The archaeology of Roman Portugal in its western Mediterranean context / edited by Tesse D. Stek and Andre Carneiro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stek, Tesse Dieder, editor.

Carneiro, André, 1973- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romans--Portugal.

Romans.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Portugal.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Portugal--Antiquities, Roman.

Portugal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 339 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxbow Books, [2022]

Summary:

"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 from Roman Portugal contributes to our understanding of the Roman empire, through presenting both an extraordinary landscape in the sense of economic opportunities (ocean resources, marble and metal mining), and also settlement history. The volume presents new data and insights from both archaeology and ancient history, discussing their significance for our understanding of Roman expansion and imperialism. A key goal of the volume is to discuss how the Portuguese panorama compares to other areas of the Iberian peninsula, and to better integrate Portuguese scholarship in the academic debate on the Mediterranean Roman world, and to contextualise it firmly within the wider Iberian and Western Mediterranean. The volume brings together an internationally diverse team of scholars in archaeology and ancient history from Portugal, Spain, Germany, the UK, the US, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. It explicitly discusses different national and disciplinary research traditions and historical frameworks in order to assess the potential of integrating best practices in archaeological approaches and methodology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781789258349

1789258340

9781789258332

1789258332

OCLC:

1399169522