Procesos y técnicas constructivas de una sociedad en transformación: análisis de espacios arquitectónicos entre Tarraco e Ilerda durante la Antigüedad tardía

Identifier:  TDX:4393

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX4393

Authors:  Fortuny Mendo, Karen

Abstract:
This dissertation studies Late Antiquity in the northeast of the lberian Península from the archaeological analysis of architecture. Unlike previous research that has focused mainly on the architecture of elites and public spaces, this work seeks to highlight the importance of the architecture that framed everyday life during this period, both in urban and rural environments. The project has been carried out with an analysis of architectural contexts located in the geographical area between Tarraco and llerda, two cities that in Late Antiquity became referents of the new episcopal network for the articulation of the territory. The methodology used focuses on the Archaeology of Architecture, with emphasis on the technical characterization of the structures. The application of this approach has had to be adapted to the reality of the case studies, often with a limited material entity and a scarce archaeological documentation. lt includes a catalog of 27 case studies, belonging to 7 different sites, which are analyzed from different perspectives such as location, spatial arrangement, construction processes and techniques, stratigraphic data and associated materials. A detailed examination of each case is combined with a regional comparative approach. This last part has