. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-013-0410-6
  • Cartwright, C. R. (2015) “The principles, procedures and pitfalls in identifying archaeological and historical wood samples”, Annals of Botany, 116(1), pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcv056
  • Carvalho, A. M. (2005) Etnobotánica del Parque Natural de Montesinho. Plantas, tradición y saber popular en un territorio del Nordeste de Portugal. Tesis Doctoral. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. https://repositorio.uam.es/handle/10486/673001 (accesible octubre de 2022).
  • Chabal, L. (1997) Forêts et sociétés en Languedoc (Néolithique final, Antiquité tardive): l’anthracologie, méthode et paléoécologie. Paris: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
  • Costa, M., Morla, C. y Sáinz, H. (1997) Los bosques ibéricos, una interpretación geobotánica. Madrid: Planteta.
  • Figueiral, I. (1996) “Wood resources in north-west Portugal: their availability and use from the late Bronze Age to the Roman period”, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 5 (1-2), pp. 121-129. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00189442
  • Figueiral, I. (2000) “O povoado de S. João de Rei (Póvoa de Lanhoso): o contributo da antracología”, en Bettencourt, A.M.S. (ed.) Estações da Idade do Bronze e inícios da Idade do Ferro da bacia do Cávado (Norte de Portugal). Cadernos de Arqueologia - Monografias, 11. Braga: Universidade do Minho, pp. 251-254.
  • Figueiral, I. y Bettencourt, A.M.S. (2004) “Middle/Late Bronze Age plant communities and their exploitation in the Cávado Basin (NW Portugal) as shown by charcoal analysis: the significance and co-occurrence of Quercus (deciduous)-Fabaceae”, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 13 (4), pp. 219-232. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-004-0040-0
  • Fuller, D.Q., Stevens, C. y McClatchie, M. (2014) “Routine activities, tertiary refuse and labor organization: social inferences from everyday archaeobotany”, en Madella, M., Lancelotti, C. y Savard, M. (eds.) Ancient plants and people: contemporary trends in Archaeobotany. Tucson: Arizona Press, pp. 174-217.
  • Gale, R. y Cutler, D. (2000) Plants in Archaeology. Identification manual of vegetative plant materials used in Europe and the southern Mediterranean to c. 1500. Kew: Westbury and Royal Botanic Gardens.
  • Gómez-Orellana, L., Ramil-Rego, P. y Aira Rodríguez, M.J. (1996) “Cronología y dinámica de los humedales y lagunas existentes en las depresiones sedimentarias de Galicia”, en Ruiz Zapata, B. (ed.) Estudios palinológicos: XI Simposio de Palinología (APLE). Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, pp. 63-67.
  • Hather, J.G. (2000) The Identification of the Northern European Woods. A guide for archaeologists and conservators, London: Archetype Publications.
  • LaMotta, V.M. y Schiffer, M.B. (2013) “Formation processes of house floor assemblages”, en Allison, P. (ed.) The Archaeology of Household Activities. London: Routledge, pp. 19-29.
  • López-González, G. (2006) Los árboles y arbustos de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares. Madrid: Ediciones Mundi-Prensa.
  • Marguerie, D. y Hunot, J.-Y. (2007) “Charcoal analysis and dendrology: data from archaeological sites in north-western France”, Journal of Archaeological Science, 34, pp. 1417-1433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2006.10.032
  • Martín-Seijo, M. (2013) A xestión do bosque e do monte dende a Idade do Ferro a época romana no noroeste da Península Ibérica: consumo de combustibles e produción de manufacturas en madeira. Tesis Doctoral. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. https://minerva.usc.es/xmlui/handle/10347/7516 (accesible en noviembre de 2021).
  • Martín-Seijo, M. (2020) “The presence of decayed wood in Iron Age contexts of Northwest Iberia: wood-borer galleries and fungal hyphae”, Environmental Archaeology, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2020.1829294
  • Martín-Seijo, M. (2021) “Plant-based crafts from Iron Age contexts of north-western Iberia: Technological know-how and materiality”, en Berihuete, M., Martín-Seijo, M., López-Bultó, O. y Piqué, R. (eds.) The missing woodland resources: Archaeobotanical studies of the use of plant raw materials. Advances in Archaeobotany, 6. Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing, pp. 97-110.
  • Martín-Seijo. M. y Carballo, L.X. (2010) “Le travail du bois et les pratiques d’élagage à l’Âge du fer: le site de Castrovite (Galice, Espagne)”, en Delhon C., Théry-Parisot, I. y Thiébault, S. (dirs.), Des Hommes et des Plantes. Exploitation du Milieu et gestion des ressources végétales de la Préhistoire à nous jours. Antibes: APDCA, pp. 253-266.
  • Martín-Seijo, M. y Carrión, Y. (2012) “Shaping Wood: Woodworking during the Iron Age and Roman period in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula”, en Wood and charcoal evidence for human and natural history, Saguntum Extra 13. Valencia: Universitat de Valencia, pp. 135-144.
  • Martín-Seijo, M., Alles, M. y Abad, E. (2009). “Análise dos carbóns arqueolóxicos”, en Bonilla. A. & Fábregas,R. (eds.), Círculo de engaños. Excavación del cromlech de A Mourela (As Pontes de García Rodríguez, A Coruña). Santiago de Compostela: Andavira, pp. 163-175.
  • Martín-Seijo, M., Silva, V.M. y Bettencourt, A.M.S. (2015). “Carbonised wooden objects and wood charcoal from an Iron Age feasting context in North-western Iberia: The case study of Frijão (Braga, Portugal)”, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2, pp. 538-550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.05.005
  • Martín-Seijo, M., Blanco-González, A., Teira-Brión, A., Rellán, C. R., Bettencourt, A. M.S., Rodríguez-Sáiz, E. y Comendador, B. (2017) “Disentangling the life-cycles of Bronze Age pits: A multi-stranded approach, integrating ceramic refitting, archaeobotany and taphonomy”, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 12, pp. 528-542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.02.024
  • Martín-Seijo, M., Teira-Brión, A., Currás, A. y Rodríguez-Rellán, C. (2020) “After the fire: the end of a house life-cycle at the Iron Age site of Nabás (North-western Iberia)”, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 29(4), pp. 427-446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-019-00750-5
  • Martins, M.M.R. (1990) O povoamento proto-histórico e a romanização da bacia do curso médio do Cávado. Cadernos de Arqueologia - Monografias, 5. Braga: Unidade de Arqueologia da Universidade do Minho.
  • Moreno-Larrazabal, A., Renobales Scheifler, G. y Zapata, L. (2013) “Explotación forestal en la vertiente atlántica del País Vasco durante la Edad de Hierro: una aproximación antracológica”, Cuadernos de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias Forestales, (38), pp. 19-24.
  • Muñoz Sobrino, C., García-Gil S., Iglesias, J., Martínez Carreño, N., Ferreiro da Costa, J., Díaz Varela R.A. y Judd, A. (2012) “Environmental change in the Ría de Vigo, NW Iberia, since the mid-Holocene: new palaeoecological and seismic evidence”, Boreas, 41, pp. 578-601. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00255.x
  • Muñoz Sobrino, C., García-Moreiras. I., Castro, Y., Martínez Carreño, N., de Blas, E., Fernández Rodríguez, C., Judd, A. y García-Gil, S. (2014) “Climate and anthropogenic factors influencing an estuarine ecosystem from NW Iberia: new high-resolution multiproxy analyses from San Simon Bay (Ría de Vigo)”, Quaternary Science Review, 93, pp. 11-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.03.021
  • Muñoz Sobrino, C., García-Moreiras, I., Martínez Carreño, N., Cartelle, V., Insua, T.L., Ferreiro da Costa, J., Ramil-Rego, P., Fernández Rodríguez, C., Alejo, I. y García-Gil, S. (2016) “Reconstruction of the environmental history of a coastal insular system using shallow marine records: the last three millennia of the Cíes Islands (Ría de Vigo, NW Iberia) “, Boreas, 45 (4), pp. 729-753. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12178
  • Oliveira, N. (2017a) O povoado de São João de Rei na Idade do Ferro Recente (Póvoa de Lanhoso, NW de Portugal). Trabajo de Fin de Máster. Braga: Universidade do Minho. https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/handle/1822/48015 (accesible noviembre de 2021).
  • Oliveira, N. (2017b) “O povoado de São João de Rei na Idade do Ferro Recente, Póvoa de Lanhoso (NW Portugal). Considerações sobre um povoado de baixa altitude”, en Vázquez Martinez, A., Cordeiro Macenlle, R., Carrero Pazos, M., Díaz Rodríguez, M., Rodríguez Nóvoa, A.A. y Vilas Estévez, B. (eds.) (Re)escribindo a Historia. Achegas de Novo Investigadores en Arqueoloxía e Ciencias da Antiguidade. Santiago de Compostela: Arcian, pp. 121-135.
  • Parcero, C. (2003) “Looking forward in anger: social and political transformations in the Iron Age of the north-western Iberian Peninsula”, European Journal of Archaeology, 6 (3), pp. 267-299. https://doi.org/10.1179/eja.2003.6.3.267
  • Parcero, C. (2006) “Los paisajes agrarios castreños. Modelos de construcción del espacio agrario a lo largo de la Edad del Hierro del noroeste”, Arqueología Espacial, 26, pp. 57-85.
  • Reimer, P. J., Austin, W. E. N., Bard, E., Bayliss, A., Blackwell, P. G., Bronk Ramsey, C., […] Talamo, S. (2020) “The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)”, Radiocarbon, 62(4), pp. 725-757. http://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2020.41
  • Rodríguez-Ariza, M.O. (1993) “Los procesos de formación y transformación del registro arqueológico en los estudios antracológicos”, en Burillo, F. (ed) Arqueología Espacial 16-17. Procesos postdeposicionales. Teruel: Seminario de Arqueologia Etnologia Turolense, pp. 371-390.
  • Schweingruber, F.H. (1990) Anatomy of European Woods. An atlas for the identification of European trees, shrubs and dwarf shrubs. Stutgart: Paul Haupt.
  • Schweingruber, F.H. (2007) Wood structure and environment. Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer Berlag.
  • Schweingruber, F.H., Börner, A., Schulze, E.D. (2008) Atlas of Woody Plant Stems. Evolution, Structure and Environmental Modifications. Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer Berlag.
  • Silva, A.C.F. (1986) A Cultura Castreja do Noroeste de Portugal. Paços de Ferreira: Câmara Municipal.
  • Tereso, J.P. y Silva, V.M.F. (2014) “Fruits and seeds from an Iron Age ritual of commensality in Frijão (Braga, NW Portugal)”, Estudos do Quaternário, 11, pp. 67-72.
  • Théry-Parisot, I. (2001) Économie des combustibles au Paléolithique: Expérimentation, taphonomie, anthracologie. Paris: CNRS.
  • Théry-Parisot, I. y Henry, A. (2012) “Seasoned or green? Radial cracks analysis as a method for identifying the use of green wood as fuel in archaeological charcoal”, Journal of Archaeology Science, 39, pp. 381-388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.09.024
  • Théry-Parisot, I., Chabal, L. y Chrzavzez, J. (2010) “Anthracology and taphonomy, from wood gathering to charcoal analysis. A review of the taphonomic processes modifying charcoal assemblages, in archaeological contexts”, Palaeogeography, Paleoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 291(1-2), pp. 142-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.09.016
  • Vaz, F.C., Tereso, J.P., Martín-Seijo, M., Pereira, S.S., Gaspar, R., Seabra, L. y Sastre-Blanco, J. (2017) “Iron Age ovens and hearths from the hilltop of Quinta de Crestelos, Sabor Valley (NE Portugal): An archaeobotanical approach on typology, functionality and firewood use”, Quaternary International, 458, pp. 75-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.02.028