Early Neolithic Farming Activities in High Mountain Landscapes of the Pyrenees : Simulating Changes in Settlement Patterns
Gassiot Ballbè, Ermengol (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Prehistòria)
Salvador Baiges, Guillem (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Prehistòria)
Clemente Conte, Ignacio (Institució Milà i Fontanals)
Díaz Bonilla, Sara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Prehistòria)
Garcia Casas, David (Institute of Heritage Sciences)
Mazzucco, Niccolò (University of Pisa. Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge)
Obea Gómez, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Prehistòria)
Rey Lanaspa, Javier (Aragó. Departamento de Cultura y Turismo)
Rodríguez Antón, David (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Prehistòria)

Imprint:	Chan : Springer, 2021
Abstract:	In recent years, new archaeological research has highlighted relatively early neolithisation in different areas of the axial Pyrenees. Sites like Coro Trasito, Cueva Lóbrica, Els Trocs and Cova del Sardo show a consolidated presence of human communities with farming and animal husbandry and a fully Neolithic material culture at the end of the sixth millennium and the beginning of the fifth millennium cal BC. The arrival of this new way of life involved a change in former settlement patterns, with the abandonment of sites in high areas, over 2200 m a. s. l. , which had been occupied in the Mesolithic. In turn, human settlement focused on lower mountain areas, between 1400 and 1800 m a. s. l. Renewed settlement around and over the current timberline would take place during the second half of the Neolithic, at the end of the third millennium cal BC. For this period, palaeoecological data suggest a clear expansion of pastures linked to anthropogenic factors. The paper presents an analysis of the dynamic construction of social territories through the modelling of a simulation of changing settlement patterns and uses of the space.
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Language:	Castellà
Document:	Capítol de llibre ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Early Neolithic ; Mesolithic ; Agriculture ; High Mountain ; Pyrenees
Published in:	Simulating Transitions to Agriculture in Prehistory, p 139-164 (2022), ISBN 978-3-030-83642-9

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83643-6_8

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