Ermengol Gassiot Ballbè

Arqueología de la praxis: Información histórica de la acción social. El caso de la Unión de Cooperativas agropecuarias de Miraflor, Nicaragua.

.- La propuesta de arqueologia alternativa que hemos denominado arqueologia de la praxis nace de la preocupacion, nada novedosa por otro lado, por la pertinencia social de nuestra disciplina y el compromiso de los arqueologos y arqueologas con la realidad de la que participan. En este articulo expondremos los pro blemas que plantean, a nuestro entender, otros modelos de arqueologia alternativa y que agrupamos bajo las denominaciones arqueologia de subsistencia y arqueologia, difusion y comunidad. A partir de la conscien cia de tales problemas mostraremos los principios en los que se basa nuestra propuesta, seguidos de un proyecto concreto que estamos desarrollando junto a la Union de Cooperativas Agropecuarias de Miraflor (Nicaragua) y el Departamento de Historia y Arqueologia de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua-Managua. The Archaeology of the Praxis: Historical information for the social action. The case of the Union de Cooperativas Agropecuarias de Miraflor (Nicaragua).

The Beginning of High Mountain Occupations in the Pyrenees. Human Settlements and Mobility from 18,000 cal BC to 2000 cal BC

During the last two decades, the archaeological research carried out in the Pyrenees challenged the traditional images of the past in this mountain area. The archaeological sequence of the range goes back and sites like Balma Margineda, treated until recently as an exception, now are seen as part of more global process. Actual data suggest that main valleys of the Pyrenean frequented by humans at the end of the last glacial period, with sites slightly over 1000 o.s.l. After the Younger Dryas, the human presence ascended to alpine and subalpine areas, in accordance with current archaeological data. The Neolisitation process was early in some hillsides, with intense remains of farming and pastoralism in many sites from dated in the second half of the 6th millennia cal BC. Human settlements like Coro Tracito, Els Trocs and El Sardo confirm the full introduction of agrarian activity in the central part of the Pyrenees between 5300 and 4600 cal BC. After 3500/3300 cal BC the indices oh sheepherding rises to alpine areas, with an abrupt increase of known archaeological sites in alpine areas, above the current timberline. This phenomena, as well as the signs of anthropic disturbance of the alpine environment in sedimentary sequences, suggests a more stable and ubiquitous human presence, probably largely associated with the development of mobile herding practices.