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2016
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Post-Classical Archaeology
València la Vella: A visigothic city to place in History?The results obtaines in the València la Vella project introduce this archaeological site into the scientific debate on forming new cities in Visigothic Hispania. Our research argues that it was a Visigothic city built during the reign of Liuvigild and in a context of confrontation against the Bizantine Empire. The research has already provided enought information to determine the urban and military character of the settlement: extension, terraced urbanism, craft activities, and public buildings. The relationship between the city and the nearby Pla de Nadal archaeological site must also be confirmed. Both sites are essential for recognising the impact of the Arab-Berber conquest on the territory of the ancient Roman city on Valentia.
The onset of the Iron Age underwent manifold disruptions. The emergence of long-lasting nucleated villages in Iberia c. 900/800 BC best encapsulates such profound changes. This paper draws on the results of excavations over the last few decades at a fortified tell-like settlement in central Iberia: Cerro de San Vicente (Spain). The article focuses on formation dynamics in earth architecture to understand the role of cultural choices in the genesis of these sites. The occurrence of sophisticated lifestyles and novel cultural expressions in this village (avant-garde devices such as a drain pipe, unprecedented building techniques, exotic imports and alien practices) suggests the plausible role of interregional migration in their adoption. The appraisal of intra-site spatial arrangements sheds fresh light upon the diachronic social trajectories of these agrarian communities, from a seemingly egalitarian organisation to an increasingly ranked one.
In the last two decades, the archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula for both Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages has grown in scale, depth and understanding. Currently, these periods of important historical transition occupy an increasingly prominent position in archaeological research, as reflected in publications, projects, and conferences, these exploring themes such as landscape change, the reorganization of rural settlement and the evolution (or not) of towns and the socio-economic characters of these centres and their territories. To fully evaluate these changing settlement patterns and social dynamics in the face of changing polities between the 5th and 8th centuries AD – from late Roman to Visigothic to Arab control – it is of course essential to create a broader panorama of these (at times) confused and chaotic times. As this paper seeks to show, however, change is happening, owing much to the current invigoration of Spanish early medieval archaeology; indeed, a very striking feature of very recent archaeological and historical debate for the period is the greater inclusion of Spain within wider European debates. The images generated for Spain – as discussed in this paper – reveal coincidences with other territories, but also much diversity.
Obstacles to prospection along the coastal landscape of the Bay of Biscay, structural and material limitations in smaller settlement units, and a lack of comprehensive monitoring of current alterations to the terrain, have all left a dearth of knowledge about the possible presence of open Iron Age farms or hamlets in the Cantabrian region. Presented here for the first time, we demonstrate the existence of these farms with findings verifying agricultural land use at Las Vallinas. In comparing information from this farm with that from inhabited hillforts of the same period, we are also given a wider picture of the economic development of the ancient Astures from the end of prehistory to the beginning of Roman occupation.
Studies in Late Antiquity 6.1: 54-100
(2022) A late antique rural community in Mérida: the site of Casa Herrera2022 •
This paper presents the contextualized results of the latest excavations at the site of Casa Herrera (Mérida, Spain). Casa Herrera is one of the best examples of a late antique site in the Iberian Peninsula, not only because of the degree of preservation of the remains but also because of its long chronological sequence, which runs from the first to the ninth century. The excavations of the surroundings of the funerary basilica and the Roman aqueduct have unearthed the remains of a handful of buildings that could be linked to a rural monastic community from the late Roman and Visigothic periods. The site has an Umayyad phase where settlement clusters around the basilica before being finally abandoned during the ninth century.
Journal of Late Antiquity
The Urban Center of Valencia in Late Roman and Visigothic Times2017 •
This article draws attention to an archaeologically well-documented example of urban change in a late antique city, Valentia, in the Province of Tarraconensis. Starting with a short overview of the epigraphic record from the third to the seventh centuries ce, it gives a synthesis of the archaeological data in order to answer the following questions: which buildings were newly erected, and which were restored in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages? When, and how, does an urban space become a Christian space? How was Valentia’s Christian past created? Which central buildings can be related to the city’s patron Saint Vincentius? During the fourth century CE many buildings in Valentia’s center were maintained but might have been used for a different purpose, as a peristyle house converted into a factory indicates. The second half of the fifth century ce shows a clear shift in the use of public space, as the first intramural cemetery was installed next to the forum. This graveyard was covered by a second in the sixth/seventh century CE. The different reasons for these intramural burials are discussed and lead to a short presentation of the episcopal complex with its two possible locations of the shrine of Saint Vincentius. Lastly, we review the first evidence of Christianity in Valentia, a fragment of a glass-bowl showing the dominus legem dat scene, and explore the impact of Christianity on the interpretation of the peristyle house.
HERITAGE 2018. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development.
The detached farmstead towers from 12th Century Sierra de Segura (Jaén, Spain): contributions to the territorial settlement of the al- Andalus period. Results of the R&D&I project #ProyectoSegura2018 •
On the border between the ancient garb al-Andalus and sharq al-Andalus lies the Segura de la Sierra valley (Jaén, Spain), an area in which the medieval ways from Seville and Granada came together on the way to the east of the Iberian Peninsula. Given its strategic position and fertile orography, during the 11th and 12th centuries, Saqura became an important Islamic amal (administrative division of al-Andalus). A complex system of towers still remains from this era, built using the rammed earth construction technique. With the aim of delving further into this rich heritage, the research project #ProyectoSegura is being carried out, designed to obtain details that provide more information about the implementation criteria, chronological dating, and construction techniques used by applying a methodology based on the use of new technologies. The description of this work process and the presentation of the main results are the contributions of this paper.
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H. Meller - S. Friedrich - M Küßner - H. Stäuble - R.- Risch (eds.), Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Settlement Archaeology, 11th Archaeological Conference of Central Germany, Halle 2018, Tagungen des Landesmuesums für Vorgesvchichte Halle 20/II
Hut Structures in the Chalcolithic Ditched Enclosure of Valencina de la Concepción, Sevilla (southern Spain)2017 •
Funerary practices in the second half of the second millennium BC in continental atlantic Europe: : from Belgium to the North of Portugal / coord. por Laure Nonat and María Pilar Prieto Martínez
Ritual Sites from the Second Millennium BC in the North West of Spain2022 •
BAR International Series 2320
Intensive survey and protohistoric settlement in the middle Guadiana Bassin (Badajoz. Spain)Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
Susperregi, J., I. Telleria, M. Urteaga & E. Jansma, 2017: The Basque farmhouses of Zelaa and Maiz Goena: new dendrochronology-based findings about the evolution of the built heritage in the northern Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 11, 695–708.Interpreting transformations of people and landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: archaeological approaches and issues.
Rural and Urban Contexts in North-Eastern Spain: Examining and Interpreting Transformations across the Fifth–Seventh Centuries AD (2018), in P. Diarte-Blasco and N. Christie (eds.) Interpreting transformations of people and landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: archaeological...2018 •