Pablo Ramil Rego

A palaeocarpological study of Neolithic and Bronze Age levels of the Buraco da Pala rock-shelter (Bragança, Portugal)

Palaeocarpological (archaeobotanical) analysis of Neolithic and Bronze Age levels of the Buraco da Pala site (Bragança, Portugal) provides evidence of considerable agricultural activity. Triticum, Hordeum and Vicia predominated, though Pisum, Lens, Vitis, Linum and Papaver were also found. Most wheat grains were spheroidal and were identified as Triticum aestivum subsp. sphaerococcum, in disagreement with recent suggestions that taxa with spheroidal grains have never been present in the Iberian Peninsula. Quercus and Pinus seed indicated that gathering activities supplemented agricultural production.

Estudio paleocarpológico realizado en el Castro de Penalba (Campolameiro, Pontevedra. España)

AiRA RODRIGUEz, M. J.; RAMIL REOo, P., & ALvAREz NUNEZ, A. 1990. Estudio Paleocarpologico realizado en el Castro de Penalba (Campolameiro, Pontevedra. Espana) Bat. Complutensis 16: 81-89. El estudio morfologico y biometrico de frutos carbonizados procedentes del Castro de Penalba ha pennitido el reconocimiento de glandes de roble (probablemente de Quercus rabur L.) y de cariopsides de Triticum dicoccum Schrank y Panicum mil/aceum L. Las dataciones C-14 efectuadas en muestras de carbon y cereal permiten confirmar que los frutos de estas especies datan dcl 2445 -4- 30 H.P. ~2584 + 126 H.P., por lo que formarian parte de la economia y sistema agricola cerealista de los pobladores del asentamiento.