IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 802: Environments, Wetlands, and Agrarian Landscapes: Technical Solutions and Socioeconomic Exploitation in Wetland Areas in Medieval Iberia, 12th-15th Centuries
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Departamento de Historia Medieval, Historia Moderna y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas, Universidad de Alicante |
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| Organisers: | Miriam Parra Villaescusa, Departamento de Historia Medieval, Historia Moderna y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas, Universidad de Alicante Juan Leonardo Soler Milla, Departamento de Historia Medieval, Historia Moderna y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas, Universidad de Alicante |
| Moderator/Chair: | Juan Leonardo Soler Milla, Departamento de Historia Medieval, Historia Moderna y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas, Universidad de Alicante |
| Paper 802-a | Wetlands and Fluvial Islands in the Lower Ebro Valley before and after the Catalan Conquest, 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies, Technology |
| Paper 802-b | Wetlands Ecosystems and Agriculture in the South of the Kingdom of Valencia: From the huerta to the Wetland, from the Wetland to the huerta, 13th-15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies, Technology |
| Abstract | Wetlands and marshes areas are spaces of outstanding ecological value. These environmental enclaves provide a wide variety of natural resources but also mean environments that can be broken for agriculture. All this takes place from the use of different hydraulic techniques (drainage, water diversion, construction of irrigation channels). In the Iberian Peninsula during the medieval centuries (in this case between 12th- 15th centuries), a socio-productive management was implemented aimed at the agricultural exploitation in these areas of water accumulation by the different Iberian medieval societies, both Andalusian and feudal. This dynamic generated an obvious transformation of these environments and their biodiversity, even its progressive disappearance in favour of agriculture. Furthermore, the Christian conquest produced a change with elements of continuity in this exploitation from technological and economical point. In this way, there were different socio-technological solutions and particularities in agricultural management (crops, production levels) that have opened the door to scientific debate and that mark the central themes of this session. |