By
Chiara Molinari (presenter)
Bruna Ilde Menozzi (contents author)
Riccardo Santeramo (contents author)
Anna Maria Stagno (scientific supervisor)
Summary
A multi-proxy study carried out in the SW Asturias mountains (NW Iberian Peninsula) provides information about different phases of landscape dynamics since ca. 1000 AD, strictly associated with environmental resources past management practices. Analyses included biostratigraphical data from a sedimentary record collected in the Freisnéu valley and anthracological information from two charcoal kilns and two pastoral huts located in the nearby area of Monte de La Reigada, supported by archaeological and historical evidence. The results allowed to explore main effects of different drivers on land-cover variations, revealing the primary role of past agropastoral activities as control factors for changing vegetation structure and composition during the last millennium. Even if the investigated landscape was generally characterised by quite open conditions during the time period recorded, the reduction of wooded-meadows registered since c. 1300 AD seems more related to an intensification of meadows, pastures and cu
Keywords
Palinología. Antracología. Paleobotánica. Asturias. Recursos ambientales. Actividades agro-silvo-pastoriles.