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Mediaeval agricultural space in Galicia: use and division of land in Marco de Portovello (Lugo, NW Iberia)

Authors: Ballesteros-Arias, Paula; Criado-Boado, Felipe; Lima Oliveira, Elena;

Mediaeval agricultural space in Galicia: use and division of land in Marco de Portovello (Lugo, NW Iberia)

Abstract

[ES] En este artículo se trató de reconstruir la cronología de la función y usos de las áreas de cría extensiva y los procesos de adjudicación de la tierra y los procesos constructivos a través del análisis arqueológico y la datación por radiocarbono, derivada, por una parte, de nuestra experiencia previa en el estudio arqueológico de las áreas de agricultura estable y permanente en las zonas bajas de Galicia, y por la otra, de los resultados de la excavación de un yacimiento arqueológico en el que se registraron las huellas de antiguos sistemas de campo vinculados a un área de terreno montañosos dedicado a amplio usos de la tierra. Los datos que han examinado revelan que esta organización del terreno montañoso se produjo en la Edad Media, previo a la Baja Edad Media. Al mismo tiempo estudios previos han hecho posible que podamos identificar la creación en Galicia de las zonas de agricultura intensiva a través de la construcción de infraestructuras complejas para fines de cultivo permanentes conformadas por terrazas agrícolas.

[EN] This article analyses a series of major linear structures associated with ancient enclosures or boundaries used for hilly terrain which, according to the results obtained, can be dated to the mediaeval period. The initial data were obtained from an archaeological excavation carried out in the area known as Marco do Portovello (Guitiriz, Lugo)2. These data are of great importance as, to date, the archaeological studies carried out on the processes involved in the formation and use of the rural environment in Galicia refer to spaces used for intensive agriculture (labradío) close to villages and hamlets, which contain terraces and embankments used for growing crops. However, in the study case presented in this article, we have the opportunity to analyse agricultural spaces that are some distance from the villages, situated on hillsides and containing land more suitable for growing winter cereals such as rye or wheat, and for gorse, used as the basic fertiliser for agricultural land.

The results of this work are included in the Technical Report for the Archaeological Control Project for the area of La Medorra de Marco de Portovello; Parga – Curtis section.

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Historia rural, Rural Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Patrimonio Cultural, Late Middle Age, Cultural Heritage, Rural History, Field systems, Galicia, Alta Edad Media, Institute of Heritage Sciences, Arqueología del paisaje, Insituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio, Incipit, Arqueología rural, High Middle Ages, Sistemas de cultivo

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