Papers by Leyre Arróniz Pamplona
El poblado de El Castillar (Mendavia) ha sido objeto de diversas campañas de excavación en los añ... more El poblado de El Castillar (Mendavia) ha sido objeto de diversas campañas de excavación en los años 70 y 80, así como desde 2017 hasta la actualidad. La cronología establecida durante las campañas del siglo pasado se basa en dataciones relativas, principalmente en análisis tipológicos y morfológicos, así como estudios estratigráficos. Por este motivo, en las últimas intervenciones se han realizado diferentes dataciones radiocarbónicas, las cuales se exponen en este artículo.
Trabajos de Arqueología Navarra, 2023
El poblado de El Castillar (Mendavia) ha sido objeto de diversas campañas de excavación desde su ... more El poblado de El Castillar (Mendavia) ha sido objeto de diversas campañas de excavación desde su descubrimiento en los años 70. La más reciente de ellas, viene desarrollándose desde 2017 hasta la actualidad, en la que, paralelamente a las tareas de excavación y restauración, se están llevando a cabo unos extensos trabajos de documentación y reconstrucción 3D del yacimiento y de algunos de los materiales hallados. En este artículo presentamos el esquema metodológico que seguimos en nuestro proyecto para ello.
Periferias: desde los márgenes de la arqueología, 2023
El poblado de El Castillar (Mendavia, Navarra) es un yacimiento de la Edad del Hierro que fue ex... more El poblado de El Castillar (Mendavia, Navarra) es un yacimiento de la Edad del Hierro que fue excavado de forma sistemática durante los años 70 y 80, pero en 1991 quedó abandonado. Desde 2017, el Ayuntamiento de Mendavia está promoviendo una serie de intervenciones de restauración, excavación y puesta en valor. En este artículo realizamos una comparativa de las metodologías utilizadas durante las distintas décadas de intervención en este poblado.
Trabajos de Arqueología Navarra, 2022
Se desglosan las principales intervenciones realizadas en materia de restauración en El Castillar... more Se desglosan las principales intervenciones realizadas en materia de restauración en El Castillar (Mendavia). Estas se centran principalmente en las estructuras halladas en las intervenciones del siglo XX que habían sufrido las consecuencias del abandono paulatino.
Understanding and Accessibility of Pre-and Proto-Historical Research Issues: Sites, Museums and Communication Strategies, 2021
The protohistorical settlement of El Castillar (Mendavia, Navarre, Spain) was extensively excavat... more The protohistorical settlement of El Castillar (Mendavia, Navarre, Spain) was extensively excavated during
the 1970s and 1980s, becoming the first archaeological site of these characteristics to be studied in the region.
In 1986, a first conservation campaign was made in order to keep the settlement open to visitors, which was
based on the consolidation of the stone wall bases with concrete so that the harsh weather conditions would
not erode them.
This early attempt to protect the settlement and make it accessible to the public, was successful at the
beginning, as there were school trips to the site and other visitors also appreciated the settlement, but in
the 1990s the lack of maintenance and visitors resulted on the abandonment of El Castillar. After all those
years of abandonment, in 2017, the town council proposed a new project to restore and protect the site and
to make it accessible to the public again.
Earthen Construction Technology (UISPP XVIII), 2021
The Iron Age settlement of El Castillar (Mendavia, Navarre, Spain) was extensively excavated and ... more The Iron Age settlement of El Castillar (Mendavia, Navarre, Spain) was extensively excavated and studied during the
1970s and 1980s. Afterwards, the site remained open for visitors but without any conservation program. Over the last two
decades it was progressively abandoned, until in the summer of 2017 a restoration campaign was carried out in order to
conserve, protect and reassess its archaeological importance for the region. In this article analyses the postdepositional
processes that affected the adobe structures. As the main purpose of our project is to make El Castillar more accessible
and appealing to visitors, the principal difficulty faced for its conservation is that exposing the adobe bricks leads to a
rapid weathering of the materials.
Trabajos de Arqueología Navarra, 2021
El poblado de El Castillar (Mendavia) ha sido objeto de diversas campañas de excavación desde su ... more El poblado de El Castillar (Mendavia) ha sido objeto de diversas campañas de excavación desde su descubrimiento en los años 70. Sin embargo, desde que se llevara a cabo la última intervención en 1991, el yacimiento fue abandonado. Se presentan los resultados
de las campañas de intervención arqueológica y de restauración realizadas en el poblado de El Castillar de Mendavia entre los años 2017 y 2020.
Los tiempos cambian, de la piedra al teclado. X jornadas de jóvenes en investigación arqueológica, 2019
Los tiempos cambian, de la piedra al teclado. X Jornadas de jóvenes en investigación arqueológica, 2019
Cuidar, curar, morir: la enfermedad leída en los huesos Care, heal, die: the disease read in the bones, 2020, 2020
This paper analyses the presence of different pathologies found on non-adult individuals buried i... more This paper analyses the presence of different pathologies found on non-adult individuals buried in Cantabrian burial caves during recent prehistoric times. This is a preliminary study since the sample used comes mainly from old archaeological surveys and excavations in which only superficial materials were usually collected to the museum. The study sample corresponds to 82 individuals from 21 different caves. The most commonly found pathologies include dental pathologies and cribra orbitalia. The presence of a remodelled femur fracture in a 6-or-7-year old individual deserves to be highlighted as well.
Talks by Leyre Arróniz Pamplona
T R A M A 5 TREBALLS D'ARQUEOLOGIA DE LA MEDITERRÀNIA ANTIGA Editores, Comité Editorial JIA Tarragona 2018, 2018
Conference Presentations by Leyre Arróniz Pamplona
The protohistorical settlement of El Castillar (Mendavia, Navarre, Spain) was extensively excavat... more The protohistorical settlement of El Castillar (Mendavia, Navarre, Spain) was extensively excavated during the 1970s and 1980s, becoming the first archaeological site of these characteristics to be studied in the region. In 1986, a first conservation campaign was made in order to keep the settlement open to visitors. That campaign was based on the consolidation of the stone wall bases with concrete, so that the harsh weather would not erode them. This early attempt to protect the settlement and make it accessible to the public, was successful at the beginning, as there were school trips to the site and other visitors also appreciated the settlement. But in the 1990s the lack of maintenance resulted on the gradual abandonment of El Castillar. However, that generation of people who went on school field trips to the settlement are the ones that nowadays are most interested on the conservation and restoration of the archaeological site, as they were thought about its importance while they were children.
After all those years of abandonment, in 2017, the town council proposed a new project to restore and protect the site and to make it accessible to the public again. The first campaign focused on the restoration of two habitational structures that represent a good example of Iron Age architecture in the area. On a previous date to the beginning of the first campaign, a small exposition and an informative talk was made in Mendavia, in order to remember the inhabitants of the existence of the settlement; and during the process of the archaeological intervention, several groups of people visited El Castillar while the archaeologists were working. After the restoration campaign was finished, guided visits were also made.
In the following years, more excavation campaigns will be carried out with modern methodologies not only to shed light into modern archaeological questions but also to reveal more structures that can be presented to the public, as the final objective of the project is to make El Castillar more accessible to the public.In addition to that, the town council has planned to add informative panels about the settlement both in the town center and in the archaeological site, so people can visit the site by themselves. It is necessary to bear in mind the importance of transporting the scientific importance of El Castillar to the inhabitants of Mendavia, as they are the ones that will preserve the site in the future.
El Castillar (Mendavia, Navarre, Spain), is a settlement from the Early Iron Age. It was extensiv... more El Castillar (Mendavia, Navarre, Spain), is a settlement from the Early Iron Age. It was extensively excavated and studied during the 1970s and 1980s, becoming the first protohistorical settlement to be excavated in the region. After the excavation of El Castillar, the site remained open for visitors but without any conservation plan. However, over the last two decades it was progressively abandoned, until in summer 2017 a restoration campaign was carried out, in order to conserve, protect and reassess its archaeological importance for the region.
These excavations revealed two housing structures, known as House 1 and House 2. The rectangular walls of those structures were built on a base of local stone, called ‘yesón' and then completed with adobe bricks covered with mud plaster. These adobe bricks were made by mixing clay and straw, and then dried in the sun. This was a highly effective construction technique and it was widely used during this period. However, the bricks needed maintenance, so the postdepositional processes after the abandonment of the settlement hindered its conservation.
In this poster, we have the intention to establish which those postdepositional processes were and in what ways they affected the structures found by the archaeologists during the previous excavations campaigns. The main objective is, however, to determine how the abandonment of the archaeological site for the last two decades and the weather conditions affected the adobe bricks. One of the main goals of our project is to make El Castillar more accessible and appealing to visitors, and one of the principal difficulties we are facing regarding its conservation is that exposing the adobe bricks to the harsh weather may lead to a rapid wear of the materials.
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the 1970s and 1980s, becoming the first archaeological site of these characteristics to be studied in the region.
In 1986, a first conservation campaign was made in order to keep the settlement open to visitors, which was
based on the consolidation of the stone wall bases with concrete so that the harsh weather conditions would
not erode them.
This early attempt to protect the settlement and make it accessible to the public, was successful at the
beginning, as there were school trips to the site and other visitors also appreciated the settlement, but in
the 1990s the lack of maintenance and visitors resulted on the abandonment of El Castillar. After all those
years of abandonment, in 2017, the town council proposed a new project to restore and protect the site and
to make it accessible to the public again.
1970s and 1980s. Afterwards, the site remained open for visitors but without any conservation program. Over the last two
decades it was progressively abandoned, until in the summer of 2017 a restoration campaign was carried out in order to
conserve, protect and reassess its archaeological importance for the region. In this article analyses the postdepositional
processes that affected the adobe structures. As the main purpose of our project is to make El Castillar more accessible
and appealing to visitors, the principal difficulty faced for its conservation is that exposing the adobe bricks leads to a
rapid weathering of the materials.
de las campañas de intervención arqueológica y de restauración realizadas en el poblado de El Castillar de Mendavia entre los años 2017 y 2020.
Talks by Leyre Arróniz Pamplona
Conference Presentations by Leyre Arróniz Pamplona
After all those years of abandonment, in 2017, the town council proposed a new project to restore and protect the site and to make it accessible to the public again. The first campaign focused on the restoration of two habitational structures that represent a good example of Iron Age architecture in the area. On a previous date to the beginning of the first campaign, a small exposition and an informative talk was made in Mendavia, in order to remember the inhabitants of the existence of the settlement; and during the process of the archaeological intervention, several groups of people visited El Castillar while the archaeologists were working. After the restoration campaign was finished, guided visits were also made.
In the following years, more excavation campaigns will be carried out with modern methodologies not only to shed light into modern archaeological questions but also to reveal more structures that can be presented to the public, as the final objective of the project is to make El Castillar more accessible to the public.In addition to that, the town council has planned to add informative panels about the settlement both in the town center and in the archaeological site, so people can visit the site by themselves. It is necessary to bear in mind the importance of transporting the scientific importance of El Castillar to the inhabitants of Mendavia, as they are the ones that will preserve the site in the future.
These excavations revealed two housing structures, known as House 1 and House 2. The rectangular walls of those structures were built on a base of local stone, called ‘yesón' and then completed with adobe bricks covered with mud plaster. These adobe bricks were made by mixing clay and straw, and then dried in the sun. This was a highly effective construction technique and it was widely used during this period. However, the bricks needed maintenance, so the postdepositional processes after the abandonment of the settlement hindered its conservation.
In this poster, we have the intention to establish which those postdepositional processes were and in what ways they affected the structures found by the archaeologists during the previous excavations campaigns. The main objective is, however, to determine how the abandonment of the archaeological site for the last two decades and the weather conditions affected the adobe bricks. One of the main goals of our project is to make El Castillar more accessible and appealing to visitors, and one of the principal difficulties we are facing regarding its conservation is that exposing the adobe bricks to the harsh weather may lead to a rapid wear of the materials.
the 1970s and 1980s, becoming the first archaeological site of these characteristics to be studied in the region.
In 1986, a first conservation campaign was made in order to keep the settlement open to visitors, which was
based on the consolidation of the stone wall bases with concrete so that the harsh weather conditions would
not erode them.
This early attempt to protect the settlement and make it accessible to the public, was successful at the
beginning, as there were school trips to the site and other visitors also appreciated the settlement, but in
the 1990s the lack of maintenance and visitors resulted on the abandonment of El Castillar. After all those
years of abandonment, in 2017, the town council proposed a new project to restore and protect the site and
to make it accessible to the public again.
1970s and 1980s. Afterwards, the site remained open for visitors but without any conservation program. Over the last two
decades it was progressively abandoned, until in the summer of 2017 a restoration campaign was carried out in order to
conserve, protect and reassess its archaeological importance for the region. In this article analyses the postdepositional
processes that affected the adobe structures. As the main purpose of our project is to make El Castillar more accessible
and appealing to visitors, the principal difficulty faced for its conservation is that exposing the adobe bricks leads to a
rapid weathering of the materials.
de las campañas de intervención arqueológica y de restauración realizadas en el poblado de El Castillar de Mendavia entre los años 2017 y 2020.
After all those years of abandonment, in 2017, the town council proposed a new project to restore and protect the site and to make it accessible to the public again. The first campaign focused on the restoration of two habitational structures that represent a good example of Iron Age architecture in the area. On a previous date to the beginning of the first campaign, a small exposition and an informative talk was made in Mendavia, in order to remember the inhabitants of the existence of the settlement; and during the process of the archaeological intervention, several groups of people visited El Castillar while the archaeologists were working. After the restoration campaign was finished, guided visits were also made.
In the following years, more excavation campaigns will be carried out with modern methodologies not only to shed light into modern archaeological questions but also to reveal more structures that can be presented to the public, as the final objective of the project is to make El Castillar more accessible to the public.In addition to that, the town council has planned to add informative panels about the settlement both in the town center and in the archaeological site, so people can visit the site by themselves. It is necessary to bear in mind the importance of transporting the scientific importance of El Castillar to the inhabitants of Mendavia, as they are the ones that will preserve the site in the future.
These excavations revealed two housing structures, known as House 1 and House 2. The rectangular walls of those structures were built on a base of local stone, called ‘yesón' and then completed with adobe bricks covered with mud plaster. These adobe bricks were made by mixing clay and straw, and then dried in the sun. This was a highly effective construction technique and it was widely used during this period. However, the bricks needed maintenance, so the postdepositional processes after the abandonment of the settlement hindered its conservation.
In this poster, we have the intention to establish which those postdepositional processes were and in what ways they affected the structures found by the archaeologists during the previous excavations campaigns. The main objective is, however, to determine how the abandonment of the archaeological site for the last two decades and the weather conditions affected the adobe bricks. One of the main goals of our project is to make El Castillar more accessible and appealing to visitors, and one of the principal difficulties we are facing regarding its conservation is that exposing the adobe bricks to the harsh weather may lead to a rapid wear of the materials.