Asturias and Galicia (NW of Iberian Peninsula) (Geographic Keyword)

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Praying to Heaven. Botijuelas reused as roof top in vernacular architectures of Asturias and Galicia (Northwest Iberian) (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Pilar Prieto-Martínez. Miguel Busto-Zapico. Victor M. Díaz-Díaz. Jesús Fernández-López. Manuel Fernández-López. L. Hixinio Flores-Rivas. Oscar Lantes-Suárez. Francisco Lara-Piñera.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Decorating the roofs is a human action that has been practiced as a ritual since ancient times. A remarkable local form is found in Asturias and Galicia, which consists of crowning them with ceramics ('Spanish olive jar') from the 18th-19th centuries. These are containers manufactured in Seville during the Modern Age to the Atlantic trade. These pieces in a secondary position are reused...