La Draga

La Draga is an Early Neolithic lakeshore site (last quarter of the 6th millennium BCE) located in Banyoles (Catalunya, Spain) and it is the only prehistoric lacustrine site of the Iberian Peninsula. Excavations allowed the identification of two different Early Neolithic phases of occupation, though no change in the technical tradition (or cultural material) has been recorded between the two phases.

Since its discovery in 1990 there have been a series of later excavations and studies held by different Spanish institutions such as the Museu Arqueològic Comarcal de Banyoles (MACB), the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya (MAC) and the Centre d’Arqueologia Subaquàtica de Catalunya (CASC). Those later excavations uncovered some wooden bows which are believed to be the oldest Neolithic bows of Europe.

From an archaeological perspective La Draga has been of a particula...Read more

La Draga is an Early Neolithic lakeshore site (last quarter of the 6th millennium BCE) located in Banyoles (Catalunya, Spain) and it is the only prehistoric lacustrine site of the Iberian Peninsula. Excavations allowed the identification of two different Early Neolithic phases of occupation, though no change in the technical tradition (or cultural material) has been recorded between the two phases.

Since its discovery in 1990 there have been a series of later excavations and studies held by different Spanish institutions such as the Museu Arqueològic Comarcal de Banyoles (MACB), the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya (MAC) and the Centre d’Arqueologia Subaquàtica de Catalunya (CASC). Those later excavations uncovered some wooden bows which are believed to be the oldest Neolithic bows of Europe.

From an archaeological perspective La Draga has been of a particular interest because of the well preserved waterlogged organic material (bones, wooden remains, fibres, textile, seeds, leaves, mushrooms) retrieved from excavations that allowed for a clearer understanding of the past environment and past social dynamics of this region. Such discoveries would not have been possible without the aquatic/phreatic environment, as is evident from the terrestrial area of the site, where such findings were not found, besides from bone and ceramics.

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