Resumo
Until a few decades ago, the Iberian Peninsula was crossed by transhumant livestock routes. However, the decadence of their transit led to the decline of their cultural manifestations, becoming practices and places that are little present in our collective memory. Architectural elements are in a poor state of conservation, and the vestiges of livestock mobility are relegated to the protection and documentation of large cattle tracks, while local routes have been lost in the forests. In order to show the complexity and dynamism of the transhumance cultural landscape of the Sierra de Cebollera Natural Park, an area of great historical significance for transhumance (Moreno 1996), this work makes use of remote sensing tools and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to carry out mobility analyses (LCP). The aim of these analyses is to analyse livestock mobility at a detailed scale below the long-distance routes marked by the main cattle routes (see figure 1). The aim is to approach practices that are related not so much to the movement of livestock over long distances as to more local practices that support these large seasonal movements on a daily basis. To this end, the aim is to offer a network of possible routes connecting transhumant sites in and with the landscape.
Palabras chave
Transhumance. La Rioja. GIS. Landscape Archaeology.