Landscape and fuel management in the context of prehistoric and historical occupations of Cova des Moro (Manacor, Mallorca, Spain)

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作   者：

Carrion Marco, Yolanda;  Ramis, Damia;  Coll Conesa, Jaume; 

作者机构：

Univ Valencia;  C Poeta Querol 2;  Valencia 46010;  Dept Prehist Arqueol & Hist Antiga;  Av Blasco Ibanez 28;  PREMEDOC GIUV2015 213;  Spain;  Museo Nacl Ceram Gonzalez Marti;  Valencia 46002; 

关键词：

Fuel management;  Landscape;  Island settlement;  Mallorca;  Chalcolithic;  Bronze age; 

期刊名称：

Quaternary international

i s s n：

1040-6182

年卷期：

2021 年 593/594 卷 Aug.20 期

页   码：

118-128

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摘   要：

In this paper, the first results of charcoal analyses carried out at Cova des Moro (Manacor, Mallorca, Spain) are presented. This cave is an archaeological but also palaeontological site that provides information on endemic fauna (the extinct caprine Myotragus balearicus) before the arrival of humans and, later, the relationship between the first farmers and the landscape. Several human occupations in the cave have been documented, from the Chalcolithic (end of the 3rd millennium cal BC), the Bronze Age (2nd millennium cal BC) and, finally, the Almohad period (13th century AD), during which the cave was used for different purposes.The first results of charcoal analyses at Cova des Moro provide information about the natural plant communities exploited by humans for comparison with later sequences, enabling us to evaluate how humans managed this territory over time. The results point to the exploitation of Mediterranean woodlands with wild olive (Olea europaea), mastic (Pistacia lentiscus), green olive tree (Phillyrea), Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis), rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), juniper (Juniperus) and rockrose species (Cistus), among others; these taxa would become the main elements of Mallorca's coastal landscape in later times, and it has been proven that they would already have been present as the island's natural flora at the time humans arrived there.