Social history of agriculture at medieval rural sites in the northern of the Iberia Peninsula: Aistra and Zornoztegi (Alava, Spain)
Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo|João Pedro Tereso|Luís Seabra
Abstract In the last few years, large-scale archaeological projects carried out at medieval sites in Basque Country have obtained a significant collection of archaeobotanical assemblages, creating opportunity to address, from fresh perspective, social history agriculture region. This paper presents study village Zornoztegi (occupied Chalcolithic Late Medieval Ages, ca. 2500 BCE-1350 CE) and estate centre Aistra (settled during Early period, 500–1000 CE), both them located Province Alava, 5 km apart. The comparison between two sites, characterized by different food consumption patterns, architectures, everyday assemblages structure, sheds light upon productive practices, socio-political structure early rural sources power non-Carolingian areas. also discusses site formation processes their impact on interpretation crop productions patterns context northern Iberia, some remarks regarding production.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports