| Sumario: | Although archaeology works on human cultures and population, it normally pays more attention on structures and objects that really human beings. In the last year, there has been a new interest in the study ancient demography in terms of number of people, settlement patterns and hi ban hierarchies. In 1996, I published a first paper on Roman demography in the Iberian Peninsula with methodology and data available at that time. However, new methodological trends and data have come out in the last years, so a review on the Roman demography of the Peninsula becomes worthwhile. Apart from new information on the Roman cities layout with a myriad of new techniques such as aerial photography or geophysics, field surveys provide an extraordinary new insight into rural landscapes. The present paper attempts to combine all that recent data with present trends and future challenges of the Roman demography in the Peninsula.
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