Papers by Jesús Bermejo Tirado
Open Archaeology, 2024
This article explores the challenges of translating the empirical data recorded in the microhisto... more This article explores the challenges of translating the empirical data recorded in the microhistorical events documented in most archaeological sites into narratives that provide a deeper understanding of longterm historical processes. It specifically focuses on the importance of studying the history of subaltern communities through this microhistorical scale. Drawing on the concept of "subaltern debris," the article proposes a new approach to analyzing archaeological deposits generated by the everyday life of subaltern communities. It argues that these deposits can offer valuable insights into the living conditions and agency of subaltern communities. The article presents two case studies from the late antique period in the Iberian Peninsula to illustrate the potential of this approach. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of recognizing the material agency of subaltern communities in reshaping historical narratives.
S. Straumann & P.-A. Schwarz, Insulae in Context. Forschungen in Augst 57, 2023
In the last decades, we have attested to the publication of a growing number of works related to ... more In the last decades, we have attested to the publication of a growing number of works related to the application of space syntax techniques to analyze Roman urbanism and architecture. This paper aims to offer a review of some of these recent applications specifically focussing on the social analysis of insulae and neighbourhoods in different Roman cities. I will start by introducing some basic conceptions on space syntax indexes and alternative ways of visually representing the spatial configuration of built environments. Then, I shall discuss how the application of some of these tools has been used to reveal some hidden aspects related to the circulation or the spatial segregation/integration of some Roman insulae on widely known sites such as Ostia, but also in some other provincial territories such as Dura-Europos. I shall conclude my paper by discussing the possibilities and limitations of space syntax methodologies for the analysis of the social and economic dynamics on which the architectural configuration of Roman insulae and urban neighbourhoods is based.
Carneiro, A.; Teixeira, C. y Rodrigues, P. S. (Eds.): An Empire of many faces. Dykinson. Madrid, 2023
This paper aims to present an updated review of the study of Roman peasantry, with a special focu... more This paper aims to present an updated review of the study of Roman peasantry, with a special focus on Roman Spain. In parallel to the so-called peasant studies, the historical analysis of these communities in the past has suffered some disrepute since the late eighties. However, the application of new analytical methodologies and above all the rise of new archaeological records produced by the development of preventive excavations has opened an entire research horizon for the study of Roman peasantry as a historical subject. All these new approaches are generating new possibilities towards a deeper knowledge of ancient rural communities, but also are producing a historiographical reconfiguration that is not only affecting Classical archaeologists.
Graells, R.; Bermejo Tirado, J. y Gomes, F. (Eds.): Thauma. Festchrift para Dirce Marzoli, 2023
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2023
The paper is available open access at the following link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.1... more The paper is available open access at the following link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104106
Preventive excavations in the metropolitan area of Madrid (Spain) resulted in the study of the archaeological record of a number of Roman non-elite rural sites, which uniquely allow for the analysis of ancient peasant economies in central Roman Spain. We engage with current debates on the economic roles and integration of peasant sites in the Roman imperial economy, and report on the application of a network science method to the economic networks established among these settlements. The Louvain modularity measure is used to explore two competing hypotheses on the level of integration or segregation of peasant communities within the Roman economy. The results suggest a pattern of weak integration that was maintained with little change between the 1st and the 3rd century CE.
For the full text, please visit: https://revistes.uab.cat/treballsarqueologia/article/view/v25-ji... more For the full text, please visit: https://revistes.uab.cat/treballsarqueologia/article/view/v25-jimenez-bermejo-valdes
Fieldwork by the Renieblas Archaeological Project (PAR) between 2015 and 2020 has provid- ed previously unknown data and offered new interpretations of the Roman camps near Numantia. It has been possible to confirm in various sectors of the site the shallow depth of the archaeological remains and the absence of buried structures not excavated by Schulten. We have also proposed a new sequence regarding the superimposition of the camps and the absence of an enclosing wall of camp III to the south. We have completed an initial study of the fauna present at the site and proposed a chronological framework for camps II and III (the first half of the 2nd century BC) based on archaeological materials in context and carbon-14 analysis. New high-resolution LiDAR models allow us to discard a recent hypothesis regarding the line of the annex wall to the east of camp III.
El trabajo desarrollado por el Proyecto Arqueológico Renieblas (PAR) entre 2015 y 2020 ha permitido aportar datos hasta ahora desconocidos y sugerir nuevas hipótesis interpretativas sobre estos campamentos romanos cercanos a Numancia. Se ha podido establecer la escasa potencia conservada y la inexistencia de estructuras enterradas no excavadas por Schulten en varios sectores del yacimiento. Hemos propuesto también una nueva secuencia relativa de la superposición de los campamentos y la ausencia de un muro de cierre del campamento III por el sur. Además, aportamos una primera aproximación al estudio de la fauna presente en el yaci- miento y una cronología para los campamentos II y III (primera mitad del siglo ii aC) basada en materiales arqueológicos en contexto y análisis de carbono 14. Nuevos mapas LiDAR de alta resolución nos permiten también descartar ahora una reciente propuesta del trazado del cierre del anexo situado al este del campamento III.
Bermejo Tirado, J. and Grau Mira, I. (eds.): The Archaeology of Peasantry in Roman Spain, 2022
Previous research on the rural world in the center of Roman Spain has been
marked by the study of... more Previous research on the rural world in the center of Roman Spain has been
marked by the study of a series of well-known monumental villae such as Valdetorres
del Jarama (Madrid, Spain) or Carranque (Toledo, Spain). The exclusive focus of schol-
arship to date on this kind of site reveals an implicit acceptance of the slave mode of
production as the dominant model for the articulation of social and economic relation-
ships in the region. However, in the last few decades, the development of preventive
archaeology has led to the discovery of a whole series of different Roman rural sites.
Even though many archaeologists have tended to interpret all these sites as part of a supposedly predominant pattern of the Catonian villa, a comparative review of these recently discovered rural sites can be used to propose alternative models for the articulation of social and economic structures in the rural areas of central Roman Spain. The analysis of the remains of residential buildings, modes of production, and consumption trends recorded in the archaeological record of these recently excavated sites reveals traces of social and economic structures that, far from belonging to the elite stereotype of the villa system, can be identified as typical of traditional peasant communities.
Prata, S. et al. (eds.) Paisajes, espacios y materialidades Arqueología rural altomedieval en la península ibérica, 2022
En este trabajo realizamos un análisis preliminar de los patrones de consumo de vajilla de mesa
r... more En este trabajo realizamos un análisis preliminar de los patrones de consumo de vajilla de mesa
registrados en varios yacimientos rurales altoimperiales (siglos I d. C. – III d. C.) situados en el entorno del
área metropolitana madrileña. Nuestra propuesta parte de la aplicación de una perspectiva de estudio
denominada como household archaeology. Una de las claves de este método consiste en la selección crítica
de los depósitos arqueológicos a analizar con el objetivo de no introducir distorsiones estadísticas
relacionadas con la inclusión de hallazgos arqueológicos generados por procesos postdeposicionales no
relacionados con la ocupación de los asentamientos analizados. A partir de esta selección hemos realizado
un análisis cuantitativo de los ajuares domésticos documentados en cada uno de los yacimientos. Frente
a otros estudios de corte tipológico más convencionales, preocupados únicamente en estudiar qué
productos se consumen, nuestro análisis ha tenido en cuenta la documentación sistemática de todas
las huellas de uso registradas en estos recipientes. Esto nos ha permitido abordar también el modo en
que estos recipientes eran consumidos en comparación con otros contextos de consumo documentos
en otros ámbitos de la Hispania romana. El tipo de consumo conservador que refleja el análisis detallado
de los ajuares procedentes de los asentamientos analizados concuerda a la perfección con formas de
consumo que podríamos caracterizar como propias de comunidades campesinas.
Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2021
Quirós Castillo, J. A. (ed.) Archaeology and History of Peasantries 1. From the Late Prehistory to the Middle Ages, 2020
The generalized application of the slave mode of production as the dominant paradigm for the stru... more The generalized application of the slave mode of production as the dominant paradigm for the structuration of the Roman rural settlement can be considered as the main reason to explain the little attention paid to peasants and smallholders by Roman historians or archaeologists and, consequently, by scholars of other periods. However, a review of past scholarship reveals that below this rejection there are different theoretical and ideological bias. We discuss different kinds of sources (both textual and material) with the aim of record the presence of peasant modes and economic networks within the territories of the Roman world. Finally, we will conclude the chapter by discussing how some recent projects are using a massive amount of archaeological evidence proceeding from current preventive archaeology to analyze the economic structure and performance of Roman peasants in several provincial territories.
This paper details the most important results of Duke's new fieldwork project at the Roman camps ... more This paper details the most important results of Duke's new fieldwork project at the Roman camps at Renieblas, set up in 2015. It discusses the excavations (2015-17) of four sectors of Camps I, II and III, the study of artifacts in archaeological context, radiocarbon dates, faunal and viewshed analyses, as well as the topographic and archaeological surveys (2018-19) conducted by our team. The long term goals of the project include an analysis the rôle of the army in the creation of the earliest provinces, the complex supply-system to Rome’s first campaigns abroad, and living conditions in the camps.
Dardenay, A. and Laubry, N. (eds.), 2020. The Anthropology of Roman Housing. Brepols, 2020
Neira, L. (ed): Mosaicos romanos en su contexto rural: investigación y puesta en valor. L'Erma di Brestchenider. Roma, 2019
El desarrollo de sucesivas campañas de excavación en la villa romana de Fuente Álamo en las últim... more El desarrollo de sucesivas campañas de excavación en la villa romana de Fuente Álamo en las últimas décadas nos ha permitido documentar numerosos aspectos de la cultura material y las diversas fases de ocupación de los habitantes de este yacimiento en diversos momentos cronológicos. Además de la conocida villa monumental del periodo bajoimperial, estas intervenciones han permitido documentar en detalle otras fases de ocupación de este yacimiento durante los periodos altoimperial y tardoantiguo. El análisis integral de la cultura material procedente de una serie de depósitos selectos nos ha permitido desarrollar una discusión cronológica sobre ambos momentos de ocupación en el yacimiento. Conjuntamente a esta discusión inicial, la aplicación de una perspectiva de análisis integral para la cultura material de estos depósitos nos ha permitido caracterizar el tipo de economías domésticas que caracterizaron a cada una de estas fases de ocupación. La aplicación de una perspectiva similar a la de la llamada household archaeology para el estudio de estos contextos nos ha permitido obtener inferencias muy precisas sobre las formas de consumo desarrolladas por los habitantes del yacimiento en cada uno de estos periodos. El análisis de estos patrones de consumo nos ha permitido caracterizar dos comunidades completamente diferenciadas. En el caso de la fase altoimperial nos encontramos un asentamiento inclinado hacia prácticas de consumo conspicuo propias de sectores de las elites locales. El periodo tardoantiguo se distingue por un cambio sustancial en la economía domésticas de la comunidad que habitó el yacimiento en esta fase. Este periodo tardío, caracterizado por la re-ocupación de las instalaciones residenciales de la villa monumental del periodo anterior, presenta patrones económicos propios de comunidades campesinas.
Estudios sobre mosaicos romanos. Dimas Fernández-Galiano In Memoriam, 2018
Journal of Roman Archaeology
Mouseion, 2018
This article aims to analyze Roman domestic spaces excavated in the region of Celtiberia in cent... more This article aims to analyze Roman domestic spaces excavated in the region of Celtiberia in central Spain. The main goal is to identify the relationship between social patterns and the spatial configuration of houses. The application of different space syntax methods (accessibility, relative asymmetry, and control value) is the principal means of analysis. This procedure allows us to identify some spatial patterns linked with different patterns of domestic behaviour. In addition, we propose a review of the local epigraphic evidence as a basis for an analysis of the relation between family structures and citizen status in Roman Celtiberia. Inspired by the comparison of the two kinds of evidence, we have also developed an interpretative approach to explain the uneven introduction of Roman models of domestic architecture in some specific sectors of local society.
Internet Archaeology, 2018
The use of traditional 'chrono-typologies' are rooted in the evolutionist and aesthetical princip... more The use of traditional 'chrono-typologies' are rooted in the evolutionist and aesthetical principles underlying classical archaeology as a discipline. Accordingly, the use of such categories in the analysis of domestic patterns of tableware consumption in local communities during the Roman period risks introducing different kinds of biases to our current theories. I start the article with a discussion about the need to review traditional categories used to classify such finds. Based on the conclusions of this discussion, I propose an alternative procedure for the analysis of domestic patterns of Roman tableware consumption.
My analytical approach is based on two main methodological principles: 1) the use of other functional classification categories established from multiple criteria ('technofunction', usewear analysis, productive and archaeological provenance, etc.) and 2) the testing of these functional categories using statistical tools for comparison between different scales.
To illustrate this proposal, I apply a correspondence analysis to infer consumption patterns through comparison of functional and typological variables recorded in the analysed tableware finds from three Roman domestic contexts excavated in the province of Soria (Spain): the Domus of Los Plintos (Uxama); the Domus of the Aqueduct (Tiermes); and the Roman villa of 'La Dehesa' in Cuevas de Soria (Quintana Redonda). Some of the inferences obtained can be used to gain a deeper insight into the household economies of these settlements of Roman Spain.
In Conflict Archaeology: Materialities of Collective Violence in Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Europe, edited by M. Fernández-Götz and N. Roymans. New York: Routledge, 2018, 115-126.
Routledge: https://tinyurl.com/ydgoj9x6. Google books: https://tinyurl.com/y6uvvkcl --- Recent st... more Routledge: https://tinyurl.com/ydgoj9x6. Google books: https://tinyurl.com/y6uvvkcl --- Recent studies have highlighted the need to understand violence not as an action taking place at a particular moment in time, but as a continuum of various interconnected forms of violence, including structural violence, everyday micro-violence and exceptional public violence (Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois, 2004: 1–5: Žižek, 2008). In that respect our project at the Roman camps near Numantia (Renieblas, Spain, 2nd- 1st c. BCE) intends to go beyond traditional studies of the Roman army centred around particular battles and generals mentioned by the Roman sources to understand how the colonial machinery that subjugated the provinces was created and maintained over a period of 200 years during the Late Republic (late 3rd–late 1st centuries BC) (Erdkamp, 2007: 108–111).
To that end, the archaeological study of Renieblas, one of the earliest and largest areas of Roman camps in the Mediterranean, where at least five camps were discovered in the early 20th century, is particularly relevant. The camps were involved in the conquest of the early province of Hispania (modern Spain and Portugal) and the siege of the native Celtiberian settlement at Numantia, which resulted in Rome’s annexation of much of the Iberian Peninsula in 133 BCE.
During the fieldwork seasons of 2015 and 2016 we excavated trial trenches in two selected sectors of the earliest camps at Renieblas (Camps I, II) and studied for the first time the material culture of the site using modern archaeological techniques and methodology. The goal of the project is not only to contribute to discussions on the origins of the Roman Empire and colonialism and the role of the community of soldiers in that process, but also to an anthropological debate about the material traces of domination, resistance and violence, beyond the specific battles and campaigns recorded by the ancient sources.
Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2017
en Baquedano, E. y Arlegui, M. (eds.): Schulten y el descubrimiento de Numantia. Museo Arqueológico Regional de Madrid. Madrid: 287-301, 2017
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Preventive excavations in the metropolitan area of Madrid (Spain) resulted in the study of the archaeological record of a number of Roman non-elite rural sites, which uniquely allow for the analysis of ancient peasant economies in central Roman Spain. We engage with current debates on the economic roles and integration of peasant sites in the Roman imperial economy, and report on the application of a network science method to the economic networks established among these settlements. The Louvain modularity measure is used to explore two competing hypotheses on the level of integration or segregation of peasant communities within the Roman economy. The results suggest a pattern of weak integration that was maintained with little change between the 1st and the 3rd century CE.
Fieldwork by the Renieblas Archaeological Project (PAR) between 2015 and 2020 has provid- ed previously unknown data and offered new interpretations of the Roman camps near Numantia. It has been possible to confirm in various sectors of the site the shallow depth of the archaeological remains and the absence of buried structures not excavated by Schulten. We have also proposed a new sequence regarding the superimposition of the camps and the absence of an enclosing wall of camp III to the south. We have completed an initial study of the fauna present at the site and proposed a chronological framework for camps II and III (the first half of the 2nd century BC) based on archaeological materials in context and carbon-14 analysis. New high-resolution LiDAR models allow us to discard a recent hypothesis regarding the line of the annex wall to the east of camp III.
El trabajo desarrollado por el Proyecto Arqueológico Renieblas (PAR) entre 2015 y 2020 ha permitido aportar datos hasta ahora desconocidos y sugerir nuevas hipótesis interpretativas sobre estos campamentos romanos cercanos a Numancia. Se ha podido establecer la escasa potencia conservada y la inexistencia de estructuras enterradas no excavadas por Schulten en varios sectores del yacimiento. Hemos propuesto también una nueva secuencia relativa de la superposición de los campamentos y la ausencia de un muro de cierre del campamento III por el sur. Además, aportamos una primera aproximación al estudio de la fauna presente en el yaci- miento y una cronología para los campamentos II y III (primera mitad del siglo ii aC) basada en materiales arqueológicos en contexto y análisis de carbono 14. Nuevos mapas LiDAR de alta resolución nos permiten también descartar ahora una reciente propuesta del trazado del cierre del anexo situado al este del campamento III.
marked by the study of a series of well-known monumental villae such as Valdetorres
del Jarama (Madrid, Spain) or Carranque (Toledo, Spain). The exclusive focus of schol-
arship to date on this kind of site reveals an implicit acceptance of the slave mode of
production as the dominant model for the articulation of social and economic relation-
ships in the region. However, in the last few decades, the development of preventive
archaeology has led to the discovery of a whole series of different Roman rural sites.
Even though many archaeologists have tended to interpret all these sites as part of a supposedly predominant pattern of the Catonian villa, a comparative review of these recently discovered rural sites can be used to propose alternative models for the articulation of social and economic structures in the rural areas of central Roman Spain. The analysis of the remains of residential buildings, modes of production, and consumption trends recorded in the archaeological record of these recently excavated sites reveals traces of social and economic structures that, far from belonging to the elite stereotype of the villa system, can be identified as typical of traditional peasant communities.
registrados en varios yacimientos rurales altoimperiales (siglos I d. C. – III d. C.) situados en el entorno del
área metropolitana madrileña. Nuestra propuesta parte de la aplicación de una perspectiva de estudio
denominada como household archaeology. Una de las claves de este método consiste en la selección crítica
de los depósitos arqueológicos a analizar con el objetivo de no introducir distorsiones estadísticas
relacionadas con la inclusión de hallazgos arqueológicos generados por procesos postdeposicionales no
relacionados con la ocupación de los asentamientos analizados. A partir de esta selección hemos realizado
un análisis cuantitativo de los ajuares domésticos documentados en cada uno de los yacimientos. Frente
a otros estudios de corte tipológico más convencionales, preocupados únicamente en estudiar qué
productos se consumen, nuestro análisis ha tenido en cuenta la documentación sistemática de todas
las huellas de uso registradas en estos recipientes. Esto nos ha permitido abordar también el modo en
que estos recipientes eran consumidos en comparación con otros contextos de consumo documentos
en otros ámbitos de la Hispania romana. El tipo de consumo conservador que refleja el análisis detallado
de los ajuares procedentes de los asentamientos analizados concuerda a la perfección con formas de
consumo que podríamos caracterizar como propias de comunidades campesinas.
My analytical approach is based on two main methodological principles: 1) the use of other functional classification categories established from multiple criteria ('technofunction', usewear analysis, productive and archaeological provenance, etc.) and 2) the testing of these functional categories using statistical tools for comparison between different scales.
To illustrate this proposal, I apply a correspondence analysis to infer consumption patterns through comparison of functional and typological variables recorded in the analysed tableware finds from three Roman domestic contexts excavated in the province of Soria (Spain): the Domus of Los Plintos (Uxama); the Domus of the Aqueduct (Tiermes); and the Roman villa of 'La Dehesa' in Cuevas de Soria (Quintana Redonda). Some of the inferences obtained can be used to gain a deeper insight into the household economies of these settlements of Roman Spain.
To that end, the archaeological study of Renieblas, one of the earliest and largest areas of Roman camps in the Mediterranean, where at least five camps were discovered in the early 20th century, is particularly relevant. The camps were involved in the conquest of the early province of Hispania (modern Spain and Portugal) and the siege of the native Celtiberian settlement at Numantia, which resulted in Rome’s annexation of much of the Iberian Peninsula in 133 BCE.
During the fieldwork seasons of 2015 and 2016 we excavated trial trenches in two selected sectors of the earliest camps at Renieblas (Camps I, II) and studied for the first time the material culture of the site using modern archaeological techniques and methodology. The goal of the project is not only to contribute to discussions on the origins of the Roman Empire and colonialism and the role of the community of soldiers in that process, but also to an anthropological debate about the material traces of domination, resistance and violence, beyond the specific battles and campaigns recorded by the ancient sources.
Preventive excavations in the metropolitan area of Madrid (Spain) resulted in the study of the archaeological record of a number of Roman non-elite rural sites, which uniquely allow for the analysis of ancient peasant economies in central Roman Spain. We engage with current debates on the economic roles and integration of peasant sites in the Roman imperial economy, and report on the application of a network science method to the economic networks established among these settlements. The Louvain modularity measure is used to explore two competing hypotheses on the level of integration or segregation of peasant communities within the Roman economy. The results suggest a pattern of weak integration that was maintained with little change between the 1st and the 3rd century CE.
Fieldwork by the Renieblas Archaeological Project (PAR) between 2015 and 2020 has provid- ed previously unknown data and offered new interpretations of the Roman camps near Numantia. It has been possible to confirm in various sectors of the site the shallow depth of the archaeological remains and the absence of buried structures not excavated by Schulten. We have also proposed a new sequence regarding the superimposition of the camps and the absence of an enclosing wall of camp III to the south. We have completed an initial study of the fauna present at the site and proposed a chronological framework for camps II and III (the first half of the 2nd century BC) based on archaeological materials in context and carbon-14 analysis. New high-resolution LiDAR models allow us to discard a recent hypothesis regarding the line of the annex wall to the east of camp III.
El trabajo desarrollado por el Proyecto Arqueológico Renieblas (PAR) entre 2015 y 2020 ha permitido aportar datos hasta ahora desconocidos y sugerir nuevas hipótesis interpretativas sobre estos campamentos romanos cercanos a Numancia. Se ha podido establecer la escasa potencia conservada y la inexistencia de estructuras enterradas no excavadas por Schulten en varios sectores del yacimiento. Hemos propuesto también una nueva secuencia relativa de la superposición de los campamentos y la ausencia de un muro de cierre del campamento III por el sur. Además, aportamos una primera aproximación al estudio de la fauna presente en el yaci- miento y una cronología para los campamentos II y III (primera mitad del siglo ii aC) basada en materiales arqueológicos en contexto y análisis de carbono 14. Nuevos mapas LiDAR de alta resolución nos permiten también descartar ahora una reciente propuesta del trazado del cierre del anexo situado al este del campamento III.
marked by the study of a series of well-known monumental villae such as Valdetorres
del Jarama (Madrid, Spain) or Carranque (Toledo, Spain). The exclusive focus of schol-
arship to date on this kind of site reveals an implicit acceptance of the slave mode of
production as the dominant model for the articulation of social and economic relation-
ships in the region. However, in the last few decades, the development of preventive
archaeology has led to the discovery of a whole series of different Roman rural sites.
Even though many archaeologists have tended to interpret all these sites as part of a supposedly predominant pattern of the Catonian villa, a comparative review of these recently discovered rural sites can be used to propose alternative models for the articulation of social and economic structures in the rural areas of central Roman Spain. The analysis of the remains of residential buildings, modes of production, and consumption trends recorded in the archaeological record of these recently excavated sites reveals traces of social and economic structures that, far from belonging to the elite stereotype of the villa system, can be identified as typical of traditional peasant communities.
registrados en varios yacimientos rurales altoimperiales (siglos I d. C. – III d. C.) situados en el entorno del
área metropolitana madrileña. Nuestra propuesta parte de la aplicación de una perspectiva de estudio
denominada como household archaeology. Una de las claves de este método consiste en la selección crítica
de los depósitos arqueológicos a analizar con el objetivo de no introducir distorsiones estadísticas
relacionadas con la inclusión de hallazgos arqueológicos generados por procesos postdeposicionales no
relacionados con la ocupación de los asentamientos analizados. A partir de esta selección hemos realizado
un análisis cuantitativo de los ajuares domésticos documentados en cada uno de los yacimientos. Frente
a otros estudios de corte tipológico más convencionales, preocupados únicamente en estudiar qué
productos se consumen, nuestro análisis ha tenido en cuenta la documentación sistemática de todas
las huellas de uso registradas en estos recipientes. Esto nos ha permitido abordar también el modo en
que estos recipientes eran consumidos en comparación con otros contextos de consumo documentos
en otros ámbitos de la Hispania romana. El tipo de consumo conservador que refleja el análisis detallado
de los ajuares procedentes de los asentamientos analizados concuerda a la perfección con formas de
consumo que podríamos caracterizar como propias de comunidades campesinas.
My analytical approach is based on two main methodological principles: 1) the use of other functional classification categories established from multiple criteria ('technofunction', usewear analysis, productive and archaeological provenance, etc.) and 2) the testing of these functional categories using statistical tools for comparison between different scales.
To illustrate this proposal, I apply a correspondence analysis to infer consumption patterns through comparison of functional and typological variables recorded in the analysed tableware finds from three Roman domestic contexts excavated in the province of Soria (Spain): the Domus of Los Plintos (Uxama); the Domus of the Aqueduct (Tiermes); and the Roman villa of 'La Dehesa' in Cuevas de Soria (Quintana Redonda). Some of the inferences obtained can be used to gain a deeper insight into the household economies of these settlements of Roman Spain.
To that end, the archaeological study of Renieblas, one of the earliest and largest areas of Roman camps in the Mediterranean, where at least five camps were discovered in the early 20th century, is particularly relevant. The camps were involved in the conquest of the early province of Hispania (modern Spain and Portugal) and the siege of the native Celtiberian settlement at Numantia, which resulted in Rome’s annexation of much of the Iberian Peninsula in 133 BCE.
During the fieldwork seasons of 2015 and 2016 we excavated trial trenches in two selected sectors of the earliest camps at Renieblas (Camps I, II) and studied for the first time the material culture of the site using modern archaeological techniques and methodology. The goal of the project is not only to contribute to discussions on the origins of the Roman Empire and colonialism and the role of the community of soldiers in that process, but also to an anthropological debate about the material traces of domination, resistance and violence, beyond the specific battles and campaigns recorded by the ancient sources.
cross-cutting issues such as: domestic residential units, neighbourhoods, domestic material culture, architecture, chores, handicrafts and productive activities on a domestic scale, the dynamics of commensality and co-residence, kinship or social inequality.
En este libro, Jesús Bermejo aborda precisamente esta cuestión: la forma en estas políticas sociales romanas afectaban a las vidas de las personas. Tomando como caso de estudio el territorio de la mitad oriental de la Meseta, el autor se enfrenta a este problema a través de tres preguntas fundamentales: ¿Qué condicionantes culturales y materiales subyacen en la configuración de las políticas sociales promulgadas por los gobernantes romanos? ¿Cómo afectaron dichas políticas a la vida cotidiana de los habitantes de esta región? ¿Qué respuesta tuvieron estas políticas sociales por parte de dichos habitantes?
Para tratar de responder estas cuestiones recurre al análisis comparativo de diversos tipos de fuentes (arqueológicas, epigráficas, jurídicas, etc.). A través del cotejo de esta información se realiza una caracterización histórica del impacto de algunos de estos mecanismos de coerción social en los habitantes de la región, así como de sus implicaciones en los diversos ámbitos de su vida cotidiana.
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The Fortuna Domus (Cartagena, Spain): An Archaeological Analysis of Household Activities in a Hispano-Roman Colonia
Publication Date: 2014
Journal Name: European Journal of Archaeology 17 (3): 487-516
La intervención arqueológica de la calle Cuatro Santos 40 (Cartagena): reinterpretación de un contexto material de mediados del siglo III d. C.
Publication Date: 2012
Publication Name: Pyrenae 43 (1): 107-133
https://eventos.uc3m.es/85059/detail/citizen-science-in-south-european-archaeology-current-trends.html
for the development of a joint application for a research project in
the framework of the Consolidator Program of the ERC. The aim of
the workshop is the comparison of the results of archaeological
studies on the re-occupation and continuity recorded on different
rural settlements of the Iberian Late Antiquity. This workshop,
designed as part of a joint scientific event that will be hosted at the
Universidade de Évora (Portugal), will be focused on the influence of
some traditional narratives (the end of the villae, squatters, etc.) on
the interpretation of the archaeological record of the rural sites of the
Late Antiquity.
More info: https://eventos.uc3m.es/83366/detail/new-perspectives-on-the-late-antique-countryside-in-the-iberian-peninsula-1.html
University of Basel / Augusta Raurica (CH)
September 25th – 28th 2019
In Europe, the LIMES congress serves as a platform for the presentation of new findings in the archaeology of the Roman army, but occasions to discuss recent developments in this field or, more broadly, in the western part of the Roman empire occur rarely in North America. We are bringing to the AIA a group of European and North American archaeologists with long-term engagement in important fieldwork projects to present new or in some cases even still unpublished materials. Our hope is to advance novel interpretations on the development of Roman camps and their internal layouts, the living conditions of the soldiers and the supply from Rome, the role of provincial population in the army and the creation of frontiers, based on new data available thanks to techniques of remote sensing (ALS and geophysical surveys, LiDAR-based site plans) and archaeological fieldwork conducted in the last ten years in important Roman military camps in Hispania, Gallia, Germania, and Britannia.
1. Discutir las principales características de los espacios y estancias residenciales que constituyen las villae romanas, destacando su distribución y funcionalidad.
2. Estudiar la tipología, evolución diacrónica y principales elementos de las villae romanas de la península ibérica.
3. Analizar el valor y la relevancia de la ornamentación musivaria en los espacios de representación de las villae.
4. Profundizar en el estudio de las villae romanas de la península ibérica,
indagando principalmente en las áreas de Cataluña y Portugal.
5. Mostrar los últimos avances y conclusiones obtenidas a raíz del estudio de casos particularmente relevantes, tales como la villa de Adaja-Puras (Valladolid), la villa de Fuente Álamo (Córdoba) o la villa de Los Torrejones (Murcia).
6. Analizar y contextualizar otros tipos de asentamientos y modelos de hábitat rurales, así como su relación con el entorno durante el periodo romano de la península ibérica.
7. Examinar la relevancia y las características del poblamiento rural en diversas regiones de la península ibérica.