Noemí Silva-Sánchez
Biographic Data
| ID | 4425235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noemí Silva-Sánchez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noemí |
| FAMILY NAME | Silva-Sánchez |
| SIGNATURE | SILVA-SÁNCHEZ N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6355-7285 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dating and Characterising the Transformation of a Monastic Landscape. A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Agrarian Spaces of Samos Abbey (NW Spain)
Funding: This research was supported by ARPAMED (PID2020-119365GA-I00) and ECOLOC (EUR2021-122009) research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science
Unearthing the Histories of Agrarian Landscapes
This article presents an interdisciplinary programme for research on historic landscapes that has emerged since 2020 in the framework of the project Terraces as Sustainable Agricultural Environments (‘TerraSAgE’). While the methodology has been tested in specific Mediterranean case studies, it is also applicable in other locations and regions. Our integrated approach provides new insights into the development of terraced agrarian landscapes and t…
Climate Change, Fire and Human Activity Drive Vegetation Change during the Last Eight Millennia in the Xistral Mountains of NW Iberia
An 8500-year record of high-resolution pollen, non-pollen palynomorph, microscopic charcoal and selected geochemical data (Ti, Zr and Pb) is presented from an ombrotrophic mire from the Xistral Mountains, Galicia, North-West Iberia. The results suggest that vegetation changes over the last eight millennia are primarily the result of human disturbance, fire and climate change. Climate and fire were the main factors influencing vegetation developme…
Environmental Impact of Roman Mining and Metallurgy and Its Correlation with the Archaeological Evidence
The imperial expansion of Rome resulted in an unprecedented intensification of industrial activity, including mining and metallurgical operations. Despite this is a well-known phenomenon, establishing the local narratives behind it is still problematic due to the inherent limitations of mining archaeology and palaeoenvironmental approaches. This paper offers a systematic review of metal palaeopollution records from ice, lake sediment and peat cor…
Palaeoenvironmental Framing of the O Areal Roman Saltworks and Related Anthropogenic Activities in North-western Iberia
The NW Iberian city of Vigo contains buried structures of a Roman salinae that follow the ancient coastline. To investigate its environmental legacy, we studied two pedo-sedimentary profiles at the O Areal saltworks to reconstruct human activities during and after the salinae use, as well as framing them within the last two millennia of climate variability. The bottom layer consists of organic-rich sands, with marine palynomorphs, confined within…
Written in soil and paper. Investigating environmental transformations of a monastic landscape by combining geoarchaeology and palynology with historical analysis at Samos (Spain)
Palaeoenvironmental and historical approaches have often been used separately to investigate past land-use change, but they are still rarely combined, especially in places where the most suitable archives are sediment sequences. Here we used a transdisciplinary approach combining a multiproxy palaeoenvironmental study of two pedosedimentological sequences around a medieval Benedictine abbey at Samos in north-west Spain. A robust chronology was bu…
Did prehistoric and Roman mining and metallurgy have a significant impact on vegetation
Influence of climate change and human activities on the organic and inorganic composition of peat during the ‘Little Ice Age’ (El Payo mire, W Spain)
The study of environmental change during the ‘Little Ice Age’ (‘LIA’) offers a great potential to improve our current understanding of the climate system and human–environment interactions. Here, a high-resolution multiproxy investigation of a Mediterranean mire from central-western Spain, covering the last ~700 years, was used to reconstruct peat dynamics and land-use change and to gain further insights into their relationship with ‘LIA’ climate…
Climate changes, lead pollution and soil erosion in south Greenland over the past 700 years
A peat core from southern Greenland provided a rare opportunity to investigate human-environment interactions, climate change and atmospheric pollution over the last ~ 700 years. X-ray fluorescence, gas chromatography-combustion, isotope ratio mass spectrometry, peat humification and fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy were applied and combined with palynological and archaeological evidence. Variations in peat mineral content seem to be relat…
Mining and metallurgical activities in N Iberia and their link to forest evolution using environmental archives (centuries AD V to XI)
Research on palaeoenvironmental archives has challenged the widely accepted view that atmospheric metal pollution started with the Industrial Revolution, by demonstrating that it dates back to the Bronze Age when mining and metallurgical activities spread. These activities and the exploitation of natural resources for metal extraction and smelting involved intense transformation of the landscape from the Iron Age onwards, with forest decline, amo…
Identifying evidence for past mining and metallurgy from a record of metal contamination preserved in an ombrotrophic mire near Leadhills, SW Scotland, UK
This study presents a new 3600-year record of past metal contamination from a bog located close to the Leadhills and Wanlockhead orefield of southwest Scotland. A peat core, collected from Toddle Moss, was radiocarbon ( 14 C) dated and analysed for trace metal concentrations (by EMMA) and lead isotopes (by ICP-MS) to reconstruct the atmospheric deposition history of trace metal contamination, in particular, lead. The results show good agreement w…
Linking forest cover, soil erosion and mire hydrology to late-Holocene human activity and climate in NW Spain
Forest clearance is one of the main drivers of soil erosion and hydrological changes in mires, although climate may also play a significant role. Because of the wide range of factors involved, understanding these complex links requires long-term multi-proxy approaches and research on the best proxies to focus. A peat core from NW Spain (Cruz do Bocelo mire), spanning the last ~3000 years, has been studied at high resolution by physical (density a…
Edafología, palinología y antropología física aplicadas a la arqueología ambiental
La reconstrucción paleoambiental puede darnos información muy importante acerca de cómo las sociedades hicieron uso del medio, y de cómo, a su vez, las variaciones climáticas y ambientales han influido en el devenir de las sociedades. En este trabajo analizamos el potencial de la edafología, la palinología y la antropología física en los estudios paleoambientales aplicados a la arqueología. Además, partiendo de éstas disciplinas y, centrándonos e…
Prehistoric land use at an archaeological hot-spot (the rock art park of Campo Lameiro, NW Spain) inferred from charcoal, synanthropic pollen and non-pollen palynomorph proxies
Linking forest cover, soil erosion and mire hydrology to late-Holocene human activity and climate in NW Spain
Forest clearance is one of the main drivers of soil erosion and hydrological changes in mires, although climate may also play a significant role. Because of the wide range of factors involved, understanding these complex links requires long-term multi-proxy approaches and research on the best proxies to focus. A peat core from NW Spain (Cruz do Bocelo mire), spanning the last ~3000 years, has been studied at high resolution by physical (density a…
Environmental Impact of Roman Mining and Metallurgy and Its Correlation with the Archaeological Evidence
The imperial expansion of Rome resulted in an unprecedented intensification of industrial activity, including mining and metallurgical operations. Despite this is a well-known phenomenon, establishing the local narratives behind it is still problematic due to the inherent limitations of mining archaeology and palaeoenvironmental approaches. This paper offers a systematic review of metal palaeopollution records from ice, lake sediment and peat cor…
Unearthing the Histories of Agrarian Landscapes
This article presents an interdisciplinary programme for research on historic landscapes that has emerged since 2020 in the framework of the project Terraces as Sustainable Agricultural Environments (‘TerraSAgE’). While the methodology has been tested in specific Mediterranean case studies, it is also applicable in other locations and regions. Our integrated approach provides new insights into the development of terraced agrarian landscapes and t…
Influence of climate change and human activities on the organic and inorganic composition of peat during the ‘Little Ice Age’ (El Payo mire, W Spain)
The study of environmental change during the ‘Little Ice Age’ (‘LIA’) offers a great potential to improve our current understanding of the climate system and human–environment interactions. Here, a high-resolution multiproxy investigation of a Mediterranean mire from central-western Spain, covering the last ~700 years, was used to reconstruct peat dynamics and land-use change and to gain further insights into their relationship with ‘LIA’ climate…
Identifying evidence for past mining and metallurgy from a record of metal contamination preserved in an ombrotrophic mire near Leadhills, SW Scotland, UK
This study presents a new 3600-year record of past metal contamination from a bog located close to the Leadhills and Wanlockhead orefield of southwest Scotland. A peat core, collected from Toddle Moss, was radiocarbon ( 14 C) dated and analysed for trace metal concentrations (by EMMA) and lead isotopes (by ICP-MS) to reconstruct the atmospheric deposition history of trace metal contamination, in particular, lead. The results show good agreement w…
Prehistoric land use at an archaeological hot-spot (the rock art park of Campo Lameiro, NW Spain) inferred from charcoal, synanthropic pollen and non-pollen palynomorph proxies
Palaeoenvironmental Framing of the O Areal Roman Saltworks and Related Anthropogenic Activities in North-western Iberia
The NW Iberian city of Vigo contains buried structures of a Roman salinae that follow the ancient coastline. To investigate its environmental legacy, we studied two pedo-sedimentary profiles at the O Areal saltworks to reconstruct human activities during and after the salinae use, as well as framing them within the last two millennia of climate variability. The bottom layer consists of organic-rich sands, with marine palynomorphs, confined within…
Did prehistoric and Roman mining and metallurgy have a significant impact on vegetation
Prehistoric land use at an archaeological hot-spot (the rock art park of Campo Lameiro, NW Spain) inferred from charcoal, synanthropic pollen and non-pollen palynomorph proxies
Edafología, palinología y antropología física aplicadas a la arqueología ambiental
La reconstrucción paleoambiental puede darnos información muy importante acerca de cómo las sociedades hicieron uso del medio, y de cómo, a su vez, las variaciones climáticas y ambientales han influido en el devenir de las sociedades. En este trabajo analizamos el potencial de la edafología, la palinología y la antropología física en los estudios paleoambientales aplicados a la arqueología. Además, partiendo de éstas disciplinas y, centrándonos e…
Identifying evidence for past mining and metallurgy from a record of metal contamination preserved in an ombrotrophic mire near Leadhills, SW Scotland, UK
This study presents a new 3600-year record of past metal contamination from a bog located close to the Leadhills and Wanlockhead orefield of southwest Scotland. A peat core, collected from Toddle Moss, was radiocarbon ( 14 C) dated and analysed for trace metal concentrations (by EMMA) and lead isotopes (by ICP-MS) to reconstruct the atmospheric deposition history of trace metal contamination, in particular, lead. The results show good agreement w…
Linking forest cover, soil erosion and mire hydrology to late-Holocene human activity and climate in NW Spain
Forest clearance is one of the main drivers of soil erosion and hydrological changes in mires, although climate may also play a significant role. Because of the wide range of factors involved, understanding these complex links requires long-term multi-proxy approaches and research on the best proxies to focus. A peat core from NW Spain (Cruz do Bocelo mire), spanning the last ~3000 years, has been studied at high resolution by physical (density a…
Climate changes, lead pollution and soil erosion in south Greenland over the past 700 years
A peat core from southern Greenland provided a rare opportunity to investigate human-environment interactions, climate change and atmospheric pollution over the last ~ 700 years. X-ray fluorescence, gas chromatography-combustion, isotope ratio mass spectrometry, peat humification and fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy were applied and combined with palynological and archaeological evidence. Variations in peat mineral content seem to be relat…
Mining and metallurgical activities in N Iberia and their link to forest evolution using environmental archives (centuries AD V to XI)
Research on palaeoenvironmental archives has challenged the widely accepted view that atmospheric metal pollution started with the Industrial Revolution, by demonstrating that it dates back to the Bronze Age when mining and metallurgical activities spread. These activities and the exploitation of natural resources for metal extraction and smelting involved intense transformation of the landscape from the Iron Age onwards, with forest decline, amo…
Influence of climate change and human activities on the organic and inorganic composition of peat during the ‘Little Ice Age’ (El Payo mire, W Spain)
The study of environmental change during the ‘Little Ice Age’ (‘LIA’) offers a great potential to improve our current understanding of the climate system and human–environment interactions. Here, a high-resolution multiproxy investigation of a Mediterranean mire from central-western Spain, covering the last ~700 years, was used to reconstruct peat dynamics and land-use change and to gain further insights into their relationship with ‘LIA’ climate…
Did prehistoric and Roman mining and metallurgy have a significant impact on vegetation
Written in soil and paper. Investigating environmental transformations of a monastic landscape by combining geoarchaeology and palynology with historical analysis at Samos (Spain)
Palaeoenvironmental and historical approaches have often been used separately to investigate past land-use change, but they are still rarely combined, especially in places where the most suitable archives are sediment sequences. Here we used a transdisciplinary approach combining a multiproxy palaeoenvironmental study of two pedosedimentological sequences around a medieval Benedictine abbey at Samos in north-west Spain. A robust chronology was bu…
Climate Change, Fire and Human Activity Drive Vegetation Change during the Last Eight Millennia in the Xistral Mountains of NW Iberia
An 8500-year record of high-resolution pollen, non-pollen palynomorph, microscopic charcoal and selected geochemical data (Ti, Zr and Pb) is presented from an ombrotrophic mire from the Xistral Mountains, Galicia, North-West Iberia. The results suggest that vegetation changes over the last eight millennia are primarily the result of human disturbance, fire and climate change. Climate and fire were the main factors influencing vegetation developme…
Environmental Impact of Roman Mining and Metallurgy and Its Correlation with the Archaeological Evidence
The imperial expansion of Rome resulted in an unprecedented intensification of industrial activity, including mining and metallurgical operations. Despite this is a well-known phenomenon, establishing the local narratives behind it is still problematic due to the inherent limitations of mining archaeology and palaeoenvironmental approaches. This paper offers a systematic review of metal palaeopollution records from ice, lake sediment and peat cor…
Palaeoenvironmental Framing of the O Areal Roman Saltworks and Related Anthropogenic Activities in North-western Iberia
The NW Iberian city of Vigo contains buried structures of a Roman salinae that follow the ancient coastline. To investigate its environmental legacy, we studied two pedo-sedimentary profiles at the O Areal saltworks to reconstruct human activities during and after the salinae use, as well as framing them within the last two millennia of climate variability. The bottom layer consists of organic-rich sands, with marine palynomorphs, confined within…
Unearthing the Histories of Agrarian Landscapes
This article presents an interdisciplinary programme for research on historic landscapes that has emerged since 2020 in the framework of the project Terraces as Sustainable Agricultural Environments (‘TerraSAgE’). While the methodology has been tested in specific Mediterranean case studies, it is also applicable in other locations and regions. Our integrated approach provides new insights into the development of terraced agrarian landscapes and t…
Dating and Characterising the Transformation of a Monastic Landscape. A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Agrarian Spaces of Samos Abbey (NW Spain)
Funding: This research was supported by ARPAMED (PID2020-119365GA-I00) and ECOLOC (EUR2021-122009) research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science
Geography (13 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Geology (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 works) · Physical geography (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Peat (6 works) · Environmental Science (4 works) · Geomorphology (4 works)