Résumé
Iberian Medieval written documentation, such as foral charters or contracts, usually accounts for plant production and consumption in specific social contexts, particularly among the elites. However, to characterize the agriculture of rural communities living away from the main urban centres, archaeological and archaeobotanical research is the most accurate way of analysis.This presentation will provide an overview of the extensive carpological record of Christian sites dating to the transition from the Early to the Late Medieval period in rural areas of Northern Iberia, including unpublished material. This carpological record will be compared with data from urban sites in the region and contemporaneous Islamic sites in the south. Differences related to fruits, pulses and cereal production and consumption will be discussed, considering eventual preservation and sampling biases.Overall, archaeobotanical analyses enabled the identification of different patterns of crop production and consumption. These will be interpreted together with the available archaeological and historical information to assess how such differences are related to distinct regional environmental conditions and to the inhabitants' social contexts.