@conference{10902/36055,
year = {2024},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/36055},
abstract = {Pile dwelling sites in Mediterranean lakes face increasing threats to their conservation and safeguarding from climate change and its associated impacts. The primary objective of this study is to investigate the influence of climate change and water table fluctuations on the preservation of archaeological layers, with a particular focus on organic layers and wooden remains. Based on a combination of lake water level fluctuation analysis, water table measurements, and stratigraphic data, we managed to gauge the effects of recent water table fluctuations on the preservation of the occupation levels at the Neolithic site of La Draga (Lake Banyoles). By simulating and analysing the relationship between water table levels and their effects on the stratigraphic sequence, we were able to identify areas that are most susceptible to the impact of water table fluctuations and therefore potential post depositional processes. Moreover, statistical analysis of recent hydrological data has shown that there is a direct relationship between lake level and water table at the settlement. This would have been a factor affecting the preservation of both artefacts and deposits since the occupation of La Draga. Thus, the importance of considering hydrological factors when analysing and interpreting lakeside archaeological sites is highlighted.},
organization = {Acknowledgments: We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for contributing to a more complete version of the article with their valuable remarks. Funding: The research has been carried out in the frame of the pro jects ‘Archaeological Wooden Pile-Dwellings in Mediterra nean European lakes: strategies for their exploitation, monitoring, and conservation’ in the frame of the JPI-CH Joint Programming Initiative Cultural Heritage (PCI2020 111992), ‘Landscape modelling and resource management in the transition to farming in northeastern Iberia’ (PID2019-109254GB-C21) and ‘Territories, technical pro ductions and technological innovation in the Mesolithic Neolithic transition’ (PID2019-109254GB-C22) funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spain). The excavation campaigns at La Draga are currently undertaken in the frame of additional funding by Generalitat de Catalunya (CLT009/18/00050). R.P., A.P. and V.A. are members of the research group ‘Digital technologies for Social Archaeol ogy’ (TEDAS 2021 SGR 00190), while X.T. and V.A. are members of the group ‘Archaeology of Social Dynamics’ (ASD 2021 SGR 501) funded by AGAUR (Generalitat de Catalunya). R.P’s. research was supported by ICREA Acadè mia (Generalitat de Catalunya). V.A. and D.R. are postdoc toral researchers granted by Margarita Salas programme of the Ministry of Universities of Spain funded by NextGener ationEU – European Union. Recent lake level data were pro vided by the meteorological association Meteobanyoles and the Ajuntament de Banyoles.},
publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
publisher = {Environmental Archaeology, 2024, 1-15},
title = {Water table fluctuation and assessment risk degradation of watterlogged sites: the site of la Draga (Banyoles, Spain)},
author = {Rábago Gómez, Daniel and Andreaki, Vasiliki and Terradas, Xavier and Palomo, Antoni and Piqué, Raquel},
}