Arqueozoología en la presierra madrileña entre los siglos VII y VIII d. C.el asentamiento aldeano minero-metalúrgico de Navalahija (Colmenar Viejo, Madrid)
- Rodrigo Portero Hernández 1
- Óscar González-Cabezas 1
- Rosario Gómez Osuna 2
- Fernando Colmenarejo García 2
- Elvira García Aragón 2
- Alfonso Pozuelo Ruano 2
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Universidad de Salamanca
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- 2 Equipo A de Arqueología
ISSN: 2341-3573
Year of publication: 2019
Issue Title: 1300 Aniversario del origen del Reino de Asturias Congreso internacional. Del fin de la Antigüedad Tardía a la Alta Edad Media en la península ibérica (650-900)
Issue: 5
Pages: 645-661
Type: Article
More publications in: Anejos de Nailos: Estudios interdisciplinares de arqueología
Abstract
The research project on rural settlement during Late Antiquity near the mounta-ins of Madrid, developed between 2008 and 2016, has allowed to obtain a better vision on the organization and management of this space, characterized by a new network of village settlements. Some of these villages, such as Navalahija and Navalvillar (Colmenar Viejo, Madrid), combined their agricultural work with an outstanding mi-ner-metallurgical iron activity. Therefore, they are examples of the transformation process which took place along the final centuries of Late Antiquity.In these pages, we present the results obtained from the archaeozoological and taphonomical analysis of the bones of Navalahija. The majority of the faunal rema-ins points to a meat consumption pattern based mainly on sheep, goat and cattle. We have also analyzed the anatomical representation of the skeletal remains and their distribution by age, as well as the taphonomic agents that have intervened in the for-mation of the archaeozoological record of Navalahija.