- Carpology, Arqueología, Iberian Peninsula, Archaeobotany, Seed and Fruit (carpology, Palethnobotany), Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, and 23 moreIron Age, Protohistoric Iberian Peninsula, Prehistoric Archaeology, Pre Roman Archaeology/Iberian Culture, Roman Architecture, Punic Pottery, Archaeology, Necropolis, History, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Roman Archaeology, Olive tree cultivation, history and culture, Mediterranean prehistory, Ethnoarchaeology, Roman Economy, Olive and Olive Oil Technology, Neolithic Archaeology, Phoenician Punic Archaeology, Wine and Olive Oil Production, Amphorae, Trade, Mediterranean archaeology, and Antic Technologyedit
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Until a few decades ago, excavated silos were one of the most common storage systems among the Ouarten. Nowadays they are no longer used, but they can be documented in an abandoned state, and some of them have been reused as rubbish... more
Until a few decades ago, excavated silos were one of the most common storage systems among the Ouarten. Nowadays they are no longer used, but they can be documented in an abandoned state, and some of them have been reused as rubbish dumps. As part of an ethnoarchaeological project we excavated two of them, one of which reused as rubbish dump about AD2000. This paper presents the results of the excavation of these silos, that allowed us to record these structures in detail and to recover numerous organic remains, mainly animal bones, charcoal, seeds and fruits, which correspond to residues from various domestic food preparation activities.
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The remains of Olea europaea in archaeological contexts in the southern Iberian Peninsula have been found in the Epipalaeolithic levels of Cueva de Nerja (10860±160 b.p.). The abundant appearance of charcoal and some seed remains from the... more
The remains of Olea europaea in archaeological contexts in the southern Iberian Peninsula have been found in the Epipalaeolithic levels of Cueva de Nerja (10860±160 b.p.). The abundant appearance of charcoal and some seed remains from the Copper Age (3rd millennium b.c.) in the coastal zones of the southeast indicate that this species formed part of the vegetation of the Thermo-mediterranean zone and that its fruits were collected during these periods. However, Olea did not appear in the Meso-mediterranean zone until the Roman period, when olive cultivation was introduced there. The presence of charcoal and olive stones from the 1st century a.d. onwards is abundant, together with remains of structures for oil pressing.
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Until a few decades ago, excavated silos were one of the most common storage systems among the Ouarten. Nowadays they are no longer used, but they can be documented in an abandoned state, and some of them have been reused as rubbish... more
Until a few decades ago, excavated silos were one of the most common
storage systems among the Ouarten. Nowadays they are no longer used, but they can be documented in an abandoned state, and some of them have been reused as rubbish dumps. As part of an ethnoarchaeological project we excavated two of them, one of which reused as rubbish dump about AD2000.This paper presents the results of the excavation of these silos, that allowed us to record these structures in detail and to recover numerous organic remains, mainly animal bones, charcoal, seeds and fruits, which correspond to residues from various domestic food preparation activities.
storage systems among the Ouarten. Nowadays they are no longer used, but they can be documented in an abandoned state, and some of them have been reused as rubbish dumps. As part of an ethnoarchaeological project we excavated two of them, one of which reused as rubbish dump about AD2000.This paper presents the results of the excavation of these silos, that allowed us to record these structures in detail and to recover numerous organic remains, mainly animal bones, charcoal, seeds and fruits, which correspond to residues from various domestic food preparation activities.