The city as dissipative structure
The flow of agricultural production in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2082444 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrés Teira-Brión (0000-0001-8997-1425, University of Oxford, corresponding author), Xurxo Constela Doce, Miguel Sartal Lorenzo, Dolores Gil Agra, Víctor Rúa Carril (Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Pages | 101482 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0278-4165 • E-ISSN: 1090-2686 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101482 |
| OpenAlex | W4311562917 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 34 |
Towns were dynamic economic and political centers during the Middle Ages, giving rise to the emergence of new social classes. As a result of their functions, a new relationship began to be forged with the rural world, which supplied towns with foodstuffs that satisfied new social demands. Archaeobotanical analysis (carpology) allows us to understand the flow of cash crops by tracing seeds and fruits produced in the countryside that were consumed in and redistributed from the towns. The study of four waterlogged contexts from medieval archaeological sites in the Kingdom of Galicia (Santiago de Compostela, Padrón, and Pontevedra) has provided a set of species that played a crucial role in the economy of the urban dwellers and that possibly were related to differential access or food preferences. Evidence for fruits (grapes, chestnuts, figs, apples, and cherries, among others), garden crops (melon), and cereals (foxtail millet, rye, naked wheat, and oat) has been documented. Broomcorn millet is particularly abundant, demonstrating that it was important for subsistence. Some of the species found (medlar, turnip/grelo) are novel in the archaeobotanical literature of the medieval period in the Iberian Peninsula
Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Botany · Cash crop · Foxtail · Geography · Kingdom · Peninsula · Subsistence agriculture · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Medieval Architecture and Archaeology · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |