La tradición oral como complemento de la arqueología para la localización de evidencias bélicas en la montaña asturleonesa
- Andrés Menéndez Blanco 1
- Valentín Álvarez Martínez
- David González Álvarez 2
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Universidad de Oviedo
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 1134-6787
Year of publication: 2015
Issue: 8
Pages: 471-479
Type: Article
More publications in: Férvedes: Revista de investigación
Abstract
In this paper we examine the potentiality of oral traditions from the peasant folklore in order to identify historical battlefields and war evidences related to conflicts from different chronologies –Roman marching camps, medieval fortifications or Spanish Civil war trenches–. We assess their potentiality as informative sources for archaeological prospection. Thus, we focus on methodological issues and the problems we found during our research in the Cantabrian Mountains.