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Books by Paula Ballesteros-Arias

[EN] The project Formation and Change of the Cultural Landscape in Galicia?s Atlantic Islands Nat... more [EN] The project Formation and Change of the Cultural Landscape in Galicia?s Atlantic Islands National Park (2011-2013) aims to study the processes of formation and transformation of the Cultural Landscape of the islands that comprise the National Park, created in 2002 and located in the south west of Galicia (NW Iberia). This paper reviews the general context of the project and discusses the results obtained so far in the fields of Archaeology and, at a lesser level, Ethnography.
[ES] El Proyecto "Procesos de Formación y Cambio del paisaje cultural del Parque nacional de las Islas Atlánticas de Galicia" (2011-2013) se propone estudiar los procesos de formación y transformación el paisaje de las islas que componen el Parque (creado en 2002 y ubicado en el suroeste de Galicia). Este trabajo presenta el contexto general del proyecto y discute los resultados obtenidos hasta la fecha en el campo de la Arqueología y, en menor medida, de la etnografía.

Ons: An inhabited island. Anaina 2. Incipit CSIC, 2014

[EN]This multimedia electronic book is available in Spanish, Galician and English at the iBook Ap... more [EN]This multimedia electronic book is available in Spanish, Galician and English at the iBook Apple Store (http://bit.ly/1kzZnoR). Please, note that the pdf version does not include multimedia materials. The iBook offers the results of an interdisciplinary research project about the human presence in the Island of Ons from prehistoric times to the present, conducted at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit). The book deals with questions about how, when and by whom the island was inhabited; what vestiges of human presence remain; how daily life is for the few people who permanently inhabit the island; or how tourism affects Ons.

Ons, unha illa habitada, 2014

[EN]This multimedia electronic book is available in Spanish, Galician and English at the iBook A... more [EN]This multimedia electronic book is available in Spanish, Galician and English at the iBook Apple Store (http://bit.ly/1kzZnoR). Please, note that the pdf version does not include multimedia materials. The iBook offers the results of an interdisciplinary research project about the human presence in the Island of Ons from prehistoric times to the present, conducted at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit). The book deals with questions about how, when and by whom the island was inhabited; what vestiges of human presence remain; how daily life is for the few people who permanently inhabit the island; or how tourism affects Ons.

El paisaje rural gallego. La arqueología y la etnografía como métodos de estudio sobre su génesis y transformación en el tiempo., 2020

[ENG] This PhD thesis deals with the genealogy of the agrarian landscape in Galicia (northwest c... more [ENG]
This PhD thesis deals with the genealogy of the agrarian landscape in Galicia (northwest corner of Spain), its organization, social importance and changes through time until the present day. Archaeological and ethnographic methodologies are combined in order to study forms and elements of the agrarian landscape, mainly terraces.
The results of our research indicate that the origin of terrace agricultural system can be dated to the first centuries of the Early Middle Ages, and it was the beginning of the rural landscape transformation that shaped the traditional organization of the rural landscape still in use today in many areas of Galicia.
In order to enhance the information provided by the archaeological research, ethnographic methodologies are applied to understand the social behaviours and changing processes at present times, when new ways and purposes about the rural landscape can be detected.
The main case studies are connected with: fieldworks related to public sector building infrastructures such as a gas pipeline network (Red de Gasificación de Galicia 1995- 99); a cultural complex building (A Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela 2001); a wind park (sierra de O Suído, Pontevedra-Ourense 2003-05); and fieldworks in the framework of research projects at the Spanish National Park (Isla de Ons, Pontevedra 2010-13) and at a village in the Santiago de Compostela’s pilgrimage route (Olveiroa, A Coruña 2009-12). These case studies provide a detailed information about the building processes of the agrarian landscape in Galicia.

[ESP]

Esta tesis es un estudio para conocer la genealogía del paisaje agrario en Galicia, la organización del mismo y su significación social junto con los procesos de cambio constatados a lo largo del tiempo hasta la actualidad. Se combina el método arqueológico y el etnográfico para estudiar las formas y elementos del paisaje agrario, fundamentalmente las terrazas de cultivo.
Los resultados de nuestras investigaciones sitúan el origen del sistema agrario en terrazas de Galicia en los primeros siglos de la Alta Edad Media, momento que constituiría el inicio de la transformación del paisaje rural hasta producir las características del sistema tradicional que aún permanece en uso en muchas zonas de este territorio.
El estudio arqueológico se completa con el método etnográfico para conocer las prácticas sociales y los procesos de cambio que se están dando actualmente a partir de nuevos usos y nuevas formas de entender el paisaje rural.
Los casos de estudio destacados corresponden a trabajos de campo realizados en contexto de arqueología de gestión (Red de Gasificación de Galicia 1995-99); un complejo arquitectónico cultural (A Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela 2001); parques eólicos (sierra de O Suído, Pontevedra-Ourense 2003-05); y proyectos de investigación del Plan Nacional en el Parque Nacional de las Islas Atlánticas (Isla de Ons, Pontevedra, 2010-13) y del Plan Galego relacionado con el Camino de Santiago (Olveiroa, A Coruña 2009-12). Estos casos de estudio ofrecen una visión detallada sobre los procesos de construcción y formación del paisaje agrario de Galicia.

Heritage, Pilgrimage and the Camino to Finisterre: Walking to de end of the Word., 2015

(ENG) The landscape is a product of each particular society’s ways of being, thinking and acting.... more (ENG) The landscape is a product of each particular society’s ways of being, thinking and acting. The landscape we see in Galicia today is the result of our ways of being, thinking and acting, but also those of the people who lived here in the past. Many of the things that we consider to be the most typical elements of the Galician landscape are a product or effect of human action, and not only of what we refer to as “nature”. This book is a kind of archaeological “atlas” of the cultural landscapes of Galicia, and here we say ‘a kind’ because it is not an atlas in the conventional sense, containing a series of maps: instead, what this book does is to describe the different types of landscape that appeared over much of the history of what is now Galicia, from late prehistory (beginning of the Neolithic) to mediaeval times. The story begins with what we know as the traditional landscape. It identifies its typical elements that are present or missing from the landscapes that preceded it, and which helped to create it. And so, archaeological landscapes are something that does not exist; their remains are either largely incorporated in subsequent forms of the landscape, or lie lost and forgotten (“invisible”) beneath them. It is precisely for this reason that we refer to them as “archaeological landscapes”. The narrative we present here is a human story from the Anthropocene period, a concept that defines a new geological stage marked by human influence of the Earth’s different systems, a stage in which sociocultural action has actively altered the world, replacing a natural environment with an increasingly artificial cultural environment. THIS PDF DOCUMENT IS A SELECTION OF SOME PAGES OF THE TEXT TO GIVE AN OVERALL IMPRESSION OF THE BOOK CONTENTS.

(SP): El paisaje es un producto de las formas de ser, de estar, de pensar y de actuar propias de cada sociedad. El paisaje gallego actual es el resultado de nuestras formas de ser, estar, pensar y actuar. Pero también lo es de las de todas aquellas personas que nos precedieron en el tiempo. Muchas cosas que consideramos características del paisaje de Galicia son el producto o el efecto de la acción humana, no sólo de eso que llamamos “naturaleza”. Este libro es una especie de “atlas” arqueológico de los paisajes culturales de Galicia. Y decimos “una especie” porque no es un atlas en el sentido convencional de conjunto de mapas. Lo que hace este libro es describir las diferentes formas de paisaje que se sucedieron a lo largo de una parte de la historia de lo que hoy llamamos Galicia, en concreto desde la prehistoria reciente (desde el inicio del periodo que se denomina “neolítico”) hasta la época medieval. El relato parte del paisaje tradicional de Galicia para, a continuación, descubrir los elementos típicos de este paisaje y ver cuáles estaban presentes –o ausentes- en los paisajes que lo precedieron y que contribuyeron a su conformación. Los paisajes arqueológicos son algo que no existe. Sus restos, o bien se incorporaron en gran medida a las formas posteriores de paisaje, o bien subyacen relictos y olvidados (“invisibilizados”) bajo éstas. Por eso precisamente llamamos a esos paisajes “arqueológicos”. La historia que hacemos aquí es una historia humana del antropoceno, un concepto cada vez más utilizado para definir una nueva etapa geológico que está marcada por la dominación humana de los sistemas de la Tierra, una etapa en la que la dinámica socioecultura modifica activamente el mundo y sustituye un medio natural por un medio cultural y cada vez más artificial. ESTE DOCUMENTO PDF ES UNA SEPARATA CON LA SELECCIÓN DE ALGUNAS PÁGINAS DEL LIBRO PARA DAR UNA IMPRESIÓN GENERAL DE SUS CONTENIDOS Y FORMATO.

[GA]O traballo que presentamos a continuación enmárcase dentro do proxecto denominado "Procesos d... more [GA]O traballo que presentamos a continuación enmárcase dentro do proxecto denominado "Procesos de formación e cambio da paisaxe cultural do Parque Nacional das Illas Atlánticas de Galicia" (HAR2010-22004). Este estudo trata de profundar no coñecemento do espazo cultural a través de prospección arqueolóxica superficial, e de recoñecer as diferentes etapas crono-culturais que deron lugar á configuración actual deste espazo singular de illas. O traballo organízase en tres grandes bloques. Na primeira descríbense os plantexamentos e obxectivos do estudo. A segunda parte contén a presentación da metodoloxía seguida ao longo do proxecto, o inventario das entidades culturais rexistradas e a súa valoración. Por último analízase a vulnerabilidade no contexto litoral dalgunhas das entidades documentadas nas illas, valorando, ao mesmo tempo, o seu estado de conservación. [EN] The work we present here is part of the project "Procesos de formación e cambio da paisaxe cultural do Parque Nacional das Illas Atlánticas de Galicia" (HAR2010-22004). This study seeks to deepen the understanding of the cultural space through surface archaeological survey, and to recognize the different cultural chronological stages that led to the current configuration of this unique area of islands. The text is organised into three sections. In the first one, the guidelines and objectives of the study are presented. In the second one, the methodology followed and the cultural assets identified through during the fieldwork are analysed and discussed. Finally, the vulenrability of several sites identified is discussed and evaluated in their coastal contex

This document presents the results of a study about Agrarian Land Space nearby Elviña’s Hillfort,... more This document presents the results of a study about Agrarian Land Space nearby Elviña’s Hillfort, in A Coruña. It was making as a part of a research plan to make the Management Document of Elviña’s Hillfort which pretends the enhancement of it. Elviña’s landscape is a model of traditional and rural territory of Galicia but it’s degrading for the influence of A Coruña urban area. The material elements and agrarian forms are walls and another agricultural structures in order to accommodate the space for land exploitation. This landscape was growing up during the last millennium and his role was to provide agricultural supplies to the city.

The line of research on “the archaeological study of rural spaces and their elements”, as develop... more The line of research on “the archaeological study of rural spaces and their elements”, as developed within the Laboratorio de Patrimonio, Paleoambiente e Paisaxe, is the framework that allow the analysis of the processes of construction of Galician rural landscape, using the data resulting from a number of archaeological projects developed in relation to the evaluation and assessment of public works. Specifically this presentation deals with the study of cultivation terraces and embankments, understood as artificial elements either intentionally built or side effects of human labor and conceived to enlarge the spaces of cultivation and/or to facilitate the spread of certain crops. A number of new radiocarbon dates will allow to argue that this kind of structures can be viewed as true chronological indicators of the different moments and processes of action of peasant communities over the environment. Simultaneously I will make an attempt to clarify the different types of structures found in the area of analysis, by looking at aspects such as the stratigraphical sequences, the processes of formation and/or construction, the presence or absence of specific formal elements, etc. The work carried out has also taken into account other archaeological elements such as pits, which, after their contexts, position and shape, can be related to old agrarian elements currently invisible on surface.

The aim of this monograph is to show the results of an archaeoethnological work developed in the ... more The aim of this monograph is to show the results of an archaeoethnological work developed in the area of As Brañas de Sar, in the surroundings of the town of Santiago de Compostela. The area comprises a basin around the Sar river that holds a traditional agrarian landscape that preserves in a fairly good shape the remains of a long time peasant work. Along with cultivation terraces and fields, a number of architectural features are scattered on the area, many of them related to the management and distribution of water. The Sar river, and the different channels, reservoirs and water mills related to it, are the basic features that shape the whole landscape here. In the very recent past, a progressive ruin of the area has begun to grew, which is visible in the abandonmet of both the river course itself and its environments. A thorough knowledge of that space would allow for a better understanding of its origins and historical value, that, in its turn, would allow a more coherent development of new uses in the area.

Papers by Paula Ballesteros-Arias

El Museo de Pontevedra, 2008

Quaternary International, Sep 1, 2014

Poster presentado en el International Congress Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cul... more Poster presentado en el International Congress Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (TechnoHeritage), celebrado en Santiago de compostela del 2 al 5 de octubre de 2012.

Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, 2013

Quaternary International, 2014

CRC Press eBooks, Oct 1, 2013

[EN] The project Formation and Change of the Cultural Landscape in Galicia?s Atlantic Islands Nat... more [EN] The project Formation and Change of the Cultural Landscape in Galicia?s Atlantic Islands National Park (2011-2013) aims to study the processes of formation and transformation of the Cultural Landscape of the islands that comprise the National Park, created in 2002 and located in the south west of Galicia (NW Iberia). This paper reviews the general context of the project and discusses the results obtained so far in the fields of Archaeology and, at a lesser level, Ethnography.
[ES] El Proyecto "Procesos de Formación y Cambio del paisaje cultural del Parque nacional de las Islas Atlánticas de Galicia" (2011-2013) se propone estudiar los procesos de formación y transformación el paisaje de las islas que componen el Parque (creado en 2002 y ubicado en el suroeste de Galicia). Este trabajo presenta el contexto general del proyecto y discute los resultados obtenidos hasta la fecha en el campo de la Arqueología y, en menor medida, de la etnografía.

Ons: An inhabited island. Anaina 2. Incipit CSIC, 2014

[EN]This multimedia electronic book is available in Spanish, Galician and English at the iBook Ap... more [EN]This multimedia electronic book is available in Spanish, Galician and English at the iBook Apple Store (http://bit.ly/1kzZnoR). Please, note that the pdf version does not include multimedia materials. The iBook offers the results of an interdisciplinary research project about the human presence in the Island of Ons from prehistoric times to the present, conducted at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit). The book deals with questions about how, when and by whom the island was inhabited; what vestiges of human presence remain; how daily life is for the few people who permanently inhabit the island; or how tourism affects Ons.

Ons, unha illa habitada, 2014

[EN]This multimedia electronic book is available in Spanish, Galician and English at the iBook A... more [EN]This multimedia electronic book is available in Spanish, Galician and English at the iBook Apple Store (http://bit.ly/1kzZnoR). Please, note that the pdf version does not include multimedia materials. The iBook offers the results of an interdisciplinary research project about the human presence in the Island of Ons from prehistoric times to the present, conducted at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit). The book deals with questions about how, when and by whom the island was inhabited; what vestiges of human presence remain; how daily life is for the few people who permanently inhabit the island; or how tourism affects Ons.

El paisaje rural gallego. La arqueología y la etnografía como métodos de estudio sobre su génesis y transformación en el tiempo., 2020

[ENG] This PhD thesis deals with the genealogy of the agrarian landscape in Galicia (northwest c... more [ENG]
This PhD thesis deals with the genealogy of the agrarian landscape in Galicia (northwest corner of Spain), its organization, social importance and changes through time until the present day. Archaeological and ethnographic methodologies are combined in order to study forms and elements of the agrarian landscape, mainly terraces.
The results of our research indicate that the origin of terrace agricultural system can be dated to the first centuries of the Early Middle Ages, and it was the beginning of the rural landscape transformation that shaped the traditional organization of the rural landscape still in use today in many areas of Galicia.
In order to enhance the information provided by the archaeological research, ethnographic methodologies are applied to understand the social behaviours and changing processes at present times, when new ways and purposes about the rural landscape can be detected.
The main case studies are connected with: fieldworks related to public sector building infrastructures such as a gas pipeline network (Red de Gasificación de Galicia 1995- 99); a cultural complex building (A Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela 2001); a wind park (sierra de O Suído, Pontevedra-Ourense 2003-05); and fieldworks in the framework of research projects at the Spanish National Park (Isla de Ons, Pontevedra 2010-13) and at a village in the Santiago de Compostela’s pilgrimage route (Olveiroa, A Coruña 2009-12). These case studies provide a detailed information about the building processes of the agrarian landscape in Galicia.

[ESP]

Esta tesis es un estudio para conocer la genealogía del paisaje agrario en Galicia, la organización del mismo y su significación social junto con los procesos de cambio constatados a lo largo del tiempo hasta la actualidad. Se combina el método arqueológico y el etnográfico para estudiar las formas y elementos del paisaje agrario, fundamentalmente las terrazas de cultivo.
Los resultados de nuestras investigaciones sitúan el origen del sistema agrario en terrazas de Galicia en los primeros siglos de la Alta Edad Media, momento que constituiría el inicio de la transformación del paisaje rural hasta producir las características del sistema tradicional que aún permanece en uso en muchas zonas de este territorio.
El estudio arqueológico se completa con el método etnográfico para conocer las prácticas sociales y los procesos de cambio que se están dando actualmente a partir de nuevos usos y nuevas formas de entender el paisaje rural.
Los casos de estudio destacados corresponden a trabajos de campo realizados en contexto de arqueología de gestión (Red de Gasificación de Galicia 1995-99); un complejo arquitectónico cultural (A Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela 2001); parques eólicos (sierra de O Suído, Pontevedra-Ourense 2003-05); y proyectos de investigación del Plan Nacional en el Parque Nacional de las Islas Atlánticas (Isla de Ons, Pontevedra, 2010-13) y del Plan Galego relacionado con el Camino de Santiago (Olveiroa, A Coruña 2009-12). Estos casos de estudio ofrecen una visión detallada sobre los procesos de construcción y formación del paisaje agrario de Galicia.

Heritage, Pilgrimage and the Camino to Finisterre: Walking to de end of the Word., 2015

(ENG) The landscape is a product of each particular society’s ways of being, thinking and acting.... more (ENG) The landscape is a product of each particular society’s ways of being, thinking and acting. The landscape we see in Galicia today is the result of our ways of being, thinking and acting, but also those of the people who lived here in the past. Many of the things that we consider to be the most typical elements of the Galician landscape are a product or effect of human action, and not only of what we refer to as “nature”. This book is a kind of archaeological “atlas” of the cultural landscapes of Galicia, and here we say ‘a kind’ because it is not an atlas in the conventional sense, containing a series of maps: instead, what this book does is to describe the different types of landscape that appeared over much of the history of what is now Galicia, from late prehistory (beginning of the Neolithic) to mediaeval times. The story begins with what we know as the traditional landscape. It identifies its typical elements that are present or missing from the landscapes that preceded it, and which helped to create it. And so, archaeological landscapes are something that does not exist; their remains are either largely incorporated in subsequent forms of the landscape, or lie lost and forgotten (“invisible”) beneath them. It is precisely for this reason that we refer to them as “archaeological landscapes”. The narrative we present here is a human story from the Anthropocene period, a concept that defines a new geological stage marked by human influence of the Earth’s different systems, a stage in which sociocultural action has actively altered the world, replacing a natural environment with an increasingly artificial cultural environment. THIS PDF DOCUMENT IS A SELECTION OF SOME PAGES OF THE TEXT TO GIVE AN OVERALL IMPRESSION OF THE BOOK CONTENTS.

(SP): El paisaje es un producto de las formas de ser, de estar, de pensar y de actuar propias de cada sociedad. El paisaje gallego actual es el resultado de nuestras formas de ser, estar, pensar y actuar. Pero también lo es de las de todas aquellas personas que nos precedieron en el tiempo. Muchas cosas que consideramos características del paisaje de Galicia son el producto o el efecto de la acción humana, no sólo de eso que llamamos “naturaleza”. Este libro es una especie de “atlas” arqueológico de los paisajes culturales de Galicia. Y decimos “una especie” porque no es un atlas en el sentido convencional de conjunto de mapas. Lo que hace este libro es describir las diferentes formas de paisaje que se sucedieron a lo largo de una parte de la historia de lo que hoy llamamos Galicia, en concreto desde la prehistoria reciente (desde el inicio del periodo que se denomina “neolítico”) hasta la época medieval. El relato parte del paisaje tradicional de Galicia para, a continuación, descubrir los elementos típicos de este paisaje y ver cuáles estaban presentes –o ausentes- en los paisajes que lo precedieron y que contribuyeron a su conformación. Los paisajes arqueológicos son algo que no existe. Sus restos, o bien se incorporaron en gran medida a las formas posteriores de paisaje, o bien subyacen relictos y olvidados (“invisibilizados”) bajo éstas. Por eso precisamente llamamos a esos paisajes “arqueológicos”. La historia que hacemos aquí es una historia humana del antropoceno, un concepto cada vez más utilizado para definir una nueva etapa geológico que está marcada por la dominación humana de los sistemas de la Tierra, una etapa en la que la dinámica socioecultura modifica activamente el mundo y sustituye un medio natural por un medio cultural y cada vez más artificial. ESTE DOCUMENTO PDF ES UNA SEPARATA CON LA SELECCIÓN DE ALGUNAS PÁGINAS DEL LIBRO PARA DAR UNA IMPRESIÓN GENERAL DE SUS CONTENIDOS Y FORMATO.

[GA]O traballo que presentamos a continuación enmárcase dentro do proxecto denominado "Procesos d... more [GA]O traballo que presentamos a continuación enmárcase dentro do proxecto denominado "Procesos de formación e cambio da paisaxe cultural do Parque Nacional das Illas Atlánticas de Galicia" (HAR2010-22004). Este estudo trata de profundar no coñecemento do espazo cultural a través de prospección arqueolóxica superficial, e de recoñecer as diferentes etapas crono-culturais que deron lugar á configuración actual deste espazo singular de illas. O traballo organízase en tres grandes bloques. Na primeira descríbense os plantexamentos e obxectivos do estudo. A segunda parte contén a presentación da metodoloxía seguida ao longo do proxecto, o inventario das entidades culturais rexistradas e a súa valoración. Por último analízase a vulnerabilidade no contexto litoral dalgunhas das entidades documentadas nas illas, valorando, ao mesmo tempo, o seu estado de conservación. [EN] The work we present here is part of the project "Procesos de formación e cambio da paisaxe cultural do Parque Nacional das Illas Atlánticas de Galicia" (HAR2010-22004). This study seeks to deepen the understanding of the cultural space through surface archaeological survey, and to recognize the different cultural chronological stages that led to the current configuration of this unique area of islands. The text is organised into three sections. In the first one, the guidelines and objectives of the study are presented. In the second one, the methodology followed and the cultural assets identified through during the fieldwork are analysed and discussed. Finally, the vulenrability of several sites identified is discussed and evaluated in their coastal contex

This document presents the results of a study about Agrarian Land Space nearby Elviña’s Hillfort,... more This document presents the results of a study about Agrarian Land Space nearby Elviña’s Hillfort, in A Coruña. It was making as a part of a research plan to make the Management Document of Elviña’s Hillfort which pretends the enhancement of it. Elviña’s landscape is a model of traditional and rural territory of Galicia but it’s degrading for the influence of A Coruña urban area. The material elements and agrarian forms are walls and another agricultural structures in order to accommodate the space for land exploitation. This landscape was growing up during the last millennium and his role was to provide agricultural supplies to the city.

The line of research on “the archaeological study of rural spaces and their elements”, as develop... more The line of research on “the archaeological study of rural spaces and their elements”, as developed within the Laboratorio de Patrimonio, Paleoambiente e Paisaxe, is the framework that allow the analysis of the processes of construction of Galician rural landscape, using the data resulting from a number of archaeological projects developed in relation to the evaluation and assessment of public works. Specifically this presentation deals with the study of cultivation terraces and embankments, understood as artificial elements either intentionally built or side effects of human labor and conceived to enlarge the spaces of cultivation and/or to facilitate the spread of certain crops. A number of new radiocarbon dates will allow to argue that this kind of structures can be viewed as true chronological indicators of the different moments and processes of action of peasant communities over the environment. Simultaneously I will make an attempt to clarify the different types of structures found in the area of analysis, by looking at aspects such as the stratigraphical sequences, the processes of formation and/or construction, the presence or absence of specific formal elements, etc. The work carried out has also taken into account other archaeological elements such as pits, which, after their contexts, position and shape, can be related to old agrarian elements currently invisible on surface.

The aim of this monograph is to show the results of an archaeoethnological work developed in the ... more The aim of this monograph is to show the results of an archaeoethnological work developed in the area of As Brañas de Sar, in the surroundings of the town of Santiago de Compostela. The area comprises a basin around the Sar river that holds a traditional agrarian landscape that preserves in a fairly good shape the remains of a long time peasant work. Along with cultivation terraces and fields, a number of architectural features are scattered on the area, many of them related to the management and distribution of water. The Sar river, and the different channels, reservoirs and water mills related to it, are the basic features that shape the whole landscape here. In the very recent past, a progressive ruin of the area has begun to grew, which is visible in the abandonmet of both the river course itself and its environments. A thorough knowledge of that space would allow for a better understanding of its origins and historical value, that, in its turn, would allow a more coherent development of new uses in the area.

El Museo de Pontevedra, 2008

Quaternary International, Sep 1, 2014

Poster presentado en el International Congress Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cul... more Poster presentado en el International Congress Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (TechnoHeritage), celebrado en Santiago de compostela del 2 al 5 de octubre de 2012.

Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, 2013

Quaternary International, 2014

CRC Press eBooks, Oct 1, 2013

Comunicacion presentada en el Seminario sobre Antiguedad Tardia y Alta Edad Media, celebrado en S... more Comunicacion presentada en el Seminario sobre Antiguedad Tardia y Alta Edad Media, celebrado en Santiago de Compostela los dias 6 y 7 de febrero de 2012.

... S, é onde se localizan os vestixios mais visibles deste xacemento, os mais ... por anaioxía с... more ... S, é onde se localizan os vestixios mais visibles deste xacemento, os mais ... por anaioxía со rexistro arqueológico documentado noutros xacementos de similares características emprazados ao ... con aîgunha instalación de salladura, localizado nas proximidades do castro e na ...

[GA] Trátase dun texto escrito en primeira persoa que da conta da miña investigación levada a cab... more [GA] Trátase dun texto escrito en primeira persoa que da conta da miña investigación levada a cabo na Illa de Ons (Pontevedra). Trátase, polo tanto, dun texto autoetnográfico que resume as miñas inquedanzas no proceso de investigación sobre o Patrimonio Cultural na illa entre os anos 2009 e 2013. Fomos moitas as persoas que alí traballamos. E aínda que o traballo foi plural a miña voz está posta en singular porque foi o meu empeño o fixo posible estar alí. Escribo desde a emoción. E iso quero contalo. Son os comezos dunha aventura. De como esa aventura persoal deu lugar a un traballo colectivo. Pero a data de comezo foi moito antes, quizais no momento que puxen por primeira vez os pés na illa de Ons e só sabía que estaba en Camagüey.[ES] Se trata de un texto escrito en primera persona que da cuenta de mi investigación llevada a cabo en la Isla de Ons (Pontevedra). Se trata, polo tanto, de un texto autoetnográfico que resume mis inquietudes en el proceso de investigación sobre el Patrimonio Cultural en la isla entre los años 2009 y 2013. Fuimos muchas las personas que allí trabajamos. Y, aunque el trabajo fue plural, mi voz está puesta en singular porque fue mi empeño lo que hizo posible estar allí. Escribo desde la emoción. Y eso quiero contarlo. Son los comienzos de una aventura. De cómo esa aventura personal dio lugar a un trabajo colectivo. Pero la fecha de comienzo fue mucho antes, quizás en el momento que puse por primera vez los pies en la isla de Ons y solo sabía que estaba en Camagüey.Peer reviewe

Poster presentado al Coloquio Internacional: HOMER 2011: Ancient maritime communities and the rel... more Poster presentado al Coloquio Internacional: HOMER 2011: Ancient maritime communities and the relationship between people and environment along the European Atlantic coasts/ Anciens peuplements littoraux et relations home/milieu sur les côtes de l'Europe atlantique, Vannes (France), 27 sept. - 1er oct. 2011[EN] The project Formation and Change of the Cultural Landscape in Galicia?s Atlantic Islands National Park (2011-2013) aims to study the processes of formation and transformation of the Cultural Landscape of the islands that comprise the National Park, created in 2002 and located in the south west of Galicia (NW Iberia). This paper reviews the general context of the project and discusses the results obtained so far in the fields of Archaeology and, at a lesser level, Ethnography.[ES] El Proyecto "Procesos de Formación y Cambio del paisaje cultural del Parque nacional de las Islas Atlánticas de Galicia" (2011-2013) se propone estudiar los procesos de formación y tran...

24 páxinas, 15 figuras.[GL] Neste artigo trátase de documentar un xacemento arqueolóxico na illa ... more 24 páxinas, 15 figuras.[GL] Neste artigo trátase de documentar un xacemento arqueolóxico na illa de Ons, concretamente na praia de Canexol (Pontevedra, Galicia) que polos seus indicios arqueolóxicos, podería tratarse dunha factoría de salgadura de época romana destinada á conservación do peixe. Este xacemento que pasou desapercibido ata fai pouco tempo, ven a ocupar o baleiro crono-cultural da illa e que pon de manifesto a ocupación continua deste territorio dende épocas prehistóricas ata a actualidade. O tempo ven a remarcar a paisaxe mariñeira que caracterizou desde sempre este territorio insular onde os seus recursos mariños foron e seguen sendo un dos elementos fundamentais da economía e formas de vida dos habitantes da illa.[EN] This paper makes an initial approach to the documentation of an archaeological site in Canexol beach in the Ons islet (Pontevedra, Galicia). According to the evidences documented so far, it looks like a series of fish salting facilities. Tha site, that ...

Trabajo presentado al Encontro Científico e Apresentação de Resultados: “O Caminho Português Inte... more Trabajo presentado al Encontro Científico e Apresentação de Resultados: “O Caminho Português Interior de Santiago de Compostela (CPIS)”, celebrado en Escola de Ciências Humanas e Sociais da UTAD (Portugal) el 10 de enero de 2019

REFERENCES on AGRICULTURAL TERRACES (Spain). This document will be reviewed and updated annually ... more REFERENCES on AGRICULTURAL TERRACES (Spain). This document will be reviewed and updated annually at: http://www.uv.es/cide (Environmental Planning Department / Products)

Waterlogging favoured the preservation of several wooden objects and fruits inside the first medi... more Waterlogging favoured the preservation of several wooden objects and fruits inside the first medieval ditch that surrounded the city of Santiago de Compostela. The wooden assemblage in the bottom of the fill was integrated by a yoke and two bowls in a context dated from 855 to 981 cal AD (78,6% probability -2 sigma-). Also one dish, in association with carpological remains (mostly Prunus avium/cerasus seeds and Panicum miliaceum/Setaria italica chaff), was found into a detritus pit dated between 1025-1165 cal AD (95,4% -2 sigma-). Wooden pieces were taxonomically identified and dendrological attributes were registered, there have been also recorded aspects related to their chaîne-operatóire and their biographies.

The work we present here is part of the project "Procesos de formación e cambio da paisaxe cultur... more The work we present here is part of the project "Procesos de formación e cambio da paisaxe cultural do Parque Nacional das Illas Atlánticas de Galicia" (HAR2010-22004). This study seeks to deepen the understanding of the cultural space through surface archaeological survey, and to recognize the different cultural chronological stages that led to the current configuration of this unique area of islands. The text is organised into three sections. In the first one, the guidelines and objectives of the study are presented. In the second one, the methodology followed and the cultural assets identified through during the fieldwork are analysed and discussed. Finally, the vulnerability of several sites identified is discussed and evaluated in their coastal contex.""

In M.Y. Daire et al. (ed.) Ancient maritime communities and the relationship between people and environment along the European Atlantic CoastsProceedings of the Homer 2011 Conference, Vannes (France), 27/09-1/10 2011 (British Archaeological Reports International series 2570): 285-294.

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Elias LOPEZ-ROMERO, Paula BALLESTERO-ARIAS, Marie-Yvane DAIRE, Alenjandro GÜIMIL-FARINA, 2012