Patricia Mañana-Borrazás

Spanish National Research Council | CSIC · Institute of Heritage Sciences

Archaeological excavations carried out in Galicia (NW of Iberia) during the last 15 years, have shown that megalithic barrows had a complex and long-standing life. Not only in terms of later uses and reuses (something that has been already acknowledged in bibliography since many years) but also in terms of construction and ‘megalithic’ use. Today,...

This article presents a comparative analysis of archaeological sites in northwest Iberia focusing on Neolithic spatial concepts and their materialization in different architectures from this period. The recently excavated site of Montenegro in Galicia is analysed to determine how the construction of circular enclosures reproduces the organizational...

Este texto trata de ilustrar los tipos de análisis básicos para investigar una cuestión tan intrínsecamente humana como la percepción. En el análisis de una construcción, los aspectos relativos a la percepción nos permiten acceder a una interesante información de cómo una construcción funciona y qué implican sus distintos espacios, información en d...

Accepted oral presentation to the Session: Coastal and intertidal archaeology in natural protected and natural sensitive landscapes: methods, challenges and opportunities (SESSION #16)

El cambio climático está afectando de manera significativa al patrimonio costero a nivel global. En Galicia, con unos 1500 km de costa, se encuentra un caso paradigmático de la vulnerabilidad que están sufriendo diversos elementos patrimoniales que soportan los embates de las mareas y la presión humana: es el islote de Guidoiro Areoso, un enclave p...

Research on the Neolithic monuments and dwellings of Atlantic Europe has shown that plays of light and colour were tools for the social and symbolic construction of the world. The integration of the architectures into the surrounding landscape and the incorporation of the surrounding landscape into the architectures were an essential part of this l...

Esta es la presentación de esta charla que se encuadra dentro de la ciclo "Actualidad de la investigación arqueológica en España" del Museo Arqueológico Nacional http://www.man.es/ en Madrid, cuya grabación se puede ver en el canal del MAN, en este enlace: https://youtu.be/XAdAQjVYjPA. Explicamos en esta conferencia los resultados de la intervenció...

The aim of this article is to describe a stela discovered in the municipality of Castrelo do Val (Ourense) and realises a first analysis on its iconography, style and chronology. This stele presents a series of carvings with very similar to those found in warrior stelae of the southwest of Iberia, and a series of recesses that confer to the stone a...

Sintesis de los trabajos desarrollados recientemente en el yacimiento arqueologico de Santa Comba (Covas, Ferrol)

The vulnerability of coastal heritage is increasingly becoming a major issue, particularly in areas such as the European and American Atlantic shore lines, where the combined forces of sea-level rise, coastal environment dynamics and human activity are significantly altering the coastline. In this context, 3D recording and modelling techniques can...

We present a trans-disciplinary research project to study fortified landscapes from the Modern Age (17th century) of the Galician-Portuguese border, in the north-west of Iberian Peninsula. We use different geospatial techniques, in particular aerial photogrammetry, airbone LiDAR and GIS, for landscape analysis. This approach has allowed us to lacat...

Este texto ilustra un ejemplo de la utilidad y aplicación de tecnologías no invasivas para documentar, describir y comenzar a entender un conjunto de espacios de cultivo antiguos, de época prehispánica, situado en la periferia andina del norte chileno. Al contrario de lo que es habitual en las regiones templadas, donde la visibilidad del registro a...

Drawing from a set of unpublished material, this paper revisits the 1953 excavation of the Early Bronze Age mound of Kervingar in Plouarzel (Finistère) by Pierre-Roland Giot (1919-2002). Reviewing these documents in a historical scientific context allows us to present the excavation of this site as a key example of the scientific revival occurring...

The prehistoric occupation of the islet of Guidoiro Areoso, in the Ría de Arosa, has been known since the late 1980s when work led by one of us revealed the existence of several funerary monuments and a Bronze Age occupation site. In recent years, the erosion has caused a rapid alteration of the dune and the shoreline, exposing a number of new elem...

En la primera parte del texto se propone los planteamientos teórico-metodológicos desarrollados en la línea de investigación en Arqueología de la Arquitectura, orientados desde la óptica de la Arqueología del Paisaje. Desde estos presupuestos se articula un marco metodológico que incluye técnicas de análisis provenientes de diferentes disciplinas:...

Coastal landscapes, past and present, are unique spaces subject to intense evolution and change. At present, sea-level rise is one visible effect of climate change, and human activity is also threatening much coastal and island territory on a global scale. In this context, the vulnerability of coastal heritage is increasingly coming into focus, par...

Resumen El campo de la topografía cuenta actualmente con herramientas de gran precisión que han permitido agilizar los procesos de recogida de datos, maximizar la información proporcionada por estos y obtener resultados que aportan una representación cada vez más fiel del objeto. Este es el caso del Levantamiento de Alta Definición mediante Láser E...

[EN] Between 2008 and 2010, in the framework of the Landscape Archaeology and Cultural Landscapes research line at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Íncipit, CSIC), work was undertaken in the Stone circle and mounds of Monte Lobeira (Vilanova de Arousa, Pontevedra). Understanding this kind of archaeological ensembles has traditionally lacked a gl...

This text shows the results of the archaeological excavation of the burial mound identified as the n.5 of the «Fomo dos Mouros» group, in the range of Coriscada (Ortigueira, A Coruña). Despite being one of the most significant mounds of the area, it has been very poorly preserved. The final objective of this project was the gathering of archaeologi...

[EN] In this work, we present a first approach to the stone circle of Monte Lobeira (in the NW of Spain). In this article we primarily focus on the methodologies that were applied in the documentation and register of the morphologic and constructive aspects of the site. [ES] En este trabajo pretendemos realizar una primera aproximación al círculo l...

In an archaeological context before a works execution took place (an electric half tension line), some engraved gravestones were found around the area of Fonte Touron, Council of Lalín. These gravestones have engravings representative of megalithism and nowadays they became boundary markers of the yards in which they are. The features of the engrav...

In this text we show some geometric documentation of various elements of Cultural Heritage. We use a Terrestrial Laser Scanner, a Leica HDS3000, a survey instrument that allows a high density register with pinpoint accuracy. The basic aim of this article is to evaluate the documentation posibilities of this kind of Terrestrial Laser Scanner and the...

El campo de la topografía cuenta actualmente con herramientas de gran precisión que han permitido agilizar los procesos de recogida de datos, maximizar la información proporcionada por estos y obtener resultados que aportan una representación cada vez más fiel del objeto. Este es el caso del Levantamiento de Alta Definición mediante Láser Escáner 3...

In other works we have explored the symbolic significance of the explosion of monumental architecture, and have seen how this was the main instrument of a socio-cultural device that made it possible to organize nature and introduce it through social relationships of production and reproduction. However, to date we have not explored in detail the ex...

Abordamos la arquitectura como uno de los aspectos de una cultura en la que de manera más directa una sociedad imprime su manera de estar en el mundo, cómo quiere que sea y cómo lo modifica para crear un entorno acorde con su pensamiento. Por lo tanto, partiendo de que la arquitectura es un producto social, el análisis de una construcción según su...

[EN] In the first part of the text we propose a theoretic and methodological plan to develop research line in Archaeology of Architecture, orientated from Landscape Archaeology propositions. In this plan we articulate a methodological frame that includes analythical techniques from different disciplines: Archaeology, Architecture, Anthropology and...

[EN] This text shows the result of the archaeological control of the building of a part of Galician Gasline, the secundary lines of: Ferrol, Irixoa-Neda, A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela, all of this in A Coruña Province. 21 new sites from diverse ages were catalogued, mostly Neolithic mounds. These controls give us three archaeological interven...

Este volumen es el resultado del seguimiento y control arqueológico en fase de construcción de las distintas Redes de distribución de la provincia de Pontevedra. Los trabajos de campo que acompañaron a las Redes de Vigo-Porriño, Pontecesures-Catoira, Vilagarcía y Pontevedra-Arcade dieron como resultado la catalogación de tres yacimientos nuevos: un...