La alta montaña durante la Prehistoria: 10 años de investigación en el Pirineo catalán occidental

Ballbè, Ermengol Gassiot; Antón, David Rodríguez; Mañosa, Albert Pèlachs; Obiol, Ramón Pérez i; Brugués, Ramón Julià; Bal-Serin, Marie-Claude; Mazzucco, Niccolò

doi:10.3989/tp.2014.12134

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“…The signs of human pressure become even clearer thereafter, beginning 2800 cal years BP. This model of general intensification of anthropic pressure on high mountain environments is well documented for the Pyrenees and the Basque Country and seems to respond to a global pattern in the whole northern part of the Iberian Peninsula Galop, Carozza, Marembert, & Bal, 2007;Gassiot et al, 2014;Pèlachs et al, 2011). 4.3 | Fire and landscape dynamics for their absence has not been found.…”

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History of fires and vegetation since the Neolithic in the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain)

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Fire has been one of the main causes of disturbance of vegetation over time, and since the Neolithic has become an irreplaceable tool for the opening of forest spaces and maintenance of pastures. Previous studies showed that the intensity and effects of wildfires are related to the biomass and controlled by climate factors. However, in regions such as Cantabria, where agriculture and livestock have spread throughout the territory since prehistory, fires should also be closely related to human land uses. The aim of this paper was to investigate the history of fires and vegetation since the Neolithic in the Cantabrian Mountains, using sedimentary charcoal and pollen data to study the role of human activities in the processes that have shaped ecosystems throughout the Holocene. The asynchrony and quantitative differences in the results obtained at different sites indicate significant variations in fire patterns at regional scale since the Neolithic, although the type and size of each basin also had a strong influence on charcoal accumulation. Maximum values for charcoal accumulation rate at La Molina were observed between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age but occurred after about 3500 cal years BP at El Cueto de la Avellanosa. At El Sertal, low charcoal accumulation rate values were observed, probably because the sequence begins in a space that already had been cleared; the maximum values occurred during the most recent millennium. These data provide evidence that fire has been a key factor in forest retreat and in maintaining open landscapes since the Neolithic.

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History of fires and vegetation since the Neolithic in the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain)

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“…Nevertheless, a rather early human impact with punctual presence of cereal pollen grains since the Neolithic onset (ca. 7000 cal yr BP) or even earlier (Ejarque et al, 2010;Pérez-Obiol et al, 2012) has been detected in the eastern Pyrenean palaeoenvironmental sequences, where sparse sub-alpine Neolithic settlements were found (Gassiot Ballbè et al, 2014;Gassiot Ballbè, 2016).…”

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“…in the eastern Pyrenees (Gassiot Ballbè et al, 2014), despite an intensification of agricultural and grazing indicators has been detected in the eastern Pyrenean sequences (Miras et al, 2007;Pèlachs et al, 2007;Bal et al, 2011;Pérez-Obiol et al, 2012;Garcés-Pastor et al, 2017). A great spatial variability in terms of fire activity has also been observed in other European mountain ranges such as the Alps (Colombaroli et al, 2010;Leys et al, 2014) and in the Carpathians (Feurdean et al, 2012;Florescu et al, 2018) but generally indicating increasing human related landscape transformations during the last 4000 years.…”

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Holocene fire and vegetation dynamics in the Central Pyrenees (Spain)

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Fire-vegetation relationships are critical to understand transient mountain ecosystems and their long-term landscape dynamics, which is essential for alpine forest conservation. In this paper we aim to 1) reconstruct the Holocene fire history at high altitudes of the southern Central Pyrenees, 2) add evidence to the debate on fire origin, naturally or anthropogenically produced, 3) determine the importance of fire as a disturbance agent for sub-alpine and alpine vegetation, in comparison with the plant community internal dynamics applying conditional

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“…Con anterioridad al final de la Antigüedad e inicios de la Edad Media, el período mejor representado en la secuencia arqueológica del PNAESM es el comprendido entre el 3350 y el 2350 cal ANE (Garcia Casas 2018; Gassiot 2016; Gassiot et al 2014Gassiot et al , 2016Gassiot et al , 2017. Los sondeos efectuados durante las campañas de prospección y algunas excavaciones en extensión han facilitado 14 fechas de C14 para un total de 10 fases de ocupación en 9 yacimientos distintos ( Fig.…”

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Modelización de territorios ganaderos en la alta montaña al final del Neolítico: una integración de análisis espacial e información etnográfica

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En los últimos años la investigación arqueológica en áreas de montaña de la península ibérica está empezando a llenar el vacío de información con extensas secuencias de ocupación durante el Holoceno. En el Pirineo se localiza una cantidad considerable de yacimientos del final del Neolítico/ Calcolítico con cronologías entre el 3350 y 2350 cal ANE. Este fenómeno parece vincularse con la consolidación de la explotación ganadera de las zonas alpinas y subalpinas. En este trabajo se analiza el patrón de dispersión de los yacimientos de esta época en el Parque Nacional de Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici, en el Pirineo central. Se definen mediante SIG áreas de influencia alrededor de los asentamientos y caminos óptimos para evaluar dos variables clave en cualquier práctica ganadera: la accesibilidad a los asentamientos y a los pastos. Con fines comparativos se analiza también el patrón de los yacimientos de época moderna y contemporánea. El estudio permite concluir diferencias significativas en la dispersión de los yacimientos de cada época con relación a los pastos y a los caminos.

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La alta montaña durante la Prehistoria: 10 años de investigación en el Pirineo catalán occidental

Cited by 38 publications

References 18 publications

History of fires and vegetation since the Neolithic in the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain)

History of fires and vegetation since the Neolithic in the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain)

Holocene fire and vegetation dynamics in the Central Pyrenees (Spain)

Modelización de territorios ganaderos en la alta montaña al final del Neolítico: una integración de análisis espacial e información etnográfica

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