Landscape Exploitation and Biotic Resource Management at the Tossal de la Vila Hillfort through the Long Durée

Marta Pérez-Polo (), Joan Negre, Ferran Falomir, Guillem Pérez-Jordà, Sonia de Haro and Gustau Aguilella
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Marta Pérez-Polo: Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Universidad de Salamanca, Calle Cervantes, 2, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Joan Negre: Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica, Plaça d’en Rovellat, s/n, 43003 Tarragona, Spain
Ferran Falomir: Servei d’Investigacions Arqueològiques i Prehistòriques, Diputación de Castellón, Av. dels Germans Bou, 28 (Museu), 12003 Castelló de la Plana, Spain
Guillem Pérez-Jordà: Departamento de Prehistoria, Arqueología e Historia Antigua, Universidad de Valencia, Avda. Blasco Ibáñez, 28, 46010 Valencia, Spain
Sonia de Haro: Independent Researcher, Cl. Enseñanza, 11, 12001 Castellón, Spain
Gustau Aguilella: Servei d’Investigacions Arqueològiques i Prehistòriques, Diputación de Castellón, Av. dels Germans Bou, 28 (Museu), 12003 Castelló de la Plana, Spain

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-33

Abstract: This paper focuses on the anthropic dynamics of environmental transformation and natural resource management in the specific case of the archaeological site of Tossal de la Vila in Castelló, Spain, a hillfort located at the end of the Eastern Iberian Cordillera. It presents two phases of occupation determined by multiple radiocarbon dating analyses: the first phase during the late Bronze Age (8th–7th centuries BCE) and the second at the beginning of the al-Andalus period (8th–10th centuries CE). The results of the comparison of the subsistence strategies and the biotic configuration of the natural environment in the same place at two different times have shown us that in the protohistoric period, the diversity of economic activities represented in the archaeobiological record is certainly heterogeneous, while in the al-Andalus period the complexity of these options is reduced to much less significant limits, possibly due to the different functionality of this space in both periods.

Keywords: Tossal de la Vila; hillfort; archaeobiological; economic strategies; late Bronze Age; early Middle Ages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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