| Summary: | Interdisciplinary studies have been carried out at Crasto de Palheiros and these included archaeobotanical analyses. Previous carpological studies led to the identification in the Lower Eastern Platform of this settlement of a storage area that was destroyed in the end of the Iron Age. However, several samples remained unstudied and these had the potential to add data which could be important for the understanding of the platform in that chronology. The contexts studied were adjacent to the previously identified storage area and showed the presence of cereals and pulses. Hulled wheat (Triticum dicoccum/spelta) was predominant but hulled barley (Hordeum vulgare) and naked wheat (Triticum aestivum/durum/turgidum) were also identified. Remains from other species were rare and included faba bean (Vicia faba), broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) and grapes (Vitis vinifera), as well as different wild species of which fruits from strawberry trees (Arbutus unedo) were the most abundant. The scarcity of carpological remains that were recovered, together with the configuration of the place suggest this to have been an access area to the storage structures. These storage facilities might have only slightly extended to the area studied here.
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