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T1 Herders and Pioneers: The Role of Pastoralism in the Neolithization of the Amblés Valley (Ávila, Central Iberia)
A1 Guerra Doce, Elisa
A1 Zapatero Magdaleno, Maria Pilar
A1 Delibes de Castro, Germán
A1 García Cuesta, José Luis
A1 Fabián García, José Francisco
A1 Riquelme Cantal, José Antonio
A1 López Sáez, José Antonio
K1 Arqueología, Prehistoria, Neolítico, Península ibérica
K1 neolithization, Central Iberia, mountain environment, pastoralism, landscape learning
K1 5504.05 Prehistoria
AB In recent years, the notion of landscape learning has been the object of increasing attention when discussing the neolithization of Europe. The landscape learning model stresses the necessity of gathering environmental information about a previously unfamiliar region. Therefore, it is particularly relevant in cases where the beginning of a farming economy is better explained in relation to the movements of peoples (colonization), rather than to the adoption of crops and livestock by pre-existing hunters and gatherers (acculturation). Unlike other Iberian regions, where the adoption of agriculture runs parallel to that of animal husbandry, the available data on the neolithization process of the Sierra de Gredos mountain range seem to suggest that raising livestock may have preceded plant cultivation. Based on an interdisciplinary and multi-proxy approach, this paper explores the idea that the adoption of a food-producing economy in the Amblés Valley (Ávila, Central Iberia) may have been connected with pastoralism. In this context, landscape learning provides a model for analyzing how Early Neolithic herders in their seasonal movements were capable of wayfinding by memorizing spatial features that functioned as visual landmarks.
PB De Gruyter Brill
SN 2300-6560
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/82135
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/82135
LA eng
NO Open Archaeology, Diciembre 2021, vol. 7, n. 1, p. 1550-1563
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 26-ene-2026