The construction and dynamics of Early Medieval landscapes in central Iberia
Authors
Olmo Enciso, Lauro; Castro Priego, Manuel; Ruiz Zapata, Blanca; Gil García, María José; Galindo Pellicena, Marian; [et al.]Publisher
Archeopress
Date
2019Embargo end date
2100-12-31Funders
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Bibliographic citation
Mediterranean landscapes in Post Antiquity: new frontiers and new perspectives. Oxford: Archeopress, 2019, p. 104-128
Keywords
Landscape Archaeology
Early Medieval
Visigothic Period
Palaeoenvironmental record
Climate Change
Early Medieval Cold Episode
Archaeozoology
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//HAR2013-44270-P/ES/CONSTRUCCION DEL PAISAJE MEDIEVAL: AGROSISTEMAS Y CAMBIO CLIMATICO
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/HAR2017-84144-P/ES/CAMBIO CLIMATICO Y CONSTRUCCION DEL PAISAJE MEDIEVAL: DINAMICAS DE VARIABILIDAD EN UN PERIODO DE TRANSFORMACIONES
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Rights
(c) Archaeopress
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess
Abstract
Recent archaeological research in central Iberia suggests that Early Medieval landscapes were more complex than previously believed. Archaeological evidence increasingly points to a landscape characterized by a dense network of peasant hamlets and villages, intermediate power centers and cities of different sizes. As a consequence, this investigation contemplates the landscape as a dynamic construction, providing basis for a multidimensional view of the social, palaeoenvironmental and climatic processes at stake, and demonstrates that the environment and climate can be more productively included in archaeological research. The contextualization of all these elements contributes to highlight a number of aspects that are essential for understanding a stratified society, with different degrees of closeness in the vertical social relationships between peasants and elites, which had to develop a social response to the effects of the climatic crisis. Through this, evident transformations in the agroecosystem and productive structures as well as in their relationship with the new settlement pattern were developed. All of this points to a society defined by spatial inequality, a society in which elites and non-elites lived different and unequal but intertwined lives.
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