Ines L. Lopez-Doriga

Wessex Archaeology · Geoservices

Freixo/Tongobriga (Marco de Canaveses, Northwest Portugal) is an archaeological site on a vast hill near the Tâmega and Douro rivers. It was an important Roman city, well-known for its monumental buildings (e.g. Forum, Baths). Nonetheless, excavations have shown that the area was occupied for a longer time span. In this paper, archaeobotanical resu...

Wessex Archaeology completed archaeological investigations on the Onshore Transmission Works for the Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm between 2015 and 2021. These included geophysical survey, evaluation trenching, targeted strip, map and sample excavations, and watching briefs on the cable route and associated infrastructure between the landfall...

Formentera was one of the last Mediterranean islands to be colonized by humans at the end of the third millennium BC. This island is rather small (83 km2) with marked biogeographical constraints. Typical of a semi-arid environment, the island is poor in resources and biodiversity. Macrolithic tools from the prehistoric sites of Ca na Costa (ca. 213...

Archaeological fieldwork at Eversley Quarry, Fleet Hill Farm, Finchampstead, Berkshire documented evidence of Mesolithic activity, associated with paleoenvironmental deposits, on the Blackwater River floodplain, a river for which activity of this period was previously unknown. The discovery evolved from initial recognition of worked flint artefacts...

Pits excavated in the ground are the most frequent archaeological features in prehistoric sites. Their processes of backfilling are extremely complex, and therefore the interpretation of the archaeobotanical data obtained from them has been difficult. Our previous research focused on Bronze Age sites of northwest Iberia such as Monte das Cabanas (S...

Some of the earliest Western European macroremains of rye (Secale cereale) have been recently recovered in Northwest Iberia. However, the chronological and cultural contexts of these remains have not been yet exhaustively analysed. To address this gap of research, previous and unpublished assemblages have been reviewed and analysed through an analy...

En este artículo presentamos los resultados del estudio integral del depósito de la Edad del Hierro documentado en la cueva del Aspio (Ruesga), integrando el conjunto arqueológico procedente de la recogida superficial de 1994 y de las intervenciones arqueológicas desarrolladas entre los años 2013 y 2018. Gracias a ello ha sido posible documentar un...

This paper reviews the archaeobotanical evidence for the exploitation of wild plant resources from archaeological sites in England and Wales recently investigated by Wessex Archaeology, including some Early Neolithic sites with the oldest directly dated cereals in Britain (first half of 4th millennium cal BC). Charred plant remain evidence from a r...

Nine areas, totalling 1.3ha were excavated after evaluation and desk-based assessment at land near Crowdhill, Eastleigh (NGR 448830 119560). Features were densest in Areas 1 and 2, with evidence dating from the Palaeolithic to the early Romano- British period. Three pieces of flint from a Long Blade assemblage were recovered, probably from a small...

El Niño cave, located on the south-eastern border of the Spanish Meseta, hosts a discontinuous sequence including Middle Palaeolithic and Neolithic levels, along with Upper Palaeolithic and Levantine style paintings. It is a key site for understanding human occupations of inland Iberia during the Palaeolithic and early prehistory. This paper summar...

The ‘Asturian culture’ is an archaeological techno-complex characteristic of the coastal areas of central and eastern Asturias and western Cantabria in northern Spain. Despite a long tradition of research on this archaeological phenomenon, little information has been acquired about domestic structures. Even locations of living areas have been po...

After a gap of almost two decades further investigations were initiated at this remarkable late prehistoric midden site, supported by Operation Nightingale/Breaking Ground Heritage. Geophysical survey clarified the extent of the broadly contemporary enclosure surrounding the midden, as well as other related features, while subsequent excavations pr...

A Late Iron Age farmstead was represented by an oval ditched enclosure, subsequently cut by another enclosure and together possibly forming a figure-of- eight plan, with contemporary features including a well, pits and post-holes. This was succeeded by a larger, early Roman enclosure in which lay a rectangular post-built structure and a sub-oval gu...

Desde os anos 80 que as intervenções dirigidas por Lino Tavares Dias tinham assinalado, em vários pontos do sítio arqueológico, a existência de ruínas dispersas pertencentes a construções pétreas de planta circular, vulgarmente designadas como “casas castrejas”, por aquele autor atribuídas às primeiras décadas do século I d.C., as quais terão sido...

Excavations were undertaken in 2016 in advance of development at Chesil Street car park, Winchester, to the east of the Roman and medieval city defences, in a part of the eastern suburb that has seen little previous investigation. The work revealed four Romano-British pits-at least one possibly a lime kiln, extensive areas of chalk quarrying and se...

Little synthesis of evidence for Middle Neolithic food and farming in Wiltshire, particularly in and around the Stonehenge World Heritage Site (WHS) has been possible, until now, due to a paucity of assemblages. The excavation of a cluster of five Middle Neolithic pits and an inhumation burial at West Amesbury Farm (WAF) has prompted a review of ou...

Full text: http://rdcu.be/m1bD The analysis of plant macroremains from Poças de São Bento, a shell-midden in the Sado Valley (Portugal), has provided interesting insights into the shell-midden formation processes and the presence of resources which are often “invisible” in this kind of sites. Preservation and representation issues are discussed i...

Archaeological excavation during the construction of a new supply line for the electrification of the Great Western Railway Main Line, uncovered part of a large, previously unknown, Romano-British settlement along the main road between the Roman towns of Aquae Sulis and Cunetio. The full extent of the settlement is unknown but evidence from metal d...

Los tubérculos y otros órganos subterráneos de almacenamiento de las plantas (USOs por sus siglas en inglés) son importantes alimentos básicos, así como fuentes de materias primas, para multitud de grupos de cazadores-recolectores y comunidades agrícolas en todo el mundo. Sin embargo, hasta la fecha la información para evaluar hasta qué punto los U...

p class="western" align="JUSTIFY">Portuguese crowberry ( Corema album (L.) D. Don) is a shrub considered endemic to the Atlantic coastal dunes of the Iberian Peninsula. For many reasons, among which the most prominent are habitat loss and competition from invasive species, but possibly also due to overexploitation, the survival of several of its po...

Full text available: https://www.scribd.com/document/377262133/Iron-Age-and-Romano-British-Settlement-at-Lower-Easton-Farm-Pylle Summary: Excavations carried out in 2014 at Lower Easton Farm, Pylle, produced evidence of Iron Age and Romano-British activity. This took the form of a small farmstead probably dating to the Middle Iron Age and a much m...

An excavation southeast of Melksham revealed evidence for Romano-British settlement, land division and agricultural activity dating from the latter half of the 1st century AD to the 3rd century AD. These activities, represented by pits, postholes, ovens and ditches, were associated with a sequence of enclosures and a field system. An arrangement of...

RESUMEN En este trabajo presentamos un conjunto de 6 fe-chas de carbono 14 del poblado de Cap de Barbaria II (Formentera, Islas Baleares), que permiten acotar su ocupación dentro de la Edad del Bronce. Además, se tratan aspectos metodológicos relativos a la calibración e interpretación de las fechas en función de la natu-raleza de las muestras (hue...

The results of the uncharred wood and charcoal analysis carried out on samples from the site are presented in this work. The assemblages comprised debris from combustion structures, remains related to the funerary burnings and torches, and also fragments of uncharred wood probably related to the funerary rite. The cave of Riocueva was used as a bur...

Research projects undertaken in the Cantabrian region since 1980 have produced new, high-quality information about the neolithisation process(es) in this area. It is now necessary to review this archaeological information and test the main hypotheses put forward to explain it. This paper presents an update on the archaeological evidence (sites, chr...

The cave of Riocueva was used as a burial place sometime in the 7th-8th centuries. Archaeological work carried out between 2010 and 2014 has allowed the recovery of the remains of at least six young individuals and many objects associated to them: glass beads, rings, spindle hooks, knives, pot sherds… As it happens in another burial caves from thes...

Wattle hurdles and structures made of wood were frequent and commonly covered with clay at Iron Age sites of Northwest Iberia. The perishable nature of wood has conditioned the preservation of indirect evidences of such fences and structures. Several clay fragments with branch and trunk imprints recovered at the site of Castro de S. Vicente da Chã...

Research projects undertaken in the Cantabrian region since 1980 have produced new, high-quality information about the neolithisation process(es) in this area. It is now necessary to review this archaeological information and test the main hypotheses put forward to explain it. This paper presents an update on the archaeological evidence (sites, chr...

The Asturias is a classic cultural complex within the European coastal Mesolithic. Since its discovery by Count Vega del Sella in 1914, about one hundred thirty sites have been catalogued only in eastern Asturias, and some tens of them have been excavated. However, archaeological information about this Mesolithic complex is tremendously biased. Mos...

La Cueva del Niño es uno de los yacimientos clave en la Prehistoria antigua de la provincia de Albacete, gracias a sus pinturas rupestres paleolíticas, únicas en la región, y a su larga secuencia estratigráfica, que incluye niveles del Paleolítico Medio, del Paleolítico Superior y de la Prehistoria Reciente. No obstante, la información disponible s...

Resultados da primeira reunião geral de investigadores das áreas científicas da Arqueobotânica e Zooarqueologia a trabalhar em Portugal, realizada em Outubro de 2014, no Museu Nacional de Arqueologia (Lisboa). Identificando um conjunto de dificuldades comuns às duas disciplinas, os presentes decidiram criar um grupo de trabalho informal para foment...

DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT FROM: https://www.educacion.gob.es/teseo/mostrarRef.do?ref=1213620 En este trabajo se ha estudiado la explotación de los recursos vegetales en la costa atlántica ibérica durante el Holoceno Inicial y Medio, a partir del estudio de restos carpológicos de yacimientos arqueológicos mesolíticos y neolíticos de la región Cantábrica...

Within the framework of the Sado Meso project, two shell middens (Poças de S. Bento and Cabeço do Pez) in the Sado valley, Portugal, have been exhaustively sampled for plant macro-remains, in an effort to overcome two problems in prehistoric research: firstly, the scarcity of direct data about plant use by the Mesolithic peoples of Atlantic Iberia,...

Este informe presenta los resultados obtenidos durante un año de investigaciones arqueobotánicas en Tonbóbriga, gracias a una Bolsa de Investigação em Arqueobotânica de colaboración con Dr. João Tereso en el contexto del projecto "Tongobriga e Territorium - Valorização da paisagem milenar", financiado por el Programa PROVERE, y desarrollado en la U...

Desde su excavación en el verano de 1973, la Cueva del Niño ha sido considerada un yacimiento de gran importancia para conocer el proceso de introducción de la economía de producción o de la tecnología cerámica en el sureste de la Península Ibérica, y especialmente para establecer cómo dicho proceso pudo haber afectado a las poblaciones ya asentada...

ABSTRACT Since 2013 the Archaeological project of El Aspio (Ruesga, Cantabria) has been developing with the aim of record the different levels of occupation of the cave and to contribute to the study of the settlement patterns in the geographical background of the Ason valley. The first references about the cave dated in the 1960s, after that some...

El proyecto Arqueobarbaria ha desarrollado un pro- grama de muestreo exhaustivo destinado a la recuperación de macrorrestos vegetales. El objetivo es conocer la explo- tación de los recursos vegetales por los pobladores de Cap de Barbaria II y las características de la primera agricultura en Formentera. Se dispone de algunos datos preliminares, obt...

En este artículo se presentan los resultados de la revisión de los materiales arqueológicos procedentes de la excavación realizada en 1973 en la Cueva del Niño (Aýna, Albacete) correspondientes a ocupaciones del Paleolítico Medio. Esta revisión se realizó fundamentalmente mediante el análisis tecnológico de la industria lítica, el estudio arqueozoo...

La utilización de restos carpológicos o carporrestos (semillas y frutos) para la datación de contextos arqueológicos es una práctica que no está lo suficientemente extendida en la arqueología peninsular. Se discuten los motivos por los que es recomendable elegir carporrestos para datar por radiocarbono, en detrimento de otros restos arqueológicos m...

Charred hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) shell fragments are one of the most frequent botanical remains found in archaeological contexts from temperate Europe, often recovered in considerable quantities within pits. It has been suggested that they were probably intensively gathered and processed. However, no methods for testing this assumption have b...

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Este trabajo presenta el estudio realizado sobre los carporrestos recuperados en dos yacimientos de la Cuenca Media del Arlanzón (Burgos): Fuente Celada y El Hornazo. Ambos son buenos ejemplos del tipo de yacimiento habitual en el Calcolítico de la Meseta Norte: los “campos de hoyos”. Estos agregados de estructuras negativas estaban vinculados a co...