{"product_id":"the-archaeology-of-roman-portugal-in-its-western-mediterranean-context-9781789258325","title":"The Archaeology of Roman Portugal in its Western","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Archaeology of Roman Portugal\u003c\/em\u003e contributes to the wider debate on Roman imperialism and expansionism, by bringing to the fore a much-underrepresented area of the Roman empire, at least in English-language scholarship: its westernmost edge in modern day Portugal. Highlighting the perspective from Roman Portugal contributes to our understanding of the Roman empire, through presenting both an extraordinary landscape in the sense of economic opportunities (ocean resources, marble and metal mining), and also settlement history. The volume presents new data and insights from both archaeology and ancient history, discussing their significance for our understanding of Roman expansion and imperialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA key goal of the volume is to discuss how the Portuguese panorama compares to other areas of the Iberian peninsula, and to better integrate Portuguese scholarship in the academic debate on the Mediterranean Roman world, and to contextualise it firmly within the wider Iberian and Western Mediterranean. The volume brings together an internationally diverse team of scholars in archaeology and ancient history from Portugal, Spain, Germany, the UK, the US, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. It explicitly discusses different national and disciplinary research traditions and historical frameworks in order to assess the potential of integrating best practices in archaeological approaches and methodology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of contributors  Introduction  \u003cem\u003eTesse D. Stek and André Carneiro\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003eI. Contested landscapes: between pre-Roman polities and early Roman encroachment \u003c\/strong\u003e  1. Exploring Rome’s early military deployment strategies in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula   \u003cem\u003eJordi Principal and Carles Padrós Gómez\u003c\/em\u003e  2. Late Iron Age and early Roman conflict and interaction in southern \u003cem\u003eCallaecia \u003c\/em\u003e(north-west Iberia)   \u003cem\u003eJoão Fonte\u003c\/em\u003e  3. Towers, territory, and the negotiation of a colonial landscape in the early Roman Central Alentejo   \u003cem\u003eJoey Williams, Rui Mataloto, and Karilyn Sheldon\u003c\/em\u003e  4. The last frontier: Late Iron Age society, Roman conquest, and the Romanisation of the territory north of the River Duero  \u003cem\u003eJesús García Sánchez\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003eII. Economic targets: integrating and energising resources \u003c\/strong\u003e  5. Upgrading town appearances: relating white marble exploitation and town development in Roman Lusitania   \u003cem\u003eDevi Taelman\u003c\/em\u003e  6. Shifting landscapes: change and adaptation in the Lusitanian territory during the first globalisation   \u003cem\u003eAndré Carneiro\u003c\/em\u003e  7. Adding complexity to a complex world: the role of tableware imports in Portugal during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC  \u003cem\u003eVincenzo Soria\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003eIII. Cities and hillforts: settlement organisation in the Roman west\u003c\/strong\u003e  8. Land-use and settlement patterns around Ercavica in Antiquity: initial findings  \u003cem\u003eMiguel Ángel Valero Tévar\u003c\/em\u003e  9. Understanding the town-territory relationship: a case study from Lusitania   \u003cem\u003eCristina Corsi\u003c\/em\u003e  10. Why would we need a city? The dispersed \u003cem\u003ecivitates \u003c\/em\u003ein Lusitania   \u003cem\u003ePieter Houten\u003c\/em\u003e  11. Roman rural life in the far west: the case study of the Serena Region (Badajoz, Spain)   \u003cem\u003eVictorino Mayoral Herrera, Martina Cecilia Parini, and Luis Sevillano Perea\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003eIV. Local religious and cultural identity \u003c\/strong\u003e  12. The role of cult places in shaping landscapes during the Roman expansion: an Iberian perspective on a Mediterranean process   \u003cem\u003eIgnasi Grau Mira\u003c\/em\u003e  13. Men, women, children, animals: the votive statuary from the sanctuary of Endovellicus at São Miguel da  Mota\/Alandroal (Portugal)   \u003cem\u003eThomas G. Schattner\u003c\/em\u003e  14. Romanising the mountains? Exploring cultural change through archaeological spatial analysis in western  Sierra Morena (Spain)   \u003cem\u003eMaria del Carmen Moreno Escobar\u003c\/em\u003e  15. \u003cem\u003eOppida \u003c\/em\u003eand public spaces: constructing identities in Late Iron Age and early Roman north-west Iberia   \u003cem\u003eManuel Fernández-Götz and Marco V. García Quintela\u003c\/em\u003e  16. Funerary practices and material culture: a ‘portrait from life’ in the fields of Lusitania   \u003cem\u003eMónica Rolo\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084408299863,"sku":"9781789258325","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789258325.jpg?v=1725552060","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-archaeology-of-roman-portugal-in-its-western-mediterranean-context-9781789258325","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}