Rediscovering the Roman Conquest of the North-western Iberian Peninsula
In ancient times, different ethnic groups inhabited the north-western area of the Iberian Peninsula, symbolically delimited in the south by the river Douro and in the east by the course of the Esla and/ or Cea. The arrival of Roman power implied their integration and generic grouping into three conu...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Salamanca (USAL) |
| Repositorio: | GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/155411 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10366/155411 |
| Access Level: | acceso embargado |
| Palabra clave: | Roman army Roman camps Northwestern Iberia Ejército romano Roman Archaeology Conflict Archaeology Arqueología militar romana Teledetección Remote Sensing 5505.01 Arqueología 5504.01 Historia Antigua |
| Sumario: | In ancient times, different ethnic groups inhabited the north-western area of the Iberian Peninsula, symbolically delimited in the south by the river Douro and in the east by the course of the Esla and/ or Cea. The arrival of Roman power implied their integration and generic grouping into three conuentus, those called after the Callaeci Lucenses (northwest), the Callaeci Bracarenses (southwest), and the Astures (east). The absorption of these territories into the Roman world has been commonly linked with certain conquest episodes, which have largely monopolised the historiographical discourse. However, these traditional approaches were very dependent on Greco-Roman written sources due to the scarcity of archaeological data. The awakening of Roman military archaeology as an autonomous discipline in Spain has forced a transformation of this scenario. Still, to what extent have the existence of new archaeological data changed the way in which we approach to the Roman conquest of these territories? |
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