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Starting points for dendroarchaeology in Catalonia Ravotto, Alessandro Despite the fact that dendroarchaeology in Catalonia (Spain) has been a field somewhat neglected in comparison to other Mediterranean regions, nowadays there are the conditions for a relatively quick recover of such delay, thanks to mainly two factors. In the first place, the tradition of a series of fields complementary to dendroarchaeology has created a well established framework, which dendroarchaeologists could take advantage of: it’s the case of dendroecological studies, that allowed the building of numerous chronologies from living trees (some of which are more than 600 years long, see Gutierrez et al 1998); pollen studies, that can reconstruct to some extent the ancient distribution of tree population from prehistory to recent times (Riera 2005; Miras et al 2007); and finally a series of localized studies about agriculture and tree culture in antiquity based on carpological data and plant remains (Buxò 2005). In the second place, in Catalonia archaeology is a well integrated discipline in the development of urban planning and therefore a great quantity of archaeological digs are carried on. In this sense, it has to be noted that, even if from the point of view of climate conditions this territory is not among the most suitable ones for preserving organic material, wooden artifacts are being found more frequently in recent years. This is partly due to the fact that the so called “salvage archaeology” – that forms the immense majority of archaeological activity on the territory – deals with building activity, whose technological continuous improvement allows to always reach deeper strata. Here, the presence of the water table enhances the possibility of wood preservation, especially parts of wells, that, it has to be kept in mind, were one of the most common, because necessary, equipment in most of the historical settlements. 2021-05-21T06:54:04Z 2024-09-20T10:38:31Z 2021-05-21T06:54:04Z 2024-09-20T10:38:31Z 2021-05-21T06:54:04Z 2024-09-20T10:38:31Z 2014 info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart 1610-0956 http://hdl.handle.net/2072/450042 https://doi.org/10.2312/GFZ.b103-14055 eng Ravotto, A., "Starting points for dendroarchaeology in Catalonia" a Di Filippo, A., Piovesan, G., Romagnoli, M., Helle, G., Gärtner, H. (Eds.) (2014): Proceedings of the DENDROSYMPOSIUM 2013: May 8th - 11th, 2013 in Viterbo, Italy, (Scientific Technical Report ; 14/05), 12th TRACE conference (Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology) (Viterbo, Italy 2013), Potsdam : Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, p. 23-31. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya)