Abstract
The knowledge we have of Islamic diet and agriculture in al-Andalus is mostly based on textual and archaeological sources that can be as complementary as, sometimes, contradictory. Nonetheless, data documenting directly agricultural practices, with the help of bioarcheological studies, remain scarce in rural areas. New archaeobotanical researches led on the medieval settlements of Albalat, in Extremadura, and Las Sillas, in Aragon, offer a new opportunity to document agricultural practices in these areas, located far away from dynamic urban centers and from the ones well known for their agricultural production. The studies led in both sites enabled the extraction of carpological remains from different types of contexts, such as domestic ones -kitchens, ovens, storage and patios- and craft ones (forge). These, together with other published studies, allow addressing the question of the past diversity of consumed/cultivated plants - cereals, vegetables, fruits, aromatic plants-, and of the type of agricultural practices that existed at the margins of al-Andalus