The Archaeology of Roman Portugal in its Western Mediterranean Context

Tesse D. Stek is Acting Director of the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome (KNIR) and Director of Ancient studies and Archaeology at KNIR. He has published widely on Mediterranean archaeology, and is director of ongoing excavations in the Tappino Area Archaeology Project (since 2004). André Miguel Serra Pedreira Carneiro is Professor Auxiliar in the Department of History at the University of Évora, Portugal. His research interests are Roman archaeology and Roman settlement and road building. He has published on several excavations of Roman sites in Portugal.

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction

Tesse D. Stek and André Carneiro

I. Contested landscapes: between pre-Roman polities and early Roman encroachment

1. Exploring Rome’s early military deployment strategies in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula

Jordi Principal and Carles Padrós Gómez

2. Late Iron Age and early Roman conflict and interaction in southern Callaecia (north-west Iberia)

João Fonte

3. Towers, territory, and the negotiation of a colonial landscape in the early Roman Central Alentejo

Joey Williams, Rui Mataloto, and Karilyn Sheldon

4. The last frontier: Late Iron Age society, Roman conquest, and the Romanisation of the territory north of the River Duero

Jesús García Sánchez

II. Economic targets: integrating and energising resources

5. Upgrading town appearances: relating white marble exploitation and town development in Roman Lusitania

Devi Taelman

6. Shifting landscapes: change and adaptation in the Lusitanian territory during the first globalisation

André Carneiro

7. Adding complexity to a complex world: the role of tableware imports in Portugal during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC

Vincenzo Soria

III. Cities and hillforts: settlement organisation in the Roman west

8. Land-use and settlement patterns around Ercavica in Antiquity: initial findings

Miguel Ángel Valero Tévar

9. Understanding the town-territory relationship: a case study from Lusitania

Cristina Corsi

10. Why would we need a city? The dispersed civitates in Lusitania

Pieter Houten

11. Roman rural life in the far west: the case study of the Serena Region (Badajoz, Spain)

Victorino Mayoral Herrera, Martina Cecilia Parini, and Luis Sevillano Perea

IV. Local religious and cultural identity

12. The role of cult places in shaping landscapes during the Roman expansion: an Iberian perspective on a Mediterranean process

Ignasi Grau Mira

13. Men, women, children, animals: the votive statuary from the sanctuary of Endovellicus at São Miguel da

Mota/Alandroal (Portugal)

Thomas G. Schattner

14. Romanising the mountains? Exploring cultural change through archaeological spatial analysis in western

Sierra Morena (Spain)

Maria del Carmen Moreno Escobar

15. Oppida and public spaces: constructing identities in Late Iron Age and early Roman north-west Iberia

Manuel Fernández-Götz and Marco V. García Quintela

16. Funerary practices and material culture: a ‘portrait from life’ in the fields of Lusitania

Mónica Rolo