José Antonio López-Sáez
Biographic Data
| ID | 72980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José Antonio López-Sáez |
| GIVEN NAMES | José Antonio |
| FAMILY NAME | López-Sáez |
| SIGNATURE | LÓPEZ-SÁEZ J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Instituto de Historia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3122-2744 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 91 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 315 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 91 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Vegetation and plant resource exploitation during the 8.2 ka event
El Mazo rock shelter (Asturias, northern Iberia) contains a Mesolithic shell-midden with a high chronological resolution, which offers great possibilities as an empirical scenario to develop palaeoenvironmental research. This study aims to approach vegetation dynamics and the exploitation of plant resources during the Early Holocene in the Cantabrian region and to assess the regional effects of the 8.2 ka cal BP abrupt climate change event. The r…
Los paisajes rurales de la romanización. Arquitectura y explotación del territorio
En estas actas se recopilan las aportaciones de diferentes especialistas en el estudio de la romanización en la Península Ibérica. Los participantes de la reunión científica organizada por Victorino Mayoral y Sebastián Celestino tratan un amplio abanico de aspectos relacionados con las fortificaciones de este período y su incidencia en hábitat, paisaje y territorio, ya sea desde un acercamiento puntual, a través del estudio de un único yacimiento…
Long term dynamics in a mediterranean mountainous landscape. Exploring land use and social strategies in Varica Virtudes (2nd-1st millennia BCE, Southeastern Iberia)
Research on Mediterranean mountain landscapes continues to be challenged by limited empirical knowledge and the persistence of traditional assumptions, such as their alleged isolation, statism and marginality. We present the results of a multiproxy and multiscale study in the Varica Virtudes mountain (Taibilla River Basin, southwestern Iberian Peninsula), integrating landscape studies and archaeological excavation, microstratigraphic techniques, …
Contextos campesinos altomedievales en el centro peninsular
En este trabajo se presentan resultados preliminares de un proyecto de investigación sobre los paisajes altomedievales en la sierra de Ávila, en particular del yacimiento de La Coba (San Juan del Olmo). Este yacimiento, interpretado como una aldea altomedieval datada entre los siglos VII y X d. n. e., ha sido excavado desde 2020, generando una densa información que se analiza en el presente artículo. Así, se atenderá a distintos aspectos de este …
Un spatheion haliéutico en Carthago Spartaria y el garum africano del siglo VII
El paleocontenido de un spatheion africano de un contexto del s. VII d.C. del área de El Molinete de Cartagena ha sido objeto de un estudio interdisciplinar, constituyendo uno de los escasos ejemplos mediterráneos analizados de garum en época paleobizantina, y el más tardío conocido hasta la fecha. Sabemos que contuvo una salsa líquida, filtrada de manera imperfecta, lo que ha dejado algunas ínfimas esquirlas y huesos de ictiofaunas arqueológicas…
Roman farmers in eastern Iberia
Water Reservoirs in North-Western Hispania Roman Gold Mining
Water reservoirs located on the mining fronts were essential for the operation of Roman gold mining. They served purposes such as the extraction and washing of gold deposits, and the final disposal of waste. The history of a Roman gold mine is intricately linked to its hydraulic network. Therefore, dating the construction, usage, and abandonment layers of water reservoirs enables us to comprehend the evolution of mining operations. In this paper,…
Contrasting state land and fire use policies condition fire regime seasonality and size in two Central Spain forest landscapes
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…
Environmental dynamics of the western European Mediterranean landscape during the Pleistocene to Holocene transition
A strategic aim of research into climate change in the distant past is to respond to the contemporary challenges of global warming at the present. Determining the processes of adaptation by ecosystems to these challenges, evaluating the effects of environmental change on human communities and finding which regions are more or less sensitive to climate change are among the key topics of environmental research today. Throughout the past millennia, …
La cueva artificial 14 de la necrópolis de Los Algarbes (Tarifa, Cádiz). Muerte y ritual a mediados del III milenio ANE
Este trabajo se centra en el estudio de la cueva artificial 14, perteneciente a la necrópolis prehistórica de Los Algarbes (Tarifa, Cádiz). Profundizaremos en la realidad de la muerte y el ritual funerario a través del registro arqueológico del continente (estructura funeraria) y de su contenido (ajuar funerario y registro antropológico). Además, realizaremos una contextualización histórica y paleoambiental tanto en la propia necrópolis como en e…
Paisajes dinámicos y agencia local en el sur de la Meseta del Duero medieval
Este trabajo pretende analizar la construcción de los paisajes medievales en el Sur del Duero. La imagen que se ha elaborado desde los estudios centrados en el registro escrito enfatizan un incremento de la actividad agraria a partir del siglo XII, como consecuencia de la repoblación. Sin embargo, el análisis del caso de Monleras, una población situada en la comarca de la Ramajería (Salamanca) revela una situación más compleja. Mediante el estudi…
Thermal impact of Heinrich stadials in cave temperature and speleothem oxygen isotope records
During each Heinrich stadial (HS), temperatures in southern Europe typically dropped several degrees during several hundred to few thousand years. We have developed a one-dimensional thermal conduction model that transfers the typical surface temperature anomaly of a HS to a series of hypothetical underlying caves. The results show that with increasing depth, the thermal anomaly is attenuated, the lag time increases, and the signal structure expe…
The Northwestern Iberian Mountains
The Iberian Peninsula is an area of the Western Mediterranean among the most sensitive to climatic and anthropogenic change. It has formed the centre-piece of numerous palaeoenvironmental studies of mountain and valleys, covering different chronologies and historical periods. These studies, however, include no palaeoenvironmental background to the Roman military conquests of the late third to the late first centuries B.C. This paper presents paly…
Late Pleistocene environmental dynamics and human occupation in Southwestern Europe
Herders and Pioneers
In recent years, the notion of landscape learning has been the object of increasing attention when discussing the neolithization of Europe. The landscape learning model stresses the necessity of gathering environmental information about a previously unfamiliar region. Therefore, it is particularly relevant in cases where the beginning of a farming economy is better explained in relation to the movements of peoples (colonization), rather than to t…
Milling Cereals/Legumes and Stamping Bread in Mauretanian Tamuda (Morocco)
Early anthropogenic change in western Mediterranean mountains (Sierra Nevada, SE Spain)
Glacial geomorphology of the High Gredos Massif
We present a detailed geomorphological map of the landform assemblages originated by the two major paleoglaciers of the Sierra de Gredos mountain range in the Spanish Iberian Central System. Based on previous works, our map focused on the features formed by Gredos and Pinar paleoglaciers during the last glaciation and subsequent glacial events. Based on a remote sensing analysis and exhaustive field surveys, we identified with great accuracy the …
Builders of Megaliths
El recinto de fosos calcolítico del Cerro de los Vientos (Puente del Obispo, Jaén)
En este trabajo se da a conocer el recinto de fosos prehistrico del Cerro de los Vientos, localizado en la poblacin de Puente del Obispo (Jan, Espaa). Se presentan su planta completa, las estructuras que lo componen, la caracterizacin de los conjuntos cermicos y lticos hallados en sus rellenos, dos dataciones inditas y el anlisis polnico realizado en el yacimiento. Estos estudios han permitido reconocer la construccin de dos fosos concntricos y m…
El asentamiento neolítico de Limoneros (Elche, Alicante)
En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de las intervenciones de urgencia llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento de Limoneros, asentamiento al aire libre ocupado durante la primera mitad del V milenio cal BC localizado al sur de la ciudad de Elche (Alicante), en la llanura aluvial del río Vinalopó. Durante los trabajos de excavación se reconocieron distintas estructuras negativas entre las que destacan dos tramos de foso, silos y cubetas, estructur…
Andalusi Populations at La Dehesilla Cave (Sierra de Cádiz, Southern Iberia)
Few studies have dealt with the occupation of caves during the Andalusi period in Southern Iberia. This may be explained by the attention placed traditionally on the trinomial mudun (cities), husun (fortresses) and qurà (farmsteads), in which other forms of rural occupation have been generally overlooked. In this paper we explore the sequence at La Dehesilla Cave –based on the analysis of animal skeleton remains, pollen, seeds and fruits, and phy…
The Toledo Mountains
The Toledo Mountains are a mid-elevation mountain range that separates the Tagus and Guadiana basins in the central area of the Iberian Peninsula. The location of these mountains allows the development of typical Mediterranean vegetation with some Atlantic influence. Consequently, typical broadleaved evergreen Mediterranean vegetation currently dominates the regional landscape, with the remarkable presence of more mesophilous species in sheltered…
Advances in Morphometrics in Archaeobotany
Morphometric analysis offers an alternative or augmentation to traditional archaeobotanical methods to address differences within and between plant species and their remains, refining and enhancing taxonomic resolution. Morphometrics, the measurement of size and shape, and the multivariate statistical analysis of generated quantitative variables, have long played a major role in biological research, including plant taxonomy and systematics, altho…
Cultural, Demographic and Environmental Dynamics of the Copper and Early Bronze Age in Iberia (3300–1500 BC)
The origins of agriculture in North-West Africa
The dynamics of mangrove ecosystems, changes in sea level and the strategies of Neolithic settlements along the coast of Oman (6000–3000 cal. BC)
The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project
Reconstructing the impact of human activities in a NW Iberian Roman mining landscape for the last 2500 years
Little is known about the impact of human activities during Roman times on NW Iberian mining landscapes beyond the geomorphological transformations brought about by the use of hydraulic power for gold extraction. We present the high-resolution pollen record of La Molina mire, located in an area intensely used for gold mining (Asturias, NW Spain), combined with other proxy data from the same peat core to identify different human activities, evalua…
Early agriculture and palaeoenvironmental history in the North of the Iberian Peninsula
A Late Stone Age sequence from West Ethiopia
In this paper, the results of the test excavations in two rock shelters in the Central Ethiopian escarpment near the Sudanese border are presented. A continuous sequence of quartz lithic industry, from the lowest levels of K’aaba (with an archaic MSA-like industry of side-scrapers, Levallois- discoid cores and unifacial points) to the upper levels of Bel K’urk’umu (with a LSA industry, characterised by elongated flakes and end-scrapers, that stil…
Holocene environmental change and human impact in NE Morocco
The littoral site of Ifri Oudadane is one of the most important recently excavated sites in the Mediterranean Maghreb. The shelter presents Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic layers and therefore offers the possibility to investigate the Neolithic transition in the region. Besides introducing the archaeological context, this paper focuses on palaeobotanical data in order to reconstruct Holocene environmental change and human use of plant resources for…
Fossil pollen from the Upper Humbu Formation of Peninj (Tanzania)
Advances in Morphometrics in Archaeobotany
Morphometric analysis offers an alternative or augmentation to traditional archaeobotanical methods to address differences within and between plant species and their remains, refining and enhancing taxonomic resolution. Morphometrics, the measurement of size and shape, and the multivariate statistical analysis of generated quantitative variables, have long played a major role in biological research, including plant taxonomy and systematics, altho…
The archaeology of the Middle Pleistocene deposits of Lake Eyasi, Tanzania
Ongoing archaeological research at North Lake Eyasi has produced a wealth of information, including a new hominid fossil and several archaeological sites dating to the end of the Middle Pleistocene. One of the sites (WB9) has been excavated and has produced evidence of multiple processes in its formation, including evidence of functional associations of stone tools and faunal remains which are scarce for this time period. The stone tool industry …
A palaeoenvironmental and palaeoeconomic approach to the Early Middle Age record from the village of Gasteiz (Basque Country, Northern Iberian Peninsula)
Hidden signatures of the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Iberia
Vegetation changes in relation to fire history and human activities at the Peña Negra mire (Bejar Range, Iberian Central Mountain System, Spain) during the past 4,000 years
Áreas habitacionales y funerarias en el Neolítico de la cuenca interior del Tajo
Se plantea una reflexión sobre las implicaciones sociales, culturales y cronológicas del mundo funerario al interior del Tajo. Concretamente los datos de la provincia de Toledo; analizados desde los yacimientos del dolmen de Azután y del túmulo del Castillejo, plantean la contemporaneidad de distintas versiones arquitectónicas en el megalitismo antiguo peninsular y la asociación manifiesta entre hábitats y sepulturas. Los nichos económicos, funda…
Human demography changes in Morocco and environmental imprint during the Holocene
The aim of this work is to reconstruct the periods of growth and decline of human populations in Morocco and their potential impacts on the landscape over the past 10,000 years. In order to estimate the trends in the human population size between 10,000 and 3000 years ago, we used a summed probability distribution (SPD) of radiocarbon dates from a wide range of archaeological sites throughout Morocco. Landscape changes were identified and quantif…
Holocene environmental change in Eastern Spain reconstructed through the multiproxy study of a pedo-sedimentary sequence from Les Alcusses (Valencia, Spain)
Landscape Construction and Long-Term Economic Practices
Unraveling the naturalness of sweet chestnut forests (Castanea sativa Mill.) in central Spain
A History of Human Impact on Moroccan Mountain Landscapes
Holocene vegetation changes in NW Iberia revealed by anthracological and palynological records from a colluvial soil
Macroscopic charcoal, pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs were isolated from a colluvial soil located on a small hill in Campo Lameiro (NW Spain) in order to elucidate the vegetation history of the area and its relation to fire and human activities. The presence of macroscopic charcoal throughout the 2.10 m thick soil (42 samples) is evidence of frequent fires during the last c. 6300 years. The charcoal record was dominated by Quercus (probably Q.…
Early anthropogenic change in western Mediterranean mountains (Sierra Nevada, SE Spain)
Mid-late Holocene environmental and cultural dynamics at the south-west tip of Europe (Doñana National Park, SW Iberia, Spain)
Are Cedrus atlantica forests in the Rif Mountains of Morocco heading towards local extinction
Cedrus atlantica (Atlas cedar) is a relict and endemic endangered species from northwestern African mountains, whose distribution range has undergone a dramatic reduction over recent decades. Long-term studies are needed for a better understanding of the development of its range as well as for assisting in the implementation of sustainable conservation measures. The multi-proxy analysis of a high-resolution fossil record of 180 cm depth allowed u…
Medieval landscapes in the Spanish Central System (450–1350)
This paper presents a long-term synthetic overview of the socio-ecological dynamics responsible for the shaping of present-day rural landscapes in the Spanish Central System. Available historical and palaeoenvironmental records have been compiled and cross-referenced to characterise key transformations unfolding in this mountainous macro-region during the medieval time span. A sharp deforestation of upland pines and midland oaks was due to extens…
La Criptogamia
La importancia que la Criptogamia debe tener como fuente auxiliar de la Arqueología, queda de manifiesto por el numeroso número de datos que desde la Ecología y la Palinología nos facilitan las criptógamas. La relación entre éstas y el hombre ha sido puesta de manifiesto en distintas culturas, por lo que su utilización en estudios paleoambientales puede jugar un papel sumamente interesante para delimitar con mayor precisión el hábitat en que se d…
Análisis polínico del yacimiento de Botiquería (Mazaleón, Teruel)
Se realiza el análisis polínico de seis muestras procedentes del yacimiento de Botiqueria de los Moros, situado en la localidad de Mazaleón en la provincia de Teruel. Tomadas de uno de los cortes de la excavación de 1. Barandiarán de 1974. El estudio polínico se ha realizado a partir de los valores porcentuales presentados por Quercus y Pinus, así como de otras especies vegetales; pudiéndose definir distintos periodos de mejoría o empeoramiento c…
Estudio palinológico de los sedimentos arqueológicos del yacimiento del Llanete de los Moros (Córdoba)
Se presentan los resultados del análisis paleopalinológico llevado a cabo en el yacimiento arqueológico del Llanete de los Moros, con una cronología arqueológica, encuadrable en la Edad del Bronce, y que lo sitúa climáticamente en el Subboreal-Subatlántico. Se pone de manifiesto una amplia representación de especies nitrófilas así como una cobertura arbórea poco manifiesta. Se comenta la presencia de Vitis y Olea
Paléoenvironment durant le Pleistocene Supérieur en Vaucluse
[es] Paleoambiente durante el Pleistoceno Superior en Vaucluse: análisis palinológico de los niveles inferiores del abrigo de la Combette (Bonnieux, Vaucluse, Francia). El estudio palinológico del Abrigo de La Combette nos informa sobre la evolución seguida por la vegetación en el entorno del yacimiento durante el Pleistoceno Superior, Würm antiguo (inicio del estadio isotópico 3). Se ponen de manifiesto diversas fases climáticas caracterizadas, …
Catástrofes ecológicas en la estepa? Arqueología del Paisaje en el complejo minerometalúrgico de Kargaly (Región de Orenburg, Rusia)
Kargaly es uno de los centros de minería y metalurgia del cobre más significativos de la Gran Estepa Euroasiática. El Dr. E.N. Chernyj y su equipo (Instituto de Arqueología, Academia Rusa de Ciencias, Moscú) y varios investigadores del CSIC y de otras instituciones españolas desarrollan allí un proyecto conjunto para el estudio integral de sus dos fases de explotación: la Edad del Bronce (II milenio AC) y la primera industrialización rusa (1745-1…
Fossil pollen from the Upper Humbu Formation of Peninj (Tanzania)
Palaeoecology and Holocene environmental change from a saline lake in South-West Spain
La Paleopalinología en el Laboratorio de Arqueobotánica del Departamento de Prehistoria, Instituto de Historia, CSIC
Con motivo de los 25 años de la puesta en marcha del Laboratorio de Arqueobotánica del Departamento de Prehistoria (Instituto de Historia, CSIC) se presentan los resultados de su actividad a lo largo de este periodo de tiempo: proyectos, líneas de investigación abordadas y bibliografía generada en su seno
Áreas habitacionales y funerarias en el Neolítico de la cuenca interior del Tajo
Se plantea una reflexión sobre las implicaciones sociales, culturales y cronológicas del mundo funerario al interior del Tajo. Concretamente los datos de la provincia de Toledo; analizados desde los yacimientos del dolmen de Azután y del túmulo del Castillejo, plantean la contemporaneidad de distintas versiones arquitectónicas en el megalitismo antiguo peninsular y la asociación manifiesta entre hábitats y sepulturas. Los nichos económicos, funda…
Paleopaisajes concretos
En el marco de los trabajos de corrección del impacto arqueológico de la red del Gas en Galicia, se descubrió un yacimiento que ofreció una interesante estratigrafía arqueológica y ambiental. La base del mismo es de momentos preneolíticosy presenta industrias líticas. Sobre ese nivel aparece un yacimiento neolítico con interesantes estructuras de combustión. Una vez abandonado el yacimiento se generó sobre él un palesuelo que, en época medieval, …
The archaeology of the Middle Pleistocene deposits of Lake Eyasi, Tanzania
Ongoing archaeological research at North Lake Eyasi has produced a wealth of information, including a new hominid fossil and several archaeological sites dating to the end of the Middle Pleistocene. One of the sites (WB9) has been excavated and has produced evidence of multiple processes in its formation, including evidence of functional associations of stone tools and faunal remains which are scarce for this time period. The stone tool industry …
A Late Stone Age sequence from West Ethiopia
In this paper, the results of the test excavations in two rock shelters in the Central Ethiopian escarpment near the Sudanese border are presented. A continuous sequence of quartz lithic industry, from the lowest levels of K’aaba (with an archaic MSA-like industry of side-scrapers, Levallois- discoid cores and unifacial points) to the upper levels of Bel K’urk’umu (with a LSA industry, characterised by elongated flakes and end-scrapers, that stil…
Historia de la vegetación en el litoral norte de Girona entre los siglos VIII y XX d.C
El análisis palinológico de un registro fósil obtenido en la Bahía de Port Lligat (Girona) ha permitido recons- truir la historia de la vegetación litoral del noreste de la Península Ibérica y del Pirineo oriental catalán durante los últimos 1600 años, en directa relación con la antropización de los ecosistemas forestales y los cambios climáticos acontecidos
Ocupación y uso del territorio en el sector centromeridional de la cuenca del Duero entre la Antigüedad y la alta Edad Media (siglos I-XI d.C.)
Los autores plantean una lectura de síntesis sobre las dinámicas de asentamiento y explotación de los territorios comprendidos entre el Sistema Central y las campiñas al sur del río Duero entre la implantación romana y los momentos altomedievales. Para estudiar el poblamiento se ha recurrido a los datos de prospección extensiva de los inventarios provinciales, con el concurso de los resultados de recientes excavaciones en yacimientos rurales y ur…
Quaternary pollen analysis in the Iberian Peninsula
Most unsuccessful palynological work is never published. As a consequence, pollen analysts waste time re-processing sterile sediments, and the available literature exhibits a uniformly positive record of success in pollen extraction. Here we report failures with Quaternary pollen analyses in the Iberian Peninsula; that is, case studies where it was not possible to extract palynomorphs for pollen counting. Both totally sterile and partially steril…
Holocene vegetation changes in NW Iberia revealed by anthracological and palynological records from a colluvial soil
Macroscopic charcoal, pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs were isolated from a colluvial soil located on a small hill in Campo Lameiro (NW Spain) in order to elucidate the vegetation history of the area and its relation to fire and human activities. The presence of macroscopic charcoal throughout the 2.10 m thick soil (42 samples) is evidence of frequent fires during the last c. 6300 years. The charcoal record was dominated by Quercus (probably Q.…
Contribución a la caracterización de los espacios agrarios castreños
Se presentan los resultados de una caracterización palinológica realizada en un perfil en el cual se ha identificado una probable estructura de cultivo artificial (terraza) de finales de la Edad del Hierro, asociada a un castro en Galicia. El análisis combinado de las evidencias estratigráficas y palinológicas permite proponer una secuencia de transformación del paisaje en la que, de forma poco esperable, la mayor intensificación en el uso de la …
Expected trends and surprises in the Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation history of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands
Early agriculture and palaeoenvironmental history in the North of the Iberian Peninsula
Impacto medioambiental de la minería y la metalurgia del cobre durante la Edad del Bronce en Kargaly (región de Orenburgo, Rusia)
Kargaly (región de Orenburgo, Rusia) es una región cuprífera explotada entre los milenios IV y II cal BC y los siglos XVIII y XX d.C. El objetivo del artículo es estudiar comparativamente el impacto de estos episodios mineros en la distribución de los recursos forestales de la región, para aproximar la escala de las operaciones minero-metalúrgicas prehistóricas. Para ello se analizan con métodos estadísticos inferenciales y multivariantes dos sec…
Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental record from a sedimentary fill in Cucú Cave, Almería, SE Spain
Cucú cave is a small cavity, 1600 m above sea level on the southern slope of Sierra de María (Almería Province, SE Spain), where current mean annual precipitation is
The Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in southern Iberia
New data and a review of historiographic information from Neolithic sites of the Malaga and Algarve coasts (southern Iberian Peninsula) and from the Maghreb (North Africa) reveal the existence of a Neolithic settlement at least from 7.5 cal ka BP. The agricultural and pastoralist food producing economy of that population rapidly replaced the coastal economies of the Mesolithic populations. The timing of this population and economic turnover coinc…
Landscape Construction and Long-Term Economic Practices
Vegetation changes in relation to fire history and human activities at the Peña Negra mire (Bejar Range, Iberian Central Mountain System, Spain) during the past 4,000 years
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
Geography (78 works) · Archaeology (55 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (42 works) · Ecology (39 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (38 works) · Archaeological and Historical Studies (33 works) · Physical geography (32 works) · Archaeological and Geological Studies (31 works) · Geology (31 works) · Holocene (28 works)