En este trabajo vamos a realizar una revisión de las evidencias disponibles sobre las primeras ocupaciones de las zonas de media y alta montaña del Pirinceo Central por parte de grupos agro-pastorales. En particular, nos vamos a fijar sobre dos practicas economicas relevantes: la caza y el cutlivo de cereales. Nuestro objectivo es entender el rol que estas dos actividades tuvieron dentro del sistema económico de los primeros pobladores neolíticos y como se integraron dentro del sistema. Nuestros resultados sugieren que la caza fue solo marginalmente practicada, mientras que para la agricultura únicamente tenemos evidencias del consumo de cereales, pero por ahora no de su cultivo en zonas de alta y media montaña. Este escenario, nos acerca a comunidades agro-pastorales móviles, que se desplazarón sobre un territorio relivamente amplio para desarollar sus practicas economicas y explotar diferentes recursos

Lan honetan, nekazaritako eta artzaintzako taldeek Erdialdeko Pirinioetako erdi mailako mendietan eta goi-mendietan egindako lehen okupazioei buruz eskuragarri dauden ebidentzien inguruko berrikusketa egingo dugu. Zehatzago esanda, bi jarduera ekonomiko esanguratsutan oinarrituko gara: ehiza eta zerealen laborantza. Gure helburua bi jarduera horiek Neolitikoko lehen biztanleen sistema ekonomikoaren baitan izan zuten rola eta sistema baitan nola txertatu ziren ulertzea da. Gure emaitzen arabera, ehiza oso gutxi egin zuten; aldiz, nekazaritzarekin lotuta, zerealen kontsumoaren inguruko ebidentziak bakarrik ditugu, baina oraingoz ez dugu erdi mailako mendiko eta goi-mendiko eremuetan halakoak egin izanaren inguruko zantzurik. Testuinguru hori ikusita, nekazaritza eta artzaintzako komunitate mugigarriak izan zirela esan dezakegu. Nahiko zabala zen lurraldean mugitzen ziren beren jarduera ekonomikoak garatzeko eta baliabide ugariak ustiatzeko

In this paper, we present a review of the available information about the first agro-pastoral communities which occupied the Central Pyrenees, between the 6th and the 5th millennium cal BC. Our aim is to discuss some aspects related to the paleoeconomical behaviours of such first settlers, with particular attention to two relevant productive activities: hunting and crop-husbandry. Both are frequently claimed to be used in mountainous areas in integration to domestic animal herding. However, to which extent both economic processes were carried out at midand high-altitudes? Do were they intensively or marginally practiced? Which was their role within the overall economic system? In this review, we will take in consideration all the available information in the Pyrenean sites; however, most of them have been only partially or fragmentarily published. Our results suggest that both activities were only marginally practiced in the mountainous areas of the Pyrenees. Despite both hunting and crop-husbandry can be considered everyday activities, commonly represented within the archaeological records of the period, they do not appear to be intensively carried in at higher altitudes. Hunting appears only occasionally practiced as a secondary source of food gathering. Neolithic groups occupying the mid- and high-altitude of the Pyrenees do not seem to rely on hunting more than the communities settled at lower altitude; on the contrary the consumption of wild games appears, generally, lower. For what concern crop-husbandry, on the basis of the available data, we must conclude that there are no clear evidences that cereal cultivation has been carried out at mountain altitude, at least during Early Neolithic. Despite that, the archaeological record testifies the consumption of agricultural provisions -carried into the site from elsewhere and not produced or processed locally- in several cave-sites located at mountain and subalpine altitudes. This pattern suggests that, in the mountainous areas of the Central Pyrenees, crops were mainly exploited as integrative alimentary sources