To date, Rome's intervention to the West from the mid-second century BC has not really been looked at with any sense of overview. Instead, there has been an unconnected series of micro-regional ...studies looking at particular areas, from the river Ebro in Spain round to Italy on the land front, and from the Balearic Islands to Corsica, Sardinia and even Sicily as regards the seaborne aspect. In contrast, the aim of this volume is to push the historical and archaeological debates about Rome's expansion beyond these traditional geographical boundaries and the discipline-based previous research. The entire north-western Mediterranean is treated as a micro-region and is addressed using various interdisciplinary approaches. The result is to provide an innovative and comprehensive overview of the north-western Mediterranean in a period of historical crossroads, aided particularly by focusing on the connectivity and integration within this region as two interrelated issues. While Republican Rome enforced itself as an expansive power towards the West, all sorts of polities, military operations and individuals also played a significant role in creating interconnectivity and integration of the north-western Mediterranean into a new hybrid reality. In order to uncover such processes of hybridisation, contributors to this volume were encouraged to focus on the historical, archaeological and numismatic material from several areas within the region, and to incorporate aspects of interdisciplinary methodologies in order to address the region's military, political, social and economic interconnections with Italy, Rome and each other within the overall period.
El Molí d’Espígol es el hábitat ibérico más destacado del territorio histórico del pueblo ilergete. El estudio de los restos humanos ya anteriormente conocidos, sumado a la identificación de nuevas ...evidencias, ha permitido no solo aumentar el elenco de las inhumaciones perinatales del asentamiento, sino también confirmar la existencia de restos humanos de adulto. A partir del estudio de síntesis sobre la presencia de restos humanos en contextos de hábitat hallados en el territorio histórico de los Ilergetes, se plantea la significación social de tales prácticas en el ámbito de dicho pueblo ibero.
Intencionalidad y objetivos. Algunas apreciaciones preliminares Plantearse una aproximación a las fases constructivas del santuario de S. Abbondio a partir del registro material no es tarea fácil, ya ...que se trata aún de un tema controvertido a pesar de los diferentes trabajos que se han centrado en el estudio del complejo. Además, como ya se ha expuesto anteriormente, la secuencia estratigráfica de la excavación no está exenta de cierta complejidad contextual, a la cual hay que añadir algunas...
In this article we analyse the structures and features related to food processing or preparation and their social and economic implications among the protohistoric communities of the Iberian culture ...during the Iron Age (sixth–second century bc). Different types of facilities are considered, including ovens, hearths, fireplaces and grinding areas, according to their specific location within the settlements (indoor or outdoor areas). We also look at the evidence from the artefacts involved in these processes and the contextualisation of their functional need within the urban structure/planning. The presence of collective facilities located outside the houses implies, on the one hand, an organised collaborative practice and management network and, on the other, the transfer of certain specific household activities to the public sphere. The organisation of management and use of those facilities would have affected various aspects of Iberian societies, such as the dynamics and routine of everyday life, not only through arranging and scheduling the availability of the facility, but also by operating as a mechanism of social interaction among both equals and persons of different statuses.
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