Una història de llarga durada. L’ocupació humana del Parc Nacional d’Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici i àrees properes durant els darrers 10.000 anys

For the last 14 years, archaeological research at the National Park and its su-rrounding areas has facilitated the documentation of archaeological records with a chronological density, diversity and breadth that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. This fact has opened the door to unders-tanding the processes of occupation and settlement in mountain areas above 1,500 m. Combining archaeological research with other paleoenvironmental studies has also enabled correlating the sequences of human occupation with the climatic dynamics and evolution of paleovegetation. The excavation of a small cave at Lake Coveta and the dolmen at Font dels Coms and, in recent years, the cave in Sardo complete the dataset currently available for this area, illustrating the main vectors that could have guided the Neolithic occupation of these high mountain areas.