Análisis geoarqueológico de las tumbas de el encinar excavadas en el granito de Aldeadávila de la ribera, Salamanca: contextualización y protocolo de trabajo

Abstract

In the southern of the township of Aldeadávila de la Ribera exist a small antique cemetery consists of five tombs engrave in rock, the most exempt. It’s a site not previously studied and archaeological completely decontextualized, of which location respond a rule expected for this type of antiques cemeteries (for agricultural crops, stream or river in the proximities and presence of the nearby road access), although not found near village that gives meaning to the cemetery. The absence of human remains had impede make a dating, but this cemeteries usually belong to the High Middle Age. Petrographically the rock is a porphyritic two micas granite, too similar in its features to the massif granite over settle, which suggest that this is the same rock. The differences between the massif itself and the tomb’s granite seem to respond to differences in the facies chosen for the sculpt tombs, searching for the easiest rock sculpt without being too breakable. Has been studied, with the tombs, a near shack, a vaulted and conical built of which basis is circular that the shepherds use for the refuge. Its building carried out using granitic rock fragments, in the walls and the roof, although the constructions of the each one respond to different methods. It was also found ceramic fragments which had made a chemistry study reveal a similar composition to all of them, but could not establish the source of the clay used.