Quim Sisa López de Pablo
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Prehistòria, Department Member
- Neolithic and Chalcolitic, Ethnoarchaeology, Metallurgy, Ancient Near East, Prehistoric Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, and 24 moreLithic Technology, Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Copper age, Archaeological Method & Theory, Prehistoric Technology, Prehistory Metallurgy, Economic archaeology, Political Economy, Economic History, Near Eastern Archaeology, Neolithic Archaeology, Archaeometallurgy, Ancient Metallurgy, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Ancient Mining and Metallurgy, Archaeological Stratigraphy, Sedimentary geology and stratigraphy, Archaeological Soil Micromorphology, Landscape Archaeology, Geoarchaeology and Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions, Formation processes (Geoarchaeology), Archaeological Site Formation Processes, Sedimentology, and Micromorphologyedit
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http://calaix.gencat.cat/handle/10687/428218#page=1 El jaciment del Pla de la Guineu fou descobert l’any 2011 arran del seguiment arqueològic de les obres de millora de la carretera N-260 a l’altura de Gerri de la Sal. A partir d’aquesta... more
http://calaix.gencat.cat/handle/10687/428218#page=1
El jaciment del Pla de la Guineu fou descobert l’any 2011 arran del seguiment
arqueològic de les obres de millora de la carretera N-260 a l’altura de Gerri de
la Sal. A partir d’aquesta intervenció es feu palesa l’excepcionalitat del jaciment
per la troballa d’un altíssim nombre de fragments ceràmics, i també de diverses
estructures de combustió. Aquests resultats van permetre apuntar la possibilitat
que el jaciment es tractés d’un centre de producció de sal. Per aquest motiu,
l’any 2014 s’inicià un projecte de recerca pel grup del GRAMPO de la UAB per tal
de completar les excavacions amb dues intervencions arqueològiques els anys
2015 i 2017 i, d’altra banda, ampliar l’estudi global de les restes i l’aportació del
jaciment en la reconstrucció del sistema d’explotacions salines de muntanya en
la prehistòria recent. En aquest article, a més de presentar breument el jaciment
i la seva importància, s’exposen les novetats de les darreres intervencions i de les
analítiques en curs, sobretot en relació amb les produccions i ús de les ceràmiques,
l’anàlisi arqueozoològic, l’anàlisi estratigràfic i el micromorfològic.
PARAULES CLAU
Arqueologia de la sal, producció, edat del bronze antic, Prehistòria, Pirineus.
ABSTRACT
The Pla de la Guineu archaeological site was discovered on 2011 after archaeological
control works during the construction of the N-260 road at Gerri de la Sal. After this
first intervention the exceptionality of the site was revealed thanks to the recovery
of a significantly high number of ceramic fragments as well as several combustion
structures. These results pointed at the possibility that the site could be a salt
production centre. For this reason, a new research project started on 2014 by the
research group GRAMPO at the Autonomous University Barcelona. It had the aim
to complete the excavations with two additional fieldwork campaigns (years 2015
and 2017) and expand the global study of the remains in the framework of the
reconstruction of the mountain saline exploitation systems in recent prehistory. This
article will briefly present the archaeological site and its relevance. Afterwards, the
most recent results from the latest excavations and the analytical studies underway will
be exposed. These will include the production and use of pottery, archaeozoological
analyses, and the stratigraphic and micromorphological analyses.
KEYWORDS
Archaeology of salt, production, early Bronze Age, Prehistory, Pyrenees.
El jaciment del Pla de la Guineu fou descobert l’any 2011 arran del seguiment
arqueològic de les obres de millora de la carretera N-260 a l’altura de Gerri de
la Sal. A partir d’aquesta intervenció es feu palesa l’excepcionalitat del jaciment
per la troballa d’un altíssim nombre de fragments ceràmics, i també de diverses
estructures de combustió. Aquests resultats van permetre apuntar la possibilitat
que el jaciment es tractés d’un centre de producció de sal. Per aquest motiu,
l’any 2014 s’inicià un projecte de recerca pel grup del GRAMPO de la UAB per tal
de completar les excavacions amb dues intervencions arqueològiques els anys
2015 i 2017 i, d’altra banda, ampliar l’estudi global de les restes i l’aportació del
jaciment en la reconstrucció del sistema d’explotacions salines de muntanya en
la prehistòria recent. En aquest article, a més de presentar breument el jaciment
i la seva importància, s’exposen les novetats de les darreres intervencions i de les
analítiques en curs, sobretot en relació amb les produccions i ús de les ceràmiques,
l’anàlisi arqueozoològic, l’anàlisi estratigràfic i el micromorfològic.
PARAULES CLAU
Arqueologia de la sal, producció, edat del bronze antic, Prehistòria, Pirineus.
ABSTRACT
The Pla de la Guineu archaeological site was discovered on 2011 after archaeological
control works during the construction of the N-260 road at Gerri de la Sal. After this
first intervention the exceptionality of the site was revealed thanks to the recovery
of a significantly high number of ceramic fragments as well as several combustion
structures. These results pointed at the possibility that the site could be a salt
production centre. For this reason, a new research project started on 2014 by the
research group GRAMPO at the Autonomous University Barcelona. It had the aim
to complete the excavations with two additional fieldwork campaigns (years 2015
and 2017) and expand the global study of the remains in the framework of the
reconstruction of the mountain saline exploitation systems in recent prehistory. This
article will briefly present the archaeological site and its relevance. Afterwards, the
most recent results from the latest excavations and the analytical studies underway will
be exposed. These will include the production and use of pottery, archaeozoological
analyses, and the stratigraphic and micromorphological analyses.
KEYWORDS
Archaeology of salt, production, early Bronze Age, Prehistory, Pyrenees.
Research Interests:
Fieldwork carried out at the site of Tell Halula, a settlement in the middle Euphrates valley (Syria), has allowed detailed analysis of the stratigraphy, together with a study of the sedimentological composition and other analytical... more
Fieldwork carried out at the site of Tell Halula, a settlement in the middle Euphrates valley (Syria), has allowed detailed analysis of the stratigraphy, together with a study of the sedimentological composition and other analytical approaches to the formation of the tell. In this contribution, the main characteristics of these processes are analysed and discussed, differentiating above all between architectural phases (earthen architecture with both domestic and monumental evidence), occupation levels (life/activity episodes) and taphonomic dynamics.
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New results from recent excavation at Gird Lashkir (Erbil, Kurdistan region, Iraq) are presented in this paper. Data from the most archaic occupation phases so far discovered at the site will be discussed, with special emphasis on the... more
New results from recent excavation at Gird Lashkir (Erbil, Kurdistan region, Iraq) are presented in this paper. Data from the most archaic occupation phases so far discovered at the site will be discussed, with special emphasis on the Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age. This article presents data related to architecture and subsistence (bioarchaeological analyses, organic residue analyses, etc.) as well as craft activities (ceramic production, metallurgy, etc.). The general characterisation of the settlement in these periods will be compared to similar horizons in Northern Mesopotamia, particularly in the Erbil Plain.
Research Interests: Archaeology and Kurdistan
The aim of this work is to know the role metallurgy played in protohistoric societies, specifically in the communities of the Ninevite V horizon. Unlike the communities of southern Mesopotamia, where society lived under a state... more
The aim of this work is to know the role metallurgy played in protohistoric societies, specifically in the communities of the Ninevite V horizon. Unlike the communities of southern Mesopotamia, where society lived under a state organization and metal acted as a valuable element, the north presents a different social scenario. Regarding metallurgy, given that communities in the north were closer to the mineral sources, this work researched whether this had any influence on their socioeconomic systems. Finally, we present the first results of the fieldwork developed at Tell Lashkir (Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq) which provide new information about the Ninevite V communities located in northern Iraq, where research could not be carried out until 2011 for political reasons. Tell Lashkir is the archaeological site where the Seminari de Prehistoria de Próxim Orient from the Departament de Prehistoria of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona carries out its fieldwork under the project “Proceso de transferencia e interacción social en el Neolítico del Próximo Oriente: Estudio de los ámbitos del valle del Éufrates y altiplanos del Zagros” in cooperation with the General Directorate of Antiquities of Kurdistan and the Archaeological Department of the Salahaddin University (Erbil).
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Pit and flat fireplaces have been used to fire a set of 29 pottery vessels manufactured following productive processes coherent with recent prehistoric periods. The high importance of the modelling techniques for the firing success have... more
Pit and flat fireplaces have been used to fire a set of 29 pottery vessels manufactured following productive processes coherent with recent prehistoric periods. The high importance of the modelling techniques for the firing success have been noted and the suitability of the infrarred pyrometer to study hearth temperatures is also taken into account.
Se presenta el proceso experimental de cocción en cubeta y en hogar plano de un conjunto de 29 piezas cerámicas elaboradas siguiendo procesos productivos de la prehistoria reciente. Se observa la importancia de las técnicas de modelaje para el éxito de la cocción y se evalúan las capacidades del pirómetro de infrarrojos para estudiar las temperatures.
Se presenta el proceso experimental de cocción en cubeta y en hogar plano de un conjunto de 29 piezas cerámicas elaboradas siguiendo procesos productivos de la prehistoria reciente. Se observa la importancia de las técnicas de modelaje para el éxito de la cocción y se evalúan las capacidades del pirómetro de infrarrojos para estudiar las temperatures.
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Recent archaeological fieldwork carried out at Tell Lashkir (Erbil, Iraq) by the Universitat autónoma de Barcelona and the Salahaddin University recovered an important set of metal items. Iron, bronze and copper objects such as knives,... more
Recent archaeological fieldwork carried out at Tell Lashkir (Erbil, Iraq) by the Universitat autónoma de Barcelona and the Salahaddin University recovered an important set of metal items. Iron, bronze and copper objects such as knives, pins or tokens were located in different contexts (grave goods in burials, domestic units, pits with special uses and other stratigraphic refillings). Furthermore, basic tools for the practice of metallurgy such a stone mould with evidence of thermic alteration have been identified.