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The archaeology of Roman Portugal in its western Mediterranean context /

"The Archaeology of Roman Portugal contributes to the wider debate on Roman imperialism and expansionism, by bringing to the fore a much-underrepresented area of the Roman empire, at least in English-language scholarship: its westernmost edge in modern day Portugal. Highlighting the perspective...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stek, Tesse Dieder (Editor ), Carneiro, André, 1973- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction / Tesse D. Stek and Andre Carneiro
  • I. Contested landscapes: between pre-Roman polities and early Roman encroachment 1. Exploring Rome's early military deployment strategies in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula / Jordi Principal and Carles Padros Gomez
  • 2. Late Iron Age and early Roman conflict and interaction in southern Callaecia (north-west Iberia)/ Joao Fonte
  • 3. Towers, territory, and the negotiation of a colonial landscape in the early Roman Central / Alentejo Joey Williams, Rui Mataloto, and Karilyn Sheldon
  • 4. The last frontier: Late Iron Age society, Roman conquest, and the Romanisation of the territory north of the River Duero / Jesus Garcia Sanchez
  • II. Economic targets: integrating and energising resources
  • 5. Upgrading town appearances: relating white marble exploitation and town development in Roman Lusitania / Devi Taelman
  • 6. Shifting landscapes: change and adaptation in the Lusitanian territory during the first globalisation / Andre Carneiro
  • 7. Adding complexity to a complex world: the role of tableware imports in Portugal during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC / Vincenzo Soria
  • III. Cities and hillforts: settlement organisation in the Roman west
  • 8. Land-use and settlement patterns around Ercavica in Antiquity: initial findings / Miguel Angel Valero Tevar
  • 9. Understanding the town-territory relationship: a case study from Lusitania / Cristina Corsi
  • 10. Why would we need a city? The dispersed civitates in Lusitania / Pieter Houten
  • 11. Roman rural life in the far west: the case study of the Serena Region (Badajoz, Spain) / Victorino Mayoral Herrera, Martina Cecilia Parini, and Luis Sevillano Perea
  • IV. Local religious and cultural identity
  • 12. The role of cult places in shaping landscapes during the Roman expansion: an Iberian perspective on a Mediterranean process / Ignasi Grau Mira
  • 13. Men, women, children, animals: the votive statuary from the sanctuary of Endovellicus at Sao Miguel daMota/Alandroal (Portugal) / Thomas G. Schattner
  • 14. Romanising the mountains? Exploring cultural change through archaeological spatial analysis in western Sierra Morena (Spain) / Maria del Carmen Moreno Escobar
  • 15. Oppida and public spaces: constructing identities in Late Iron Age and early Roman north-west Iberia / Manuel Fernandez-Goetz and Marco V. Garcia Quintela
  • 16. Funerary practices and material culture: a 'portrait from life' in the fields of Lusitania / Monica Rolo.