Dinámicas del poblamiento rural y del territorio en zonas del noroeste de la cuenca del Duero entre época romana y la Alta Edad Media a través de la Arqueología del Paisaje

Identifier:  TDX:3228

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX3228

Authors:  Martínez Fernández, Jesús

Abstract:
This archaeological doctoral thesis arises from the interest of the study of the territory and society of the communities that lived in the transition period between the classical period and the Early Middle Ages. The fall of the Roman Empire and the progressive arrival of new elites to the Iberian Peninsula will suppose a whole series of social, economic and territorial organization changes that will establish to a certain extent the socio-political foundations of medieval times. This project aims to study the changes in the dynamics of rural settlement patterns between Roman times and the High Middle Ages in areas of the northwest of the Duero basin through techniques of Landscape Archeology such as archeomorphological analysis. In the same way, it is intended to deepen the processes of social, economic and political transformation that took place in this period of transition between classical and medieval times, for which apparently new patterns of space occupation are documented. The development of the thesis affects various problems associated with this study, such as the growing interest in the processes of change and new forms of territorial management in the last centuries of the Roman world, the archeology of agrarian and unpopulated spaces, and finally the scarcity of archaeological information in rural areas especially between the late Roman and high medieval centuries. The results show the survival of a traditional landscape, a communication system and distribution of the current settlement that has been configured and modified in different historical periods, especially between the 5th and 8th centuries CE.