- Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (Incipit), CSIC
Av. de Vigo s/n
E-15705 - Santiago de Compostela
Spain
- Folklore, Iron Age Britain (Archaeology), Public Archaeology, Roman Army, Archaeological GIS, Nomadic Peoples, and 37 moreRoman military archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Upland Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Megalithic Monuments, Settlement Patterns, Folklore Archeology, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Prehistoric Settlement, Nomadism, Cultural Landscapes, Archaeological Method & Theory, Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), Pastoral landscapes (Archaeology), Archaeological Theory, Archaeological Methodology, Archaeological Prospection, Household Archaeology, Agrarian Archaeology, Cantabrian Wars, Nationalism and Archaeology, Prehistory, Neolithic Archaeology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Megaliths (Archaeology), Iron Age, Archaeology, Historical Re Enactment, Archaeology of Buildings, Landscape, Environmental Archaeology, Anthropocene, Landscape History, Landscape and Land-use-history, Prehistoric Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, and Iron Age (Archaeology)edit
- BA in History, with a specialization in Archaeology and Prehistory (University of Oviedo, 2007); MA in Prehistoric Ar... moreBA in History, with a specialization in Archaeology and Prehistory (University of Oviedo, 2007); MA in Prehistoric Archaeology (Complutense University of Madrid, 2009); PhD in Archaeology (Complutense University of Madrid, 2016) with a dissertation focused on the anthropization of upland landscapes in the Cantabrian Mountains (North of Spain) during Late Prehistory.
Currently, I work at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit, CSIC) in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) as a postdoctoral researcher (Juan de la Cierva-formación), and I am Honorary Fellow at the Department of Archaeology, Durham University (UK). My research deals with the diversity of settlement patterns and the variation in the ways in which people took advantage of upland areas in order to assess the social and political aspects of the cultural landscapes within NW Iberia since the Neolithic until the Roman conquest.edit
This paper presents an interdisciplinary methodology for the study of recent transformations in the households of rural areas in Spain. Houses constitute a key repository of the biographies and cultural memory of the communities... more
This paper presents an interdisciplinary methodology for the study of recent transformations in the households of rural areas in Spain. Houses constitute a key repository of the biographies and cultural memory of the communities inhabiting these territories, since they work as outstanding elements in shaping personal, family and communal identities. Therefore, houses are useful elements for the archaeological study of the social and productive transformations affecting rural areas in Spain. Indeed, the built environment is one of the most illustrative elements in the articulation of these changes in the everyday life of rural communities, in which the materiality of the households plays a key role. To fulfil these aims, this paper builds on two case studies in the districts of Maragatería (León) and Somiedu (Asturias), in Northwest Spain. In exploring these cases, this paper contributes to the theoretical and methodological development of other comparable archaeological, ethnographic and heritage studies research being carried out in Spain and elsewhere. Este trabajo presenta una propuesta metodológica para el estudio interdisciplinar de las transformaciones recientes de la arquitectura doméstica en zonas rurales del estado español. Las casas constituyen un repositorio clave en las biografías y la memoria cultural de las comunidades que habitan estos territorios, funcionando como dispositivos destacados en la configuración de las identidades personales, familiares y comunitarias. Por ello, son un elemento adecuado para estudiar arqueológicamente las transformaciones sociales y productivas que atraviesan el medio rural del estado español. De hecho, el espacio construido es uno de los dispositivos más reconocibles en la articulación de estos procesos de cambio en la cotidianeidad de las comunidades rurales, donde la materialidad de los espacios domésticos juega un papel clave. La investigación aborda dos casos de estudio localizados en Maragatería (León) y Somiedu (Asturias), en el Noroeste ibérico. La reflexión teórica-metodológica sobre nuestros estudios arqueológicos, etnográficos y p atrimoniales e n m archa, j unto a la consideración de investigaciones semejantes desarrolladas recientemente en otras zonas rurales del estado español e internacionalmente, sirven de eje conductor a este trabajo. Palabras clave: Arqueología de los espacios domésticos; Patrimonio; Arqueología contemporánea; Modernización; Transformación de los paisajes rurales.
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology, Material Culture Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Landscape Architecture, Architectural History, and 15 moreContemporary Archaeology, Archaeology of Architecture, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Spain (History), Material Culture, Arqueología, Spain, Arquitectura, Cultural change, Arqueología De La Arquitectura, Archeology of Architecture, Architecture and Public Spaces, Architectural Archaeology, Archeologia Della Architettura, and Archaeology of Architecture (AA)
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[EN]: Current debates around the Anthropocene tend to focus on recent planetary-scale processes. However, regional and small-scale processes can be very telling about human agency in the shaping of landscapes overtime. Indeed,... more
[EN]: Current debates around the Anthropocene tend to focus on recent planetary-scale processes. However, regional and small-scale processes can be very telling about human agency in the shaping of landscapes overtime. Indeed, anthropogenic impacts of different intensities can be observed on landscapes since Prehistory – even in such remote and allegedly marginal areas as deserts, wetlands or mountains. In this article, I reflect on the long-term anthropization of alpine and subalpine areas in the western area of the Cantabrian Mountains (North-West of Iberia) in Later Prehistory. Studying the earlier anthropogenic pressure on upland environs in this period reminds us of the potential of landscape archaeology to enhance interdisciplinarity in debates about the Anthropocene. With the aim of emphasizing the role of archaeology as a mediating arena between social sciences, humanities and earth sciences, I analyse the scarce archaeological information available for upland landscapes of this study area to show how these datasets can nuance evolutionary interpretations of paleo-environmental sequences studied at natural deposits. Only through integrated and comprehensive discussions around the cultural and environmental traits of landscapes will we be able to fully understand the complex social contexts where agrarian labour and collective action shaped the alpine and subalpine areas in the Cantabrian Mountains since the spread of the Neolithic.
[ES]: Los debates actuales sobre el Antropoceno suelen estar centrados en procesos de escala planetaria, mientras procesos a menor escala pueden mostrarnos mucha información sobre la capacidad de acción humana en la formación de los paisajes a lo largo del tiempo. De hecho, se pueden observar impactos antropogénicos con diferentes intensidades desde la Prehistoria, incluso en áreas remotas o pretendidamente marginales como los desiertos, las zonas pantanosas o las montañas. En este trabajo, se reflexiona sobre el proceso diacrónico de antropización de las zonas alpinas y subalpinas del área occidental de la Cordillera Cantábrica (Noroeste de Iberia) durante la Prehistoria reciente. Estudiando la más temprana presión humana sobre los ambientes altimontanos en este período podemos reclamar el potencial de la Arqueología del Paisaje como estímulo para la interdisciplinariedad en los debates acerca del Antropoceno. Con el ánimo de enfatizar el papel que la Arqueología puede desempeñar como ámbito para la mediación entre las Ciencias Sociales, las Humanidades y las Ciencias de la Tierra, se examina la escasa información arqueológica disponible en los paisajes de alta montaña del área de estudio para mostrar cómo estos datos pueden matizar las interpretaciones evolucionistas de las secuencias paleoambientales estudiadas en depósitos naturales. Sólo a través de discusiones integradas y comprehensivas sobre los complejos contextos sociales en los que el trabajo agrario y la acción colectiva modeló las áreas alpinas y subalpinas en la Cordillera Cantábrica a partir de la expansión del Neolítico.
[ES]: Los debates actuales sobre el Antropoceno suelen estar centrados en procesos de escala planetaria, mientras procesos a menor escala pueden mostrarnos mucha información sobre la capacidad de acción humana en la formación de los paisajes a lo largo del tiempo. De hecho, se pueden observar impactos antropogénicos con diferentes intensidades desde la Prehistoria, incluso en áreas remotas o pretendidamente marginales como los desiertos, las zonas pantanosas o las montañas. En este trabajo, se reflexiona sobre el proceso diacrónico de antropización de las zonas alpinas y subalpinas del área occidental de la Cordillera Cantábrica (Noroeste de Iberia) durante la Prehistoria reciente. Estudiando la más temprana presión humana sobre los ambientes altimontanos en este período podemos reclamar el potencial de la Arqueología del Paisaje como estímulo para la interdisciplinariedad en los debates acerca del Antropoceno. Con el ánimo de enfatizar el papel que la Arqueología puede desempeñar como ámbito para la mediación entre las Ciencias Sociales, las Humanidades y las Ciencias de la Tierra, se examina la escasa información arqueológica disponible en los paisajes de alta montaña del área de estudio para mostrar cómo estos datos pueden matizar las interpretaciones evolucionistas de las secuencias paleoambientales estudiadas en depósitos naturales. Sólo a través de discusiones integradas y comprehensivas sobre los complejos contextos sociales en los que el trabajo agrario y la acción colectiva modeló las áreas alpinas y subalpinas en la Cordillera Cantábrica a partir de la expansión del Neolítico.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Cultural Landscapes, and 15 moreLandscape History, Neolithic Archaeology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Upland Archaeology, Palaeoecology, Mountain communities, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Iron Age (Archaeology), Pastoralism (Archaeology), Prehistory, Iron Age, Anthropocene, Longue durée, High Mountain Archaeology, and Landscape and Land-use-history
[ES]: En las últimas dos décadas, la Arqueología militar romana ha experimentado un notable avance en la península ibérica. El uso sistemático de nuevas técnicas de teledetección constituye el último estadio de un proceso de renovación... more
[ES]: En las últimas dos décadas, la Arqueología militar romana ha experimentado un notable avance en la península ibérica. El uso sistemático de nuevas técnicas de teledetección constituye el último estadio de un proceso de renovación metodológica que ha permitido documentar un numeroso conjunto de yacimientos arqueológicos inéditos, o bien relacionar otros ya conocidos con el ejército romano. A su vez, esta información inédita ha subrayado la necesidad de desarrollar nuevas narrativas arqueológicas sobre los procesos de conquista y ocupación del Noroeste peninsular en tiempos antiguos. Este trabajo analiza tres nuevos yacimientos de reciente descubrimiento que pueden ayudarnos a entender estos procesos en El Bierzo, una comarca estratégica en las comunicaciones entre el Noroeste ibérico y la cuenca del Duero.
[EN]: Roman military archaeology has experienced a remarkable advance in the Iberian Peninsula during the last decades. The systematic use of remote sensing techniques is the latest stage in a process of methodological renovation that has helped to identify a significant number of new archaeological sites, or to link other already known sites with the Roman army. In addition, these new data have highlighted the need to develop renovated archaeological narratives on the conquest and occupation processes of NW Iberia in the Antiquity. In this paper, we analyse three recently discovered sites, which will help us to understand these phenomena in El Bierzo, a strategic region connecting NW Iberia and the Duero valley.
[EN]: Roman military archaeology has experienced a remarkable advance in the Iberian Peninsula during the last decades. The systematic use of remote sensing techniques is the latest stage in a process of methodological renovation that has helped to identify a significant number of new archaeological sites, or to link other already known sites with the Roman army. In addition, these new data have highlighted the need to develop renovated archaeological narratives on the conquest and occupation processes of NW Iberia in the Antiquity. In this paper, we analyse three recently discovered sites, which will help us to understand these phenomena in El Bierzo, a strategic region connecting NW Iberia and the Duero valley.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Roman History, Remote Sensing, Landscape Archaeology, and 15 moreLiDAR, Archaeological GIS, Roman military archaeology, Roman military history, Roman Army, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Roman Empire, Archaeological Prospection, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Romanization, LiDAR for Landscape Archaeology, Roman Forts and Camps, LiDAR for Archaeology, and Roman Archaeology
[EN]: In this article we present and discuss the archaeological data obtained in the 2012 and 2013 excavations carried out in the hillfort of El Castru, in Vigaña (Balmonte de Miranda, Asturias, NW Iberia). The excavations have showed a... more
[EN]: In this article we present and discuss the archaeological data obtained in the 2012 and 2013 excavations carried out in the hillfort of El Castru, in Vigaña (Balmonte de Miranda, Asturias, NW Iberia). The excavations have showed a long-sequence occupation of the hillfort since the Early Iron Age to the early Roman period. The site constitutes a good example of the small Iron Age hillforts of the western Cantabrian Mountains. For this reason, the analysis of the information collected during fieldwork and its contextualization at regional level provide us with interesting considerations for discussing about the settlement patterns and subsistence systems adopted by the I millennia BC communities in NW Iberia.
The manuscript is opened by a general overview of the hillfort, including a contextualisation of its surrounding landscape. Then, a detailed description of the six stratigraphic phases we identified during the excavations is presented, paying attention to the stratigraphic relations between different layers and structures. In addition, five radiocarbon dates are presented to build up the chronology of the site. Three huts and metallurgical production areas were explored, resulting on a significant collection of materials. The structures and layers that create each stratigraphic group are characterised considering a broad discussion about the archaeological materials that were discovered through the excavations, paying particular attention to pottery assemblages. The study and discussion of an outstanding zooarchaeological remains collection, some seeds and four pollen samples offers a relevant window to understand the anthropization of the surrounding landscape along the biography of this site. Diverse agricultural activities were developed in connection with a complex arrangement of pastoralist strategies, where we envision a growing specialization on cattle herding along the biography of this site, while agriculture is based in a wide range of complementary crops including several types of cereals. The discussion of these data considering Landscape Archaeology as our theoretical and methodological framework becomes a relevant case study in the geographical context of the western Cantabrian Mountains, where we lack this kind of approaches.
The archaeological dataset under examination in El Castru allows us to argue that the small peasant community who inhabited the hillfort along the Iron Age and the earlier decades of the Roman period could be characterised particularly by their socio-political autonomy and productive self-sufficiency. This way, we understand Iron Age social landscapes in this area under the umbrella of non-hierarchical models for social organisation, such as heterarchical societies or ‘deep rural communities’, following some of the interpretations recently raised by several scholars in NW Iberia.
[SP]: Este artículo presenta los datos arqueológicos recuperados en las excavaciones del poblado castreño de El Castru, en Vigaña (Balmonte de Miranda, Asturias) realizadas en 2012 y 2013. Dicho yacimiento constituye un buen ejemplo de los pequeños castros de la Edad del Hierro en las montañas del área occidental cantábrica. Por ello, el análisis de las informaciones obtenidas y su contextualización a escala regional ofrecen interesantes aportaciones al debate sobre las formas de poblamiento y subsistencia adoptadas por las comunidades del I milenio a.C. en el Noroeste ibérico.
The manuscript is opened by a general overview of the hillfort, including a contextualisation of its surrounding landscape. Then, a detailed description of the six stratigraphic phases we identified during the excavations is presented, paying attention to the stratigraphic relations between different layers and structures. In addition, five radiocarbon dates are presented to build up the chronology of the site. Three huts and metallurgical production areas were explored, resulting on a significant collection of materials. The structures and layers that create each stratigraphic group are characterised considering a broad discussion about the archaeological materials that were discovered through the excavations, paying particular attention to pottery assemblages. The study and discussion of an outstanding zooarchaeological remains collection, some seeds and four pollen samples offers a relevant window to understand the anthropization of the surrounding landscape along the biography of this site. Diverse agricultural activities were developed in connection with a complex arrangement of pastoralist strategies, where we envision a growing specialization on cattle herding along the biography of this site, while agriculture is based in a wide range of complementary crops including several types of cereals. The discussion of these data considering Landscape Archaeology as our theoretical and methodological framework becomes a relevant case study in the geographical context of the western Cantabrian Mountains, where we lack this kind of approaches.
The archaeological dataset under examination in El Castru allows us to argue that the small peasant community who inhabited the hillfort along the Iron Age and the earlier decades of the Roman period could be characterised particularly by their socio-political autonomy and productive self-sufficiency. This way, we understand Iron Age social landscapes in this area under the umbrella of non-hierarchical models for social organisation, such as heterarchical societies or ‘deep rural communities’, following some of the interpretations recently raised by several scholars in NW Iberia.
[SP]: Este artículo presenta los datos arqueológicos recuperados en las excavaciones del poblado castreño de El Castru, en Vigaña (Balmonte de Miranda, Asturias) realizadas en 2012 y 2013. Dicho yacimiento constituye un buen ejemplo de los pequeños castros de la Edad del Hierro en las montañas del área occidental cantábrica. Por ello, el análisis de las informaciones obtenidas y su contextualización a escala regional ofrecen interesantes aportaciones al debate sobre las formas de poblamiento y subsistencia adoptadas por las comunidades del I milenio a.C. en el Noroeste ibérico.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, and 13 moreLandscape History, Upland Archaeology, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Fortified Settlements (Archaeology), Iron Age (Archaeology), Prehistory, Iron Age, Protohistoric Iberian Peninsula, Iron Age Hillforts, Landscape and Land-use-history, and Roman Archaeology
This Directions piece presents the project ParticiPat: Patrimonio y participación social: propuesta metodológica y revisión crítica (ParticiPat: Heritage and Social Participation: Methodological Proposal and Critical Review). ParticiPat... more
This Directions piece presents the project ParticiPat: Patrimonio y participación social: propuesta metodológica y revisión crítica (ParticiPat: Heritage and Social Participation: Methodological Proposal and Critical Review). ParticiPat is a multidisciplinary and mul-tisituated research project involving fourteen researchers from different disciplines and institutions that aims to analyze critically the ubiquitous buzzwords and practices of participation—as well as its key institutions and actors—affecting heritage management in Spain, Portugal, or Mexico. This article advances preliminary results derived from the authors' case study of a natural park and biosphere reserve in Spain. In doing so, it contributes to the anthropological examination of what has recently been described by different authors as the emergence of a new form of governance based on discourses and practices of participation. [ethnography, anthropology of policy, natural and cultural heritage, participation] This Directions piece presents the project ParticiPat: Patrimonio y participación social: propuesta metodológica y revisión crítica (ParticiPat: Heritage and Social Participation: Methodological Proposal and Critical Review), 1 and advances preliminary results derived from our particular case study of a natural park and its biosphere reserve in Spain. ParticiPat is a multidisciplinary and multisituated research project involving fourteen researchers from different disciplines and institutions studying heritage management in Spain, Portugal, or Mexico. The project aims to analyze critically how ubiquitous buzzwords and practices of participation, as well as its key institutions and actors, affect heritage management. In doing so, it contributes to the anthropological examination of what Kelty (2017) has recently described as the " grammar of participation " that results in creating " too much democracy in all the wrong places " while constantly shifting " from a language of normative enthusiasm to one of critiques of co-optation and bureaucratization " (S77). Official discourses usually portray participation as a number of sociopolitical practices that allow citizens to influence, monitor, or engage in decision making on public affairs (Parés 2009). If understood as a cultural form, however, participation can also be seen as a state attempt to engender legal regulation, normalize citizenship, and diffuse power and governance throughout extended networks (Shore and Wright 1997). We aim to explore how this emerging governmentality technique affects the field of heritage and how, in turn, this shift reorganizes the bureaucratic and political spectrum as a whole. Following critical heritage scholarship, we understand heritage as a machine or regime of domination intrinsically linked to capitalist and state efforts to control the past and create prospects
Research Interests: Social Anthropology, Political Participation, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, Political Anthropology, and 15 moreSocial and Cultural Anthropology, Participation, Anthropology of political participation, Public Participation In Governance, Community Participation, Ethnographic fieldwork, Political Ethnography, Heritage Politics (Anthropology), Political and Legal Anthropology, Heritage, Public Participation, Museum and Heritage Studies, Citizen participation, Critical Heritage Studies, and Critical heritage
As in other rural areas in Spain, the Asturian countryside suffers from a profound demographic and economic crisis. Since tourism emerged as one of the main hopes for the reactivation of rural economy, the regional government has made a... more
As in other rural areas in Spain, the Asturian countryside suffers from a profound demographic and economic crisis. Since tourism emerged as one of the main hopes for the reactivation of rural economy, the regional government has made a particular effort in promoting rural tourism. This paper intends to assess the effects that naturalistic and atemporal narratives of Asturian landscapes exert on the rural farming communities, which define the ‘tourism imaginaries’ as they become established as identity referents not only for visitors, but for the inhabitants of the region themselves. Archaeology can enhance the local communities’ agency through the appreciation of cultural values attached to these landscapes. To this end, the diachronic depth of the social and productive processes which shaped the Asturian landscapes is emphasised by relying on Landscape Archaeology. The relevant role played by farmers and herders in these activities merits their involvement in actively designing future policies.
Research Interests: Marketing, Archaeology, Tourism Studies, Tourism Marketing, Environmental Archaeology, and 20 moreTourism Planning and Policy, Policy Analysis and Decision Making, Landscape Archaeology, Tourism Geography, Cultural Landscapes, Landscape History, Cultural Tourism, Sustainable Tourism, Sustainable Tourism Marketing, Land-use planning, Landscape, Branding, Tourism Destination Marketing, Tourism, Travel and Tourism Industry, Cultural Landscape, Landscape Planning, Advertising and Branding, Landscape and Land-use-history, and Tourism Imaginaries
Bronze production during the Iron Age of the Iberian Peninsula is characterised by the use of a relatively simple technology, based on crucible-furnaces. In an area rich in mineral resources, bronze was produced on a small scale and... more
Bronze production during the Iron Age of the Iberian Peninsula is characterised by the use of a relatively simple technology, based on crucible-furnaces. In an area rich in mineral resources, bronze was produced on a small scale and within settlements, to be used for ritual, ornamental and functional objects. Here we present an analytical study of slagged crucibles, small slag nodules and casting spillage from the Iron Age hillfort of El Castru, in Vigaña (Asturias, NW Iberia), with a particular focus on the technology of bronze production. The study sought to contribute to our understanding of Pre-Roman metallurgical activities in the region, as a case in point to discuss broader prehistoric traditions of bronze-making. The results show that the technology and scale of bronze production at this hillfort are coherent with the pattern described for much of prehistoric metallurgy in Iberia, with the-direct production of copper alloys by cementa-tion and co-smelting of mineral ores. The results also illustrate some of the challenges encountered when attempting to identify metallurgical processes through the analyses of crucible residues, and propose some criteria to facilitate future studies.
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The following text details a research experience in Archaeology from the margins of the Academy, where it is also possible to articulate a scientific, self-managed project on the basis of a rigorous work although lacking external funding.... more
The following text details a research experience in Archaeology from the margins of the Academy, where it is also possible to articulate a scientific, self-managed project on the basis of a rigorous work although lacking external funding. Our intention is to disclose the Romanarmy.eu project in the context of the EAA, after our participation at the 22nd Annual Meeting which took place in Vilnius in September 2016.
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Resumen: El nacimiento de la Arqueología tiene una estrecha relación con el auge de los nacionalismos en toda Europa. En el estado español, tanto el nacionalismo centralista como los nacionalismos o regionalismos periféricos han utilizado... more
Resumen: El nacimiento de la Arqueología tiene una estrecha relación con el auge de los nacionalismos en toda Europa. En el estado español, tanto el nacionalismo centralista como los nacionalismos o regionalismos periféricos han utilizado referentes del pasado –a veces coincidentes– como sustento simbólico de sus narrativas. Es el caso de los celtas, pueblo mítico que ha servido tanto para afianzar la idea unitaria de España, como para refrendar la singularidad nacional/regional de territorios como Asturias y León. El papel de los arqueólogos en estos dos casos es analizado en este trabajo, pues supone una vía crucial para la reflexión historiográfica. Así, las narrativas académicas generadas en este ámbito adolecían habitualmente de una falta de crítica, que subordinaba el pasado prerromano a determinadas agendas políticas contemporáneas. La predominancia de la Historia Antigua o de visiones esencialistas, androcéntricas y socialmente conservadoras en los discursos arqueológicos caracterizan los estudios tradicionales sobre los grupos prerromanos de Asturias y León. Tras la consolidación del Estado de las Autonomías, el nacionalismo y el regionalismo se extendieron a amplias capas de la sociedad acompañados de discursos históricos que prescindieron de la legitimación de la Academia. Paradójicamente, estas narrativas reproducen discursos conservadores que tradicionalmente dominaban el discurso arqueológico. Ante esta situación, ¿nos corresponde a los arqueólogos asumir una posición multivocal liberal o deberíamos, en cambio, emprender acciones sociopolíticas críticas que inicien una autocrítica disciplinar y persigan transformar los marcos teórico-interpretativos dominantes?
Abstract: The origins of archaeology are intrinsically connected with the emergence of nationalism in Europe. Both Spanish centralist nationalism and peripheral nationalism and regionalist movements in the country are engaged in a political dispute but, paradoxically, have drawn upon similar symbolic resources in some cases. This is true regarding historic construct of the Celts in Asturias and León, where different political movements, either peripheral or centralist, have differently interpreted and used the Celts in their agendas depending on the historic context. This paper analyzes the role archaeologists have played in this process. Acritical discourses have prevailed in Iron Age Archaeology, which has always made the past subservient to contemporary political needs. In addition, Iron Age Archaeology has strongly relied on the disciplinary bias of Ancient History, and has been dominated by essentialist, androcentric and largely reactionary interpretations of society. With the advent of the Autonomous Communities in Spain, nationalism and regionalism permeated vast sectors of Spanish society, leading to the emergence of many popular discourses about the past that disregard Academic discourse. Paradoxically, these narratives reproduce conservative discourses that prevailed in archaeological research. Facing this situation, it is time for archaeologists to ask whether they should adopt a multivocal liberal stance tolerating different interpretations about the past, or a critical socio-political position seeking a deconstruction of the discipline and a transformation of the dominant interpretative frameworks that predate Spanish Archaeology.
Abstract: The origins of archaeology are intrinsically connected with the emergence of nationalism in Europe. Both Spanish centralist nationalism and peripheral nationalism and regionalist movements in the country are engaged in a political dispute but, paradoxically, have drawn upon similar symbolic resources in some cases. This is true regarding historic construct of the Celts in Asturias and León, where different political movements, either peripheral or centralist, have differently interpreted and used the Celts in their agendas depending on the historic context. This paper analyzes the role archaeologists have played in this process. Acritical discourses have prevailed in Iron Age Archaeology, which has always made the past subservient to contemporary political needs. In addition, Iron Age Archaeology has strongly relied on the disciplinary bias of Ancient History, and has been dominated by essentialist, androcentric and largely reactionary interpretations of society. With the advent of the Autonomous Communities in Spain, nationalism and regionalism permeated vast sectors of Spanish society, leading to the emergence of many popular discourses about the past that disregard Academic discourse. Paradoxically, these narratives reproduce conservative discourses that prevailed in archaeological research. Facing this situation, it is time for archaeologists to ask whether they should adopt a multivocal liberal stance tolerating different interpretations about the past, or a critical socio-political position seeking a deconstruction of the discipline and a transformation of the dominant interpretative frameworks that predate Spanish Archaeology.
Research Interests: Mythology And Folklore, History, Ancient History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, and 56 moreArchaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Folklore, Celtic Studies, Cultural Heritage, Historiography, Heritage Tourism, Political Science, Identity (Culture), Sociology of Identity, Archaeological Method & Theory, Politics, Identity politics, Nationalism, Spanish History, Cultural Identity, Identity Politics (Political Science), National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Regionalism, Theory of History, Cultural Memory, Theoretical Archaeology, Language and Identity, Nationalism and Archaeology, Spanish archaeology, Celtic Archaeology, Archaeological Theory, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Ethnicity, History of Nationalism, Spain (History), Nations and nationalism, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, Iron Age (Archaeology), Iron Age, History of Archaeology, Identity, Historia, Protohistoric Iberian Peninsula, Asturian language, Asturian History, Celticism, Celtic Mythology, Regionalismo, Hillforts and Enclosures, Ethnicity and National Identity, Spanish Nationalisms, Roman Archaeology, Nationalism and Decolonization, and Ethnicity and Nationality
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Resumen: Este artículo presenta el yacimiento inédito de A Serra da Casiña (Valboa, León). Este recinto se localiza en las montañas que separan las actuales provincias de Lugo y León, en las inmediaciones de la ruta natural de... more
Resumen: Este artículo presenta el yacimiento inédito de A Serra da Casiña (Valboa, León). Este recinto se localiza en las montañas que separan las actuales provincias de Lugo y León, en las inmediaciones de la ruta natural de comunicación a través del puerto de Pedrafita do Cebreiro. Se describen las estructuras observadas en la serie histórica de ortofotografías, en los datos LiDAR disponibles para el área, además de la inspección del enclave sobre el terreno. Las características formales del sitio y su localización responden a los parámetros propios de los campamentos de marcha (castra aestiua) del ejército romano. Finalmente, se realiza una breve contextualización del establecimiento militar considerando los yacimientos análogos conocidos en su entorno.
Palabras clave: Arqueología militar romana, Ejército romano, Guerras Astur-Cántabras, prospección arqueológica, LiDAR, fotografía aérea histórica.
Abstract: This paper presents the unknown archaeological site of A Serra da Casiña (Valboa, León). This enclosure is located in the mountainous area between the provinces of Lugo and León, close to the natural route across the mountain pass of Pedrafita do Cebreiro. The structures were studied through several historical orthophotos, LiDAR visualizations from raw data available for this region, and the archaeological field surveying of the site. Both the morphological characteristics and the location of A Serra da Casiña fit with the specific parameters of Roman marching camps (castra aestiua). Finally, we discuss the historical contextualization of this military establishment considering the presence in the nearby of analogous sites.
Keywords: Roman military Archaeology, Roman Army, Cantabrian Wars, Archaeological Prospection, LiDAR,
Historic Aerial Photography
Palabras clave: Arqueología militar romana, Ejército romano, Guerras Astur-Cántabras, prospección arqueológica, LiDAR, fotografía aérea histórica.
Abstract: This paper presents the unknown archaeological site of A Serra da Casiña (Valboa, León). This enclosure is located in the mountainous area between the provinces of Lugo and León, close to the natural route across the mountain pass of Pedrafita do Cebreiro. The structures were studied through several historical orthophotos, LiDAR visualizations from raw data available for this region, and the archaeological field surveying of the site. Both the morphological characteristics and the location of A Serra da Casiña fit with the specific parameters of Roman marching camps (castra aestiua). Finally, we discuss the historical contextualization of this military establishment considering the presence in the nearby of analogous sites.
Keywords: Roman military Archaeology, Roman Army, Cantabrian Wars, Archaeological Prospection, LiDAR,
Historic Aerial Photography
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Military History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, and 56 moreRoman History, Historical Archaeology, Remote Sensing, Aerial Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, War Studies, Archaeological Method & Theory, Cultural Landscapes, Spanish History, Military Architecture, LiDAR, Archaeological GIS, Survey (Archaeological Method & Theory), Conflict Archaeology, Satellite remote sensing, Spanish archaeology, Roman military archaeology, Roman military history, Remote sensing and GIS applications in Landscape Research, History of Military Technology, Roman Army, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Roman roads, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Remote sensing and GIS, Roman Empire, Remote Sensing (Archaeology), Archaeological Prospection, Archaeological Fieldwork, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Hispania (Archaeology), Roman Frontiers (Archaeology), Ancient Military History, History of War, Arqueología, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Archaeological survey, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Roman military archaelogy, Historia, Military Archaeology, Ancient Rome, Hispania, Aerial Photography, Ancient History of the Iberian Peninsula/Hispania, Roman military equipment, Remote Sensing & GIS, LiDAR for Landscape Archaeology, Ejército romano, Cantabrian Wars, Hispania romana, High Mountain Archaeology, LiDAR for Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
This paper explores the built environment in two rural areas of Northwest Spain that were historically inhabited by two of the so-called “cursed peoples.” Combining contemporary archaeology and material culture studies, we analyze the... more
This paper explores the built environment in two rural areas of Northwest Spain that were historically inhabited by two of the so-called “cursed peoples.” Combining contemporary archaeology and material culture studies, we analyze the role played by the house in processes of socio-economic and cultural change, and in the reproduction of internal hegemony within villages. To do so, we study the tensions and connections existing between the transformations undergone by the built environment during the last century and different socio-economic processes, including the depopulation of the rural areas, their conversion into tourist attractions, and the current process of individualisation of subjectivity in line with the transformations taking place in the postmodern era.
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Rural Sociology, Archaeology, Anthropology, Tourism Studies, and 36 moreHistorical Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Architecture, Globalization, Cultural Heritage, Ethnography, Heritage Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Contemporary History, Peasant Studies, Archaeological Method & Theory, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Heritage Conservation, Rural Development, Vernacular Architecture, Architectural History, Cultural Tourism, Built Environment, Rural Tourism, Neoliberalism, Contemporary Vernacular Architecture, Domestic Space, Cultural Heritage Management, Sustainable Rural Development, Cultural Resource Management (Archaeology), Household Archaeology, Architectural Heritage, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Ethnographic fieldwork, Heritage Management, Anthropology of the built environment, Archaeological Heritage Management, Tourism, and History of architecture
[ES]: Este estudio analiza procesos contemporáneos de cambio cultural en dos áreas rurales del Noroeste de España. Ambas estuvieron habitadas por grupos sociales con una marcada identidad cultural que ha dejado su impronta en la cultura... more
[ES]: Este estudio analiza procesos contemporáneos de cambio cultural en dos áreas rurales del Noroeste de España. Ambas estuvieron habitadas por grupos sociales con una marcada identidad cultural que ha dejado su impronta en la cultura material: los vaqueiros d’alzada y los maragatos. Mediante una metodología arqueológica, se analizan las casas de tres pueblos en cada caso de estudio, desvelando cómo la materialidad juega un papel fundamental en los procesos de cambio cultural. En líneas generales, se produce un tránsito entre las lógicas preindustriales de la domesticidad campesina y la concepción de la casa como un instrumento representacional que sirve para exhibir capital simbólico y social a personas de ámbitos urbanos con mentalidades individualizadas. El estudio muestra cómo la combinación de metodologías arqueológicas y etnográficas puede politizar contextos de cambio cultural contemporáneos aparentemente neutros.
[EN]: This paper explores contemporary processes of cultural change in two rural areas of northwest Spain. These areas were inhabited by social groups with strong cultural identities that have made its mark in the material culture: the Vaqueiros d’Alzada and the Maragatos. The houses of three villages in each case study are analyzed through an archaeological methodology, revealing the key role materiality plays in processes of cultural change. Overall, there is a transition between preindustrial forms of peasant domesticity towards a conception of the house as a representational device used to display social and symbolic capital by highly individualized people from urban areas. The study shows how a combination of archaeological and ethnographic methodologies can politicize contemporary contexts of cultural change that are apparently neutral.
[EN]: This paper explores contemporary processes of cultural change in two rural areas of northwest Spain. These areas were inhabited by social groups with strong cultural identities that have made its mark in the material culture: the Vaqueiros d’Alzada and the Maragatos. The houses of three villages in each case study are analyzed through an archaeological methodology, revealing the key role materiality plays in processes of cultural change. Overall, there is a transition between preindustrial forms of peasant domesticity towards a conception of the house as a representational device used to display social and symbolic capital by highly individualized people from urban areas. The study shows how a combination of archaeological and ethnographic methodologies can politicize contemporary contexts of cultural change that are apparently neutral.
Research Interests: History, Cultural Studies, Rural Sociology, Archaeology, Anthropology, and 43 moreTourism Studies, Tourism Management, Historical Archaeology, Social Sciences, Architecture, Ethnoarchaeology, Cultural Heritage, Ethnography, Material Culture Studies, Heritage Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Vernacular Typology Studies, Contemporary History, Peasant Studies, Rural History, Heritage Tourism, Stakeholders, Governance, Archaeological Method & Theory, Rural Development, Gentrification, Vernacular Architecture, Architectural History, Cultural Tourism, Built Environment, Rural Tourism, Contemporary Vernacular Architecture, Spanish archaeology, Archaeological Theory, Cultural Heritage Management, Urban And Regional Planning, Sustainable Rural Development, Household Archaeology, Architectural Heritage, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Ethnographic fieldwork, Asturias, Tourism, History of architecture, Rural Planning and Development, Postmedieval Archaeology, Patrimonio Cultural, and Desarrollo rural
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Rural Sociology, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Archaeology, and 103 moreAnthropology, Tourism Studies, Anthropology of Tourism, Tourism Marketing, Tourism Management, Cultural Policy, Ethnoarchaeology, Cultural Heritage, Ethnography, Tourism Planning and Policy, Material Culture Studies, Heritage Studies, Popular Culture, Tourism economics, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Pastoralism (Social Anthropology), Heritage Tourism, Environmental Planning and Design, Urban Planning, Identity (Culture), Cultural Heritage Conservation, Tourism Geography, Cultural Landscapes, Heritage Conservation, Cultural Politics, Culture, Rural Development, Environmental Management, Vernacular Architecture, Cultural Tourism, Cultures and heritage tourism, Environment and natural resources conservation, Intangible cultural heritage, Cultural Identity, Travel & Tourism, Built Environment, Corruption (Corruption), Cultural Memory, National Parks, Rural Tourism, Neoliberalism, Political Corruption, Sustainable Tourism, Cultural Political Economy, Mountain communities, Cultural Heritage Management, World Cultural Heritage, Intangible Cultural Heritage (Culture), Urban And Regional Planning, Land-use planning, Sustainable Rural Development, Architectural Heritage, Ethnographic fieldwork, Heritage Management, Protected areas, Neoliberalisms and the Transformation of the Cultural Sphere, Archaeological Heritage Management, Sustainable Tourism Development, Commodification (Anthropology), Commodification of traditional knowledge, Commodification of Cutlure, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Material Culture, Vernacular, Neoliberalism (Anthropology), Heritage interpretation, Asturias, Tourism Impacts, Heritage, Tourism, Asturias, Spain, Tourism in protected areas/World Heritage, Science for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Patrimonio Cultural, Corruption, Etnografía, Commodification of Culture, Museum and Heritage Studies, Creative Tourism, Food and Gastronomy Tourism, Turismo, Eco-Tourism, Arqueología del Paisaje, Ecotourism, Tourism in National Parks and Protected Areas, Community Tourism, Marketing Planning, Commodification, Mountain Tourism, Cantabrian Region, Corporate Corruption, Turismo Rural, Pastoralism, Desarrollo rural, Patrimonio, Cantabrian mountains, High Mountain Archaeology, Patrimonio cultural inmaterial, Políticas culturales, Turismo Cultural, UNESCO world heritage, Sustainable/Responsible Tourism, Tourism Planning & Development, Environmental Preservation through Tourism, and Architectural Heritage Conservation
En este estudio exploramos la potencialidad de la tradición oral del folklore campesino para identificar evidencias bélicas y campos de batalla vinculables a conflictos de distintas cronologías ‒campamentos romanos, fortificaciones... more
En este estudio exploramos la potencialidad de la tradición oral del folklore campesino para identificar evidencias bélicas y campos de batalla vinculables a conflictos de distintas cronologías ‒campamentos romanos, fortificaciones medievales, o trincheras de la guerra civil‒. Evaluamos su utilidad como herramienta informativa para la prospección arqueológica. Por ello, nos detenemos en aquellos aspectos metodológicos y en los problemas que experimentamos durante nuestras investigaciones en el área montañosa asturleonesa.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Folklore, Landscape History, Oral Traditions, Conflict Archaeology, and 11 moreBattlefield Archaeology, Roman military history, Oral Tradition, Archaeological Prospection, Asturian History, Place Names, Tradición oral, Arqueología Del Conflicto, Historia De Asturias, Prospección Arqueológica, and Arqueología De Los Campos De Batalla
The Fiestas de Astures y Romanos (The Festival of Astures and Romans) is a thriving historical re-enactment performed in the town of Astorga, in northwest Spain. The objective of our research has been to explore the complex interactions... more
The Fiestas de Astures y Romanos (The Festival of Astures and Romans) is a thriving historical re-enactment performed in the town of Astorga, in northwest Spain. The objective of our research has been to explore the complex interactions between politics, the public, and heritage management, and to evaluate their impact upon archaeology as a discipline. We draw on a participant
ethnography carried out during the 2011 event. The concept of ‘Celtic-Barbarian Assemblage’ enables us to understand how different usages of the pre-Roman past condition identity politics and heritage policies at the local level. Finally, we refl ect upon our fi ndings and suggest potential lines of action to tackle what we perceive to be the increasing gap between public and academic archaeology in Spain, whose long-term consequences can be detrimental for the discipline as a whole.
ethnography carried out during the 2011 event. The concept of ‘Celtic-Barbarian Assemblage’ enables us to understand how different usages of the pre-Roman past condition identity politics and heritage policies at the local level. Finally, we refl ect upon our fi ndings and suggest potential lines of action to tackle what we perceive to be the increasing gap between public and academic archaeology in Spain, whose long-term consequences can be detrimental for the discipline as a whole.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, and 106 moreVisual Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Social Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Celtic Studies, Cultural Heritage, Performance Studies, Heritage Studies, Public History, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of the Body, Urban Anthropology, History and Memory, Heritage Tourism, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Nationalism, Heritage Conservation, Cultures and heritage tourism, Intangible cultural heritage, Nationalism And State Building, Regionalism, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, Communication Of Memory In Archives, Libraries And Museums, Commemoration and Memory, Collective Memory, Celtic History, Celtic Archaeology, Historical Re Enactment, Cultural Heritage Management, Intangible Cultural Heritage (Culture), memoralization, Cultural Anthropology, Assemblage Theory - Manuel De Landa, Heritage Management, Nations and nationalism, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, Archaeological Heritage Management, Ethnography of Archaeology, Prehistory, Archaeological ethnography, Human-Nonhuman Assemblages, Celtic Archeology, Barbarians Perception, Celtic Languages, Heritage, Celtic Art, Community Archaeology, Memory, Barbarians, Oral History and Memory, Re-Enactments, Cultural Heritage and Preservation, Barbarian societies, Memoria Histórica, Patrimonio Cultural, Museum and Heritage Studies, Assemblage, Public ArchaeologyPublic Archaeology, Celtic, Barbaricum, Assemblage Theory, Artefact Assemblage Studies (archaeology), Celtic Mythology, Regionalismo, Presentation of Archaeology to the Public, Memoria, Elder Futhark Runes, Memoria, Turismo y Patrimonio, RECREACION, Patrimonio, Public use of history, Ethnography of Archaeological Practice, Community archaeology and heritage interpretation, Cultural Memory Studies, Barbarians and Romans in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Arqueologia Publica, Public Archaeology, Museology, Archaeology adn Children, Community-based archaeology, Museos y Patrimonio, Science outreach, Patrimonio cultural inmaterial, Spanish Nationalisms, The importance of Archaeology in community development, Archaeology of public space, Archeologia Pubblica, Runes, Archaeology & the Public, Community and Public Archaeology, Cultura Y Recreacion, Community Outreach, Archaeology, Etnografía Arqueológica, Public Perceptions of Archaeology, Roman and Barbarian Archaeology, Ancient Celtic Faith, Barbarism, Regionalismos, Patrimonio Culturale: Valorizzazione, Artefact Assemblage, Antropologia, Recreaciones Historicas, Cultural Memory, Historic Re-enactment, and Etnografia De La Arqueologia
GONZÁLEZ ÁLVAREZ, DAVID y DÍAZ GARCÍA, FRUCTUOSO (2014): Una nueva revista científica: «Nailos: Estudios interdisciplinares de Arqueología». El Futuro del Pasado, 5: 447-455.
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[ES] El desarrollo del «Estado de las Autonomías» tras el restablecimiento de la democracia en España ha potenciado la proliferación de narrativas sobre el pasado que buscan legitimar las nuevas estructuras administrativas y homogeneizar... more
[ES] El desarrollo del «Estado de las Autonomías» tras el restablecimiento de la democracia en España ha potenciado la proliferación de narrativas sobre el pasado que buscan legitimar las nuevas estructuras administrativas y homogeneizar sus formaciones identitarias. Esto se solapa con un creciente interés de la ciudadanía por el pasado y su escenificación en la esfera pública a través de recreaciones históricas. El estudio analiza tres recreaciones históricas en el noroeste español y su vinculación con discursos constructores de alteridad identitaria a nivel sociopolítico. Igualmente, estudia los intercambios y mediaciones producidas entre el conocimiento académico y su recepción por parte del público, demostrando cómo ciertas cuestiones sociopolíticas se ven reflejadas en eventos aparentemente neutrales.
[EN] The development of a quasi-federal administrative framework based on Regional Governments (Comunidades Autónomas) after the restoration of democracy in Spain, has led to the proliferation of narratives about the past that seek to legitimize the new administrative structures and homogenize their identity formations so as to reinforce their internal social cohesion. This process is paralleled by a growing public interest in the past and its staging through historical reenactments. The paper analyzes the connection between both processes in three historical recreations in northwest Spain. Also, it considers the reenactments as spaces where academic knowledge reaches and is assumed in multiple ways by the public. Despite the events seem to be largely neutral at first sight, our research suggests that they are actually highly ideologically charged.
[EN] The development of a quasi-federal administrative framework based on Regional Governments (Comunidades Autónomas) after the restoration of democracy in Spain, has led to the proliferation of narratives about the past that seek to legitimize the new administrative structures and homogenize their identity formations so as to reinforce their internal social cohesion. This process is paralleled by a growing public interest in the past and its staging through historical reenactments. The paper analyzes the connection between both processes in three historical recreations in northwest Spain. Also, it considers the reenactments as spaces where academic knowledge reaches and is assumed in multiple ways by the public. Despite the events seem to be largely neutral at first sight, our research suggests that they are actually highly ideologically charged.
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Cultural Studies, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, and 56 moreFolklore, Roman History, Tourism Studies, Public Archaeology, Celtic Studies, Cultural Heritage, Ethnography, Heritage Studies, Popular Culture, Heritage Tourism, Identity (Culture), Identity politics, Nationalism, Cultural Tourism, Cultural Identity, National Identity, Regionalism, Cultural Memory, Architecture and politics, Celts (Archaeology), Nationalism and Archaeology, Spanish archaeology, Celtic Archaeology, Historical Re Enactment, Cultural Heritage Management, Pseudoscience, Roman Army, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Cultural Resource Management (Archaeology), Classical Reception Studies, Roman Empire, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Archaeological Heritage Management, Archaeology and politics, Tourism Impacts, Iron Age, Heritage, Tourism, Asturias, Spain, Reenactment, Nationalism: State Building and National Identity, Patrimonio Cultural, Asturian History, Museum and Heritage Studies, Turismo, Celticism, Cantabrian Wars, Leon, Pseudohistory, Ethnicity and National Identity, Spanish Nationalisms, Archaeology and Construction of National Identity, Turismo Cultural, Roman Archaeology, Public Perceptions of Archaeology, and Celticism Nationalism and Archaeology in northern Spain
[ES] En este trabajo se expone y discute el método arqueológico experimentado para la localización y estudio de campamentos romanos de campaña situados en áreas de montaña. A partir de una propuesta de trabajo desarrollada en el área... more
[ES] En este trabajo se expone y discute el método arqueológico experimentado para la localización y estudio de campamentos romanos de campaña situados en áreas de montaña. A partir de una propuesta de trabajo desarrollada en el área occidental de la Cordillera Cantábrica, valoramos las potencialidades de distintas técnicas para la detección de evidencias arqueológicas relacionadas con la conquista romana de este territorio. Por medio de herramientas diversas, como la documentación cartográfica y la fotografía aérea disponibles en libre acceso a través de internet, la atención a la toponimia o a las tradiciones orales del folklore, junto a la prospección convencional en superficie, se ha desarrollado con éxito un protocolo para la identificación de castra aestiva con unos costes reducidos que podría ser transferible a otros espacios montañosos.
[EN] This paper presents and discusses an archaeological survey method to identify Roman marching camps in mountainous areas such as the Cantabrian Mountains (North of Spain). The advantages of a range of techniques for the detection of archaeological evidences related to the conquest of this territory by the Roman army are evaluated. Using different sources such as open access cartography, aerial photography materials, place names, local oral traditions and data from archaeological surface prospection, our research group has successfully developed a low cost protocol for identifying Roman marching camps. Ultimately, it is argued that this methodology could be transferable to other mountain areas.
[EN] This paper presents and discusses an archaeological survey method to identify Roman marching camps in mountainous areas such as the Cantabrian Mountains (North of Spain). The advantages of a range of techniques for the detection of archaeological evidences related to the conquest of this territory by the Roman army are evaluated. Using different sources such as open access cartography, aerial photography materials, place names, local oral traditions and data from archaeological surface prospection, our research group has successfully developed a low cost protocol for identifying Roman marching camps. Ultimately, it is argued that this methodology could be transferable to other mountain areas.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Roman History, Landscape Archaeology, Historical GIS, and 54 moreWar Studies, Archaeological Method & Theory, LiDAR, Archaeological GIS, Survey (Archaeological Method & Theory), Upland Archaeology, Spanish archaeology, Open Source GIS, Roman military archaeology, Roman military history, Remote sensing and GIS applications in Landscape Research, Roman Army, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Geo-spatial analysis with GIS and GPS, Remote sensing and GIS, Roman Empire, Archaeological Prospection, Archaeological Predictive Modeling, Archaeological Fieldwork, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Roman Frontiers (Archaeology), Archaeological Methodology, Asturias, Spain, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Archaeological survey, Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Archaeological field survey, Roman Warfare, Aerial Photography, GIS Applications in Archaeology, Roman Spain, Roman military equipment, Legionary fortresses, Roman Army Studies, LiDAR for Landscape Archaeology, Roman Military Archeology, Roman Forts and Camps, Cantabrian Wars, Spatial Analysis and Predictive Modelling in Archaeology, Gallaecia, Cantabrian mountains, Mountain Archaeology, Hispania romana, Roman militaria, Predictive Models in Archaeology, Criterios de identificación de campamentos romanos en España, Roman frontiers, Landscape and Land-use-history, Roman Archaeology, Logistics of the Roman Army, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Roman Legionary Camp, and Geographic Information Systems GIS)
"[ES] Presentamos los objetivos y los primeros resultados del proyecto de investigación La formación de los paisajes del Noroeste Peninsular durante la Edad Media (siglos V al XII). Exponemos los presupuestos teóricos y metodológicos de... more
"[ES] Presentamos los objetivos y los primeros resultados del proyecto de investigación La formación de los paisajes del Noroeste Peninsular durante la Edad Media (siglos V al XII). Exponemos los presupuestos teóricos y metodológicos de la arqueología agraria y nos acercamos a los resultados preliminares obtenidos en los tres casos de estudio abordados en nuestra investigación.
[EN] The paper introduces the aims and the preliminary outcomes of the research project entitled ‘The formation of agricultural landscapes in north western Iberia during the Middle Ages (V – XII centuries)’. Also, the text sets out the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of agrarian archaeology. Finally, the paper presents and explains the results achieved hitherto in the three archaeological case studies under investigation."
[EN] The paper introduces the aims and the preliminary outcomes of the research project entitled ‘The formation of agricultural landscapes in north western Iberia during the Middle Ages (V – XII centuries)’. Also, the text sets out the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of agrarian archaeology. Finally, the paper presents and explains the results achieved hitherto in the three archaeological case studies under investigation."
Research Interests: History, Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Medieval History, Landscape Archaeology, and 18 moreMedieval Studies, Agrarian Studies, Archaeological Method & Theory, Cultural Landscapes, Early Medieval Archaeology, Landscape History, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Agrarian History, Landscape, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Agrarian Archaeology, Asturias, Spain, Historia Medieval de Asturias, Cultural Landscape, Historia Medieval, Kingdom of Asturias-León (8th-11th centuries), and Landscape and Land-use-history
[ES] Los pastizales de altura de la Cordillera Cantábrica han sido un importante recurso para las comunidades que han ocupado estos territorios a lo largo de los siglos. En este artículo presentamos los resultados iniciales de un proyecto... more
[ES] Los pastizales de altura de la Cordillera Cantábrica han sido un importante recurso para las comunidades que han ocupado estos territorios a lo largo de los siglos. En este artículo presentamos los resultados iniciales de un proyecto de investigación que tiene como objetivo comprender los procesos históricos de formación de los paisajes culturales del Noroeste peninsular. Para ello, se presta especial atención a los procesos de antropización de las zonas de montaña, interpretadas en el marco de un sistema de aprovechamiento complementario entre la ganadería y la agricultura. Los datos para época prehistórica ya permiten documentar la utilización de estos espacios, aprovechamiento que se intensificará a partir de la Edad Media. La atención a diversos tipos de fuentes (arqueológicas, documentales, etnográficas y paleoambientales) para este período nos permite calibrar la fuerte presión a la que fueron sometidos los espacios de pasto en relación con los intereses de distintos grupos sociales que competían por su control de cara al desarrollo de distintos modelos de aprovechamiento económico.
[EN] The upland pastures in the Cantabrian Mountains have been a significant resource for the communities which inhabited this territory during the last centuries. In this paper, the preliminary results of our on-going research project are presented. Our research tries to understand the historical formation processes of the cultural landscapes in the North-West of Iberia. A special attention is paid to the anthropization processes in the mountains, which is discussed in relation to the complementary exploitation system including agricultural and pastoralism practices. The archaeological data allow us to consider the exploitation of the uplands since the Later Prehistory, which will be intensified since the Middle Ages. Taking into consideration of several types of data for the medieval period —such as archaeological remains, written sources, ethnographic information or palaeoenvironmental record— we can assess the important pressure that different social groups performed for controlling the upland pastures. All of them tried to manage the grazing areas management for developing their own economic exploitation model in relation to pastoralism.
[EN] The upland pastures in the Cantabrian Mountains have been a significant resource for the communities which inhabited this territory during the last centuries. In this paper, the preliminary results of our on-going research project are presented. Our research tries to understand the historical formation processes of the cultural landscapes in the North-West of Iberia. A special attention is paid to the anthropization processes in the mountains, which is discussed in relation to the complementary exploitation system including agricultural and pastoralism practices. The archaeological data allow us to consider the exploitation of the uplands since the Later Prehistory, which will be intensified since the Middle Ages. Taking into consideration of several types of data for the medieval period —such as archaeological remains, written sources, ethnographic information or palaeoenvironmental record— we can assess the important pressure that different social groups performed for controlling the upland pastures. All of them tried to manage the grazing areas management for developing their own economic exploitation model in relation to pastoralism.
Research Interests: History, Landscape Ecology, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, and 39 moreHistorical Archaeology, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Landscape Archaeology, Medieval Studies, Pastoralism (Social Anthropology), Archaeological Method & Theory, Cultural Landscapes, Historic Landscapes, Early Medieval Archaeology, Landscape History, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Europe, Landscapes in prehistory, Upland Archaeology, Agricultural landscapes, Mountain communities, Landscape, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Ancient Husbandry & Livestock (Archaeology), Animal Husbandry, Land Use Change, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Ancient animal husbandry and agriculture, Cultural Landscape, Historia Medieval, Pastoralism, Transhumance, Pasture Management, Ethnoarchaeology Pastoralism, Uplands, Historical Landscape, High Mountain Archaeology, Nomadic Pastoralism, Settlement & Landscape research, Ancient Pastoralism, Landscape and Land-use-history, and Roman Archaeology
"[ES]: Las “excavaciones de verano” tienen gran importancia en la formación arqueológica. En el estado español, los planes de estudio universitarios están focalizados hacia los aspectos teóricos, minimizando las cuestiones prácticas y... more
"[ES]: Las “excavaciones de verano” tienen gran importancia en la formación arqueológica. En el estado español, los planes de estudio universitarios están focalizados hacia los aspectos teóricos, minimizando las cuestiones prácticas y metodológicas del trabajo arqueológico de campo. Por ello, sucesivas generaciones de arqueólogos han subsanado estas carencias participando como voluntarios en campañas estivales organizadas por universidades y OPIs. En el presente trabajo, se reflexiona acerca de la influencia que las vivencias obtenidas en estas campañas iniciáticas tienen para los estudiantes universitarios en la reproducción y naturalización de ciertos valores adosados a la idea de ser arqueólogo. Esto podría influir en la timidez de las reivindicaciones sociolaborales de los trabajadores de la Arqueología comercial. No en vano, este sector económico se caracteriza por la desregulación, la precariedad y la alta temporalidad del empleo.
[EN]: “Summer excavations” are a fundamental component of archaeological training. However, Spanish University programmes focus on theoretical aspects of Archaeology and leave practical issues and fieldwork methodologies aside. Thus, several generations of archaeologists have solved these educational shortfalls working as volunteers in University-led excavations during summer. This paper reflects on the influence these experiences have for the undergraduate students in the reproduction and naturalization of certain values which contribute to the overall idea of what being an archaeologist means. This paper argues that this could have a great influence in the little labour and social claims put forward by Commercial Archaeology workers. In fact, this productive sector is characterized by labour market deregulation, precarious work and a high rate of temporal employment."
[EN]: “Summer excavations” are a fundamental component of archaeological training. However, Spanish University programmes focus on theoretical aspects of Archaeology and leave practical issues and fieldwork methodologies aside. Thus, several generations of archaeologists have solved these educational shortfalls working as volunteers in University-led excavations during summer. This paper reflects on the influence these experiences have for the undergraduate students in the reproduction and naturalization of certain values which contribute to the overall idea of what being an archaeologist means. This paper argues that this could have a great influence in the little labour and social claims put forward by Commercial Archaeology workers. In fact, this productive sector is characterized by labour market deregulation, precarious work and a high rate of temporal employment."
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Anthropology, Education, and 45 moreHistorical Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Work, Science Education, Ethnography, Higher Education, Landscape Archaeology, Sociology of Knowledge, Educational Research, Fieldwork in Anthropology, Archaeological Method & Theory, Commercial/ Contract Archaeology, Professional Ethics, Medieval Archaeology, Gender and Work, Habitus, Sociology of Professions, Precarity, Work and Labour, Sociology of Science, Spanish archaeology, Learning And Teaching In Higher Education, Archaeological Ethics, Archaeological Education, Sociology of Practice of Science and the Professions, Ethnographic fieldwork, Archaeological Fieldwork, Financial Crisis of 2008/2009, Ethnography of Archaeology, Arqueología, Fieldwork, Archaeological Excavation, Precariousness, Precariedad, Precarious Workers, Economic Crisis, Professional Culture, Archaeology and Education, Archaeological excavations, Excavations, Sociology of Archaeology, Sociology of the Professions, Roman Archaeology, and Precarious work
Se presentan dos castra aestiva recientemente descubiertos en las montañas del centro de Asturias. Se describen las evidencias constructivas conservadas para los dos recintos, así como las amenazas que ponen en peligro su conservación.... more
Se presentan dos castra aestiva recientemente descubiertos en las montañas del centro de Asturias. Se describen las evidencias constructivas conservadas para los dos recintos, así como las amenazas que ponen en peligro su conservación. Estos dos campamentos se sitúan junto a la vía de La Mesa, ruta de especial importancia en época romana que atraviesa la Cordillera Cantábrica. Por último, señalamos posibles líneas interpretativas que puedan contextualizar históricamente la cronología y funcionalidad concreta de estos yacimientos a partir del análisis territorial de su entorno.
Research Interests: Military History, Classical Archaeology, Roman History, Battlefield Archaeology, Roman military archaeology, and 22 moreRoman military history, Roman Army, Roman roads, Roman Empire, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Hispania (Archaeology), Roman Frontiers (Archaeology), Ancient Warfare, Asturias, Spain, Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Military Archaeology, Asturian History, Roman Spain, Roman military equipment, Roman forts, Roman Army Studies, Ancient Weapons and Warfare, Roman Forts and Camps, Cantabrian Wars, Hispania romana, Roman Roads, Spain, and Roman Archaeology
Research Interests: Archaeology, Archaeological Method & Theory, Nationalism, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, and 18 moreCelts (Archaeology), Nationalism and Archaeology, Spanish archaeology, Archaeological Theory, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Nationalism And State Building (International Studies), Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, History of Nationalism, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, Archaeology and politics, Spanish politics, Iron Age, Asturias, Spain, Celticism, Ethnicity and National Identity, Spanish Nationalisms, and Nationalism and Decolonization
"Resumen: En este trabajo se reflexiona sobre la relación entre los arqueólogos y las comunidades locales del medio rural europeo, repasando la trayectoria y las posibilidades que ofrece la atención a los relatos orales del folklore de... more
"Resumen: En este trabajo se reflexiona sobre la relación entre los arqueólogos y las comunidades locales del medio rural europeo, repasando la trayectoria y las posibilidades que ofrece la atención a los relatos orales del folklore de temática arqueológica. Para ello, se analiza al caso concreto de la investigación de la Edad del Hierro en Asturias, repasando los antecedentes de este tipo de aproximaciones y exponiendo las aplicaciones prácticas que la atención a las narraciones orales puede aportar a la Arqueología. A la vez, se exploran algunas posibles vías por las que este diálogo abierto pudiese revertir en las comunidades locales.
Abstract: In this paper we reflect on the relationship between archaeologists and local communities in rural Europe, seeking to review the history and possibilities of attention to oral stories of the folklore with archaeological themes. We analyze the specific case of the investigation on the Asturian Iron Age. We review the background of such approaches and we show the practical applications that focussing on oral history can contribute to archaeological research. At the same time, we explore some possible ways in which this dialogue could revert to local communities."
Abstract: In this paper we reflect on the relationship between archaeologists and local communities in rural Europe, seeking to review the history and possibilities of attention to oral stories of the folklore with archaeological themes. We analyze the specific case of the investigation on the Asturian Iron Age. We review the background of such approaches and we show the practical applications that focussing on oral history can contribute to archaeological research. At the same time, we explore some possible ways in which this dialogue could revert to local communities."
Research Interests: Mythology And Folklore, History, Ancient History, Ethnohistory, Rural Sociology, and 77 moreArchaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Anthropology, Folklore, Mythology, Historical Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Cultural Heritage, Ethnography, Landscape Archaeology, Cosmology (Anthropology), Peasant Studies, Rural History, History of Science, Orality-Literacy Studies, History and Memory, Local History, Archaeological Method & Theory, Oral history, Cultural Landscapes, Landscape History, Oral Traditions, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge, Intangible cultural heritage, Folk legends, Ethnology, Social and Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, Survey (Archaeological Method & Theory), Collective Memory, Folklore (Literature), Spanish archaeology, Intangible Cultural Heritage (Culture), Oral Traditions (Culture), Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience, Folklore Archeology, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), History of Folklore Theory and Method, Landscape, Ethnographic fieldwork, Archaeological Prospection, History of Archeology, Orality, New Age spirituality, Comparative mythology, Iron Age (Archaeology), Traditional Knowledge, Mythology, folklore and supersition, Folklore (Anthropology), Myth, Iron Age, History of Archaeology, Prehistoric hillfort, Asturias, Spain, Memory, Oral History and Memory, Myth, Folk Studies, Legends, Oral literature, Iron Age archaeology, Asturian language, Asturian History, Cultural Landscape, Treasure Hunting, Celtic Mythology, Oralidad, Multivocality in Archaeology, Hillforts and Enclosures, Hillforts and oppida, Castros Culture in Nortwestern Iberia, Local Knowledge, Indigenous Cosmologies, Iron Age Hillforts, Hidden treasures, and New Age Religions
"[ES]: Se revisa la información disponible sobre los itinerarios de época romana a través de la Cordillera Cantábrica entre las actuales provincias de Asturias y León. El objetivo es cuestionar estos datos a la luz de recientes... more
"[ES]: Se revisa la información disponible sobre los itinerarios de época romana a través de la Cordillera Cantábrica entre las actuales provincias de Asturias y León. El objetivo es cuestionar estos datos a la luz de recientes aportaciones sobre las características técnicas de las vías romanas, apostando así por introducir en las narrativas arqueológicas la mayor concreción que aporta el uso adecuado de los términos técnicos e ingenieriles relacionados con el viario romano en el caso concreto que nos ocupa. De este modo, podremos evaluar en mejor medida el grado de integración de la Asturia transmontana en la realidad administrativa y sociopolítica del Imperio romano.
[EN]: The available information of the Roman ways across the Cantabrian Mountains is checked, between the present-day provinces of Asturias and León. The aim is to question this information in the light of recent contributions of the technical characteristics of the Roman ways. We bet for introducing in the archaeological narratives a bigger concretion that provides the suitable use of the technical terms related to the Roman system of communications in our case of study. Thus, we will be able to assess the degree of integration of the Asturia transmontana in the administrative and socio-political reality of the Roman Empire."
[EN]: The available information of the Roman ways across the Cantabrian Mountains is checked, between the present-day provinces of Asturias and León. The aim is to question this information in the light of recent contributions of the technical characteristics of the Roman ways. We bet for introducing in the archaeological narratives a bigger concretion that provides the suitable use of the technical terms related to the Roman system of communications in our case of study. Thus, we will be able to assess the degree of integration of the Asturia transmontana in the administrative and socio-political reality of the Roman Empire."
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Roman History, and 23 moreRoman engineering, Spanish archaeology, Roman Army, Roman roads, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Roman Empire, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Hispania (Archaeology), Asturias, Spain, Archaeology of Roads, Asturian History, Roman Architecture, Ancient Roads, Medieval roads, Roman engineering (archaeology), Cantabrian mountains, History of Roads, Construction techniques of Roman roads, High Mountain Archaeology, Roman Roads, Spain, Vias Romanas, Roman Archaeology, and Ancient and Roman Roads
"Resumen: En este trabajo se presentan dos nuevos yacimientos arqueológicos del extremo occidental de la Cordillera Cantábrica, en la confluencia de los límites provinciales de Asturias, León y Galicia. Sus características nos permiten... more
"Resumen: En este trabajo se presentan dos nuevos yacimientos arqueológicos del extremo occidental de la Cordillera Cantábrica, en la confluencia de los límites provinciales de Asturias, León y Galicia. Sus características nos permiten reconocerlos como castra aestiva o campamentos temporales construidos por las tropas en el transcurso de sus movimientos de campaña. Su localización nos llevan a plantear que estos yacimientos podrían ser evidencias arqueológicas del Bellum Asturicum en un territorio considerado hasta ahora como periferia del conflicto por la mayoría de autores.
Abstract: In this paper we present two new archaeological sites in the western limit of the Cantabrian Mountains, in the convergence of the borders of Asturias, León and Galicia. Their features allow us to recognize these as castra aestiva or marching camps built by a troop during campaign movements. Due to their location it is possible to think that these sites could be some archaeological evidences of the Bellum Asturicum in a territory considered the periphery of the conflict by most of the authors."
Abstract: In this paper we present two new archaeological sites in the western limit of the Cantabrian Mountains, in the convergence of the borders of Asturias, León and Galicia. Their features allow us to recognize these as castra aestiva or marching camps built by a troop during campaign movements. Due to their location it is possible to think that these sites could be some archaeological evidences of the Bellum Asturicum in a territory considered the periphery of the conflict by most of the authors."
Research Interests: Military History, Classical Archaeology, Roman History, Spanish archaeology, Roman military archaeology, and 11 moreRoman Army, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Romanization, Asturias, Spain, Asturian History, Roman forts, Roman Army Studies, Roman Forts and Camps, Cantabrian Wars, and Roman Archaeology
"Partimos de la caracterización sociocultural de los grupos castreños cantábricos como paso indispensable para comprender el sentido histórico profundo del potente cambio cultural que supuso la conquista militar del extremo norte... more
"Partimos de la caracterización sociocultural de los grupos castreños cantábricos como paso indispensable para comprender el sentido histórico profundo del potente cambio cultural que supuso la conquista militar del extremo norte peninsular y su inserción en el sistema imperial romano. Nuevos datos arqueológicos nos permiten discutir la información sobre las operaciones armadas de conquista que nos ofrecían las fuentes clásicas y comprender qué papeles jugaron los diferentes grupos (meseteños y cantábricos, principalmente) en aquella. Una relectura de la información arqueológica nos permitirá entender los diferentes tipos y resistencias a la romanización, básicamente uno asociado a la minería del oro y otro a un paisaje agrario.
The sociocultural characterization of Cantabrian Iron Age communities is as an essential step to understand the deep historical sense of cultural change that occured after the military conquest of Northern Spain, and its integration into the Roman imperial system. New archaeological data allow us to discuss the view on military operations that classical sources offered us. We will understand what roles were played by different groups -of Central Iberia and Western Cantabrian Mountains, primarily- in that conquest. Also, a reading of the archaeological information will help us to understand the different types of resistance to the Roman, basically one associated with gold mining and other to agrarian landscape."
The sociocultural characterization of Cantabrian Iron Age communities is as an essential step to understand the deep historical sense of cultural change that occured after the military conquest of Northern Spain, and its integration into the Roman imperial system. New archaeological data allow us to discuss the view on military operations that classical sources offered us. We will understand what roles were played by different groups -of Central Iberia and Western Cantabrian Mountains, primarily- in that conquest. Also, a reading of the archaeological information will help us to understand the different types of resistance to the Roman, basically one associated with gold mining and other to agrarian landscape."
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Cultural History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, and 25 moreRoman History, Postcolonial Studies, Spanish History, Roman Settlement, Spanish archaeology, Roman military archaeology, Roman Army, Acculturation, Roman Epigraphy, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Roman Empire, Frontier History, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Hispania (Archaeology), Roman Frontiers (Archaeology), Frontier Studies, Romanization, Iron Age, Postcolonial Archaeology, Culture Contact, Asturian History, Roman Art, Cantabrian Wars, and Roman Archaeology
El Picu Viyao (Piloña, Asturias) ha sido tradicionalmente identificado como un castro. Su ubicación y la organización de sus espacios habitacionales responden a tal catalogación. No obstante, con un examen atento de sus fortificaciones se... more
El Picu Viyao (Piloña, Asturias) ha sido tradicionalmente identificado como un castro. Su ubicación y la organización de sus espacios habitacionales responden a tal catalogación. No obstante, con un examen atento de sus fortificaciones se advierten pautas defensivas ajenas a la tradición de la Edad del Hierro en el Occidente Cantábrico. La reinterpretación de sus fortificaciones nos indica el establecimiento de cuerpos militares roma-nos. Analizamos tales evidencias con el ánimo de discutir las cronologías de ocupación y la funcionalidad del enclave. Esto nos servirá para plantear algunas propuestas de alcance regional acerca de los problemas del uso de la etiqueta “castro” como denominador común de múltiples realidades arqueológicas.
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Abstract: In the Sierra de Carondio is one of the largest megalithic burial grounds in Asturias. It forms a complex of special interest, because it could offer new data about forms of seasonal settlement of megalith builders groups. The... more
Abstract: In the Sierra de Carondio is one of the largest megalithic burial grounds in Asturias. It forms a complex of special interest, because it could offer new data about forms of seasonal settlement of megalith builders groups. The construction of a wind farm in this area serves to raise some reflections on Heritage Management and the relationship between Archeology and Society.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Landscape Archaeology, and 34 moreWind Energy, Environmental Planning and Design, Conservation Ecology, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Cultural Landscapes, Heritage Conservation, Impact Evaluation, Commercial/ Contract Archaeology, Environmental Impact Assessment, Neolithic Archaeology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Bronze Age Archaeology, Upland Archaeology, Megalithic Monuments, Environmenatl Impact Assessment, Cultural Heritage Management, Urban And Regional Planning, Roman Army, Cultural Resource Management (Archaeology), Rescue Archaeology, Landscape, Heritage Management, Neolithic Europe, Bronze Age (Archaeology), Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment, Environmentalism, Human impacts on ancient environments, Asturias, Landscape Planning, Megalithism, Preventive Archaeology, Preventive and rescue archeology, and Cantabrian Wars
Abstract: In this paper we will try to emphasize the important role that Ethnoarchaeology can play in the renovation of the archaeological interpretations for some prehistoric periods. We centre our attention on the contributions of this... more
Abstract: In this paper we will try to emphasize the important role that Ethnoarchaeology can play in the renovation of the archaeological interpretations for some prehistoric periods. We centre our attention on the contributions of this discipline to the study of the Iron Age on the Cantabrian western area. We show some cases of study, in which the contributions of Ethnoarchaeology can enrich enormously the archaeological interpretation realized on the material record of the Iron Age communities of the western part of the Cantabrian coast.
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Abstract: In this work we present the results of the initial works related to this new archaeological site discovered in Allande (SW Asturias) in June, 2007: the enclosure camp of Moyapán. The site shows a formal characteristics of the... more
Abstract: In this work we present the results of the initial works related to this new archaeological site discovered in Allande (SW Asturias) in June, 2007: the enclosure camp of Moyapán. The site shows a formal characteristics of the Roman forts already known about the Cantabrian surrounding area. We expound two interpretive principal ways (military camp of campaign in the frame of the operations of conquest and control of the territory by Roman army; or military establishment related to the exploration, the control and the putting in exploitation of the mining surrounding landscape) with the archaeological evidences which we have at the moment.
Research Interests: History, Military History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Roman History, and 18 moreConflict Archaeology, Roman Settlement, Roman military archaeology, Roman military history, Archaeology of Mining, Roman Army, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Roman Empire, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Hispania (Archaeology), Asturias, Hispania, Asturian History, Arqueología romana / Roman archeology, Roman Forts and Camps, Cantabrian Wars, Hispania romana, and Roman Archaeology
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Resumen: Se presenta una recopilación de la información bibliográfica y potencial sobre los vaqueiros d’alzada, planteando una visión etnoarqueológica como forma de trabajo más adecuada para el estudio de estas comunidades de pastores... more
Resumen: Se presenta una recopilación de la información bibliográfica y potencial sobre los vaqueiros d’alzada, planteando una visión etnoarqueológica como forma de trabajo más adecuada para el estudio de estas comunidades de pastores trashumantes, que se movían y se mueven con sus familias y ganados entre sus residencias en los puertos de la montaña central asturiana y los valles interiores, siguiendo un ciclo biestacional. Además de la preocupación por el estudio de estas propias comunidades, se sugieren vías de trabajo a desarrollar sobre aspectos como el cambio cultural e identitario propio de la irrupción de la modernidad, las formas económicas ganaderas, la arquitectura y la espacialidad doméstica, etc. que, con base en un enfoque arqueológico de la cultura material, podría proporcionarnos apreciaciones certeras sobre cuestiones de los propios vaqueiros, así como otras que pudiéramos extraer para acudir en ayuda de otras casuísticas históricas en estudio por arqueólogos e historiadores.
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González-Álvarez, David (2019): “Humanizing the western Cantabrian Mountains in northwestern Iberia: A diachronic perspective on the exploitation of the uplands during Late Prehistory”. In C. Ray & M. Fernández-Götz (eds.), Historical... more
González-Álvarez, David (2019): “Humanizing the western Cantabrian Mountains in northwestern Iberia: A diachronic perspective on the exploitation of the uplands during Late Prehistory”. In C. Ray & M. Fernández-Götz (eds.), Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal Landscapes. New York: Routledge, 156-175. ISBN: 978-0-815-34775-0
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González Álvarez, David (2018): Interpreting the Atlantic Hillforts in NW Spain Outside Academia: Local Rural Folklore versus New Age Pan-European Discourses. In: Leskovar, Jutta and Karl, Raimund (eds.), Archaeological Sites as Space for... more
González Álvarez, David (2018): Interpreting the Atlantic Hillforts in NW Spain Outside Academia: Local Rural Folklore versus New Age Pan-European Discourses. In: Leskovar, Jutta and Karl, Raimund (eds.), Archaeological Sites as Space for Modern Spiritual Practice. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Publishing Scholars, 54-71.
Research Interests: Mythology And Folklore, Archaeology, Folklore, Landscape Archaeology, Oral history, and 8 moreCultural Landscapes, Oral Traditions, Folklore Archeology, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Hillforts and Enclosures, and Iron Age Hillforts
Since the last decade of the 20th century, Roman military archaeology in Spain has been revolutionized. In this period methodology has evolved and several sites have been discovered, mainly in the northern section of the River Duero basin... more
Since the last decade of the 20th century, Roman military archaeology in Spain has been revolutionized. In this period methodology has evolved and several sites have been discovered, mainly in the northern section of the River Duero basin and in the mountainous areas of Cantabria and Asturias. Some of these sites could be linked with the campaigns of Augustus in Hispania; others might explain pre- and post-war scenarios in the transition from the Late Republic to the Early Empire. Our aim in this paper is to present the new military sites discovered in the westernmost part of this region through geospatial technologies in combination with field surveying
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, LiDAR, Conflict Archaeology, Roman military archaeology, and 9 moreRoman Army, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Roman Limes, LiDAR for Landscape Archaeology, Hispania romana, LiDAR for Archaeology, Northwest Iberia, and Roman Archaeology
Menéndez Blanco, Andrés; Álvarez Martínez, Valentín and González Álvarez, David (2018): «Escavación d'una estructura de combustión del cambeo d'Era n'Almoñu (Ayande)». In: León Gasalla, Pablo (ed.), Excavaciones Arqueológicas en Asturias... more
Menéndez Blanco, Andrés; Álvarez Martínez, Valentín and González Álvarez, David (2018): «Escavación d'una estructura de combustión del cambeo d'Era n'Almoñu (Ayande)». In: León Gasalla, Pablo (ed.), Excavaciones Arqueológicas en Asturias 2013-2016. Oviedo: Consejería de Educación y Cultura, Principado de Asturias; Ediciones Trabe, 253-260.
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Menéndez Blanco, Andrés; Costa-García, José Manuel; González Álvarez, David; Álvarez Martínez, Valentín and Fonte, João (2018): «Los campamentos romanos de Cueiru y El Xuegu la Bola na vía de La Mesa. Resultaos de la campaña del 2016».... more
Menéndez Blanco, Andrés; Costa-García, José Manuel; González Álvarez, David; Álvarez Martínez, Valentín and Fonte, João (2018): «Los campamentos romanos de Cueiru y El Xuegu la Bola na vía de La Mesa. Resultaos de la campaña del 2016». In: León Gasalla, Pablo (ed.), Excavaciones Arqueológicas en Asturias 2013-2016. Oviedo: Consejería de Educación y Cultura, Principado de Asturias; Ediciones Trabe, 273-282.
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Nesti artículu repasamos les intervenciones feches en destremaos elementos patrimoniales qu’ufiertaron información nuna llarga exa cronolóxica. Esto dexó algamar datos cualitativos sobro dómines históriques y grupos sociales perpoco... more
Nesti artículu repasamos les intervenciones feches en destremaos elementos patrimoniales qu’ufiertaron información nuna llarga exa cronolóxica. Esto dexó algamar datos cualitativos sobro dómines históriques y grupos sociales perpoco documentaos n’Asturies como’l campesináu y les élites rurales na Alta Edá Media
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[POR] Neste trabalho apresentamos e abrimos a debate uma proposta metodológica para a deteção e estudo de sítios arqueológicos relacionados com a presença militar romana no Noroeste Ibérico. A metodologia baseia-se no uso combinado de... more
[POR] Neste trabalho apresentamos e abrimos a debate uma proposta metodológica para a deteção e estudo de sítios arqueológicos relacionados com a presença militar romana no Noroeste Ibérico. A metodologia baseia-se no uso combinado de ferramentas de fácil acesso para qualquer investigador, desde a análise da fotogra a aérea, cartogra a, toponímia e tradição oral até à prospeção de campo. A isto justa-se a recente disponibilidade em aberto de dados LiDAR em Espanha. Consideramos as potencialidades destas técnicas em distintos tipos de terreno, comprovando-se a sua e ciência para a investigação arqueológica. Finalmente, oferecem-se algumas propostas para a divulgação do património arqueológico associado ao exército romano e aos processos históricos relacionados com a sua presença.
[ENG] In this work we present a methodology for the detection and study of archaeological sites related to the Roman military presence in Northwest Iberia. e methodology is based on the combined use of easily accessible tools for any researcher, from aerial photo analysis, cartography, place-names and oral tradition to eld survey. e recent availability of LiDAR data in Spain must be added to the resources previously mentioned. We consider the potential of these techniques in di erent types of terrain, proving their e ciency for archaeological research. Finally, we present and discuss some proposals for the dissemination of the archaeological heritage associated with the Roman army and historical processes related to their presence.
[ENG] In this work we present a methodology for the detection and study of archaeological sites related to the Roman military presence in Northwest Iberia. e methodology is based on the combined use of easily accessible tools for any researcher, from aerial photo analysis, cartography, place-names and oral tradition to eld survey. e recent availability of LiDAR data in Spain must be added to the resources previously mentioned. We consider the potential of these techniques in di erent types of terrain, proving their e ciency for archaeological research. Finally, we present and discuss some proposals for the dissemination of the archaeological heritage associated with the Roman army and historical processes related to their presence.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Roman History, Remote Sensing, Aerial Archaeology, and 23 moreLandscape Archaeology, Portuguese History, Archaeological Method & Theory, LiDAR, Archaeological GIS, Remote Sensing (Earth Sciences), Roman military archaeology, Roman military history, Remote sensing and GIS applications in Landscape Research, Roman Army, Remote sensing and GIS, Remote Sensing (Archaeology), Portuguese Archaeology, Archaeological Prospection, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Hispania, Remote Sensing & GIS, LiDAR for Landscape Archaeology, Galician archaeology, Hispania romana, Roman Archaeology, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
En los últimos años existe un gran debate alrededor de la divulgación de la ciencia y los nuevos roles de esta función tanto en los medios de comunicación generalistas como en los propios centros y equipos de investigación científica. Al... more
En los últimos años existe un gran debate alrededor de la divulgación de la ciencia y los nuevos roles de esta función tanto en los medios de comunicación generalistas como en los propios centros y equipos de investigación científica. Al mismo tiempo, las nuevas unidades institucionales de divulgación han generado cambios en las dinámicas de relación entre medios, comunicadores corporativos y productores de contenido científico. En este contexto, se analiza el modelo de romanarmy.eu, una unidad experimental que desarrolla nuevas metodologías de investigación arqueológica y de divulgación científica. En ellas, la comunicación corporativa basada en la interactividad y la construcción de una comunidad digital participada tanto por científicos como por una audiencia de tipo generalista son elementos estructurales del proceso de construcción del conocimiento.
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[ES] Las áreas altimontanas de la Cordillera Cantábrica son espacios multifuncionales centrales para la subsistencia de los grupos campesinos desde hace milenios. El presente trabajo aborda la complejidad de su registro arqueológico para... more
[ES] Las áreas altimontanas de la Cordillera Cantábrica son espacios multifuncionales centrales para la subsistencia de los grupos campesinos desde hace milenios. El presente trabajo aborda la complejidad de su registro arqueológico para reivindicar la necesidad de profundizar en el conocimiento de estos territorios desde una perspectiva diacrónica y sobre una base de investigación multidisciplinar.
[EN] The upland areas in the Cantabrian Mountains are multifunctional spaces which are central to peasant subsistence economies since several millennia ago. This paper deals with the complexity of material culture in these mountainous territories, claiming to going in depth in the historical understanding of mountain landscapes. Upland Archaeology in the Cantabrian Mountains must to focus in the longue durée and it should rely on a multidisciplinary approach.
[EN] The upland areas in the Cantabrian Mountains are multifunctional spaces which are central to peasant subsistence economies since several millennia ago. This paper deals with the complexity of material culture in these mountainous territories, claiming to going in depth in the historical understanding of mountain landscapes. Upland Archaeology in the Cantabrian Mountains must to focus in the longue durée and it should rely on a multidisciplinary approach.
Research Interests: History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, and 26 moreMedieval History, Ethnoarchaeology, Ethnography, Landscape Archaeology, Archaeological Method & Theory, Cultural Landscapes, Early Medieval Archaeology, Landscape History, Medieval Archaeology, Neolithic Archaeology, Upland Archaeology, Agricultural landscapes, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Mobility (Archaeology), Alpine Archaeology, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Asturias, Spain, Post-Medieval Archaeology, Cultural Landscape, Pastoralism, Transhumance, Ethnoarchaeology Pastoralism, Cantabrian mountains, High Mountain Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, and Transhumance Pastoralism
ESP: En este trabajo se analizan las narrativas de los organismos de promoción turística del gobierno asturiano sobre los paisajes culturales. Estos discursos ofrecen lecturas que resaltan especialmente los aspectos ambientales del medio... more
ESP: En este trabajo se analizan las narrativas de los organismos de promoción turística del gobierno asturiano sobre los paisajes culturales. Estos discursos ofrecen lecturas que resaltan especialmente los aspectos ambientales del medio rural asturiano, mientras los factores culturales ligados a las comunidades campesinas locales aparecen menos visibles. Los presupuestos teórico-metodológicos de la Arqueología del Paisaje han puesto de relieve la importancia de los procesos históricos de antropización en la construcción social de los paisajes culturales actuales. A la vista de estas observaciones, se reflexiona acerca de la relevancia de las Ciencias Sociales en el diseño de las políticas de gestión territorial del medio rural asturiano.
ENG: In this paper, the narratives on cultural landscapes made by the tourism promotion agencies of the Asturian government are analyzed. These discourses provide readings in which the environmental aspects of Asturian rural areas are especially highlighted, while cultural factors related to local peasant communities are almost invisible. The theoretical and methodological framework of Landscape Archaeology has provided useful reflections about the significance of long-term anthropization processes in the social construction of cultural landscapes. Taking into account these observations, we assess the relevance Social Sciences might play in the design of land management policies for the Asturian countryside.
ENG: In this paper, the narratives on cultural landscapes made by the tourism promotion agencies of the Asturian government are analyzed. These discourses provide readings in which the environmental aspects of Asturian rural areas are especially highlighted, while cultural factors related to local peasant communities are almost invisible. The theoretical and methodological framework of Landscape Archaeology has provided useful reflections about the significance of long-term anthropization processes in the social construction of cultural landscapes. Taking into account these observations, we assess the relevance Social Sciences might play in the design of land management policies for the Asturian countryside.
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The pastures of the Cantabrian Mountains have constituted an important resource for the subsistence strategies of their inhabitants, from the Neolithic to the present day. Seasonal settlements in these upland areas –so-called brañas in... more
The pastures of the Cantabrian Mountains have constituted an important resource for the subsistence strategies of their inhabitants, from the Neolithic to the present day. Seasonal settlements in these upland areas –so-called brañas in the case study – were used by shepherds in relation with herding mobility. In this paper we reflect on present-day brañas in order to understand different types of herding settlements in the archaeological record according to different mobility systems or pastoralist strategies. This way, we hope to gain a better understanding on archaeological issues from summer farms. In fact, this kind of approach has been really useful to encourage the discussion around our on-going research on cultural landscapes of the Cantabrian Mountains from a long-term chronological perspective.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, and 36 moreMobility/Mobilities, Landscape Archaeology, Pastoralism (Social Anthropology), Anthropology of Mobility, Archaeological Method & Theory, Cultural Landscapes, Historic Landscapes, Early Medieval Archaeology, Landscape History, Medieval Archaeology, Alpine history, Neolithic Archaeology, Landscapes in prehistory, Upland Archaeology, Agricultural landscapes, Megalithic Monuments, Mountain communities, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Megaliths (Archaeology), Pastoral landscapes (Archaeology), Alpine Archaeology, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Cultural Landscape, Megalithism, Pastoralism, Ethnoarchaeology Pastoralism, Uplands, High Mountain Archaeology, Nomadic Pastoralism, Mobile Pastoralism, Uplands History, Ancient Pastoralism, Archaeology of Pastoralism, Landscape and Land-use-history, Herding Behaviour, and Roman Archaeology
Se presentan tres castra aestiva identificados en el área montañosa de Asturias que separa las cuencas de los ríos Navia y Eo: El Pico el Outeiro, A Pedra Dereta y El Chao de Carrubeiro. Mediante el estudio de las características formales... more
Se presentan tres castra aestiva identificados en el área montañosa de Asturias que separa las cuencas de los ríos Navia y Eo: El Pico el Outeiro, A Pedra Dereta y El Chao de Carrubeiro. Mediante el estudio de las características formales de estos sitios y el análisis espacial de su entorno, se plantea la hipótesis de encontrarnos ante una nueva línea de avance del ejército romano durante la fase de conquista de este territorio en el marco del Bellum Asturicum. De igual modo, también se da a conocer una línea defensiva inédita de cronología aún indeterminada que corta el tránsito por el eje de estas sierras. Se incluye además el campamento de Moyapán, situado en la orilla derecha del Navia y próximo al conjunto anterior.
Three castra aestiva have been identified in the mountainous area of Asturias which divides the basins of the Navia and Eo rivers: El Pico el Outeiro, A Pedra Dereta and El Chao de Carrubeiro. Through the formal and spatial analysis of the characteristics of these sites and their environment, we present the hypothesis that they fit with a new line of advance of the Roman army during the Bellum Asturicum. We also present a defensive structure of yet undetermined chronology which cut off the transit route through these mountains. In addition, we add to the study the Roman camp of Moyapán, which is located in the right shore of the Navia river and it is nearby to the former group of sites.
Three castra aestiva have been identified in the mountainous area of Asturias which divides the basins of the Navia and Eo rivers: El Pico el Outeiro, A Pedra Dereta and El Chao de Carrubeiro. Through the formal and spatial analysis of the characteristics of these sites and their environment, we present the hypothesis that they fit with a new line of advance of the Roman army during the Bellum Asturicum. We also present a defensive structure of yet undetermined chronology which cut off the transit route through these mountains. In addition, we add to the study the Roman camp of Moyapán, which is located in the right shore of the Navia river and it is nearby to the former group of sites.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Roman military archaeology, Roman Army, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, and 8 moreAsturian History, Arqueología del conflicto y la represión, Esercito Romano, Roman Forts and Camps, Arqueologia Militar Romana, Campamentos Romanos, Roman Archaeology, and Roman Military Camps
Se describe el castra aestiva de Huerga de Frailes (Villazala, León), descubierto en 2009. Se trata de un yacimiento gravemente afectado por el aprovechamiento agrícola intensivo, por lo que el conocimiento que tenemos del mismo se limita... more
Se describe el castra aestiva de Huerga de Frailes (Villazala, León), descubierto en 2009. Se trata de un yacimiento gravemente afectado por el aprovechamiento agrícola intensivo, por lo que el conocimiento que tenemos del mismo se limita a lo aportado por la fotografía aérea. Planteamos su instalación durante las Guerras Astur-cántabras como la hipótesis más razonable hasta el momento.
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Work, and 40 moreCultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, Sociology of Knowledge, Construction Management, Archaeological Method & Theory, Human Resource Management, Unemployment, Commercial/ Contract Archaeology, Professional Ethics, Job Satisfaction, Neoliberalism, Habitus, Sociology of Professions, Precarity, Work and Labour, Sociology of Science, Spanish archaeology, Cultural Heritage Management, Cultural Resource Management (Archaeology), Rescue Archaeology, Archaeological Fieldwork, Academic Profession, Financial Crisis of 2008/2009, Academia, Global Financial Crisis, Financial Crisis, Archaeological Excavation, Precariousness, Euro-Zone Crisis, Precarious Employment, Precarious Workers, Economic Crisis, Preventive Archaeology, Academia and Neoliberalism, Archaeology and Heritage management studies, Theory and practice in Archaeology, Working Class Archaeology, Precarious Labour, Sociology of Archaeology, and Precarious work
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, and 55 moreHistorical Archaeology, Medieval History, Environmental Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Landscape Archaeology, Environmental Studies, Agrarian Studies, Environmental History, Archaeological Method & Theory, Landscape History, Cultural Landscapes, Historic Landscapes, Medieval Iberian History, Spanish History, Early Medieval Archaeology, Landscape History, Medieval Archaeology, Archaeological GIS, Neolithic Archaeology, Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Landscapes in prehistory, Upland Archaeology, Agricultural landscapes, Landscape archaeology (Anthropology), Mountain communities, Agrarian History, Cultural Heritage Management, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Landscape, Archaeological Prospection, Pastoral landscapes (Archaeology), Neolithic Europe, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Iron Age (Archaeology), Pastoralism (Archaeology), Ancient Agriculture & Farming (Archaeology), Neolithic, Iron Age, Historia agraria, Agrarian Archaeology, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Protohistoric Iberian Peninsula, Historia Medieval de Asturias, Asturian History, Cultural Landscape, Peasant History, Longue durée, Historical Landscape, History of Agriculture, Settlement & Landscape research, Landscape and Land-use-history, Roman Archaeology, and Traditional Agriculture
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Se reflexiona sobre las brañas asturianas para entender las diferentes estrategias pastoriles en áreas de montaña, analizando las tipologías de asentamientos estacionales y las fórmulas de movilidad ganadera. La perspectiva... more
Se reflexiona sobre las brañas asturianas para entender las diferentes estrategias pastoriles en áreas de montaña, analizando las tipologías de asentamientos estacionales y las fórmulas de movilidad ganadera. La perspectiva etnoarqueológica de nuestro trabajo nos proporciona una mejor comprensión de los paisajes culturales y los sistemas pastoriles en áreas de montaña. Este enfoque nos proporcionará estímulos interpretativos aplicables a futuras investigaciones arqueológicas.
Research Interests: Ethnohistory, Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Ethnography, Landscape Archaeology, and 17 moreUpland Archaeology, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Nomadism, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Asturias, Spain, Asturian History, Transhumance, Ethnoarchaeology Pastoralism, Uplands, Cantabrian mountains, Mountain Archaeology, High Mountain Archaeology, Nomadic Pastoralism, Pastoralism and Pastoralists, Ancient Pastoralism, Pastoral nomadism, and Archaeology of Nomadism
Celtism was introduced in Asturias (Northern Spain) as a source of identity in the 19th century by the bourgeois and intellectual elite which developed the Asturianism and a regionalist political agenda. The archaeological Celts did not... more
Celtism was introduced in Asturias (Northern Spain) as a source of identity in the 19th century by the bourgeois and intellectual elite which developed the Asturianism and a regionalist political agenda. The archaeological Celts did not appear until Franco dictatorship, when they were linked to the Iron Age hillforts. Since the beginning of Spanish democracy, in 1978, most of the archaeologists who have been working on Asturian Iron Age have omitted ethnic studies. Today, almost nobody speaks about Celts in Academia. But, in the last years the Celtism has widespread on Asturian society. Celts are a very important political reference point in the new frame of Autonomous regions in Spain. In this context, archaeologists must to assume our responsibility in order of clarifying the uses and abuses of Celtism as a historiographical myth. We have to transmit the deconstruction of Celtism to society and we should be able to present alternatives to these archaeological old discourses in which Celtism entail the assumption of an ethnocentric, hierarchical and androcentric view of the past.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Celtic Studies, and 22 moreArchaeological Method & Theory, Nationalism, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Nationalism and Archaeology, Celtic Archaeology, Historical Re Enactment, Archaeological Ethics, Archaeological Education, Pseudoscience, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Nationalism And State Building (International Studies), Classical Reception Studies, History of Nationalism, History of Archeology, Nations and nationalism, Iron Age, History of Archaeology, Reenactment, Celticism, Archaeology and society, and Roman Archaeology
In this work we study, from an ethnoarchaeological perspective, the different ways of live in the traditional communities of pastoralists in the mountain areas ofAsturias (Northern Spain). Different solutions are documented on settlement... more
In this work we study, from an ethnoarchaeological perspective, the different ways of live in the traditional communities of pastoralists in the mountain areas ofAsturias (Northern Spain). Different solutions are documented on settlement patterns and residential mobility in a very small geographic space. Rural communities in these mountainous areas have preserved, until very recently, some traditional ways of life in which livestock have had a major influence on their livelihoods. The domestic animals have been exploited with an interesting variety of specialized formulas, involving different settlement patterns and residential mobility systems. It is very interesting to contrast the coincidence of different groups of shepherds - with different ways of life - in a limited mountainous space, and the strong geographical and environmental constraints of Asturian mountains. This creates a research context where we can reflect on the great variability of social and cultural aspects within Pastoralism.We will try to understand the construction of identities in a frontier area and to discuss about the use of labels like “nomads” or “transhumants” in prehistoric archaeology
Research Interests: Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Ethnography, Landscape Archaeology, Pastoralism (Social Anthropology), and 21 moreAnthropology of Mobility, European Ethnography, Ethnographic Fieldwork (Anthropology), Upland Archaeology, Spanish archaeology, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Ethnographic fieldwork, Pastoral landscapes (Archaeology), Mobility (Archaeology), Nomadism, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Ancient Husbandry & Livestock (Archaeology), Asturias, Spain, Pastoralism, Transhumance, Ethnoarchaeology Pastoralism, GRAZING RESOURCES AND PASTORALISM, Cantabrian mountains, High Mountain Archaeology, Pastoral nomadism, and Archaeology of Nomadism
Se presenta sintéticamente la situación sociolaboral de la Arqueología comercial en la Comunidad de Madrid, haciendo hincapié en sus problemas estructurales. Se plantean unas líneas prioritarias de trabajo hacia las que deberían avanzar... more
Se presenta sintéticamente la situación sociolaboral de la Arqueología comercial en la Comunidad de Madrid, haciendo hincapié en sus problemas estructurales. Se plantean unas líneas prioritarias de trabajo hacia las que deberían avanzar los agentes implicados en el sector para superar las graves dificultades que, en particular, atraviesa el colectivo de trabajadores/as
Research Interests: Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Sociology of Work, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, and 25 moreUrban Planning, Archaeological Method & Theory, Commercial/ Contract Archaeology, Gender and Work, Work and Labour, Spanish archaeology, Archaeological Education, Cultural Heritage Management, Urban And Regional Planning, Cultural Resource Management (Archaeology), Rescue Archaeology, Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Heritage Management, Financial Crisis of 2008/2009, Ethnography of Archaeology, Precariousness, Precariedad, Precarious Workers, Economic Crisis, Preventive Archaeology, Preventive and rescue archeology, Madrid, Commercial Archaeology, and Precarious work
Presentamos varios yacimientos militares romanos recientemente descubiertos en el área asturleonesa. Sus ubicaciones y características formales son propias de los campamentos romanos temporales – castra aestiva – de cronología... more
Presentamos varios yacimientos militares romanos recientemente descubiertos en el área asturleonesa. Sus ubicaciones y características formales son propias de los campamentos romanos temporales – castra aestiva – de cronología altoimperial. Por ello, sería presumible relacionarlos con las Guerras Cántabras. Su georreferenciación ofrece información sobre las operaciones militares de conquista en un escenario inédito para las interpretaciones tradicionales de las fuentes clásicas
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En este trabajo se exponen las carencias e insuficiencias que la aplicación de perspectivas histórico-culturales en la definición y estudio de la Edad del Hierro en el Noroeste peninsular y cornisa cantábrica, donde con la etiqueta... more
En este trabajo se exponen las carencias e insuficiencias que la aplicación de perspectivas histórico-culturales en la definición y estudio de la Edad del Hierro en el Noroeste peninsular y cornisa cantábrica, donde con la etiqueta “cultura castreña” se nos presentaba una realidad artificiosamente plana de las comunidades prerromanas del área. Recientemente se han puesto en claro la existencia de múltiples rasgos de variabilidad en las características culturales de estos grupos de la Edad del Hierro, aunque los estudios del poblamiento seguían acusando cierta inercia de las perspectivas teóricas tradicionales. Con el objetivo de incorporar este género de estudios a la línea renovadora que nos muestra la diversidad de las gentes castreñas, se propone desterrar el uso del concepto de “cultura arqueológica” y sustituirlo por la concepción de un mosaico de grupos arqueológicos castreños, en el que se ha de atender a la existencia de distintos modelos de poblamiento, relacionados con diferentes modelos sociopolíticos
Research Interests: Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Nationalism, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, and 10 moreNationalism and Archaeology, Spanish archaeology, Archaeological Theory, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Iron Age, History of Archaeology, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Hillforts and Enclosures, Archeology in northwestern Iberian Peninusla, and Castros Culture in Nortwestern Iberia
"Resumen: Las pautas de movilidad ganadera pueden ser entendidas como una excelente herramienta interpretativa para comprender los sistemas de poblamiento, territorialización y subsistencia de las comunidades prerromanas del Occidente... more
"Resumen: Las pautas de movilidad ganadera pueden ser entendidas como una excelente herramienta interpretativa para comprender los sistemas de poblamiento, territorialización y subsistencia de las comunidades prerromanas del Occidente cantábrico. Debido al aprovechamiento de zonas de pastos estivales, las zonas montañosas se poblaron con cierta densidad, desarrollándose procesos particulares en la construcción del paisaje sociopolítico y subsistencial. Se reconocen discursos materiales dirigidos a afianzar y reclamar el usufructo de las zonas de pastos por parte de los distintos grupos y en las distintas fases diacrónicas de la Prehistoria, en una perspectiva de tiempos largos. En el presente trabajo, se presentan sintéticamente algunas hipótesis de trabajo con el
apoyo de una serie de lecturas etnoarqueológicas que iluminarán la elaboración del discurso interpretativo.
Palabras Clave: Edad del Hierro, megalitismo, Arqueología del paisaje, movilidad ganadera, Occidente Cantábrico.
Abstract: Herding mobility can be understood as an excellent interpretive tool for understanding settlement, subsistence and territorialization patterns of pre-Roman communities in West Cantabrian area (North of Spain). Due to the use of summer pasture areas, mountains were populated with certain density and particular processes in the construction of socio-political and subsistencial landscape were developed up there. Material speeches are recognized aimed at strengthening and claiming the usufruct of the pasture areas by different groups and at different stages of Prehistory in a long durée perspective. In this paper, several working hypotheses which rely on some ethnoarchaeological readings will be presented synthetically. That will illuminate the interpretive discourse.
Keywords: Iron Age, megalithism, Landscape Archaeology, herding mobility, Western Cantabrian area (North of Spain)."
apoyo de una serie de lecturas etnoarqueológicas que iluminarán la elaboración del discurso interpretativo.
Palabras Clave: Edad del Hierro, megalitismo, Arqueología del paisaje, movilidad ganadera, Occidente Cantábrico.
Abstract: Herding mobility can be understood as an excellent interpretive tool for understanding settlement, subsistence and territorialization patterns of pre-Roman communities in West Cantabrian area (North of Spain). Due to the use of summer pasture areas, mountains were populated with certain density and particular processes in the construction of socio-political and subsistencial landscape were developed up there. Material speeches are recognized aimed at strengthening and claiming the usufruct of the pasture areas by different groups and at different stages of Prehistory in a long durée perspective. In this paper, several working hypotheses which rely on some ethnoarchaeological readings will be presented synthetically. That will illuminate the interpretive discourse.
Keywords: Iron Age, megalithism, Landscape Archaeology, herding mobility, Western Cantabrian area (North of Spain)."
Research Interests: Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Environmental History, Cultural Landscapes, and 17 moreBronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Upland Archaeology, Landscape archaeology (Anthropology), Megalithic Monuments, Mountain communities, Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (Archaeology), Landscape, Pastoral landscapes (Archaeology), Mobility (Archaeology), Pastoralism (Archaeology), Sacred Landscape (Archaeology), Iron Age, Asturias, Spain, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology Pastoralism, Cantabrian mountains, and Landscape and Land-use-history
""Resumen: Se presenta un estudio arqueológico sobre el cambio cultural e identitario realizado en un contexto de convergencia entre el mundo rural tradicional y la irrupción de la Modernidad. Se analiza la arquitectura doméstica y... more
""Resumen: Se presenta un estudio arqueológico sobre el cambio cultural e identitario realizado en un contexto de convergencia entre el mundo rural tradicional y la irrupción de la Modernidad. Se analiza la arquitectura doméstica y productiva de varios pueblos de la montaña central asturiana con una óptica arqueológica. Esto sirve para reflexionar acerca de cómo las cuestiones identitarias en contextos de cambio cultural se reflejan en la materialidad de los espacios domésticos y productivos, y cómo a su vez la materialidad funciona como un elemento fundamental en la construcción de la identidad. Se considera así que los estudios arqueológicos pueden servir de valiosas herramientas con las que repensar los procedimientos arqueológicos encaminados a estudiar estas mismas cuestiones identitarias sobre las comunidades humanas del pasado.
Palabras Clave: cambio cultural, materialidad, espacio construido, vaqueiros d’alzada, modernidad.
Abstract: We present an archaeological study about cultural and identity change that was carried out in a context of convergence between the traditional rural world and the emergence of Modernity. We analize the domestic architecture of several mountain villages in central Asturias with an archeological point of view. This is to reflect on how issues of identity can be reflected in the materiality of the domestic and productive spaces in contexts of cultural change, and how the materiality acts as a key element in the construction of identity. We considere that the archaeological studies can work as valuable tools with which to rethink the archaeological procedures designed to examine these same issues of identity human communities in the past.
Keywords: cultural change, materiality, built space, vaqueiros d’alzada, modernity.""
Palabras Clave: cambio cultural, materialidad, espacio construido, vaqueiros d’alzada, modernidad.
Abstract: We present an archaeological study about cultural and identity change that was carried out in a context of convergence between the traditional rural world and the emergence of Modernity. We analize the domestic architecture of several mountain villages in central Asturias with an archeological point of view. This is to reflect on how issues of identity can be reflected in the materiality of the domestic and productive spaces in contexts of cultural change, and how the materiality acts as a key element in the construction of identity. We considere that the archaeological studies can work as valuable tools with which to rethink the archaeological procedures designed to examine these same issues of identity human communities in the past.
Keywords: cultural change, materiality, built space, vaqueiros d’alzada, modernity.""
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Abstract: Traditional communities from rural Asturian landscape construct (or constructed) their identity based on a mythical thought, which allows them to handle oral stories which they are able to understand and explain different real... more
Abstract: Traditional communities from rural Asturian landscape construct (or constructed) their identity based on a mythical thought, which allows them to handle oral stories which they are able to understand and explain different real observations. Inside this oral tradition, there are many different stories relating to archaeological realities like sites or material objects of hillforts communities in the Western Cantabrian area (Asturias). These speeches can be relevant for the archaeological discipline, for which we raise superficially a way of work, through a few cases of study, in that after contextual ethnoarchaeological interpretation, we can take advantage of informative contributions proceeding from the traditional system of knowledge, elaborated in mythical key.
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Research Interests: Peace and Conflict Studies, Contemporary Archaeology, Conflict Archaeology, Muslim Spain, Archaeology of the Spanish Civil War, and 7 moreSpanish Civil War, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Contemporary Spanish History, Archaeology of Contemporary Past, Archaeologies of Memory, Asturias, Spain, and History of Muslim Spain
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ÍNDICE/INDEX: Presentación, por Valentín Álvarez Martínez, David González Álvarez y Jesís Ignacio Jiménez Chaparro. 7 Las ocupaciones paleolíticas de la cueva de La Güelga (Narciandi, Cangas de Onís, Asturias), por Mario Menéndez... more
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Presentación, por Valentín Álvarez Martínez, David González Álvarez y Jesís Ignacio Jiménez Chaparro. 7
Las ocupaciones paleolíticas de la cueva de La Güelga (Narciandi, Cangas de Onís, Asturias), por Mario Menéndez Fernández, Eduardo García Sánchez y José Manuel Quesada López. 11
Jebel Al-Mutawwaq (Jordania), por Juan Fernández-Tresguerres. 39
Un firme testimonio de la explotación prehistórica del cobre en el Norte de la Península Ibérica: El complejo minero del Aramo (Asturias), por Miguel Ángel de Blas Cortina. 51
La investigación arqueológica de ámbito castreño en el Occidente de Asturias: El Plan Arqueológico del Navia-Eo,
por Ángel Villa Valdés. 69
Los escenarios bélicos de La Carisa y de La Mesa, por Jorge Camino Mayor, Yolanda Viniegra Pacheco y Rogelio Estrada García. 93
El castillo de Curiel (Peñaferruz, Gijón). Un castillo altomedieval en Asturias, por José Avelino Gutiérrez González. 111
Presentación, por Valentín Álvarez Martínez, David González Álvarez y Jesís Ignacio Jiménez Chaparro. 7
Las ocupaciones paleolíticas de la cueva de La Güelga (Narciandi, Cangas de Onís, Asturias), por Mario Menéndez Fernández, Eduardo García Sánchez y José Manuel Quesada López. 11
Jebel Al-Mutawwaq (Jordania), por Juan Fernández-Tresguerres. 39
Un firme testimonio de la explotación prehistórica del cobre en el Norte de la Península Ibérica: El complejo minero del Aramo (Asturias), por Miguel Ángel de Blas Cortina. 51
La investigación arqueológica de ámbito castreño en el Occidente de Asturias: El Plan Arqueológico del Navia-Eo,
por Ángel Villa Valdés. 69
Los escenarios bélicos de La Carisa y de La Mesa, por Jorge Camino Mayor, Yolanda Viniegra Pacheco y Rogelio Estrada García. 93
El castillo de Curiel (Peñaferruz, Gijón). Un castillo altomedieval en Asturias, por José Avelino Gutiérrez González. 111
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Research Interests: Folklore, Ethnoarchaeology, Cultural Heritage, Ethnography, Heritage Studies, and 21 morePastoralism (Social Anthropology), Heritage Tourism, Heritage Conservation, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Vernacular Architecture, Architectural History, Cultural Heritage Management, Sustainable Architecture, Architectural Heritage, Ethnographic fieldwork, Traditional Knowledge, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Asturias, History of architecture, Wooden Architecture, Asturian History, Traditional Architecture, Cantabrian Region, Pastoralism, Ethnoarchaeology Pastoralism, and Traditional house
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The use of aerial photography for the detection and study of Roman military settlements in the Iberian Peninsula is not new. However, the impetus given to the discipline in recent decades also requires a significant renovation of its... more
The use of aerial photography for the detection and study of Roman military settlements in the Iberian Peninsula is not new. However, the impetus given to the discipline in recent decades also requires a significant renovation of its methodological approaches. In this paper, we present a low-cost methodology combining historical and modern aerial photography, satellite imagery, airborne LiDAR, GIS and conventional archaeological field survey techniques. These tools not only provide a new and qualitatively differential approach to archaeology, but also allow the study of the sites from a diachronic perspective. Our aim in this paper is to test the potential and limitations of these techniques in the specific study of several early Roman camps, a type of settlement characterized by the perishable nature of its structures and the shortage of material findings associated to them. Since it is also important to consider the different ownership and land use structures, we have selected a group of sites located in the territories of Galicia, Asturias, León and northern Portugal as case study.
Research Interests: LiDAR, Roman military archaeology, Roman Army, Hispania, Tarraconensis, and 10 moreAerial Photogrammetry, Aerial Photography, LiDAR for Landscape Archaeology, Roman Forts and Camps, Ancient Hispania, Roman Archaeology, Historical Aerial Photographs, Historical Aerial Photogrammes and Digital Photogrammetry, Roman Military Camps, and Ancient Gallaecia
Póster presentado en las XIII Jornadas de Arqueología Medieval "El registro arqueológico y la Arqueología Medieval", Universidad de Granada (12-14 de junio de 2012)
Research Interests: Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Ethnography, Landscape Archaeology, Pastoralism (Social Anthropology), and 12 moreAnthropology of Mobility, Cultural Landscapes, Landscape History, Upland Archaeology, Mountain communities, Landscape, Mobility (Archaeology), Nomadism, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Cantabrian Region, Pastoralism, and Transhumance
Póster presentado en las V Jornadas de Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica (JIA2012). Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio–Incipit (CSIC) Santiago de Compostela (9-11 de mayo de 2012)
Research Interests: Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Ethnography, Landscape Archaeology, and 14 morePastoralism (Social Anthropology), Anthropology of Mobility, Cultural Landscapes, Landscape History, Upland Archaeology, Mountain communities, Landscape, Mobility (Archaeology), Nomadism, Pastoralism (Archaeology), Cantabrian Region, Pastoralism, Transhumance, and Livestock Production Economics
Póster presentado en las IV Jornadas de Jovens em Investigação Arqueológica (JIA 2011). Campus de Gambelas, Universidade do Algarve, Faro – Portugal (11-14 de mayo de 2011)
Research Interests: Ancient History, Military History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Roman History, and 11 moreAerial Archaeology, Roman military archaeology, Roman Army, Roman Empire, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Hispania, Aerial Photography, Ancient History of the Iberian Peninsula/Hispania, Cantabrian Region, Cantabrian Wars, and Roman Archaeology
""Documentary film (13, 30 minutes) directed by Pablo Alonso González about an on-going archaeological research on Landscape Archaeology in the Northern mountains of Spain. The film is in Spanish. More info:... more
""Documentary film (13, 30 minutes) directed by Pablo Alonso González about an on-going archaeological research on Landscape Archaeology in the Northern mountains of Spain. The film is in Spanish. More info: http://arqueologiaagraria.wordpress.com/"
Research Interests: Mythology And Folklore, Archaeology, Folklore, Landscape Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, and 8 moreNeolithic Archaeology, Origin Of Medieval Field Systems, Upland Archaeology, Folklore Archeology, Pastoral landscapes (Archaeology), Iron Age, Agrarian Archaeology, and Landscape and Land-use-history
WORKSHOP "Arqueoloxía en áreas de montaña: últimos desenvolvementos e retos de futuro na Península Ibérica"
Consello da Cultura Galega, Santiago de Compostela
Mércores, 27 de marzo de 2019
Consello da Cultura Galega, Santiago de Compostela
Mércores, 27 de marzo de 2019
Research Interests: History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, and 11 morePalaeoenvironment, Landscape Archaeology, Commons, Cultural Landscapes, Landscape History, Medieval Archaeology, Upland Archaeology, Land Use Change, High Mountain Archaeology, Landscape and Land-use-history, and Roman Archaeology
Workshop "A ras de suelo: experiencias en Arqueología de cara al público en el Noroeste ibérico". Viernes 26 de octubre de 2018. Facultade de Xeografía e Historia, USC.
Research Interests:
Curso de 20h (1 ECTS) organizado por la Unión Cultural Arqueológica (UCA), Facultad de Geografia e Historia de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), a celebrarse los días 13, 14, 16, 21, 23 y 27 de marzo de 2017.
Research Interests:
Seminario impartido en el Museo Arqueológico de Asturias, 26 de mayo de 2016
Research Interests:
Curso de Arqueología del Paisaje (20h) organizado por la Unión Cultural Arqueológica (UCA) en la Facultad de Geografía e Historia de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Research Interests: Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Environmental Studies, Cultural Landscapes, and 9 moreLandscape History, Landscapes in prehistory, Remote sensing and GIS applications in Landscape Research, Landscape, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Cultural Landscape, Landscape Planning, LiDAR for Landscape Archaeology, and Landscape and Land-use-history
INNOVACIONES METODOLÓGICAS EN ARQUEOLOGÍA: UNA MIRADA DISTINTA A LA MATERIALIDAD Sala Centenario, Campus Saucache UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ 15:00 – 15:10 Recepción y palabras introductorias. 15:10 – 15:40 “Nuevas técnicas de... more
INNOVACIONES METODOLÓGICAS EN ARQUEOLOGÍA:
UNA MIRADA DISTINTA A LA MATERIALIDAD
Sala Centenario, Campus Saucache
UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ
15:00 – 15:10 Recepción y palabras introductorias.
15:10 – 15:40
“Nuevas técnicas de documentación en arqueología y patrimonio”
Paloma Fernández y Zaray Guerrero (Programa de Doctorado en Antropología UTA-UCN)
Durante la última década, el desarrollo de nuevas técnicas de documentación aplicadas a la
arqueología y el patrimonio, han abierto una nueva vía de investigación dentro de dichas áreas.
La generación de modelos tridimensionales mediante software como PhotoScan o Python, por
ejemplo, permite al arqueólogo y especialista patrimonial captar información objetiva del
elemento de estudio así como realizar restituciones de hallazgos arqueológicos destruidos.
Estas técnicas apoyan la revalorización y difusión del patrimonio entre el gran púbico; ya sea
mediante los medios tradicionales en museos o a través de herramientas y sistemas de
visualización novedosos y dinámicos.
15:45 – 16:05
“Entre campos antagónicos: reflexiones sobre el posicionamiento antropológico en el
trabajo de campo”
Pamela Cerda Pfeng (Fundación Cultural Arica Revive)
En las últimas décadas, el patrimonio cultural ha sido objeto de atención por parte de diversos
actores sociales a nivel global. En Chile, el Estado a través de sus instituciones se ha
posicionado como un actor central en la revaloración de las comunidades mediante la
promoción del patrimonio cultural. Sin embargo, diversos casos demuestran que dicha afinidad
entre Estado/ Comunidades no es representativa. Este trabajo expone los diversos intereses
políticos que conlleva el ejercicio institucional de definir lo patrimonial. Poniendo especial
énfasis en la propuesta metodológica, se expone la experiencia de trabajo de campo
desarrollada en dos plataformas (la institucional y comunitaria), y las diversas técnicas que
fueron utilizadas para obtener y analizar datos, según el posicionamiento del rol del
antropólogo/a.
16:10 – 16:30
Patrimonio Global ¿Hasta donde? Reivindicaciones culturales en tiempos de patrimonio.
Dante Angelo (Universidad de Tarapacá)
Luego de la crisis económica del 2001 que sacudió sus cimientos como sociedad moderna, la
Argentina decidió buscar nuevos vínculos culturales con el resto de Sur América. A través de
una combinación de métodos arqueológicos, etnográficos e históricos, este trabajo argumenta
que la construcción del patrimonio responde simultáneamente a diferentes intereses; desde
aquellos globales y estatales que buscan capitalizar la “diferencia” como parte de las crecientes
industrias patrimonial y turística, hasta los de aquellas llamadas minorías culturales que,
demandando procesos históricos de exclusión, buscan también ser parte de un mundo
cosmopolita, dinámico y cambiante. Complementariamente, a través del análisis de una
temática que en la última década ha cobrado interés inusitado: el patrimonio, pongo a la
arqueología como sujeto de escrutinio en términos de sus alcances y objeto de estudio como
disciplina.
16:30 – 16:45 Receso
16:45 – 17:00
“Materialidad e ideología: pseudoarqueología y recreaciones históricas en Maragatería
(España)”
Pablo Alonso González (University of Cambridge)
Los usos del pasado en el presente pueden asociarse a una multiplicidad de prácticas y
discursos con consecuencias importantes tanto para la práctica arqueologica como para las
construcciones políticas contemporáneas. El estudio paralelo del ámbito de la pseudociencia en
arqueología con las fiestas de recreación del pasado permite comprender las formas en las que
discursos pseudo permean y se hibridan con el saber popular, mientras el conocimiento
experto-institucional tiende a quedar relegado, o incluso a incorporar, estos discursos. A partir
del análisis de las fiestas de indígenas contra romanos en el noroeste de España y de la
pseudoarqueología en Maragatería (León, España), se pretende formular una serie de ideas
críticas acerca del rol de una arqueología pública políticamente informada.
17:05 – 17:25
“Casas y folklore: la mercantilización de las tradiciones rurales en el Norte de España”
David González Álvarez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Las zonas rurales del Norte de España sufren en la actualidad un proceso de transformación
asociado a la despoblación y al declive de su sistema agrario tradicional. Al mismo tiempo, un
creciente número de residentes urbanos se buscan lo rural como ámbito imaginado en donde
tener nuevas vivencias a través del turismo rural y la segunda residencia. El análisis detallado
de la cultura material en el ambiente doméstico de estos cambiantes contextos rurales nos
permite reflexionar sobre determinados cambios ideológicos y su vinculación a discursos y
proyectos políticos que, desde el presente, utilizan el pasado en sus construcciones. Esta
conferencia presenta un trabajo de investigación en marcha que analiza arqueológicamente el
ámbito de la domesticidad y el folklore en áreas rurales del Norte de España.
17:30 – 18:30
Exhibición del film etnográfico: “Matavenero, el pueblo arcoíris”
Escrita y dirigida por Pablo Alonso González (2012), España. Duración 49 min.
Síntesis.
La tesis del eterno retorno encuentra en la localidad leonesa de Matavenero una expresión
única. Mientras los habitantes de la zona abandonaron sus pueblos a lo largo del siglo XX para
emigrar a países del desarrollado norte europeo, otros escapaban de ese desarrollo para volver
a las raíces y al contacto con la naturaleza. Así Matavenero, un pueblo abandonado, volvió a la
vida en los años 80, viendo nacer una nueva comunidad interracial o arcoíris donde ‘todos
cabían’. Esta renovada vida se expresaba metafóricamente en la gran cantidad de nacimientos
en el pueblo y en la gestión ecológica y ordenada de un pueblo que ha atraído visitantes y
habitantes de todos tipos y nacionalidades: jubilados, urbanitas, hippies, bohemios y punks. Sin
embargo, la comunidad no tardó en afrontar diversos problemas que llevarían a su
fragmentación y a una pérdida de su espíritu, originalidad y vitalidad inicial. (FILMAFFINITY)
18:50 – 19:00 Conclusiones y vino de honor.
UNA MIRADA DISTINTA A LA MATERIALIDAD
Sala Centenario, Campus Saucache
UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ
15:00 – 15:10 Recepción y palabras introductorias.
15:10 – 15:40
“Nuevas técnicas de documentación en arqueología y patrimonio”
Paloma Fernández y Zaray Guerrero (Programa de Doctorado en Antropología UTA-UCN)
Durante la última década, el desarrollo de nuevas técnicas de documentación aplicadas a la
arqueología y el patrimonio, han abierto una nueva vía de investigación dentro de dichas áreas.
La generación de modelos tridimensionales mediante software como PhotoScan o Python, por
ejemplo, permite al arqueólogo y especialista patrimonial captar información objetiva del
elemento de estudio así como realizar restituciones de hallazgos arqueológicos destruidos.
Estas técnicas apoyan la revalorización y difusión del patrimonio entre el gran púbico; ya sea
mediante los medios tradicionales en museos o a través de herramientas y sistemas de
visualización novedosos y dinámicos.
15:45 – 16:05
“Entre campos antagónicos: reflexiones sobre el posicionamiento antropológico en el
trabajo de campo”
Pamela Cerda Pfeng (Fundación Cultural Arica Revive)
En las últimas décadas, el patrimonio cultural ha sido objeto de atención por parte de diversos
actores sociales a nivel global. En Chile, el Estado a través de sus instituciones se ha
posicionado como un actor central en la revaloración de las comunidades mediante la
promoción del patrimonio cultural. Sin embargo, diversos casos demuestran que dicha afinidad
entre Estado/ Comunidades no es representativa. Este trabajo expone los diversos intereses
políticos que conlleva el ejercicio institucional de definir lo patrimonial. Poniendo especial
énfasis en la propuesta metodológica, se expone la experiencia de trabajo de campo
desarrollada en dos plataformas (la institucional y comunitaria), y las diversas técnicas que
fueron utilizadas para obtener y analizar datos, según el posicionamiento del rol del
antropólogo/a.
16:10 – 16:30
Patrimonio Global ¿Hasta donde? Reivindicaciones culturales en tiempos de patrimonio.
Dante Angelo (Universidad de Tarapacá)
Luego de la crisis económica del 2001 que sacudió sus cimientos como sociedad moderna, la
Argentina decidió buscar nuevos vínculos culturales con el resto de Sur América. A través de
una combinación de métodos arqueológicos, etnográficos e históricos, este trabajo argumenta
que la construcción del patrimonio responde simultáneamente a diferentes intereses; desde
aquellos globales y estatales que buscan capitalizar la “diferencia” como parte de las crecientes
industrias patrimonial y turística, hasta los de aquellas llamadas minorías culturales que,
demandando procesos históricos de exclusión, buscan también ser parte de un mundo
cosmopolita, dinámico y cambiante. Complementariamente, a través del análisis de una
temática que en la última década ha cobrado interés inusitado: el patrimonio, pongo a la
arqueología como sujeto de escrutinio en términos de sus alcances y objeto de estudio como
disciplina.
16:30 – 16:45 Receso
16:45 – 17:00
“Materialidad e ideología: pseudoarqueología y recreaciones históricas en Maragatería
(España)”
Pablo Alonso González (University of Cambridge)
Los usos del pasado en el presente pueden asociarse a una multiplicidad de prácticas y
discursos con consecuencias importantes tanto para la práctica arqueologica como para las
construcciones políticas contemporáneas. El estudio paralelo del ámbito de la pseudociencia en
arqueología con las fiestas de recreación del pasado permite comprender las formas en las que
discursos pseudo permean y se hibridan con el saber popular, mientras el conocimiento
experto-institucional tiende a quedar relegado, o incluso a incorporar, estos discursos. A partir
del análisis de las fiestas de indígenas contra romanos en el noroeste de España y de la
pseudoarqueología en Maragatería (León, España), se pretende formular una serie de ideas
críticas acerca del rol de una arqueología pública políticamente informada.
17:05 – 17:25
“Casas y folklore: la mercantilización de las tradiciones rurales en el Norte de España”
David González Álvarez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Las zonas rurales del Norte de España sufren en la actualidad un proceso de transformación
asociado a la despoblación y al declive de su sistema agrario tradicional. Al mismo tiempo, un
creciente número de residentes urbanos se buscan lo rural como ámbito imaginado en donde
tener nuevas vivencias a través del turismo rural y la segunda residencia. El análisis detallado
de la cultura material en el ambiente doméstico de estos cambiantes contextos rurales nos
permite reflexionar sobre determinados cambios ideológicos y su vinculación a discursos y
proyectos políticos que, desde el presente, utilizan el pasado en sus construcciones. Esta
conferencia presenta un trabajo de investigación en marcha que analiza arqueológicamente el
ámbito de la domesticidad y el folklore en áreas rurales del Norte de España.
17:30 – 18:30
Exhibición del film etnográfico: “Matavenero, el pueblo arcoíris”
Escrita y dirigida por Pablo Alonso González (2012), España. Duración 49 min.
Síntesis.
La tesis del eterno retorno encuentra en la localidad leonesa de Matavenero una expresión
única. Mientras los habitantes de la zona abandonaron sus pueblos a lo largo del siglo XX para
emigrar a países del desarrollado norte europeo, otros escapaban de ese desarrollo para volver
a las raíces y al contacto con la naturaleza. Así Matavenero, un pueblo abandonado, volvió a la
vida en los años 80, viendo nacer una nueva comunidad interracial o arcoíris donde ‘todos
cabían’. Esta renovada vida se expresaba metafóricamente en la gran cantidad de nacimientos
en el pueblo y en la gestión ecológica y ordenada de un pueblo que ha atraído visitantes y
habitantes de todos tipos y nacionalidades: jubilados, urbanitas, hippies, bohemios y punks. Sin
embargo, la comunidad no tardó en afrontar diversos problemas que llevarían a su
fragmentación y a una pérdida de su espíritu, originalidad y vitalidad inicial. (FILMAFFINITY)
18:50 – 19:00 Conclusiones y vino de honor.
Research Interests:
SEMINARIO-MESA REDONDA DÍA 24 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2014 Seminario en Gestión Patrimonial. La difusión ante la diversidad de públicos. Experiencias Internacionales. Perfil de l@s participantes: Está dirigido a todos los profesionales... more
SEMINARIO-MESA REDONDA
DÍA 24 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2014
Seminario en Gestión Patrimonial. La difusión ante la diversidad de públicos. Experiencias Internacionales.
Perfil de l@s participantes: Está dirigido a todos los profesionales relacionados con el mundo de la gestión del patrimonio que deseen tener un lugar de encuentro para conocer diversas experiencias internacionales en cuanto a la difusión patrimonial. Además el seminario está pensado para ser un lugar de discusión para buscar nuevas alternativas y posibilidades a través de esas experiencias. Estas alternativas permitirían buscar estrategias para transmitir el patrimonio a todo tipo de público y nacionalidad.
Sumilla
Este seminario consistirá en un lugar de reunión y discusión sobre las distintas experiencias que se han llevado a cabo en diversos países en materia de difusión patrimonial. Se tratarán diversas formas de transmisión del Patrimonio y lo que éste lleva implícito, historia, cultura, tradición etc, Se discutirá sobre cómo realizar dicha transmisión a los diversos públicos a través de estas experiencias, valorando los puntos a favor y en contra de las mismas, tratando de averiguar las estrategias para la transmisión eficaz del sentido de protección y puesta en valor del patrimonio. El seminario permitirá a los asistentes estudiar un abanico de posibles acciones para llevar a cabo lo que en los últimos años se ha denominado como Arqueología Pública.
Objetivos
El objetivo del seminario es exponer diversas experiencias en un foro de discusión que permita avanzar y tomar ideas para las labores de gestión patrimonial que se están llevando a cabo ahora en los círculos profesiones relacionados con el Patrimonio.
Contenidos
El seminario está formado por dos bloques bien diferenciados pero que al mismo tiempo se relacionan entre sí. Por un lado hablamos de un bloque de conferencias y por otro de un bloque audiovisual. En el primero se expondrán una serie de ponencias sobre diversas prácticas cuyo objetivo fundamental ha sido la transmisión del Patrimonio, se hablará de diversos casos de ámbito tanto rural como urbano, como los casos de la gestión de Museos en Lima, o en España desde actividades de diversa índole; el caso de la Habana Vieja o las recreaciones históricas en Europa. Por otro lado se tratarán casos de gestión de grandes espacios como parques culturales.
En el bloque audiovisual se hablará sobre las nuevas tecnologías y medios de comunicación y de todos aquello de lo que hoy disponemos para transmitir actividades culturales, desde blogs, videos, redes sociales, páginas web, etc.
Este bloque se completará con la proyección de un documental etnográfico. El documental busca radiografiar la comarca de León (zona Norte de España) para explorar las distintas formas de vida de sus heterogéneos habitantes. La decadencia de unos pueblos que viven en total declive demográfico y claramente envejecido contrasta con las múltiples propuestas que surgen de distintos grupos provenientes de España y el resto de mundo en la zona.
En definitiva la participación en este seminario permitirá al profesional en arqueología museografía, gestión patrimonial y turismo tener una visión transversal desde ciertas experiencias que le permitirán conocer varias estrategias viables para la búsqueda de nuevos recursos y actividades en esta material.
DÍA 24 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2014
Seminario en Gestión Patrimonial. La difusión ante la diversidad de públicos. Experiencias Internacionales.
Perfil de l@s participantes: Está dirigido a todos los profesionales relacionados con el mundo de la gestión del patrimonio que deseen tener un lugar de encuentro para conocer diversas experiencias internacionales en cuanto a la difusión patrimonial. Además el seminario está pensado para ser un lugar de discusión para buscar nuevas alternativas y posibilidades a través de esas experiencias. Estas alternativas permitirían buscar estrategias para transmitir el patrimonio a todo tipo de público y nacionalidad.
Sumilla
Este seminario consistirá en un lugar de reunión y discusión sobre las distintas experiencias que se han llevado a cabo en diversos países en materia de difusión patrimonial. Se tratarán diversas formas de transmisión del Patrimonio y lo que éste lleva implícito, historia, cultura, tradición etc, Se discutirá sobre cómo realizar dicha transmisión a los diversos públicos a través de estas experiencias, valorando los puntos a favor y en contra de las mismas, tratando de averiguar las estrategias para la transmisión eficaz del sentido de protección y puesta en valor del patrimonio. El seminario permitirá a los asistentes estudiar un abanico de posibles acciones para llevar a cabo lo que en los últimos años se ha denominado como Arqueología Pública.
Objetivos
El objetivo del seminario es exponer diversas experiencias en un foro de discusión que permita avanzar y tomar ideas para las labores de gestión patrimonial que se están llevando a cabo ahora en los círculos profesiones relacionados con el Patrimonio.
Contenidos
El seminario está formado por dos bloques bien diferenciados pero que al mismo tiempo se relacionan entre sí. Por un lado hablamos de un bloque de conferencias y por otro de un bloque audiovisual. En el primero se expondrán una serie de ponencias sobre diversas prácticas cuyo objetivo fundamental ha sido la transmisión del Patrimonio, se hablará de diversos casos de ámbito tanto rural como urbano, como los casos de la gestión de Museos en Lima, o en España desde actividades de diversa índole; el caso de la Habana Vieja o las recreaciones históricas en Europa. Por otro lado se tratarán casos de gestión de grandes espacios como parques culturales.
En el bloque audiovisual se hablará sobre las nuevas tecnologías y medios de comunicación y de todos aquello de lo que hoy disponemos para transmitir actividades culturales, desde blogs, videos, redes sociales, páginas web, etc.
Este bloque se completará con la proyección de un documental etnográfico. El documental busca radiografiar la comarca de León (zona Norte de España) para explorar las distintas formas de vida de sus heterogéneos habitantes. La decadencia de unos pueblos que viven en total declive demográfico y claramente envejecido contrasta con las múltiples propuestas que surgen de distintos grupos provenientes de España y el resto de mundo en la zona.
En definitiva la participación en este seminario permitirá al profesional en arqueología museografía, gestión patrimonial y turismo tener una visión transversal desde ciertas experiencias que le permitirán conocer varias estrategias viables para la búsqueda de nuevos recursos y actividades en esta material.
Research Interests: Patrimonio Cultural, Turismo, Turismo e Cultura, Memoria, Turismo y Patrimonio, Patrimonio, and 9 moreUrbanismo, Geografia, Patrimonio Cultural, Arqueologia Publica, Museos y Patrimonio, Patrimonio cultural inmaterial, Museos, centros de interpretación, exposiciones y difusion, Turismo Cultural, Turismo Y Centros Historicos, Patrimonio Culturale: Valorizzazione, and Intervenção Casa Centro Historico
El seminario pretende abrir un diálogo situado en las costuras disciplinares en torno al papel de las metodologías híbridas y, en particular, de los estudios de cultura material. Su objetivo prioritario será identificar y abordar el... more
El seminario pretende abrir un diálogo situado en las costuras disciplinares en torno al papel de las metodologías híbridas y, en particular, de los estudios de cultura material. Su objetivo prioritario será identificar y abordar el estudio de nuevas “cuestiones de interés” en el contexto social español actual. En otras palabras, plantear cómo la materialidad entendida en sentido amplio interacciona con procesos políticos, económicos, culturales e identitarios que atraviesan el ámbito de disciplinas sociales aisladas (sociología, antropología, arqueología, historia, etc.). En particular, la identificación de estas cuestiones de interés se plantea en un momento en que la gobernanza neoliberal tiende a solaparse y/o abandonar las metanarrativas ideológicas del estado moderno para manejar el gobierno de forma “técnica”, con todas las consecuencias que esto conlleva para la ciudadanía. Como muestra el reciente abordaje de temas de estudio como la represión franquista a través de su materialidad, con un interesante y notable impacto en la opinión pública general, creemos que el papel de los científicos sociales ocupados en el análisis de la cultura material podría ser igualmente relevante de cara a plantear cuestiones de actualidad, como por ejemplo la corrupción y su intersección con el urbanismo y la ordenación territorial. El seminario busca poner estas cuestiones sobre la mesa sin perder de vista un enfoque “aplicado” en el ámbito de las ciencias sociales con el fin de conseguir una utilidad social perceptible. Así, responde también a la creciente visibilidad y valoración social de “lo científico” en el actual contexto de crisis, para plantearse por qué esta labor de “visibilización” ha sido llevada a cabo fundamentalmente por científicos de otras ramas del conocimiento, mientras disciplinas como la antropología, la arqueología o los estudios de patrimonio se mantienen ausentes del debate público. El objetivo es que las intervenciones se sitúen en los bordes teóricos y metodológicos (politizaciones disciplinares, hibridaciones metodológicas, etc.) para facilitar el diálogo con disciplinas aparentemente cercanas, como la antropología y la arqueología, que se encuentran enormemente desvinculadas en nuestro contexto. La presentación de estudios de caso en los que se planteen estos objetivos de partida será el mecanismo para refrendar la viabilidad de estos presupuestos.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, and 32 moreCultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Egyptian Archaeology, Heritage Tourism, Industrial Heritage, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Heritage Conservation, Early Medieval Archaeology, Cultures and heritage tourism, Medieval Archaeology, Intangible cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage Recording, Documentation and Information Systems, Neolithic Archaeology, Cultural Heritage Law, Greek Archaeology, Digital Heritage, Cultural Heritage Management, World Cultural Heritage, Intangible Cultural Heritage (Culture), Architectural Heritage, Heritage Management, Archaeological Heritage Management, Heritage language studies, Heritage interpretation, Heritage, Tourism in protected areas/World Heritage, Science for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Museum and Heritage Studies, Virtual Heritage, Roman Archaeology, and UNESCO world heritage
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Call for papers: Workshop: "Building bridges between Iberian and British Archaeology"
Department of Archaeology, Durham University - 21st of June, 2018
more info: https://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/conferences/current/buildingbridges/
Department of Archaeology, Durham University - 21st of June, 2018
more info: https://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/conferences/current/buildingbridges/
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In the last two decades, upland archaeology has emerged in Europe as a new and vibrant field of research. This new branch of landscape and environmental archaeology investigates the interaction between human communities and high-altitude... more
In the last two decades, upland archaeology has emerged in Europe as a new and vibrant field of research. This new branch of landscape and environmental archaeology investigates the interaction between human communities and high-altitude ecosystems in the long-term. In this context, there are significant methodological challenges that need to be addressed to maximize the interpretative potential of archaeological evidence in the uplands. Archaeological prospection is one of these challenges. Remote sensing, field survey and geophysical survey at high-altitude are quite different from the traditional large-scale prospections in the Mediterranean lowlands. The difficult accessibility of the uplands, the low surface visibility of alpine and subalpine grasslands and the complex morphology of the terrain affect the use of the aforementioned methods in the mountains. For this reason, researchers working in different mountainous areas face similar or complementary problems. Discussion and confrontation are necessary to generate synergies, learn from each other's experiences and reinforce the methodological strength of archaeological
Research Interests: Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Archaeological Method & Theory, and 12 moreCultural Landscapes, Landscape History, Archaeological GIS, Survey (Archaeological Method & Theory), Upland Archaeology, Remote sensing and GIS applications in Landscape Research, Archaeological Prospection, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, Archaeological survey, Archaeological field survey, High Mountain Archaeology, and Landscape and Land-use-history
Call for papers – Symposium «Pukaras, castros, hillforts, pa: Approaching archaeological traditions related to fortified settlements in agro-pastoralist communities» IX SOUTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY MEETING (TAAS) Ibarra,... more
Call for papers – Symposium «Pukaras, castros, hillforts, pa: Approaching archaeological traditions related to fortified settlements in agro-pastoralist communities»
IX SOUTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY MEETING (TAAS)
Ibarra, Ecuador, 4-8 June 2018
Call for papers – Simposio «Pukaras, castros, hillforts, pa: Un acercamiento entre las tradiciones arqueológicas vinculadas a los asentamientos fortificados de comunidades agro-pastoriles»
IX REUNIÓN DE TEORÍA ARQUEOLÓGICA DE AMÉRICA DEL SUR (TAAS)
Ibarra, Ecuador, 4 al 8 de junio 2018
IX SOUTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY MEETING (TAAS)
Ibarra, Ecuador, 4-8 June 2018
Call for papers – Simposio «Pukaras, castros, hillforts, pa: Un acercamiento entre las tradiciones arqueológicas vinculadas a los asentamientos fortificados de comunidades agro-pastoriles»
IX REUNIÓN DE TEORÍA ARQUEOLÓGICA DE AMÉRICA DEL SUR (TAAS)
Ibarra, Ecuador, 4 al 8 de junio 2018
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Call for papers - TAG Ibérico 2018. Carmona (Sevilla), 1-4 de febrero de 2018.
Research Interests: Rural Sociology, Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Material Culture Studies, and 35 moreLandscape Archaeology, Portuguese History, Contemporary History, Rural History, Archaeological Method & Theory, Cultural Landscapes, Spanish History, Landscape History, Rural Development, Rural Geography, Rural Tourism, Contemporary Archaeology, Conflict Archaeology, Theoretical Archaeology, Spanish archaeology, Archaeological Theory, Archaeology of the Spanish Civil War, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, Portuguese Archaeology, Consumption and Material Culture, Iberian History, Material Culture, Contemporary History of Spain, Arqueología, Rural Archaeology, Social transformation, Historia, Rural Planning and Development, Post-Medieval Archaeology, Postmedieval Archaeology, Arqueologia, The Archaeology of the Recent Past, Cultura Material, and Historia Contemporánea de España
Call for papers: Session “Enough LiDAR on my plate: interpretation of changing landscapes between the awakening and fall of the Roman Empire” at the EAA Annual Meeting in Maastricht (The Netherlands), 30 August-3 September 2017 Session... more
Call for papers:
Session “Enough LiDAR on my plate: interpretation of changing landscapes between the awakening and fall of the Roman Empire” at the EAA Annual Meeting in Maastricht (The Netherlands), 30 August-3 September 2017
Session organizers: David González Álvarez (Durham University/Incipit, CSIC), João Fonte (University of Exeter/Incipit, CSIC) and José M. Costa García (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
Contact to david.gonzalez-alvarez@durham.ac.uk, j.fonte2@exeter.ac.uk or j.m.costagarcia@vu.nl for detailed info and further queries.
Submission for papers will be opened the 31st of January, 2017 at the website http://www.eaa2017maastricht.nl/
Session “Enough LiDAR on my plate: interpretation of changing landscapes between the awakening and fall of the Roman Empire” at the EAA Annual Meeting in Maastricht (The Netherlands), 30 August-3 September 2017
Session organizers: David González Álvarez (Durham University/Incipit, CSIC), João Fonte (University of Exeter/Incipit, CSIC) and José M. Costa García (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
Contact to david.gonzalez-alvarez@durham.ac.uk, j.fonte2@exeter.ac.uk or j.m.costagarcia@vu.nl for detailed info and further queries.
Submission for papers will be opened the 31st of January, 2017 at the website http://www.eaa2017maastricht.nl/
Research Interests: European History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, and 35 moreRoman History, Historical Archaeology, Remote Sensing, Landscape Archaeology, Archaeological Method & Theory, Early Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, LiDAR, Archaeological GIS, Remote Sensing (Earth Sciences), Greek Archaeology, Roman military archaeology, Remote sensing and GIS applications in Landscape Research, Roman Army, Remote sensing and GIS, Roman Empire, Remote Sensing (Archaeology), Satellite Remote Sensing (Archaeology), Late Roman Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, LiDAR for topographic mapping, Mediterranean archaeology, European Archaeology, GIS and Landscape Archaeology, GIS Applications in Archaeology, Roman military equipment, Roman Limes, Big Data, LiDAR for Landscape Archaeology, Lidar and Satellite Remote Sensing, Arqueología romana / Roman archeology, GIS in archaeology, LiDAR for Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
New Archaeology journal (since 2014): Call for papers and promo flyer.
ISSN: 2340-9126; e-ISSN: 2341-1074
http://nailos.org/
ISSN: 2340-9126; e-ISSN: 2341-1074
http://nailos.org/
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Los procesos de patrimonialización – de restos arqueológicos, centros históricos, paisajes – se han convertido en un vector más de expansión de la globalización en años recientes, convirtiéndose en un referente homogeneizador que impone... more
Los procesos de patrimonialización – de restos arqueológicos, centros históricos, paisajes – se han convertido en un vector más de expansión de la globalización en años recientes, convirtiéndose en un referente homogeneizador que impone jerarquías globales de valor en contextos locales. Así, la diferenciación se convierte en un imperativo para los sujetos, los territorios y las ciudades, de forma que el mundo tiende hacia la homogenización de la diferencia. Estos procesos ensamblan una heterogeneidad muy amplia de actores en su articulación, desde instituciones globales – UNESCO, Banco Mundial –, instituciones continentales, nacionales y regionales, comunidades locales y hasta sujetos individuales. Estos procesos pueden resultar hegemónicos pero también pueden servir para empoderar sujetos desde la base contra otras formas de opresión. Igualmente, pueden reproducir la dominación económica de países centrales pero también servir para capturar rentas globales a nivel local para reproducir formas de vida en proceso de disolución.
El simposio busca entonces presentaciones donde estas contradicciones se expresen, preguntándose sobre los roles de instituciones, mercado, comunidades y sujetos en vincularse o generar formas de rechazo al discurso y la práctica patrimonial. Esto incluye procesos de gentrificación de centros históricos, producción de conocimiento arqueológico o antropológico esencializante de ciertos “otros”, apropiación de conocimientos indígenas mediante protección patrimonial, creación de destinaciones turísticas excluyentes o casos de éxito de experiencias comunitarias, etc. Se interroga igualmente sobre el rol de los académicos en todo este entramado, y cómo distintas formas de producción de conocimiento arqueológico, antropológico y patrimonial pueden subalternizar a ciertos sujetos y empoderar a otros a niveles micro y macro – aquellos que aprenden el lenguaje del patrimonio vs. aquellos que quedan a expensas de procesos de valorización y/o excluidos de los mismos o integrados como sujetos pasivos. Finalmente, el simposio busca abrir un debate sobre las distintas estratégias – políticas y epistemológicas – existentes, y las que resultaría necesario crear, para generar una respuesta coherente ante la lógica patrimonializadora y su imparable inclusión mediante diferenciación de más y más sujetos bajo una lógica homogeneizadora bajo los términos del mercado.
Enviar resúmenes de hasta 300 palabras y cinco palabras clave a pa332@cam.ac.uk
Fecha límite: 30 de Junio de 2014
El simposio busca entonces presentaciones donde estas contradicciones se expresen, preguntándose sobre los roles de instituciones, mercado, comunidades y sujetos en vincularse o generar formas de rechazo al discurso y la práctica patrimonial. Esto incluye procesos de gentrificación de centros históricos, producción de conocimiento arqueológico o antropológico esencializante de ciertos “otros”, apropiación de conocimientos indígenas mediante protección patrimonial, creación de destinaciones turísticas excluyentes o casos de éxito de experiencias comunitarias, etc. Se interroga igualmente sobre el rol de los académicos en todo este entramado, y cómo distintas formas de producción de conocimiento arqueológico, antropológico y patrimonial pueden subalternizar a ciertos sujetos y empoderar a otros a niveles micro y macro – aquellos que aprenden el lenguaje del patrimonio vs. aquellos que quedan a expensas de procesos de valorización y/o excluidos de los mismos o integrados como sujetos pasivos. Finalmente, el simposio busca abrir un debate sobre las distintas estratégias – políticas y epistemológicas – existentes, y las que resultaría necesario crear, para generar una respuesta coherente ante la lógica patrimonializadora y su imparable inclusión mediante diferenciación de más y más sujetos bajo una lógica homogeneizadora bajo los términos del mercado.
Enviar resúmenes de hasta 300 palabras y cinco palabras clave a pa332@cam.ac.uk
Fecha límite: 30 de Junio de 2014
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Archaeology, Anthropology, Folklore, and 16 morePublic Archaeology, Globalization, Cultural Heritage, Ethnography, Heritage Studies, Latin American politics, Heritage Tourism, Archaeological Method & Theory, Unesco, Gentrification, Architectural Theory, Latin American History, Cultural Heritage Management, Cultural Resource Management (Archaeology), América Latina, and UNESCO world heritage
Paper presented at: 23. International Limes Congress Ingolstadt (September 2015) (http://www.limes2015.org). Interactive video at: http://romanarmy.eu/ In the last decades several Roman camps have been discovered in the northernmost... more
Paper presented at: 23. International Limes Congress Ingolstadt (September 2015) (http://www.limes2015.org). Interactive video at: http://romanarmy.eu/
In the last decades several Roman camps have been discovered in the northernmost territories of the Iberian Peninsula, mainly related to the Augustus’s campaigns against the indigenous communities called Cantabri and Astures by the Roman ethnographers. Our aim in this paper is to divulge deeper into this topic by presenting some sites recently discovered in the Spanish provinces of León, Asturias, Lugo and Coruña, as well as in northern Portugal. A low-cost methodology has been applied for their study combining historical aerial photography, modern satellite and aerial photography, aerial LiDAR, GIS software and conventional archaeological field survey techniques which also provide a strong attention to local place-names and folklore. After an accurate morphological analysis based on the resulting data, the spatial and functional characterization of these camps is taken into account to achieve their proper historical and archaeological contextualization. Since not many castra aestiua have been located in those areas, these findings represent an important step in order to understand the activities carried out by the Roman army in north-western Iberia during the early years of the Principate.
In the last decades several Roman camps have been discovered in the northernmost territories of the Iberian Peninsula, mainly related to the Augustus’s campaigns against the indigenous communities called Cantabri and Astures by the Roman ethnographers. Our aim in this paper is to divulge deeper into this topic by presenting some sites recently discovered in the Spanish provinces of León, Asturias, Lugo and Coruña, as well as in northern Portugal. A low-cost methodology has been applied for their study combining historical aerial photography, modern satellite and aerial photography, aerial LiDAR, GIS software and conventional archaeological field survey techniques which also provide a strong attention to local place-names and folklore. After an accurate morphological analysis based on the resulting data, the spatial and functional characterization of these camps is taken into account to achieve their proper historical and archaeological contextualization. Since not many castra aestiua have been located in those areas, these findings represent an important step in order to understand the activities carried out by the Roman army in north-western Iberia during the early years of the Principate.
Research Interests: Aerial Archaeology, LiDAR, Roman military archaeology, Roman military history, Remote sensing and GIS applications in Landscape Research, and 8 moreRoman Army, Remote sensing and GIS, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Aerial Photogrammetry, Aerial Photography, LiDAR for Landscape Archaeology, Old Aerial Photography , Historical Cartography, Old Maps Analysis, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
The Roman military settlements are usually characterised by the perishable nature of the structures and the material culture associated to them. Since these sites are almost invisible in the landscape, the use of remote sensing techniques... more
The Roman military settlements are usually characterised by the perishable nature of the structures and the material culture associated to them. Since these sites are almost invisible in the landscape, the use of remote sensing techniques for their study its fundamental. Although the use of certain remote sensing tools, like aerial photography, is not new in the Iberian Peninsula, the development of Roman military archaeology in recent decades greatly demanded a significant renovation of the methodological approaches. In this way, we put into practice a low-cost methodology combining historical and modern aerial photography, satellite imagery, airborne LiDAR, GIS and conventional archaeological field survey techniques. These tools provide us a new and qualitatively differential approach, allowing us to study the spatial, locational and morphological characteristics of these sites, and thus leading to a more contextualising approach. In this paper, we will focus on the differential contribution of airborne LiDAR data within this particular methodological approach. By analysing the response of this technique to different landscapes, terrain types and vegetation canopies, we can outline its potential and limitations. This technique allows us to map archaeological landscapes as a whole, so we need to develop different strategies to increase the visibility of certain types of features in the landscape. Landscape is not just a messy amount of archaeological features, but also a palimpsest of multiple temporalities we need to read and understand. However, we will focus not only on the technical aspects but also on how this approach have allowed us to advance in the historical knowledge of the Roman military presence in Northwest Iberia.
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Seguindo os passos do exército romano: uma proposta metodológica para a detecção de assentamentos militares romanos no Noroeste Peninsular / Tras las huellas del ejército romano una propuesta metodológica para la detección de asentamientos militares romanos en el noroeste peninsular (video link)more
Paper presented during the GENIUS LOCI: Places and Meanings held in Porto (Portugal), 20-22 April 2016. Apresentado no GENIUS LOCI: Lugares e Significados, realizada em Porto (Portugal), 20-22 Abril 2016. En este trabajo presentamos y... more
Paper presented during the GENIUS LOCI: Places and Meanings held in Porto (Portugal), 20-22 April 2016.
Apresentado no GENIUS LOCI: Lugares e Significados, realizada em Porto (Portugal), 20-22 Abril 2016.
En este trabajo presentamos y abrimos a debate una propuesta metodológica para la detección y estudio de restos estructurales relacionados con la presencia militar romana en el noroeste ibérico. Tras varias experiencias investigadoras en diferentes este territorio hemos valorado las potencialidades y limitaciones de diversas técnicas en un amplio rango de terrenos, testándose de manera eficiente su utilidad para la prospección arqueológica. La metodología propuesta se basa en el uso combinado de varias herramientas de bajo coste y fácil acceso para cualquier investigador, desde el análisis de la fotografía aérea histórica y actual y la cartografía, la observación de la toponimia y folklore tradicional hasta el trabajo de prospección en campo. A todo ello se une la reciente disponibilidad de datos LiDAR aéreo para la mayor parte del territorio español, lo que abre la puerta a la localización de yacimientos hasta ahora imperceptibles mediante el empleo de otros medios de prospección telemática. Por otra parte, exponemos también una serie de propuestas de divulgación del patrimonio arqueológico asociado a la presencia del ejército romano y a los procesos históricos ligados al mismo, aspecto que consideramos debe ir de la mano de la propia investigación.
Apresentado no GENIUS LOCI: Lugares e Significados, realizada em Porto (Portugal), 20-22 Abril 2016.
En este trabajo presentamos y abrimos a debate una propuesta metodológica para la detección y estudio de restos estructurales relacionados con la presencia militar romana en el noroeste ibérico. Tras varias experiencias investigadoras en diferentes este territorio hemos valorado las potencialidades y limitaciones de diversas técnicas en un amplio rango de terrenos, testándose de manera eficiente su utilidad para la prospección arqueológica. La metodología propuesta se basa en el uso combinado de varias herramientas de bajo coste y fácil acceso para cualquier investigador, desde el análisis de la fotografía aérea histórica y actual y la cartografía, la observación de la toponimia y folklore tradicional hasta el trabajo de prospección en campo. A todo ello se une la reciente disponibilidad de datos LiDAR aéreo para la mayor parte del territorio español, lo que abre la puerta a la localización de yacimientos hasta ahora imperceptibles mediante el empleo de otros medios de prospección telemática. Por otra parte, exponemos también una serie de propuestas de divulgación del patrimonio arqueológico asociado a la presencia del ejército romano y a los procesos históricos ligados al mismo, aspecto que consideramos debe ir de la mano de la propia investigación.