The Alta Muntanya Archeology Group of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)-CSIC has documented the oldest home within the Pyrenees, courting again about 3,800 years. It would belong to the Bronze Age and is positioned within the Abric del Portarró web site, at an altitude of two,280 meters throughout the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park (Lleida).
The archaeological excavations which have been carried out for years on this space are the very best within the Iberian Peninsula. “They are in all probability the oldest development stays documented in the complete Pyrenees,” mentioned Ermengol Grassiot, director of the excavations.
This discovering will present loads of precious info to archaeologists since there’s little or no from the Bronze Age within the Aigüestortes space and that was the time in prehistory when the best human influence on the vegetation within the excessive mountains occurred.
In the final excavation they’ve additionally positioned ceramic stays and a few arrowheads. “The ceramic items discovered on this web site, both for cooking, consuming or storing meals, are ample,” mentioned the archaeologist. According to Gassiot, this means that in prehistory “the settlement in excessive areas was way more secure than one would possibly assume, in all probability intervals of between 4 or 5 months.”
Cereal fields above 2,000 meters
The particular person answerable for the excavation recalled that in earlier campaigns stays of a sickle have been discovered, a instrument that was used to mow. This information might lead one to think about a excessive mountain with extra cereal fields than we may now think about at heights above 2,000 meters.
This discovering will make us rethink the goals of this UAB archaeological analysis group, since they deliberate to complete the excavation within the Abric del Portarró this 12 months and now they’ll resolve if they’ll do extra work.
The Abric del Portarró is a web site with an extended sequence of human occupation, which extends not less than from the Neolithic (7,200 years in the past) to the twentieth century, passing by the Bronze Age (3,600-3,200 years outdated), the interval Iberian, Roman and the early Middle Ages.
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