Reassessing Roman military activity through an interdisciplinary approach: Myth and archaeology in Laboreiro Mountain (Northwestern Iberia)

The present work aims at the archaeological characterisation and historical contextualisation of two large enclosures recently located through remote sensing in the Laboreiro Mountain on the border between Portugal and Galicia: Lomba do Mouro and Chaira da Maza. Ancient written sources, remote sensi...

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Autores: Fonte, João, Rodrigues, Ana Luísa, Dias, Maria Isabel, Russo, Dulce, Pereiro, Tiago do, Carvalho, José, Amorim, Sérgio, Jorge, Carlos, Monteiro, Patrícia, Ferro Vázquez, María Cruz, Costa-García, José Manuel, Gago Mariño, Manuel, Oltean, Ioana
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/338687
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/338687
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85151638668
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Roman camps
Absolute dating
Archaeological survey
Luminescence
Radiocarbon
Remote sensing
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Resumo:The present work aims at the archaeological characterisation and historical contextualisation of two large enclosures recently located through remote sensing in the Laboreiro Mountain on the border between Portugal and Galicia: Lomba do Mouro and Chaira da Maza. Ancient written sources, remote sensing, archaeological survey, and absolute dating will be combined in order to shed new light on these enclosures. Given the specificity of the archaeological structures and contexts under study, the need to use complementary absolute dating methods will be discussed, including luminescence and radiocarbon dating. The results in the case of the Lomba do Mouro enclosure point to it possibly being a Roman military camp of late-Republican chronology.