Wood Procurement at the Early Neolithic site of La Draga (Banyoles, Barcelona)

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Wood Procurement at the Early Neolithic site of La Draga (Banyoles, Barcelona)

26 Apr 2018-Journal of Wetland Archaeology (Informa UK Limited)-pp 1-21

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that wood is one of the most common raw materials for the prehistoric societies and that sites were wood is preserved in waterlogged conditions are essential in order to understand those prehistoric societies.

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Abstract: Wood is one of the most common raw materials for the prehistoric societies. Therefore sites were wood is preserved in waterlogged conditions are essential in order to understand those prehistoric s...

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Humans take control of fire-driven diversity changes in Mediterranean Iberia’s vegetation during the mid–late Holocene:

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Simon Connor¹, Boris Vannière², Daniele Colombaroli³, Daniele Colombaroli⁴, R. Scott Anderson⁵, José S. Carrión⁶, Ana Ejarque, Graciela Gil Romera⁷, Graciela Gil Romera⁸, Penélope González-Sampériz⁷, Dana Hoefer, César Morales-Molino⁹, César Morales-Molino³, Jordi Revelles¹⁰, Heike Schneider¹¹, Heike Schneider¹², Willem Oscar van der Knaap³, Jacqueline F. N. van Leeuwen³, Jessie Woodbridge¹³, Jessie Woodbridge¹⁴ - Show less +16 more•Institutions (14)

University of Melbourne¹, Centre national de la recherche scientifique², Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research³, Royal Holloway, University of London⁴, Northern Arizona University⁵, University of Murcia⁶, Spanish National Research Council⁷, Aberystwyth University⁸, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research⁹, Autonomous University of Barcelona¹⁰, University of Bamberg¹¹, Schiller International University¹², University of Plymouth¹³, University of Exeter¹⁴

14 Feb 2019-The Holocene

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed centennial and millennial-scale shifts in fire regimes and compositional turnover to track the consequences of fire regime shifts on Mediterranean vegetation diversity, and found that fire episodes increased open vegetation diversity and decreased woodland diversity and significantly altered richness on a regional scale.

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Abstract: Fire regime changes are considered a major threat to future biodiversity in the Mediterranean Basin. Such predictions remain uncertain, given that fire regime changes and their ecological impacts occur over timescales that are too long for direct observation. Here we analyse centennial- and millennial-scale shifts in fire regimes and compositional turnover to track the consequences of fire regime shifts on Mediterranean vegetation diversity. We estimated rate-of-change, richness and compositional turnover (beta diversity) in 13 selected high-resolution palaeoecological records from Mediterranean Iberia and compared these with charcoal-inferred fire regime changes. Event sequence analysis showed fire regime shifts to be significantly temporally associated with compositional turnover, particularly during the last three millennia. We find that the timing and direction of fire and diversity change in Mediterranean Iberia are best explained by long-term human–environment interactions dating back perhaps 7500 years. Evidence suggests that Neolithic burning propagated a first wave of increasing vegetation openness and promoted woodland diversity around early farming settlements. Landscape transformation intensified around 5500 to 5000 cal. yr BP and accelerated during the last two millennia, as fire led to permanent transitions in ecosystem state. These fire episodes increased open vegetation diversity, decreased woodland diversity and significantly altered richness on a regional scale. Our study suggests that anthropogenic fires played a primary role in diversity changes in Mediterranean Iberia. Their millennia-long legacy in today’s vegetation should be considered for biodiversity conservation and landscape management.

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...Exploitation of oak (Quercus) timber for construction at La Draga caused local deforestation (López-Bultó and Piqué Huerta, 2018; Revelles et al., 2015), explaining why fire was not implicated in early-Neolithic turnover at BAN....
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Digging sticks and agriculture development at the ancient Neolithic site of la Draga (Banyoles, Spain)

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Oriol López-Bultó¹, Raquel Piqué¹, Ferran Antolín², Joan Anton Barceló¹, Antoni Palomo, Ignacio Clemente³ - Show less +2 more•Institutions (3)

Autonomous University of Barcelona¹, University of Basel², Spanish National Research Council³

01 Apr 2020-Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the early agriculture development focusing on the case of the digging sticks assemblage of the Early Neolithic waterlogged site of la Draga (Spain).

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Identification of woodland management by analysis of roundwood age and diameter: Neolithic case studies

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Welmoed A. Out¹, Claudia Baittinger, Katarina Čufar², Oriol López-Bultó³, Kirsti Hänninen, Caroline Vermeeren - Show less +2 more•Institutions (3)

Moesgård Museum¹, University of Ljubljana², Autonomous University of Barcelona³

01 Jul 2020-Forest Ecology and Management

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether wood assemblages from six Neolithic sites in Denmark, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain provide evidence of intentional woodland management, and found that none of these sites provided evidence of woodland management.

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Tool mark analysis of Neolithic wooden digging sticks from La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)

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Oriol López-Bultó¹, Antoni Palomo, Ignacio Clemente²•Institutions (2)

Autonomous University of Barcelona¹, Spanish National Research Council²

20 Dec 2020-Quaternary International

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the manufacture process of an ensemble of 44 wooden digging sticks from the Neolithic site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain) and develop an experimental analysis, followed by the tool mark analysis of 3D models.

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Dendroarchaeology in Europe

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Willy Tegel, Bernhard Muigg, Georgios Skiadaresis, Jan Vanmoerkerke, Andrea Seim - Show less +1 more

16 Feb 2022-Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

TL;DR: An overview of the sources, methods, and concepts of this interdisciplinary field of dendroarchaeology focusing on Europe, where several tree-ring chronologies span most of the Holocene is given in this article .

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Abstract: Human evolution was strongly related to environmental factors. Woodlands and their products played a key role in the production of tools and weapons, and provided unique resources for constructions and fuel. Therefore wooden finds are essential in gaining insights into climatic and land use changes but also societal development during the Holocene. Dendroarchaeological investigations, based on tree rings, wood anatomy and techno-morphological characteristics are of great importance for a better understanding of past chronological processes as well as human-environment-interactions. Here we present an overview of the sources, methods, and concepts of this interdisciplinary field of dendroarchaeology focusing on Europe, where several tree-ring chronologies span most of the Holocene. We describe research examples from different periods of human history and discuss the current state of field. The long settlement history in Europe provides a myriad of wooden archeological samples not only for dating but also offer exciting new findings at the interface of natural and social sciences and the humanities.

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Tree rings and environment dendroecology

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Fritz H. Schweingruber

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"Wood Procurement at the Early Neoli..." refers background in this paper

...The time of procurement can only be identified in the case of the wooden elements that still preserve the bark, or where it is certain that they maintain the last growth ring (Marguerie and Hunot 2007; Schweingruber 1996)....
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Charcoal analysis and dendrology: data from archaeological sites in north-western France

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Dominique Marguerie, Jean-Yves Hunot

01 Sep 2007-Journal of Archaeological Science

TL;DR: In this paper, the average width of the growth rings in oak charcoal from domestic hearths coming from about forty sites in north-western France has been measured using a binocular lens.

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"Wood Procurement at the Early Neoli..." refers background or methods in this paper

...The time of procurement can only be identified in the case of the wooden elements that still preserve the bark, or where it is certain that they maintain the last growth ring (Marguerie and Hunot 2007; Schweingruber 1996)....
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...In these cases, the original diameter can be estimated using templates (Ludemann 2008; Marguerie and Hunot 2007)....
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...Dendrology has been applied successfully on charcoal remains in different regions and periods (Dufraisse 2006; Ludemann 2008; Marguerie and Hunot 2007) to determine the morphological characteristics of the used wood, but this approach is still unusual in the Mediterranean region....
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Climatic Change on the Iberian Peninsula Recorded in a 30,000-Yr Pollen Record from Lake Banyoles

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Ramon Pérez-Obiol¹, Ramon Julià¹•Institutions (1)

Autonomous University of Barcelona¹

01 Jan 1994-Quaternary Research

TL;DR: The Banyoles lacustrine sequence shows that the vegetational history of the northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the last 30,000 yr follows the North Atlantic pattern of climatic oscillations as mentioned in this paper.

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"Wood Procurement at the Early Neoli..." refers background in this paper

...This is also the most frequent source of data in France (Chabal 1997; Delhon, Thiébault, and Berger 2009; Dufraisse 2008; Vernet 1973) and Italy (Fiorentino 2008; Fiorentino et al....
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...This is also the most frequent source of data in France (Chabal 1997; Delhon, Thiébault, and Berger 2009; Dufraisse 2008; Vernet 1973) and Italy (Fiorentino 2008; Fiorentino et al. 2013)....
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Atlas d'anatomie des bois des conifères

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Clément Jacquiot, Geneviève Breton, M. Ph. Guinier

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"Wood Procurement at the Early Neoli..." refers background in this paper

...The characteristics observed in the archaeological samples are compared with modern reference samples, either with a specialized atlas (Jacquiot 1955; Schöch, Heller, and Schweingruber 2004; Schweingruber 1990) or reference collections (Archaeobotany Laboratory at the UAB)....
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