Dating and Characterising the Transformation of a Monastic Landscape. A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Agrarian Spaces of Samos Abbey (NW Spain)
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Dating and Characterising the Transformation of a Monastic Landscape. A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Agrarian Spaces of Samos Abbey (NW Spain)Autor(es)
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2024-03-11Cita bibliográfica
Sánchez-Pardo, J. C., Silva-Sánchez, N., Kinnaird, T., Turner, S., Brandolini, F., Carrer, F., … Otero-Vilariño, C. (2024). Dating and Characterising the Transformation of a Monastic Landscape. A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Agrarian Spaces of Samos Abbey (NW Spain). Environmental Archaeology, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2024.2319954
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[Abstract] This paper explores the potential of a multidisciplinary approach to understand landscape evolution over the last 1200 years around an important monastic centre, Samos Abbey, in northwest Iberia. Our objective is to test whether or not landscape transformations here – in particular terracing related to agriculture – can be linked to the agency of the monks. Our landscape study combined analysis of written sources with archaeological survey and test-pitting, including OSL profiling and dating of seven earthworks, with pollen and geochemical analysis of three of them. It has been possible to detect at least four main phases of landscape transformation in the immediate surroundings of Samos Abbey. The mid-seventeenth century saw the most recent and visible transformations, partly overprinting earlier landscapes changes from the Iron Age, eighth–ninth and thirteenth centuries AD. The data suggest that landscape transformation had already begun in this area centuries before the abbey was created, but the presence of this power centre from the early Middle Ages resulted in intensive use of the territory over the last twelve centuries.
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agricultural terraces
OSL profiling and dating
palynology
monastery
historic landscape
Galicia
OSL profiling and dating
palynology
monastery
historic landscape
Galicia
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1461-4103
1749-6314
1749-6314