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Evolución del paisaje y actividad humana en el área de Monte Penide (Redondela, Pontevedra): una aproximación metodológica

2000; Spanish National Research Council; Volume: 57; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Espanhol

10.3989/tp.2000.v57.i1.268

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Antonio Martı́nez Cortizas, Ramón Fábregas Valcarce, Susana Franco Maside,

Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies

tters near the petro glyphs of roughly the same age.Also, we have undertaken a soil analysis of a section already exposed in one of those places (Coto da Fenteira), looking for occurrences of enrichment in certain trace elements (Ti, Zr, Hg or Br) along the sequence.As a result of this studies in combination with 14C dating of charcoal and organic matter, we have been able to define two main erosive episodes, resulting from human activity: one in the first half of the third millenium BC and a second, less violent one, from the start of the second millenium BC.These episodes have to do mostly with the spread of a farming economy during the Chalcolithic and its consolidation along the Earlier Bronze Age, thus rejecting the notion of a socioeconomic crisis during the latter and showing, instead, a progressive interference with the environment by human groups up to the second Iron Age. Palabras clave: