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Jorge López Quiroga (Coord.): IN TEMPORE SUEBORUM. El tiempo de los Suevos en la Gallaecia (411-585). El primer reino medieval de Occidente.Volumen de Estudios (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Diputación Provincial de Ourense), Ourense., Dec 2018

This volume of studies includes a series of works carried out on the occasion of the 'In Tempore ... more This volume of studies includes a series of works carried out on the occasion of the 'In Tempore Sueborum' exhibition, held in Ourense (Galicia, Spain) between December 15, 2017 and May 7, 2018, sponsored and funded by the Provincial Council of Ourense and the Regional Government of Galicia (Xunta de Galicia). This work completes the catalog of the exhibition, already published in 2017, and offers a complete and updated overview of the historical-archaeological research about those Barbarians groups known through the textual sources as 'Suebi' and the processes known as 'barbarian migrations' in the post-Roman West (chapters I and II). At the same time we presented an overview of the period in which the 'Suebi' formed an independent kingdom in 411 AD (the first Kingdom of the West) in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (in the former Roman province of 'Gallaecia') through a set of studies that present the current state of our knowledge about the 5th and 6th centuries in that region based on political, religious, monetary history, population structures (urban and rural), the Christianization process, the funeral world and Christian religious architecture (Chapter III). It is, to date, the most complete and interdisciplinary study on this period (from the 5th to the 7th century) and for this region (the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula), bringing together the best current specialists on this period.

Jorge López Quiroga (Coordinador): IN TEMPORE SUEBORUM. El tiempo de los Suevos en la Gallaecia (411-585). Volumen de Estudios (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Diputación Provincial de Ourense), Ourense, 2018.

Jorge LÓPEZ QUIROGA-Artemio M. MARTÍNEZ TEJERA (Coord.): IN TEMPORE SUEBORUM. O tempo dos Suevos na Gallaecia (411-585). O primeiro reino medieval de Occidente, Ourense., 2017

Marcomanos e cuados, tanto diferenciados dos suevos como identificados con eles, situábanse arred... more Marcomanos e cuados, tanto diferenciados dos suevos como identificados con eles, situábanse arredor da cunca media do Danubio (fig. 12). Os marcomanos (marcomanni: os 'homes da fronteira'), un dos grandes inimigos de Roma desde o século ii, son citados por César, no ano 58 a. C., entre os pobos derrotados por el (Caesar, Gall.: 1, 51, 2), baixo o mando de Ariovisto; non sendo posteriormente mencionados nas fontes, aínda que se lles considere xunto a/ou formando parte dos suevos, ata as diversas ofensivas de drusus entre os anos 12 e o 9 a. C., xunto aos chattes e os cuados (Cassius Dio: 54, 36, 3; Orosius, Hist.: 6, 21, 15). No ano 8 a. C., con ocasión da campaña de Tiberio ao oeste do Elba, os marcomanos poderían, pero isto non é máis ca unha mera suposición, estar entre os pobos asentados neste sector (Cassius Dio: 55, 6, 2; Chr. min., ii, 135; Estrabón: 7, 1, 4; Suetonius, Aug.: 21, 1; Tacitus, ann.: 2, 26, 3).

Jorge LÓPEZ QUIROGA-Artemio M. MARTÍNEZ TEJERA (Coord.): IN TEMPORE SUEBORUM. The time of the Sueves in Gallaecia (411-585 AD). The first medieval kingdom of the West, Ourense., 2017

Catalogue of the IN TEMPORE SUEBORUM exhibition, founded by the Ourense Regional Government with ... more Catalogue of the IN TEMPORE SUEBORUM exhibition, founded by the Ourense Regional Government with the collaboration of the Galician Government, the Bishopric of Ourense and the Ourense Council. The exhibition was celebrated in the city of Ourense between 15 December 2017 and 6 may 2018, with the participation of 30 museums of 10 countrys and around 300 objects. It's the first exhibition celebrated about this subject in the World.

Jorge LÓPEZ QUIROGA-Artemio M. MARTÍNEZ TEJERA (coord.): IN TEMPORE SUEBORUM. El tiempo de los Suevos en la Gallaecia (411-585). El primer reino medieval de Occidente (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Diputación Provincial de Ourense), Ourense., 2017

Catálogo de la exposición IN TEMPORE SUEBORUM, patrocinada por la Diputación Provincial de Ourens... more Catálogo de la exposición IN TEMPORE SUEBORUM, patrocinada por la Diputación Provincial de Ourense, con la colaboración de la Xunta de Galicia, el Obispado de Ourense y el Concello de Ourense. La exposición tuvo lugar en Ourense entre el 15 de diciembre de 2017 y el 6 de mayo de 2018, en tres sedes: Centro Cultural 'Marcos Valcárcel', Museo Municipal e Iglesia de Santa María Nai. Muestra en la que han participado 39 museos de 10 países, con cerca de 300 objetos. Se trata de la primera exposición monográfica dedicada a esta temática.

En el año 2016 se conmemora el 1700 Aniversario del nacimiento de San Martín de Tours (316-397), ... more En el año 2016 se conmemora el 1700 Aniversario del nacimiento de San Martín de Tours (316-397), originario de Panonia (Hungría), soldado romano, monje-eremita y obispo de Tours. Su actividad pastoral se caracterizó por una importante labor evangelizadora y su lucha frente a las costumbres paganas. Intervino ante el Emperador Magno Clemente Maximo para impedir la ejecución de Prisciliano, quien había logrado un importante número de seguidores en la Gallaecia, hecho que motivó un enfrentamiento con el obispo galaico Hidacio de Chaves (c.400-c.469). San Martín de Tours fue un modelo y referente para San Martín de Dumio (c.510/515-579/580), también oriundo de Panonia, conocido como el ‘apóstol de los Suevos’ y artífice de su conversión, tanto en lo que constituyó su actividad pastoral como en su empeño en la erradicación del paganismo en la Gallaecia. Según una arraigada tradición, estando enfermo de lepra el hijo del rey suevo Carriarico (550-559), o Teodomiro (559-570) (según Isidoro de Sevilla), implora ayuda a San Martín de Tours, obteniendo así su curación. En agradecimiento, Carriarico o Teodomiro se convertiría al catolicismo hacia el 550 y construiría en Orense un templo en su honor, la primera catedral orensana, en el lugar que hoy ocupa la iglesia de la Santa María Madre. Con motivo de esta efemérides, la ciudad de Ourense evoca la figura de su santo patrón con un Congreso Internacional, contando con la participación de reconocidos y prestigiosos especialistas, para analizar tanto la figura de San Martín de Tours como su influencia en la configuración social, política, religiosa y territorial de la Gallaecia de época sueva, un período seminal y crucial en la Historia de Galicia.

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (ASLAEME Series), Proceedings 4.

This fourth volume (Proceedings 4) will provide the results of the International Conference "In ... more This fourth volume (Proceedings 4) will provide the results of the International Conference "In Concavis petrarunt habitaverunt: El fenómeno rupestre en el Mediterráneo Medieval: De la investigación a la puesta en valor" held at the Museo de los Orígenes (Casa de San Isidro) on December 2008. This volume is divided into three parts: First, four studies on general aspects of the "rock world" in the Iberian Peninsula, the chronology of the caves artificially created, the troglodyte’s in the Greco-Roman tradition, and the chronology of the rock-cut tombs. Secondly, eleven studies of various regions and "rock complexes" of the Iberian Peninsula ("San Vítor", in San Lorenzo da Barxacova, Parada del Sil, Ourense; "El Bierzo"; the upper valley of the Ebro; "San Martín de Albelda", in "La Rioja"; the middle valley of the Cidacos river; the high valley of the Arlanza river; "San Frutos del Duratón", Segovia; the 'suburbium' and territory of 'Ercavica' in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages; the territory of Sierra Magina; and finally, the Almagruz caves, in Purullena, Granada. Thirdly four studies in other Mediterranean regions, as the "rock city" of Matera (Italy), the valley of the Euphrates (northern Syria); the churches built on the rock of Lalibela (Ethiopia), and the "rock world" in the provinces of 'Arabia' and 'Palestine Tertia' in Jordan.

Studi di Antichità Cristiana LXV., Sep 2013

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (ASLAEME Series), Archaeological Excavations & Catalogues 2), BAR International Series 2466, Oxford, 2013 (ISBN: 978 1 4073 1077 0), Feb 25, 2013

The sub-series titled 'Archaeological Excavations and Catalogues', will allow the publication of ... more The sub-series titled 'Archaeological Excavations and Catalogues', will allow the publication of monographs on both final and continuiting preliminary reports of particular sites, as well as catalogues resulting from exhibitions or re-evaluation of materials pertaining to the chronological frame of the ASLAEME Series (400-1000 A. D.). This series was open with the Youri Voronov’s book of the 'Tsibilium' necropolis and now follow with the results of the Spanish Archaeological Mission at Conimbriga (Portugal) (2004-2008) with this volume edited by Jorge López Quiroga, "Conimbriga tardo-antigua y medieval. Excavaciones arqueológicas en la ‘domus tancinus’ (2004-2008) (Condeixa-a-Velha, Portugal)".

For your interest, regarding the current debate on 'ethnicity', identity and otherness among the ... more For your interest, regarding the current debate on 'ethnicity', identity and otherness among the Barbarians in the Roman and post-Roman west, we include the full text of the book "Gentes Barbarae '. The book was published in September 2011 by the University of Murcia, in the prestigious series "Antigüedad y Cristianismo". One of the objectives of this book is to provide a current view (in spanish and directed to a spanish-speaking audience) about the research on 'barbarian world'. Indeed, Spanish historiography has virtually ignored the concept of ethnogenesis applied to the study of the so-called 'barbarian societies' in the Roman and post-Roman West (during the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages). The pioneer and most representative of this 'School' in Spain is Prof. L. A. García Moreno, followed by some researchers as G. Ripoll and J. López Quiroga. Criticism and the radical rejection of the 'ethnic' interpretation of the archaeological material (particularly that related to the misnamed "Visigothic necropolis') is a common element in this line of interpretation in the context of the ethnogenesis paradigm.

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (ASLAEME Series, Proceedings 3).

Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid": CuPAUAM 31-32 (2005-2006)., 2007

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (ASLAEME Series, Proceedings 2).

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (ASLAEME Series, Proceedings 1).

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (ASLAEME Series) , Proceedings 5

Much has been written in recent years about Identities, understood as social, nested or construct... more Much has been written in recent years about Identities, understood as social, nested or constructing identities; or ‘Ethnic Identity’, presented as a strategy of distinction and/or identification, as a multidimensional or endogenous ethnicity, or also interpreted as a social construction, social network, negotiated or group identity; and concerning the ‘Archaeology of the Identity’, including the explicit relation between mortuary practices and Social Identities in a ‘multi-ethnic’ perspective or as a ‘constructed strategy of shifting identities’. This book is not ‘another brick in the wall’, but a contribution to ‘break the wall’ between different disciplines in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary framework. We present in this volume fifteen papers focused on theoretical and interpretative proposals from the textual, archaeological and bioarchaeological record, as well as a series of ‘case studies’ on certain European areas essentially throughout the analysis of the funeral world in the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.

Jorge LÓPEZ QUIROGA-Artemio M. MARTÍNEZ TEJERA (Coord.): IN TEMPORE SUEBORUM. O tempo dos Suevos na Gallaecia (411-585). O primeiro reino medieval de Occidente, Ourense., 2017

Jorge LÓPEZ QUIROGA-Artemio M. MARTÍNEZ TEJERA (Coord.): IN TEMPORE SUEBORUM. The time of the Sueves in Gallaecia (411-585 AD). The first medieval kingdom of the West, Ourense., 2017

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (ASLAEME Series), Proceedings 4.

Studi di Antichità Cristiana LXV., Sep 2013

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (ASLAEME Series, Proceedings 3).

Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid": CuPAUAM 31-32 (2005-2006)., 2007

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (ASLAEME Series, Proceedings 2).

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (ASLAEME Series, Proceedings 1).

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (ASLAEME Series) , Proceedings 5

Revue archéologique 1, 2022

This article has two goals. First, it gives a survey of archaeological remains of the “princely” ... more This article has two goals. First, it gives a survey
of archaeological remains of the “princely” feminine clothing
of “Danubian-Pontic” tradition with two metallic
fibulae in the 5th century Visigothic kingdom. Secondly, it
aims at the identification of its effects in the “Hispanic-
Visigothic” costume of middle class in the 2nd part of the
5th and 1st part of the 6th century. Feminine clothing is
one of the most stable ethnographical clues in traditional
societies. It may however also be an indication of belonging
to the “ruling class”. In that case, prestige clothing,
whatever its origins, is sooner or later imitated by “ordinary”
people. As villagers’ communities in Visigothic
Spain were mostly Romans, we may conclude that the diffusion
of Danubian-Pontic “barbarian” fashion in this
context demonstrates the onset of a fusion between the
material culture of the Visigoths and the Hispanic
Romans.

Within the framework of the Petra Sacra research project, in relation to the monastic complex of ... more Within the framework of the Petra Sacra research project, in relation to the monastic complex of St Pedro of Rocas located in the Ribeira Sacra (northwest of the Iberian Peninsula), one of the aspects under study is the analysis of light and its importance to understand the rupestrian complex in its constructive, worship, funeral and settlement dimensions. The use of light in the configuration of the rupestrian hermitage is decisive in its construction, functionality and meaning. The orientation of each architectural element is chosen according to the lighting, thus becoming an element directly linked to the architecture, configuring and defining a space at the service of the liturgy and prayer. The ecclesia, the parekklesiae, the funerary area, the laura (hermit cells), the hagioscopes, the rupestrian sanctuary and the episcopal/abbey rupestrian chair, are architectural typologies spatially articulated thanks to the light. All this evidences have a mystical-religious sense oriented to the daily life of the monks: prayer, penance, office and liturgical calendar. We find a close relationship between each architectural space and very marked moments of the year such as Easter Day, the winter solstice and the solar-Christian calendar in general. The builders who make this rupestrian complex design the architecture based on the hours of light and its orientation. The study of light and architecture in St Pedro of Rocas show its Byzantine origin. These oriental origins are directly related to the missionary and reforming action of Martín de Dumio (bishop of Braga, born in Panonia) in the second half of the 6 th century (circa 550-580 AD). Martin arrived at Gallaecia from Palestine, where he became a monk and knew directly the praxis of eastern asceticism and monasticism, accompanied by Syrian monks like Pascasius, who helped him in the Latin translation of the Sentences and Rules of the 'Desert Fathers'.

Anastasis. Research in Medieval Culture and Art, Vol. VII, No 1, May, May 24, 2020

The building we see today when we approach the monastery of Saint Pedro of Rocas reveals the mode... more The building we see today when we approach the monastery of Saint Pedro of Rocas reveals the modern architecture: the priory house. But this architecture "hides" another one that corresponds to the various construction phases carved in the rock, both in its worship, residential and funerary function. An architecture excavated in the rock that is directly related to its hermitic origins linking Saint Pedro of Rocas with an anchoretic tradition characteristic of the territory in which it is located and which we know as Ribeira Sacra. Many are the questions, and the enigmas, which still contains Saint Pedro of Rocas and it is precisely in the rock where we find the answers to those questions. We do not intend to solve them within the framework of this article, but we will point out some reflections that allow us to understand the complexity and enormous historical dimension that enclose the rock of Saint Pedro of Rocas. The data that we are obtaining from the interdisciplinary research that we have been carrying out points to a clear oriental origin in the forms of community life that took place in Saint Pedro of Rocas. The influence of Saint Martín of Dumio (bishop of Braga, in the second half of the 6th century) in the importation of monastic life forms of Syrian-Palestinian origin ended up configuring an architecture carved into the rock at the service of a clearly Byzantine liturgy.

DU ROYAUME GOTH AU MIDI MÉROVINGIEN (Actes des 34e Journées d’Archéologie Mérovingienne de Toulouse, 6, 7, et 8 Novembre 2013, édité par Emmanuelle Boube, Alexis Corrochano et Jerôme Hernandez, avec la collaboration de Jean-Luc Boudartchouk, Michel Kazanski et Patrick Périn), 2019

L’analyse typo-chronologique des objets de parure liés aux inhumations habillées ou du mobilier d... more L’analyse typo-chronologique des objets de parure liés aux inhumations habillées ou du mobilier déposé dans les tombes a toujours été privilégiée – sous le poids du paradigme ethnique – dans l’interprétation des pratiques funéraires hispaniques des Ve et VIe siècles et par extension des ensembles funéraires eux-mêmes. Aussi, et d’un point de vue strictement chronologique, on a établi une coupure qui nous paraît artificielle dans l’analyse du monde funéraire des IVe – Ve siècles. Cette coupure, entre le IVe et le Ve siècles, a conditionné la datation des changements des rites et coutumes funéraires et surévalué l’information apportée par les sources écrites. La prédilection pour l’objet, et c’est dans ce sens que nous parlons de la “malice des objets”, associée au poids des informations fournies par les textes, comme guide chronologique en quelque sorte, est à l’origine d’une analyse réductrice et partielle des pratiques funéraires. Il apparaît, de plus, qu’on ne traite pas en réalité des pratiques funéraires dans leur ensemble puisque ce courant de pensée se borne tout simplement à mettre en évidence la présence ou l’absence d’un type d’objet en particulier et à tenter d’établir leur “étiquette ethnique”. La recherche apparaît ainsi menée à contresens, le “qui et le pourquoi” précédant et conditionnant l’analyse objective des dépôts funéraires. À notre avis, la démarche qu’il faut entreprendre se situe à l’opposé et passe, en premier lieu, par l’étude méthodique de tous les dépôts funéraires contenus dans les tombes, cela non seulement à partir du Ve siècle, mais aussi dès le IVe siècle. Il faut ainsi élargir notre échelle temporelle d’analyse pour bien comprendre d’où nous partons, comment sont les dépôts funéraires, quels sont les éléments qui définissent le rite, quels sont les objets caractéristiques lorsqu’ils sont présents à l’intérieur des tombes. À partir de cette base, il sera possible de mettre en lumière les continuités, les transformations et les changements dans la composition et la distribution des dépôts funéraires des Ve-VIe siècles. C’est à ce moment-là que le “qui et le pourquoi” pourront, peut-être, trouver une réponse. Il s’agit d’une approche plus objective, fondée strictement sur l’analyse de la documentation archéologique. Il faudrait aussi être très rigoureux dans l’analyse des dépôts funéraires, ce qui n’est pas
toujours le cas, même si cela se fait aujourd’hui plus qu’avant. Il ne s’agit pas seulement de décrire les types d’objets à l’intérieur d’une tombe, mais de bien noter minutieusement la position précise de chaque objet déposé à l’intérieur ou à l’extérieur du contenant funéraire, ainsi que sa localisation exacte par rapport à l’individu inhumé. La comparaison des tombes datées par les dépôts funéraires du ive siècle avec celles qui sont situées chronologiquement aux Ve et VIe siècles s’avère fondamentale. C’est le seul moyen qui permettra de mettre en place une typologie des dépôts qui pourrait permettre, à terme, de proposer la datation d’une inhumation à partir des changements dans la composition et la distribution du mobilier à l’intérieur des tombes.

La Aventura de la Historia, número 259 (Mayo), 2020

En el marco del proceso de elaboración del expediente de candidatura a Patrimonio Mundial de la U... more En el marco del proceso de elaboración del expediente de candidatura a Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO, la Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural de la Xunta de Galicia emprendió una serie de actuaciones sobre diversos Bienes Culturales ubicados en la Ribeira Sacra. Entre ellos, el estudio de los orígenes del movimiento monástico en ese territorio y el complejo rupestre de san Pedro de Rocas (Esgos, Ourense). Las investigaciones realizadas en estos últimos dos años nos han permitido obtener una imagen diferente, a la vez que sorprendente, del monasterio, evidenciándose como un lugar directamente relacionado con la sacralización de este territorio y los orígenes del movimiento eremítico en la Ribeira Sacra. La tercera fase constructiva del complejo rupestre (monasterio benedictino) es de fábrica románica (siglos XI-XII), en la que se procede a una monumentalización de los arcos de acceso a las capillas, la ejecución de los dos sepulcros con yacente en el arcosolio exterior (estando en proceso de estudio su vinculación al taller del Maestro Mateo) y la realización de la pintura mural del mapamundi. Gracias a la intervención de conservación-restauración recientemente llevada a cabo en la pintura mural, se procedió a retirar íntegramente el mortero de esta pintura moderna que cubría en un 80% la superficie románica y a realizar tareas de consolidación, limpieza y reintegración en zonas con pérdidas. Esto ha permitido que, tras casi seiscientos años de haber estado oculta, podamos estudiar ahora en profundidad, a escala milimétrica y microscópica, todos los vestigios que se conservan de la pintura. El estudio arqueométrico, la analítica de laboratorio y el análisis multiespectral nos ha permitido caracterizar morteros, pigmentos, estratos pictóricos, soporte, técnica artística empleada, datación, análisis cronológico y fases de ejecución. El tipo de mapa, relacionado hasta la fecha con la diáspora apostólica, refleja también la evangelización de Oriente a Occidente por los Santos Varones Apostólicos (siglo I) y por el movimiento eremítico posterior (siglo IV). Se trata de un mapamundi de carácter funerario, probablemente realizado por encargo de una casa nobiliar para este lugar de enterramiento privilegiado. Se utiliza el sentido sagrado de estas representaciones, propias de los Beatos y del ambiente apocalíptico, para aplicarlo a la pintura mural, su arcosolio y capilla funeraria. Diáspora Apostólica, Juicio Final, Mapa del Orbe cristiano, con centro en Jerusalén y lugar señalado elegido por Dios (Dextera Domini), se aúnan para configurar un repertorio iconográfico de claro sentido funerario y escatológico. El mapamundi se realiza entre los reinados de Alfonso VI de León (rey de Galicia, 1072-1109) y la reina Urraca I de León (Señorío de Galicia, 1109-1126).

ROMANIA GOTHICA IV. Barbares dans la ville de l’Antiquité tardive. Présences et absences dans les espaces publics et privés (Paolo de Vingo – Joan Pinar Gil, dir.)., 2020

El registro arqueológico es ciertamente muy limitado a la hora de permitirnos documentar la prese... more El registro arqueológico es ciertamente muy limitado a la hora de permitirnos documentar la presencia de las gentes barbarae en el Occidente hispano. La llegada e instalación de pequeños grupos de elites con sus séquitos, con un componente militar predominante y omnipresente, que suplantarían al poder romano en la Península Ibérica a lo largo del siglo V (lo que las fuentes denominan como Suevos y Godos esencialmente) no introdujeron cambios en el concepto, la fisonomía y funcionamiento de los enclaves urbanos que vertebraban el poder de Roma en el Occidente de Hispania. Es en el ámbito funerario (intramuros, como en Conimbriga, o extramuros como en Beja y Mérida), donde encontramos ritos y actos funerarios, reflejados en ciertos tipos de depósitos y ajuares, que por su ‘novedad’ respecto a la tradición hispano-romana y sus evidentes relaciones con otros ámbitos geográficos y culturales (el área póntico-danubiana), que probablemente constituyan el vector explicativo fundamental para evidenciar arqueológicamente la presencia de esas elites ‘bárbaras’, sin duda ya muy romanizadas.

The study of Christian origins in the so-called Ribeira Sacra (Galicia, Spain) during the Late An... more The study of Christian origins in the so-called Ribeira Sacra (Galicia, Spain) during the Late Antiquity and its consolidation in the Early Middle Ages thanks to the intense hermitic movement has been conditioned by the existence of different well-preserved materials that referred us to existence of possible Late Antique and Early Medieval architectural structures. Various chapiters, epigraphic inscriptions, sarcophagus fragments, column shafts, arch keys, rock marks, etc. They are part of already modern buildings reused in its walls. These elements have been, until today, indications of what had existed before, but only from the moment in which new technologies are applied it can be corroborated that the presence of such constructions actually exists in situ. In St María of Temes (Carballedo, Lugo), St María of 'A Ermida' (Quiroga, Lugo) and St Xoan of Camba (Castro Caldelas, Ourense), geophysical technology was applied for the first time throughout geophysical survey inside and outside of these religious buildings. The results are surprising, since despite the archaeological surveys conducted in the 90s without findings, now is documented the presence of important constructive structures in the three locations confirming the existence of what could Late Antique mausoleums in Temes and 'A Ermida', and an Early Medieval monastery in Camba. In parallel, photogrammetric surveys of the monastery of St Pedro of Rocas (6 th-12 th centuries) are carried out and combined it with laser scanning technology we can demonstrate the morphology of this first Early Medieval monastery in the Ribeira Sacra. The combination of these techniques has allowed us to establish an uninterrupted evolution between the arrival of Christianity in the Late Antiquity and the creation of the first monasteries in this area at the beginning of the Early Middle Ages before proceeding to the archaeological excavation.

St Pedro of Rocas is one of the most emblematic archaeological and historical places of the Ribei... more St Pedro of Rocas is one of the most emblematic archaeological and historical places of the Ribeira Sacra territory (in Galicia, northwest of the Iberian Peninsula). Nevertheless, many questions remain still unanswered about this unique rupestrian complex. Are we really in St Pedro of Rocas before a hermitic and anchoretic movement? Is it probable that we will attend another Thebaid, like the Egyptian, but this one in the West, in St Pedro of Rocas? We are before a rupestrian hermitage whose origin goes back to the 6th century, extended during the 8th, 9th and 10th centuries, and transformed in the 12th century into a Benedictine monastery adapted to the coenobitic life. Since two years ago, we are developing an interdisciplinary research project (Petra Sacra) through analytical techniques applied to Historical and Archaeological Heritage. By applying this methodology, we have obtained a large amount of data that offers a very different image of this place. The use of aerospace remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS), combined with laser scanner (3D and BIM) and the application of infoarchitecture (3D representation, Photogrammetry and Orthophoto) has allowed us to obtain a real vision of the architecture of the worship complex. The images obtained through the laser scanner have allowed us to document the existence of at least one previous phase prior to the construction of the three chapels carved into the rock. Through archeometric techniques we have been able to obtain dating and characterizing different types of materials. Specifically, the analysis by thermoluminescence of a mortar fragment corresponding to the first phase of the existing wall painting in one of the chapels has provided us the date of realization of the painting (between 1050 and 1080), correcting significantly the traditional dating. The analysis of materials in the laboratory, by scanning electron microscope (SEM-EDS) and microanalysis by optical microscopy, in regard to wall painting, has provided us with information on the identification of mortars, pigments, strata, artistic techniques, elaboration procedures, chronological analysis and execution phases. Applied sciences and analytical technologies have allowed us to determine the material reality of the site, an image that until now had only been interpreted from historiography and written documentation. Thanks to the new data obtained, the chronology, vision and interpretation of these rupestrian complex changes completely. The monastery was previously interpreted as a church with three naves, but in reality St Pedro of Rocas is an architectural complex known as laura, a large area with defined spaces, cells and access areas that make up the rupestrian settlement. The ecclesia with liturgical, cult and devotional function and the space destined for funeral burials coexists with the previous two integrating both spaces. From this 1st period we can document several singular architectural elements: the hagioscopes for liturgical use, the funerary chapels, the arcosolia with devotional and memory character, the cells built in the rock and a set of utilitarian and symbolic elements, such as channels, silos, stairs, passage areas, access terraces and platforms. We are facing an early medieval architecture that is characterized by the combination of carved rock and wooden structures that are fixed on the stone (joinery carpentry). It is also necessary to highlight the presence of: a significant number of inscriptions (epigraphs and graffiti); many reused architectural elements of an early medieval edifice, currently missing, and the existence of a funerary mural painting with the representation of a World Map dated at the end of the 11th century. The study of the light, the orientation of the cult space and the extraordinary precision in the design of the rock architecture, based on acoustics and visibility, make the rupestrian complex a place completely organized, planned and executed by master builders. It is also necessary to emphasize that in St Pedro of Rocas we have a ‘sacred natural space’, later adapted and built with a cult, funerary and settlement use. The nature and the orography of the place are similar to the so-called ‘sacred mountain’ (in Sinai, Egypt), hence it was chosen as the place of settlement of the first hermits. Subsequently, this place was transformed thanks to the built architecture and the ‘holy men’ to become a complex that acquires the character of a ‘holy place’. We are before the presence of a nature sacred by its natural morphology; indeed, here the rock is architecture in itself, barely transformed by the action of man, which simply adapts it, giving it a cultured and sacred character.

López Quiroga, Jorge, Michel Kazanski and Vujadin Ivanišević (2017) Entangled Identities and Otherness in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe. BAR International Series S2852. Oxford., 2017

Identity and Otherness are consubstantial to relations of power and processes of social inequalit... more Identity and Otherness are consubstantial to relations of power and processes of social inequality and we can, and we must, study the evidence, materiality and spatial patterns of these practices. Social Identity changes in diverse cultural encounters and during periods of major social discontinuity or reorganisation, as occur in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. It is, in fact, a dialectic of power that can reflect diverse forms of Identity negotiated at different levels from an individual inside a large family group to local, regional or supra-regional communities. In fact, the result is the configuration of 'overlapping identities' that are managed at different social levels and in different socio-political contexts. In this sense, we can speak about 'entangled social identities'. We think that the most suitable way to address such subjects as Ethnicity, Identity and Otherness is through the development of interdisciplinary studies and methodologies.

López Quiroga, Jorge, Michel Kazanski and Vujadin Ivanišević (Editors) (2017): Entangled Identities and Otherness in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe (BAR International Series S2852), Oxford., 2017

In this paper we want to present some biomolecular and bioanthropological research concerning Lat... more In this paper we want to present some biomolecular and bioanthropological research concerning Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in Europe. Limiting ourselves to this subject we highlight how Science can help archaeologists, and of course historians, through analytical methods regarding issues such as geographical origin, migration, social mobility, kinship, diet, disease and in the same way address questions such as Ethnicity, Identity and Otherness. We want to underline how Science can help us in this way, with an analytical methodology, to rethink, through interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis, issues with a high ideological content in historical and archaeological research such as Ethnicity and Identity.

San Pedro de Rocas es uno de los lugares emblemáticos del territorio de la Ribeira Sacra (Galicia... more San Pedro de Rocas es uno de los lugares emblemáticos del territorio de la Ribeira Sacra (Galicia, España), siendo el testimonio más antiguo de la presencia de vida eremítica y de arquitectura rupestre en este territorio. Se trata de un complejo que es el resultado de la unión entre Patrimonio Natural y Patrimonio Cultural. La Ribeira Sacra es actualmente Candidata a Patrimonio Mundial para 2021. En San Pedro de Rocas, hayamos lo que se conoce como el espacio natural sagrado, Inter Alpes roccas nominata. La propia naturaleza y la orografía del lugar son interpretadas como espacio sacro, emulando al monte sagrado de tradición judía, el Sinaí, el lugar por excelencia donde Moisés se comunica directamente con la divinidad y recibe por primera vez en la historia la Ley Divina, de ahí que Rocas, como otros lugares similares, sea elegido lugar de asentamiento de los primeros eremitas. Con posterioridad, este lugar se va transformando gracias a la arquitectura construida y a los "hombres santos", hasta convertirse en un "lugar santo". Asistimos a la presencia de una naturaleza sacralizada por su morfología natural en un primer momento, a la roca como arquitectura en sí misma con marcado carácter primitivo y a la integración de las acciones del hombre en el paisaje sagrado, sin modificar el medio, mediante una progresiva e intensa simbolización del mismo. Del paisaje natural se da el salto a su simbolización-sacralización como obra sagrada (establecimiento de ascetas en abrigos), para posteriormente intervenirlo y antropizarlo (arquitectura rupestre altomedieval realizada por los eremitas), hasta llegar a un estado de nueva construcción e interpretación del medio mediante obra de fábrica (arquitectura construida románica y posterior). Se trata de un eremitorio rupestre cuyo origen se remonta al siglo VI, ampliado durante los siglos VII, VIII, IX y X, y posteriormente transformado en un monasterio benedictino adaptado a las necesidades que exigía la vida cenobítica a partir del siglo XII. San Pedro de Rocas constituye en su primer momento un complejo arquitectónico concreto, conocido como laura, un amplio recinto con áreas definidas, celdas y zonas de acceso, que configuran el espacio habitacional, la ecclesia con función litúrgica, de culto y devocional, y el área funeraria, que convive con los dos anteriores integrándose con ellos. De este primer periodo son importantes los elementos arquitectónicos singulares, hagioscopios para uso litúrgico, capillas funerarias y arcosolios con carácter devocional, funerarios y de memoria, celdas construidas en la roca con tecnología específica y un conjunto de elementos utilitarios y simbólicos, tales como canales, silos y escaleras. Estamos ante una arquitectura altomedieval que se caracteriza por la combinación de la roca labrada y de estructuras de madera sobre ésta (carpintería de armar).

Taking into account that any concentration of objects whose constitutive material is considered o... more Taking into account that any concentration of objects whose constitutive material is considered of value (economic and social value) can reach the dimension of ‘treasure’, the funeral deposits and trousseau of the barbarian elites are per se treasures. We talk about objects in gold, silver, rock crystal and ivory, among others. But is this definition sufficient if we pay attention exclusively to the literal meaning of its materiality (material value)? Is it not somewhat limited to associate deposit and/or grave goods with the original concept of deposit, which according to its etymology derives from thesauros (from Latin: deposit) or thēsaurós/tithemi (from Greek: treasure / 'I put')? We think that it is possible to review the nature of those deposits and grave goods taking into account the configuration element that establishes these categories and provides meanings: the Value. This generating motor that determines the sense of the objects is changing depending on the context, so we will have to analyse, from now on, the ‘funerary treasures’, based on their complex and variable values. From a current perspective, including these objects in a coherent historical discourse, funerary deposits and accessories acquire a clear thesaurus dimension. What was their consideration in the historical context in which these burials and funeral practices are registered? The family of the deceased, or even the deceased individual, thought that their objects contained a specific value for themselves as to deposit or carry them, respectively, at a time as transcendent as death.

Is it not necessary, then, to review what ‘values’ made such objects treasured inside these tombs? We speak of a wide period, between the 4th and 8th centuries, with very different types of burials, but a common praxis in the funeral, in the objects contained in the burials and in the behaviour of the elites before death. Similarly, from a current historiographical perspective, we consider the revision of the interpretation of funerary objects beyond their initial values necessary: material, social and political. Bearing in mind that at the moment when the individual was dressed for the funeral ritual, both the deposits and the garments arranged on his body, transcended his values of utility and economic/material, to acquire different ones such as the memorial or religious value, loaded with immaterial significance. The interpretation of the object and its meaning changes, the generating concept called ‘value’ transforms its meaning and function, thus producing a constant evolution from the manufacture of the objects to their disappearance.

We are therefore interested in analysing the process of transformation of ‘values’ that are culturally associated from the moment of death. Deposits and accessories are essential elements in the funeral ritual (ritual value) and to understand them as ‘treasures’, we must also take into account that they are ‘content’ and that they need an equally important ‘container’: the body and the grave. Both configure the space that helps to thesaurus these objects. The body and the tomb thus create a microcosm with its own individual sense, apart from the general funerary context and configure an indefinite space-time that transforms the whole into a treasure, beyond religious beliefs and the primitive sense of death to these barbarian elites. Therefore, the treasures of late-old elites acquire new meanings from continued re-valorisation, their link with man, the transformation of materiality, their relationship with a latent space and time, ideas and religious practices and, especially, the transcendent sense of death.

St Pedro of Rocas is one of the most emblematic places of the Ribeira Sacra territory and, nevert... more St Pedro of Rocas is one of the most emblematic places of the Ribeira Sacra territory and, nevertheless, many questions are still open about this unique rupestrian complex. St. Pedro is located next to Sil River. The areas that form the Ribeira Sacra are shared between the provinces of Lugo and Ourense, located in Galicia, in the northwest of the Iberian PeninsulaI. It is a Cultural Landscape and now Candidate to the World Heritage List by the UNESCO. The surface of the Ribeira Sacra is 3,800 Km2. Many churchs, monasteries, castles, landscapes and antic roads spread across the territory. Are we really in St Pedro of Rocas before a hermitic and anchoretic movement? We think that we are in front of another Thebaid, like the Egyptian, but this one in the West, in St. Pedro of Rocas. Initially St Pedro of Rocas was an architectural complex known as "Laura", a large area with defined places, cells and transit spaces that make up the living areas. The "ecclesia" with liturgical, cult and devotional function coexists with the space destined for funeral burials. The study of the light, the exact orientation of the construction and the design of the space based on the acoustics and the visibility of the interior of the "ecclesia" and "paraecclesiae", make the rock complex a place completely organized, planned and executed by master builders. It is necessary to emphasize that in St Pedro of Rocas we have a “sacred natural space”, later adapted and built with a cult, funerary and housing use. Subsequently, this place was transformed thanks to the built architecture made by "holy men" to become a complex that acquires the character of a “holy place”. Another important aspect is the light as a material element at the service of the architecture, as a configurator of the different spaces available at the service of liturgy and prayer. There is a methodically research of the light as an articulator of the whole cult space. The entire complex contains a mystical-religious sense of the light at the service of: the daily-life of prayer of hermits and monks; the funerary character of the complex; and the liturgical times. St Pedro de Rocas, as a rupestrian hermitage, is a clear example of the use of light in all dimensions of their architecture. Light has a theological meaning, as well us the rock and the water, the other two primordial elements in St Pedro of Rocas. It is also necessary to underline the presence of an important number of inscriptions, many of them reused as architectural elements of an early medieval edifice today disappear. Numerous graffiti and epigraphs have been located belonging to the early medieval constructions. The hermits’s cells are very close to each other and in relation to the ancient road. The cells were built by hand digging in the rock and their plants are oval, square and trapezoidal. The construction systems are made with wooden structures: with quadrangular beams or tree branches. We also find numerous storage silos and water conductions channels in and around the cells. The funerary area for adults and infants is composed by anthropomorphic burials excavated in the rock and funerary arcosolios with an "ad sanctos" topographic position. It is also very important the presence of a funerary mural painting with the representation of a World Map dated at the end of the 11th century, located in the funerary "paraecclesia".In St Pedro of Rocas we have developed a transdisciplinary research project, promoved by the General Direction of Cultural Heritage (Galician Government) developing analytical techniques applied to Cultural Heritage: archeometry, infoarchitecture (3D representation), architecture archaeology, laboratory analysis techniques, aerospace remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS). The results of this research project are focused on the conservation, musealization and enhancement of the place.

Congreso Internacional de Arqueoloxía do Ouro., 2018

“El oro de los Príncipes Bárbaros. Una aproximación a las técnicas de fabricación de algunos obje... more “El oro de los Príncipes Bárbaros. Una aproximación a las técnicas de fabricación de algunos objetos de oro del Occidente Europeo. Siglos I-VI.”

Congreso Internacional de Arqueoloxía do Ouro. Museo Provincial de Lugo. Diputación Provincial de Lugo. Noviembre de 2018.

26th IRCLAMA. LUMINOSA SAECLA / THE LUMINOUS CENTURIES LIGHTING SYSTEMS IN CHURCHES BETWEEN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES., Jun 2, 2019

De entre muchos de los aspectos llevados a estudio en el marco del proyecto de investigación Petra Sacra, en relación al complejo rupestre de San Pedro de Rocas ubicado en la Ribeira Sacra (en el noroeste de la Península Ibérica), destaca el análisis de la luz en sus diferentes aspectos y la relevancia que ésta adquiere para una mayor comprensión de todo el conjunto en sus dimensiones cultual, funeraria y habitacional. Estamos ante una realidad múltiple, donde el uso de la luz en la configuración del eremitorio rupestre es determinante, tanto para su construcción, como para su funcionalidad. Hablamos de la luz entendida como elemento cuyo sentido es físico, material y esencialmente simbólico. Se pone de manifiesto cómo la luz es utilizada según su contexto, natural o artificial, y adquiere un sentido pragmático, permitiendo una iluminación muy concreta tanto en los espacios de habitación (celdas) como en las zonas de culto y funerarias, respectivamente; la orientación de cada elemento está precisamente elegida en función de la iluminación. Por otra parte, hallamos la luz como un elemento material al servicio de la arquitectura, configurador de los diferentes espacios dispuestos al servicio de la liturgia y la oración, que permite identificar cada una de las construcciones desde un punto de vista espacial, articulando el vacío en cada una de ellas. La ecclesia, las parekklesiae, el área funeraria y la laura (el espacio habitacional compuesto por celdas excavadas en la roca y organizadas en el espacio, tanto en planta como en alzado) son tipologías arquitectónicas que a nivel espacial se organizan, entre otros aspectos, gracias a la luz. Por último, será objeto de estudio y puesta en valor, el sentido simbólico y profundamente transcendente de la luz en todo el complejo rupestre. Es, si cabe, el aspecto de mayor relevancia. Tanto la luz natural como la artificial juegan un papel clave en el significado de cada una de las acciones desempeñadas por los monjes eremitas en dicho complejo rupestre, de ahí que la orientación de cada elemento sea extremadamente estudiada y precisa. El área funeraria, los múltiples habitáculos de la laura, las parekklesiae también funerarias, los hagioscopios, el santuario y el coro-presbiterio de la ecclesia, todos ellos rupestres, a la luz de las nuevas investigaciones, contienen un sentido místico-religioso en la iluminación, al servicio de la vida de oración y penitencia de los monjes eremitas, del marcado carácter funerario de todo el complejo, de la liturgia y los tiempos litúrgicos celebrados en comunidad y al sentido más estrictamente simbólico, en lo que a representación de la luz como transcendencia, elevación e iluminación se refiere. San Pedro de Rocas, como eremitorio rupestre, supone un claro ejemplo del uso de la luz en todas las dimensiones de esta arquitectura, y una vez más, dota de funcionalidad al espacio y a su vez, llena de sacralidad y sentido transcendente, uno de los mayores complejos de la Península Ibérica. La luz se suma en un todo significativo, a la roca y al agua, los otros dos elementos primordiales en el caso que nos ocupa.

26th IRCLAMA. LUMINOSA SAECLA / THE LUMINOUS CENTURIES LIGHTING SYSTEMS IN CHURCHES BETWEEN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES. , Jun 2, 2019

Humboldt Kolloquium "Research without borders"-Alexander von Humboldt Legacy today, Madrid, 11-13 April , 2019

Desperta Ferro. Arqueología e Historia, 16, 2017

This project aims to undertake archaeological research in the monastery of St. Pedro of Montes (L... more This project aims to undertake archaeological research in the monastery of St. Pedro of Montes (León, Spain) founded circa 646 AD by Fructuosus of Braga, one of the most important and significant monastic complexes in the European West. One primary objective is to obtain archaeological evidence of the structures corresponding the late antique and early medieval monastic complexes: the first, dated in the middle seventh century; the expansion of the monastery made in the late seventh century by Valerius of Bierzo; and the early medieval restoration of the supposedly ruined and abandoned monastery, made by Gennadius in the late ninth century (circa 892-895 AD) and the enlargement of the monastic church,
which was consecrated in 919 AD. Secondly, we want to get stratigraphic evidence of the relationship between space and ritual and their reflection in architecture and socio-economic activity. That is to say, to
obtain: one the one hand and for the first time, material evidence of the configuration of a ‘fructuosian’ late-antique monastery, their evolution and transformation in the early Middle Ages, to understand the relationship between liturgy, ritual and architecture (Fructuosus wrote a monastic rule for their monasteries); and, on the other hand, to study, from stratigraphic data and spatial analysis, the impact on the spatial organization, the territory and the socio-economic activity of the establishment of a monastery of this type. Thirdly, we want to pay special attention to the aspects related to the daily life of the monks, and its dependent inhabitants, through a systematic bio-archaeological and bio-anthropological study of the monastic funerary areas. The planning prospections and archaeological excavations to be carried in three phases between 2017 and 2019 will take place inside and immediately outside of the present church of San Pedro de Montes.

The purpose of this project is to put in practice the need for a Network, in a real and not ficti... more The purpose of this project is to put in practice the need for a Network, in a real and not fictitious interdisciplinarity, to use all types of sources available and not prioritize one kind or another registry to the study of so-called 'barbarian societies', with respect to their socio-political identity. In this sense, the historiography had show the limits (conceptual and methodological) of Archaeology to study questions related to Identity and the strong dependence of the archaeological record from the textual sources. The aim of this ‘pilot-project’ is to create (from a small nucleus with the applicants of this research Project) a Network of researchers working in this field to develop various tools from a dynamic interdisciplinary perspective involving historians, archaeologists, sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, and scholars specialist in Molecular Genetics, Population Genetics and Ancient DNA.

The results of this research project will be publish in the volume: Jorge López Quiroga-Michel Kazanski-Vujadin Ivanisevic (Editors.): Identity and Otherness among the Barbarians in Europe during the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages : The problematic relationship between Texts and Archaeology (FORTHCOMING).

A synthesis of the results of the Spanish Archaeological Mission at 'Conimbriga' (Portugal) duri... more A synthesis of the results of the Spanish Archaeological Mission at 'Conimbriga' (Portugal) during 5 years (2004-2008), are publish in: Jorge López Quiroga, "Conimbriga tardo-antigua y medieval. Excavaciones arqueológicas en la ‘domus tancinus’ (2004-2008) (Condeixa-a-Velha, Portugal).

View also this papers:
Jorge López Quiroga: Conimbriga: Historia e Historiografía de un yacimiento singular, 7-19.
Jorge López Quiroga: De Conimbriga a Condeixa: Evolución y transformación de una 'ciuitas' romana en una ‘aldea’ medieval, Oxford, 2013, 319-341.
Jorge López Quiroga-Laura Benito Díaz-Raúl Catalán Ramos: La domus tancinus durante la Antigüedad Tardía y la Edad Media: Análisis, evolución y secuencia crono-estratigráfica, Oxford, 2013, 221-280.
Jorge López Quiroga-Laura Benito Díez: "Un cementerio medieval en la ‘domus tancinus’ de ‘Conimbriga’ (Condeixa-à-Velha, Portugal)", in: Morir en el Mediterráneo Medieval (Eds. J. López Quiroga – A. Martínez Tejera) (BAR SERIES: Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 A .D.) (Proceedings 3) , Oxford, 2009, 203-238.
Jorge López Quiroga-Artemio Manuel Martínez Tejera: Evolución y transformación de Conimbriga durante la Antigüedad Tardía y la Edad Media (forthcoming).

Jorge López Quiroga-Artemio Manuel Martínez Tejera (Editors): In concavis petrarum habitaverunt. El fenómeno rupestre en el Mediterráneo medieval. De la investigación a la puesta en valor (BAR International Series 2591), Oxford, 2014., 2014

Research project coordinated by J. López Quiroga from 01.11.2008 until 30.05.2009. In the frame o... more Research project coordinated by J. López Quiroga from 01.11.2008 until 30.05.2009. In the frame of this project was celebrated an International Congress in the 'San Isidro' Museum (Madrid) in December 2008. The results of this project was publish in the volume: Jorge López Quiroga-Artemio Manuel Martínez Tejera (Editors): In concavis petrarum habitaverunt. El fenómeno rupestre en el Mediterráneo medieval. De la investigación a la puesta en valor (BAR International Series 2591), Oxford, 2014.

Olof Brandt-Silvia Cresci-Jorge López Quiroga-Carmelo Pappalardo (Editors): Episcopus, ciuitas, territorium (Acta XV Congressvs Internationalis Archaeologicae Christianae, Toledo, 8-12.9.2008) (Studi di Antichità Cristiana LXV), Città del Vaticano, 2013., 2013

Research project coordinated by J. López Quiroga from 01.11.2006 until 31.03.2007. In the frame o... more Research project coordinated by J. López Quiroga from 01.11.2006 until 31.03.2007. In the frame of this project was celebrated the XV International Congress on Christian Archaeology (CIAC) at Toledo in September 2008. The results of this Congress was publish in the volume: Olof Brandt-Silvia Cresci-Jorge López Quiroga-Carmelo Pappalardo (Editors): Episcopus, ciuitas, territorium (Acta XV Congressvs Internationalis Archaeologicae Christianae, Toledo, 8-12.9.2008) (Studi di Antichità Cristiana LXV), Città del Vaticano, 2013.

Jorge López Quiroga & Artemio Manuel Martínez Tejera (Editors), Morir en el mediterráneo Medieval (BAR International Series 2001), Oxford, 2009., 2009

Research project coordinated by J. López Quiroga from 01.04.2007 until 31.03.2008. In the frame o... more Research project coordinated by J. López Quiroga from 01.04.2007 until 31.03.2008. In the frame of this project was celebrated an International Congress in the Autonomous University of Madrid and the 'San Isidro' Museum (Madrid) in December 2007. The results of this project was publish in the volume: Jorge López Quiroga & Artemio Manuel Martínez Tejera (Editors), Morir en el mediterráneo Medieval (BAR International Series 2001), Oxford, 2009.

Jorge López Quiroga- Jorge Morín de Pablos & Artemio Manuel Martínez Tejera (Editors), Monasteria et Territoria. Elites, Edilicia y territorio en el mediterráneo medieval (BAR International Series 1720), Oxford, 2007., 2007

Research Project coordinated by J. López Quiroga from 01.11.2006 until 31.10.2007. In the frame o... more Research Project coordinated by J. López Quiroga from 01.11.2006 until 31.10.2007. In the frame of this project was celebrated an International Congress in Madrid in December 2006 in the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Regional Archaeological Museum (Alcalá de Henares). The results of this project was publish in the volume: Jorge López Quiroga- Jorge Morín de Pablos & Artemio Manuel Martínez Tejera (Editors), Monasteria et Territoria. Elites, Edilicia y territorio en el mediterráneo medieval (BAR International Series 1720), Oxford, 2007.

This research project developed between 01.10.2006 and 31.09.2007 was coordinated by Patrick Peri... more This research project developed between 01.10.2006 and 31.09.2007 was coordinated by Patrick Perin & Jorge López Quiroga. The results of this project are collected in the volume: Jorge López Quiroga, Artemio Manuel Martínez Tejera & Jorge Morín de Pablos (Editors), El tiempo de los bárbaros. Pervivencia y transformación en Gallia e Hispania (siglos V- VI), Alcalá de Henares, 2010.

Monasteria et Territoria. Elites, Edilicia y territorio en el mediterráneo medieval (BAR International Series 1720), Oxford, 2007., 2007

"This research project coordinated by Sauro Gelichi (Università Ca'Foscari di Venezia) and Jorge ... more "This research project coordinated by Sauro Gelichi (Università Ca'Foscari di Venezia) and Jorge López Quiroga (Autonomous University of Madrid) was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education in the frame of the so-called bilateral actions between 01.01.2005 and 31.12.2006. One workshop in Venice and an International Conference held in Madrid was the two principal activities realized in this project. The results of the project was publish in the book: Jorge López Quiroga- Jorge Morín de Pablos & Artemio Manuel Martínez Tejera (Editors), Monasteria et Territoria. Elites, Edilicia y territorio en el mediterráneo medieval (BAR International Series 1720), Oxford, 2007.
View also about the 'end of the villa' in 'Gallaecia': Jorge López Quiroga: “Después del ‘final de las villae’ entre el Miño y el Duero (ss. VII-X): Comunidades 'fructuosianas', hábitat rupestre y 'aldeas'", in: Formas de ocupación rural en la Gallaecia y en la Lusitania durante la Antigüedad tardía y la Alta Edad Media (eds. J. López Quiroga-M. Conceiçâo Lopes-C .Fernández Ochoa), Madrid, 2007, 219-246."

Research Project developed between 01.01.2004 and 31.12.2005 and coordinated by Patrick Perin & J... more Research Project developed between 01.01.2004 and 31.12.2005 and coordinated by Patrick Perin & Jorge López Quiroga. Among the principal achievements of this project two conferences were celebrated in the Caen University (France) and the Regional Archaeological Museum of the Madrid Region in 2004 and 2005. The book 'Gallia e Hispania'' present the results of both conferences: LÓPEZ QUIROGA, Jorge- MARTÍNEZ TEJERA, Artemio- MORÍN DE PABLOS, Jorge: Galia e Hispania en el contexto de la presencia ‘germánica’ (siglos V-VII): Balance y perspectivas (BAR International Series 1534), Oxford, 2006.

Research project coordinated by J. López Quiroga & E. Daza Pardo from 01.01.2006 until 31.12.2006... more Research project coordinated by J. López Quiroga & E. Daza Pardo from 01.01.2006 until 31.12.2006. In the frame of this project was elaborated the 'Atlas of Cave Constructions in Guadalajara province' .

orge López Quiroga-Maria da Conceiçâo Lopes-Carmen Fernández Ochoa (editores): Formas de ocupación rural en la Gallaecia y en la Lusitania durante la Antigüedad tardía y la alta Edad Media, Madrid, 2007. , 2007

Research project coordinated by J. López Quiroga from 01.09.2003 until 31.12.2005 funded by the A... more Research project coordinated by J. López Quiroga from 01.09.2003 until 31.12.2005 funded by the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). The results of this project was presented in the Congress of Peninsular Archaeology (Faro, Portugal) and partially publish in the volume: Jorge López Quiroga-Maria da Conceiçâo Lopes-Carmen Fernández Ochoa (editores): Formas de ocupación rural en la Gallaecia y en la Lusitania durante la Antigüedad tardía y la alta Edad Media, Madrid, 2007.

First Workshop of the Excellence Network 'ARS MEDIEVALIS' funded by the Spanish Ministry of Scien... more First Workshop of the Excellence Network 'ARS MEDIEVALIS' funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Competitiveness coordinated by Alejandro García Avilés (University of Murcia) and Gerardo Boto Varela (University of Girona). The workshop will take place at the University of Murcia between from 4th to 5th Mai 2016.

American Anthropological Association Annual Congress (AAA 2015) Organizers: Matthew Carlos Vela... more American Anthropological Association Annual Congress (AAA 2015)
Organizers:
Matthew Carlos Velasco (Vanderbilt University)
Chairs:
Tiffiny A Tung (Vanderbilt University)
Discussants:
Scott G Ortman (University of Colorado-Boulder) and Christopher Stojanowski (Arizona State Univ)

"Konzeptionen von Herrschaft und die Praxis von Regierung bilden in der Antike häufig einen deutl... more "Konzeptionen von Herrschaft und die Praxis von Regierung bilden in der Antike häufig einen deutlichen Widerspruch. Dieser kristallisiert sich regelmäßig in idealisierten oder auch negativ zugespitzten Darstellungen einzelner Herrscher, in denen die von Zeitgenossen wahrgenommene Diskrepanz zwischen Konzept und Umsetzung, zwischen Form und Inhabern von Herrschaft umso pointierter hervortritt. Während Entwürfe idealer, teilweise auch utopistischer Formen von Herrschaft in größerer Anzahl vorgelegt wurden, bleibt die Reihe jener Herrscher, die den dort formulierten hohen Ansprüchen tatsächlich gerecht geworden sein sollen, gering.
In gleicher Weise gestalten sich indes auch die Rekonstruktionen und in der Folge dann die Einschätzungen von theoretischen politischen Herrschaftsdiskursen und von politischem Handeln in der Forschung konträr, abhängig von den jeweiligen Rahmenbedingungen und den ideologischen Umfeldern. Wie etwa werden Konflikte von Regierungshandeln und religiösen Bindungen bewertet? Welche Rolle spielt die Vorstellung vom Exempelcharakter einzelner Persönlichkeiten oder Handlungen in der Rezeption antiker Geschichte zu unterschiedlichen Epochen? Offenbar zieht sich die Spannung zwischen idealer Herrschaft und wahrgenommener Realität, zwischen politischen Ordnungen und ihren Repräsentanten nicht nur durch die antike Kritik, sondern auch durch nachantike Bewertungen. Das Humboldtforum soll Forschern aus allen Bereichen der Altertumswissenschaften Gelegenheit bieten, über diese Ambiguitäten nachzudenken und zu diskutieren.

Wissenschaftliches Komitee: Jan Bemmann, Universität Bonn Mischa Meier, Universität Tübingen Christiane Reitz, Universität Rostock"

La Historia de la Arqueología cuenta con una vida relativamente corta pero en las dos últimas déc... more La Historia de la Arqueología cuenta con una vida relativamente corta pero en las dos últimas décadas ha realizado grandes avances a nivel mundial y, en gran medida, también en España. De alguna forma la Historia de la Arqueología ha perdido la inocencia y ha alcanzado una madurez como subdisciplina.

Esa madurez exige profundizar en las metodologías de trabajo propias de la historiografía arqueológica como manera de reflexionar sobre las formas de hacer arqueología. Frente a la falsa historiografía, la historiografía crítica necesita perfeccionar sus herramientas de trabajo y sus aproximaciones de estudio. Por eso hemos pensado que este es un momento oportuno para la celebración de un congreso que permita presentar, debatir y marcar las líneas más recientes de hacer historiografía y al mismo tiempo reflexionar sobre sus perspectivas de futuro.

El congreso se articula en torno a cuatro sesiones generales, con ponencias marco y comunicaciones anexas, que son las siguientes: 1) La historiografía arqueológica, 2) Los arqueólogos y la práctica arqueológica, 3) La arqueología y las instituciones, y 4) Arqueología y contextos sociales y políticos.

http://harngroup.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/iv-congreso-internacional-de-historia-de-la-arqueologia/

To mark the 1400th anniversary of the death of Columbanus the International Network Making Europe... more To mark the 1400th anniversary of the death of Columbanus the International Network Making Europe: Columbanus and his Legacy/ Construire l’Europe: Colomban et son héritage / Costruire l’Europa: Colombano e la sua eredità organizes in 2015 three conferences.

More info: http://www.columbanus2015.eu

The scientific committee of the conference invites participants to submit abstracts on the topics... more The scientific committee of the conference invites participants to submit abstracts on the topics outlined in the accompanying list presented on this web site. Additional subjects related to the main topics of the conference are also welcome.

Abstracts (in English) for individual paper presentations or symposiums should not exceed 200–300 words and must include the name of the presenter, his/her affiliation and the type of presentation (paper or symposium). Proposed posters can be submitted as text or PDF file. A short biography or C.V. can be added together with the abstract in a separate file.

The deadline for abstract`s submission is 15 September 2014.

Questions concerning the conference or abstract submission can be addressed to our main office: desk@archaeologyisrael.com

Please submit your abstract directly to the scientific committee by email: desk@archaeologyisrael.com

http://www.archaeologyisrael.com

Organizer: Matthew C. Velasco. Chair: Tiffiny A. Tung. Ethnogenesis has become an important t... more Organizer: Matthew C. Velasco. Chair: Tiffiny A. Tung.

Ethnogenesis has become an important theoretical thread in the archaeology of identity because of the concept’s relevance to modern-day social politics and the discipline’s strength in tracing the emergence and transformation of ethnic group identities through time (Hu 2013, Voss 2008). Through a myriad of methodological tools, bioarchaeology in particular has advanced the study of ethnic identity by analyzing patterns of genetic differentiation and integration (Stojanowski 2010), identity-based trauma and morbidity (Kurin 2012), and cranial vault modification as a marker of embodied identity and lived experience (Knudson and Stojanowski 2009). Yet additional lines of textual and narrative evidence, from archival records and first-hand testimony to oral history and ethnographic analogy, are arguably indispensable for the conceptualization of ethnogenetic processes in antiquity and recent history. In light of the orienting theme of the 2015 AAA meetings, this session asks how ethnographic narratives and other textual sources frame our ‘way of knowing’ ethnicity in the archaeological record. Where do ethnographic or ethnohistoric data elucidate processes of ethnogenesis in the recent and distant past—making the strange familiar—or alternatively, where might they assimilate unique cultural formations into Eurocentric models of identity and nationalism?

This session explores recent approaches to ethnogenesis in bioarchaeology from a global perspective and examines the utility and limitations of the "ethnicity" concept across cultures with diverse sociopolitical histories and population dynamics. Methodologically, this session seeks to highlight the unique bodies of evidence that bioarchaeology offers toward an anthropological understanding of ethnogenesis in contexts of inter-group conflict, multi-ethnic interaction and settlement, population movement and migration, and colonial encounters and resistance. We invite papers that draw on archaeological, bioarchaeological, historical, linguistic, and/or ethnographic data to engage the following questions: 1) how do we methodologically distinguish “ethnogenesis” from related concepts such as "identity formation," “kinship,” and “population history”? 2) Where is bioarchaeology limited in understanding the ideologies and political imaginaries that motivate ethnogenesis? And, 3) in what ways can studies of skeletal remains expose silences in the historical record and contribute toward an understanding of current processes of ethnic differentiation and conflict? Papers need not be limited to these broad theoretical questions, a particular world region, or even bioarchaeology per se, but should be grounded in data-driven diachronic studies with an eye toward cross-disciplinary comparison.

The Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies plans to organise a conference every four years on... more The Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies plans to organise a conference every four years on the Melkite Christianity or Easter Mediterranean Byzantine Christianity (including Asia Minor). The first one will be held at the SOAS (University of London) alongside the Symposium Syriacum and the Christian Arabic Conference on 11th – 16th July 2016. The Conference aims to study the Melkite Christianity from its beginning, up to the present time, and it accepts papers on different disciplines and subjects.

Plenary Session on 23 August 2016 about 'Early Byzantine City" with Enrico Zanini, Vujadin Ivaniš... more Plenary Session on 23 August 2016 about 'Early Byzantine City" with Enrico Zanini, Vujadin Ivanišević and Jim Crow (moderator).

Spanische und deutsche Referenten werden mit den Teilnehmern die vielfach diskutierte Rolle einer... more Spanische und deutsche Referenten werden mit den Teilnehmern die vielfach diskutierte Rolle einer gesellschaftlichen Identität in der europäischen Gemeinschaft und das Thema Diversity im Arbeitsalltag diskutieren. Die Informationsveranstaltung ermöglicht es Referenten und Deutschland-Alumni, miteinander in Kontakt zu treten.

If we want study the funerary world in Late Antiquity ‘Hispania' without the classical interpret... more If we want study the funerary world in Late Antiquity ‘Hispania' without the classical interpretative denominations as ‘Douro, Visigothic, hispano-visigothic or Byzantine necropolis’, we must start with an analysis based on objective criteria according to the data provided by the archaeological record, giving priority, in this sense, to the qualitative data. We considered the funeral rites and customs as a important discriminating element to define changes and continuities representative enough to allow any types according to the characteristics and variations observed in the funeral ritual between 5th and 8th centuries in the Iberian Peninsula. Focusing on funeral rite as indicator of transformations and permanence prevents about the exclusive use of the type-chronology of the ‘objects’ as unique marker to study the funeral world.

L’arrivée officielle des ‘Wisigoths’ en Péninsule Ibérique après la débâcle de Vouillée en 507, m... more L’arrivée officielle des ‘Wisigoths’ en Péninsule Ibérique après la débâcle de Vouillée en 507, marque le début de l’hégémonie gothique en Hispania. Commence alors le difficile équilibre d’une minorité populationnel ‘étrangère’ dans un ensemble majoritaire que constitue la société locale hispano-romaine. Les sources émanées des milieux proches à la cour royale montrent l’effort soutenu de la part des Goths, mais pas toujours avec succès, pour créer un ensemble géopolitique homogène en Péninsule Ibérique : la conversion au catholicisme, la suppression de la prohibition des mariages mixtes, les essais pour maintenir la succession royale dans un même lignage…Tout cela a amené à la construction du mythe de l’identification entre Spania et les ‘Wisigoths’, reprise plus tard pour la monarchie asturienne pour justifier la Reconquista. Le récent débat historiographique en Espagne, grâce essentiellement à l’image proportionnée dans les dernières années pour l’archéologie, a mise en question certains lieux communs profondément ancrés dans le discours historique sur la période wisigothique en Péninsule Ibérique. Nous essaierons de montrer dans notre intervention : d’une part, les difficultés des Goths pour maintenir une Identité propre et une certaine conscience ethnique comme minorité socio-politique ; d’autre part, comme pouvons-nous concilier la vision propagandiste des textes et les nouvelles apports de l’archéologie.

Le monde funéraire en Péninsule Ibérique pendant l’Antiquité tardive, étais jadis perçu comme un ... more Le monde funéraire en Péninsule Ibérique pendant l’Antiquité tardive, étais jadis perçu comme un refuge exclusif où il était possible de visualiser la présence des élites associées à des populations ‘étrangères’, désignées comme ‘germaniques’ et/ou barbares, à travers certaines sépultures qui seraient la preuve d'une prétendue filiation ‘ethnique’. Maintenant, cependant, les traditionnellement appelées ‘nécropoles wisigothiques’, sont considérées comme un exemple incontestable des espaces funéraires correspondant majoritairement à des ‘communautés paysannes’. En outre, sans aucun trait d'identité, d’identification ou de distinction sociale et/ou politique qui puisse mettre en rapport à certaines de ces individus avec les gentes barbarae. En plus, et en fonction de cette ‘nouvelle lecture révisionniste’, les Barbares seraient totalement invisibles en Péninsule Ibérique. Donc, en ce qui concerne les Goths en Hispania il pourraient s’appliquer la lecture de E. James: «en fonction des preuves archéologiques, et regardant le sud de la Gaule, les Goths n'auraient pas existé". On parle aussi d'une ‘invisibilité matérielle de l’aristocratie’ pour défendre une ‘émergence de la paysannerie’ dès le V siècle, comme le protagoniste des changements dans l’Hispania de l’Antiquité Tardive. Il est, cependant, peu convaincant attribuer aux individus inhumés avec certains éléments d’habillement personnel (encadrés en grande partie dans le VIe, mais aussi dans le Ve siècles) un origine exclusivement endogène. Au même temps que lier ces ‘sépultures habillées’ à la timide émergence d'élites locales hispano-romaines au sein des ‘communautés villageoises’. Nous sommes en désaccord avec cette interprétation des données archéologiques, car, à notre avis, il est nécessaire de tenir compte de l'existence de facteurs exogènes pour expliquer pourquoi il y a un changement dans les types et les formes des dépôts funéraires caractéristiques des inhumations associées aux élites de l’Antiquité Tardive. À notre avis, on mélange ici deux questions différents : d’une part, l’identité socio-politique des individus inhumés (mêlée souvent avec une conception aujourd’hui obsolète de l’ethnie) et, d’autre part, l’analyse per se des rites et des coutumes funéraires (fréquemment limité à une analyse typologique des objets contenus dans la tombe). Si nous voulons étudier le monde funéraire en Péninsule Ibérique sans a priori nous devons laisser de côté les ‘étiquetés’ avec un haute contenu interprétatif : ‘nécropoles du Douro’, ‘wisigothiques’, ‘hispano-wisigothiques’ ou ‘byzantines’. Nous devons commencer, tout d’abord, par une analyse fondée exclusivement sur les données fournies par le registre archéologique. Nous croyons que les rites et les coutumes funéraires sont un élément assez représentatif des changements et des continuités pour permettre d’établir des types en fonction des caractéristiques et des variations observées dans le rituel funéraire du Ve et du VIe siècles. Faire des rites funéraires le fil conducteur pour l'étude des cimetières de l’Antiquité Tardive en Péninsule Ibérique, empêche qui l'objet (et la type-chronologie des objets) soit le seul indicateur qui détermine la lecture des transformations et des persistances dans le monde funéraire hispanique. Bien sûr, les dépôts funéraires sont caractérisés par la présence d'objets intentionnellement placés à l'intérieur des tombes. Mais, c’est la combinaison de ceux-ci dans les inhumations (et pas seulement sa présence et/ou absence, leur forme ou leur typologie) ce qui fait possible détecter des changements dans la composition et la répartition de ces objets. Évidemment, cette variabilité dans les rites funéraires, évidence par le registre archéologique, devrait être aussi expliqué dans son contexte sociale, politique et économique, donc historique.

The ASLAEME series covers a chronological and spatial span Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, ... more The ASLAEME series covers a chronological and spatial span Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, In this sense one of the priorities of the series ASLAEME is to contribute to the knowledge of this period from a eminently archaeological perspective, through the publication in an homogeneous series as far as time and space are concerned, with a multidisciplinary approach and above all open to a honest and constructive debate which will result always scientifically enriching. In order to accomplish this in this series the work of young researchers and scholars will have the possibility to publish in ASLAEME the results of their studies to the international scientific audience.

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (Editors Series: J. López Quiroga-P. Pergola- P. Perin- G. Vannini)

This book publish the different papers presented in the International Congress celebrated in the ... more This book publish the different papers presented in the International Congress celebrated in the 'San Isidro' Museum (Origins Museum), in December 2008. This Congress was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Technology (Complementary Actions), the 'San Isidro' Museum and the University Autónoma of Madrid.

, Jan 2013

The sub-series titled 'Archaeological Excavations and Catalogues', will allow the publication of ... more The sub-series titled 'Archaeological Excavations and Catalogues', will allow the publication of monographs on both final and continuiting preliminary reports of particular sites, as well as catalogues resulting from exhibitions or re-evaluation of materials pertaining to the chronological frame of the ASLAEME Series (400-1000 A. D.). This volume present the results of the Spanish Archaeological Mission at Conimbriga (Portugal) (2004-2008), edited by Jorge López Quiroga, "Conimbriga tardo-antigua y medieval. Excavaciones arqueológicas en la ‘domus tancinus’ (2004-2008) (Condeixa-a-Velha, Portugal)".

, 2010

This book publish the papers presented in the International Congress celebrated in the University... more This book publish the papers presented in the International Congress celebrated in the University Autónoma of Madrid and the 'San Isidro' Museum in Madrid, in December 2008. The Congress was celebrated with the support of the Spanish MInistry of Technology (Complementary Actions) and the University Autónoma of Madrid.

, 2007

This book publish the different papers presented in the International Congress celebrated in the ... more This book publish the different papers presented in the International Congress celebrated in the University Autónoma of Madrid and in the Archaeological Regional Museum (Alcalá de Henares), in December 2006. This publication is also the result of a research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Technology (Integrated Actions) coordinated by Sauro Gelichi and Jorge López Quiroga.

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (Conference Proccedings 1) (Editors Series: S. Gelichi-J. López Quiroga-P. Perin)., 2006

This book publish the different papers presented int the Round Table celebrated in the University... more This book publish the different papers presented int the Round Table celebrated in the University Autónoma of Madrid and the Archaeological Regional Museum (Alcalá de Henares), the 19th and 20th December 2005. Is also the result of a research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Techonology (Integrated Actions) coordinated by Patrick Perin and Jorge López Quiroga.

(Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD (Editors Series: S. Gelichi- J. López Quiroga-P. Perin), Oxford, 2006. , 2006

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (Editors Series: J. López Quiroga-P. Pergola- P. Perin- G. Vannini), 2009

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (Editors Series: J. López Quiroga-P. Pergola- P. Perin- G. Vannini-A. M. Martínez Tejera, 2011

Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 AD.) (Editors Series: S.Gelichi- J. López Quiroga-P. Perin) (BAR S1721)., 2007

El seminario propone reflexionar sobre las diferentes manifestaciones materiales de los mappaemun... more El seminario propone reflexionar sobre las diferentes manifestaciones materiales de los mappaemundi incluidos en la serie apocalíptica de los Beatos (siglos X-XIII) y sus vínculos con el mapamundi del complejo rupestre de San Pedro de Rocas. Poniendo en el centro del debate los diálogos entre estas diversas formas de representación medieval del mundo atravesado por la doctrina cristiana y la idea de predicación, se analizará el importante rol de sus diferentes soportes, materialidades y funciones en los diversos ambientes discursivos en donde éstas circulan, son vividas y transitadas.

26th IRCLAMA. LUMINOSA SAECLA / THE LUMINOUS CENTURIES LIGHTING SYSTEMS IN CHURCHES BETWEEN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES., 2019

CO-ORGANIZED WITH Sapienza Universita' di Roma - Alma Mater Studiorum - Istituto Superiore per la... more CO-ORGANIZED WITH Sapienza Universita' di Roma - Alma Mater Studiorum - Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro.
Poreč, Croatia, May 30th – June 2nd 2019
De entre muchos de los aspectos llevados a estudio en el marco del proyecto de investigación Petra Sacra, en relación al complejo rupestre de San Pedro de Rocas ubicado en la Ribeira Sacra (en el noroeste de la Península Ibérica), destaca el análisis de la luz en sus diferentes aspectos y la relevancia que ésta adquiere para una mayor comprensión de todo el conjunto en sus dimensiones cultual, funeraria y habitacional. Estamos ante una realidad múltiple, donde el uso de la luz en la configuración del eremitorio rupestre es determinante, tanto para su construcción, como para su funcionalidad. Hablamos de la luz entendida como elemento cuyo sentido es físico, material y esencialmente simbólico. Se pone de manifiesto cómo la luz es utilizada según su contexto, natural o artificial, y adquiere un sentido pragmático, permitiendo una iluminación muy concreta tanto en los espacios de habitación (celdas) como en las zonas de culto y funerarias, respectivamente; la orientación de cada elemento está precisamente elegida en función de la iluminación. Por otra parte, hallamos la luz como un elemento material al servicio de la arquitectura, configurador de los diferentes espacios dispuestos al servicio de la liturgia y la oración, que permite identificar cada una de las construcciones desde un punto de vista espacial, articulando el vacío en cada una de ellas. La ecclesia, las parekklesiae, el área funeraria y la laura (el espacio habitacional compuesto por celdas excavadas en la roca y organizadas en el espacio, tanto en planta como en alzado) son tipologías arquitectónicas que a nivel espacial se organizan, entre otros aspectos, gracias a la luz. Por último, será objeto de estudio y puesta en valor, el sentido simbólico y profundamente transcendente de la luz en todo el complejo rupestre. Es, si cabe, el aspecto de mayor relevancia. Tanto la luz natural como la artificial juegan un papel clave en el significado de cada una de las acciones desempeñadas por los monjes eremitas en dicho complejo rupestre, de ahí que la orientación de cada elemento sea extremadamente estudiada y precisa. El área funeraria, los múltiples habitáculos de la laura, las parekklesiae también funerarias, los hagioscopios, el santuario y el coro-presbiterio de la ecclesia, todos ellos rupestres, a la luz de las nuevas investigaciones, contienen un sentido místico-religioso en la iluminación, al servicio de la vida de oración y penitencia de los monjes eremitas, del marcado carácter funerario de todo el complejo, de la liturgia y los tiempos litúrgicos celebrados en comunidad y al sentido más estrictamente simbólico, en lo que a representación de la luz como transcendencia, elevación e iluminación se refiere. San Pedro de Rocas, como eremitorio rupestre, supone un claro ejemplo del uso de la luz en todas las dimensiones de esta arquitectura, y una vez más, dota de funcionalidad al espacio y a su vez, llena de sacralidad y sentido transcendente, uno de los mayores complejos de la Península Ibérica. La luz se suma en un todo significativo, a la roca y al agua, los otros dos elementos primordiales en el caso que nos ocupa.

École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), 15 avril, 9-11, 17 rue de la Sorbonne (Paris), 2019

Séminaire d'Études Médiévales Ibériques 2019 (FRAMESPA, Université Jean Jaurès Toulouse, 18 Février), 2019

Listed here are forthcoming academic events within the field of Late Antiquity (individual lectur... more Listed here are forthcoming academic events within the field of Late Antiquity (individual lectures, seminars, conferences, etc.) being held in Oxford, or being organised outside Oxford by OCLA Researchers.

Obiettivo di questa Summerschool (parte delle attività della Cattedra di Archeologia Medievale al... more Obiettivo di questa Summerschool (parte delle attività della Cattedra di Archeologia Medievale all’interno della Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici dell’Università di Padova e in collaborazione con il Museo di Riva del Garda) è quello di indagare il paesaggio di questo territorio trentino dal punto di vista della struttura delle proprietà agraria, l’utilizzo dell’acqua, le aree incolte, le vie di comunicazione… utilizzando strumenti provenienti di varie discipline: dal remote sensing alle ricerche etnografiche sul terreno. L’attività fa parte dei progetti PRIN e MEMOLA.

"Panel sponsored by the Seventh Century Studies Network; 49th International Congress on Medieval ... more "Panel sponsored by the Seventh Century Studies Network; 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8-11 2014.

Drawing inspiration from the recent Edinburgh Seventh Century Colloquium, this session will attempt to bring together scholars from different disciplines studying the seventh century in order to promote discussion and the cross-fertilization of ideas. We will explore how wider perspectives can be used to formulate new approaches to source material, drawing out fresh perspectives on both the familiar and unfamiliar. The session will be an examination of whether the seventh century can be studied as a unit across regions or whether the period represents a break in the longue durée. What was the level of discontinuity between the ‘long sixth’ and ‘long eighth’ centuries?We invite those working in archaeology, art history, history, literature, numismatics and religion, as well as in fields including Byzantine, Celtic, Classics, Islamic and Late Antique studies to submit 100 word abstracts for papers of approximately 20 minutes that engage with aspects of continuity and/or discontinuity during the long seventh century. We seek to have an interdisciplinary panel that reflects the various ways that questions of continuity and discontinuity can be addressed.

http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/

L’étude des productions officielle et non officielle du numéraire tardoromain semble ne poser auc... more L’étude des productions officielle et non officielle du numéraire tardoromain semble ne poser aucun problème particulier. Et pourtant, dans les principaux écrits consacrés au sujet, les numismates et historiens privilégient étonnamment une approche spécifique et séparée de ces productions. En effet, le contexte archéologique et l’abondance des monnaies et restes de production non officielle mis au jour ne laissent pas d’interroger les frontières de la tolérance de l’Etat romain: fit-il preuve d’une certaine passivité face à la production locale de numéraire, ou doit-on supposer une plus large acceptation de la fabrication et de l’usage de monnaies non officielles à quelques niveaux d’échanges? Quels furent réellement les effets des réformes sur le stock monétaire en circulation? Si l’Etat comptait officieusement sur la production locale de numéraire pour pallier les propres insuffisances de son système d’approvisionnement monétaire, la production non officielle ne fonctionnait-elle qu’en réaction aux défaillances de l’Etat? Etroitement lié à ces questions est aussi le recyclage de numéraire ancien, opéré à la fois par l’Etat et par des privés amassant le numéraire décrié pour le réinjecter plus tard dans les circuits déficitaires en numéraire. Dès lors, il devient nécessaire de questionner l’interaction de l’Etat et des particuliers au sein de la production de numéraire.

Information
Dr. Jérémie Chameroy
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum
Forschungsinstitut für Archäologie
Tel.: +49 (0) 6131 / 9124-268
chameroy(at)rgzm.de
Dr. Pierre-Marie Guihard
Centre Michel de Boüard
CRAHAM (UMR 6273)
Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
Tél.: +33 02.31.56.59.14
pierre-marie.guihard(at)unicaen.fr

http://web.rgzm.de/a/article/produktion-und-recyclen-von-muenzen-in-der-spaetantike.html

The International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA) in May 2014 will be a valuable opportunity to ... more The International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA) in May 2014 will be a valuable opportunity to apply and demonstrate the latest research and findings of archaeometric research on a broad range of topics across time and space. The symposium will draw on examples and best practices from interdisciplinary research at the interface between the natural sciences, engineering and archaeology to reconstruct and understand human behavior through the study of material culture.

Taking place in Los Angeles, the ISA will bring together internationally renowned archaeological scientists and archaeologists with museum professionals, conservation scientists, policy-makers, representatives from non-governmental organizations and industry, natural scientists, engineers and other interested groups to discuss new findings and innovations in technology and scientific research, and address current and global challenges in archaeology and cultural property ranging from the looting and illicit trafficking of antiquities to the archaeology of transitional periods.

Cividale del Friuli (Ud), maggio 2014 - Gli storici latini - Velleio Patercolo in testa – li cons... more Cividale del Friuli (Ud), maggio 2014 - Gli storici latini - Velleio Patercolo in testa – li consideravano “un popolo più feroce della ferocia germanica". Ma i Longobardi erano davvero i più crudeli tra i barbari? Il regno che stabilirono in Italia fu veramente un'epoca così buia come generalmente si crede? E cosa lasciarono Alboino e i suoi discendenti in eredità alle generazioni future, quale fu il loro contributo alla storia e all'identità del nostro Paese?E' quello che cercherà di mette in luce la manifestazione storico-rievocativa “AD 568. Cividale primo Ducato”, che a Cividale del Friuli (Ud), capitale del primo ducato del regno appunto, proporrà il 31 maggio e il primo giugno prossimi uno spaccato di vita quotidiana del VI secolo: l'epoca, cioè, in cui i Longobardi invasero l'Italia e si stabilirono in maniera definitiva sul nostro territorio dando vita a un regno destinato a durare due secoli.
L'evento è di grande attualità considerando il recente ingresso nella lista del Patrimonio Universale dell'Umanità Unesco del sito seriale “I Longobardi in Italia. I luoghi del Potere (568-774 d.C.)”, che comprende sette siti in tutta Italia, uno dei quali è proprio Cividale del Friuli con il Tempietto Longobardo, i resti del Complesso Episcopale rinnovato da Callisto e il Museo Archeologico Nazionale.
La manifestazione, giunta alla seconda edizione, presenta come principale novità proprio la collaborazione attiva con il Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cividale, una delle istituzioni più prestigiose nel settore, che ospita nelle sue sale molti importanti corredi provenienti dalle necropoli locali: da quelli di primo insediamento longobardo in “Forum Iulii” alla tomba del cosiddetto “Duca Gisulfo” (rinvenuto nel 1874 in Piazza Paolo Diacono), dai rinvenimenti di S. Mauro fino alle più recenti acquisizioni delle necropoli “Ferrovia”.

Per informazioni, si possono contattare gli organizzatori scrivendo a infoad568@lafara.eu, telefonando al numero 3283119698 oppure visitando il sito http://ad568.jimdo.com.

Las dataciones radiométricas se han convertido en la principal herramienta a la hora de abordar l... more Las dataciones radiométricas se han convertido en la principal herramienta a la hora de abordar la cronología absoluta de la materialidad del pasado. Se trata de una técnica que permite determinar la edad de materiales de naturaleza fundamentalmente orgánica mediante el uso del isótopo radioactivo Carbono-14 o radiocarbono. Dado que el C14 es un isótopo inestable, una vez que un organismo vegetal o animal muere y cesa su actividad metabólica se inicia un proceso de desintegración constante, cada 5730 años se descompone la mitad del C14 y así sucesivamente. De esta forma, midiendo la concentración de C14 en el material que se desee datar es posible saber cuántos años han transcurrido desde su muerte, con un máximo de antigüedad de aproximadamente unos 50000 años. Aunque aparentemente los principios que inspiran el método parecen sencillos, su aplicación no está exenta de importantes dificultades tanto técnicas como conceptuales que es necesario conocer para un buen uso de la técnica y una correcta lectura de sus resultados.

En las últimas décadas, el enorme avance experimentado por esta técnica ha permitido una cada vez mayor precisión en las dataciones, lo que ha provocado su rápida generalización en los programas de investigación, multiplicándose exponencialmente su número. Este hecho, indudablemente positivo, está generado de forma paralela el desarrollo de técnicas estadísticas que permiten el análisis de complejas series de dataciones con las que es posible crear diferentes modelos cronológicos (suman de probabilidades, análisis de significación de las diferencias cronológicas, modelos bayesianos etc.).

El seminario tiene como objetivo general la aproximación a la problemática de las dataciones radiocarbónicas y a su interpretación, siendo los objetivos particulares los siguientes:

Conocer los principios y fundamentos de la datación por C14.
Comprender la técnica del AMS y los procedimientos de calibración.
Conocer e interpretar correctamente los resultados de las dataciones y la información que habitualmente suministran los informes de los laboratorios
Conocer las protocolos de muestreo y las ventajas y limitaciones de los distintos tipos de muestras potencialmente datables (muestras de vida corta, larga, efecto reservorio, efecto “madera vieja”, efecto hemisferio etc.).
Comprender la relación entre el evento isotópico que se data y su relación con el fenómeno social que se quiere caracterizar.
Conocer las nuevas técnicas estadísticas que permiten la creación de modelos cronológicos.
Analizar casos de estudio relacionados con la Prehistoria Reciente del sur de la Península Ibérica.

During late antiquity hygienic habits and the usage of water change considerably. Small scale urb... more During late antiquity hygienic habits and the usage of water change considerably. Small scale urban baths and private establishments now exist alongside the lavish Roman thermae. While until recently, primarily the decline of urban structures was perceived as responsible for the eventual abandonment of the great ancient thermae, new investigations would seem to suggest a modified attitude towards body and cleaning as a main reason for this development. In the addition, religious and symbolic connotations of water become increasingly important and complex.The conference aims at a broad discussion of these issues in the light of new discoveries and archaeological data from Byzantine and Islamic contexts in the central and eastern Mediterranean. The concept of decline may eventually be challenged in view of changing values and meanings atttached to the baths.

For further information please contact:

David Knipp
Universität Freiburg
Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften david.knipp@archaeologie.uni-freiburg.de

"This one day conference presents the results of the Leverhulme-funded research project by the Un... more "This one day conference presents the results of the Leverhulme-funded research project by the University of Kent. It will explore all aspects of the urban experience in Mediterranean cities AD 300 - 600, including architecture, behaviour, costume, and material culture. The day’s schedule can be found below.

All are welcome to attend. Admission is GBP 20 (GBP 10 students/OAPs).
Please contact Jo Stoner (jms59@kent.ac.uk) by the Saturday 25th May 2014 to reserve a place.

Registration opens at 09.30. Underground: Green Park and Piccadilly.
www.visualisinglateantiquity.wordpress.com"

Coordinan: Antonio Malpica Cuello, Sonia Villar Mañas y Marcos García García Las jornadas que ... more Coordinan: Antonio Malpica Cuello, Sonia Villar Mañas y Marcos García García

Las jornadas que cada año organiza el grupo de investigación "Toponimia, Historia y Arqueología del Reino de Granada" (Hum-162) versarán en esta ocasión sobre ganadería y arqueología medieval. En estas XV Jornadas se pretende organizar une spacio de debate en el que concurran argumentos teóricos y metodológicos apoyados sobre casos de estudio que hayan situado el foco de atención sobre la relación entre cultura material y textual a la hora de investigar los patrones de explotación y gestión de los animales en contextos medievales.
Podemos destacar como cuestiones de interés, entre otras muchas, la identificación de espacios ganaderos, relación con otras actividades como la agricultura, fiscalidad, comercio de productos derivados de la cría de ganado, movilidad y estacionalidad, modos de gestión ganaderos o la utilidad de las observaciones etnográficas para explorar estas cuestiones.

Se abre un plazo de presentación de póster en A1. Se expondrán durante los tres días de las jornadas debiendo aportar los autores el soporte para ello. Además deberán defenderse en 5 minutos en la sesiones que se han habilitado. El envío del pdf o jpg se realizará antes del 10 de junio para que el comité los evalúe y seleccione

PROGRAMA

Miércoles 25 de junio

Sesión de Tarde

17:00 Presentación

17:30 Aleks Pluskowski: Impact of crusading and colonisation on animal husbandry in the medieval eastern Baltic

18:30 Marta Moreno García y Carlos Pimenta: De la piel al hueso: evidencias arqueozoológicas del consumo y difusión de productos ganaderos en al-Andalus
19:30 Debate

Jueves 26 de junio

Sesión de mañana

9:30 Marcos García García: Distribución y consumo de productos animales en contextos urbanos andalusíes: reflexiones teóricas y metodológicas (para un estudio por hacer)

10:30 Rafael Martínez Sánchez: Los restos óseos animales procedentes de los basureros domésticos del arrabal de Saqunda. Consumo y explotación ganadera en la capital del Emirato durante el primer siglo andalusí

11:30 Pausa

12:00 Jorge A. Eiroa Rodríguez, Juan Gallardo Carrillo y José Ángel González Ballesteros: La actividad ganadera en el castillo de Lorca durante la Baja Edad Media: una aproximación desde la arqueología

13:00 Debate

Sesión de Tarde

17:00 Antonio Malpica Cuello, Sonia Villar Mañas y Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz: Paisajes ganaderos en las últimas tierras de al-Andalus

18:00 Pablo Domínguez Gregorio: Distintos valores ecológicos, económicos y socioculturales del agdal, un sistema tradicional de gestión comunitaria de los recursos naturales en el Alto Atlas marroquí

19:30 Debate

Viernes 27 de junio

Sesión de Mañana

9:30 Esteban López García: Usos ganaderos y forestales de la Sierra de las Nieves (Málaga) tras la conquista castellana (1485-1572)

10:30 Luis Vicente Clemente Quijada: Ganadería, mercado y poblamiento en el maestrazgo de Alcántara (siglos XV-XVI)

11:30 Pausa

12:00 Julián Clemente Ramos: El ganado vacuno en Extremadura a principios de la Edad Moderna: peso y sementales

13:00 Debate

13:30 Acto de clausura

Información e inscripción:

La inscripción es totalmente gratuita, debiendo enviar los datos personales (nombre completo y DNI) antes del 7 de junio).
Email: marcosgarcia@ugr.es
Tlf: 657301940

Session at the International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, 7-10 July 2014 Dating the end of ... more Session at the International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, 7-10 July 2014

Dating the end of the Roman Empire has long been a popular parlour game. Numerous years can be proposed as date of the ‘fall’ of the empire. Yet all of these ignore the obvious question of when did the peoples of the Roman Empire themselves come to think of themselves as living in a post-imperial era?

The answer seems far from simple and varies from region to region but it is clear that, whenever people ceased to think of themselves as living within the Empire, it was long after the Empire had ceased to rule over them.

The strand ‘The Empire Never Ended? Letting Go of Roman Identity in the Post-Imperial World’ proposes to examine when and how that rupture in thinking occurred within the framework of the IMC 2014.

The IMC, an annual conference running continuously since 1994, is the biggest humanities event in Europe, attracting over 1800 delegates in 2013, and provides a unique forum for sharing and comparing approaches across a wealth of disciplines.

Responding to the 2014 theme ‘Empire’, ‘The Empire Never Ended? Letting Go of Roman Identity in the Post-Imperial World’ will offer further opportunities for fruitful exchange between scholars working on concepts of identity, community and authority throughout the post-Roman world.

Proposals for papers are warmly invited from new and established researchers in the field, and topics may include:

Being ‘Roman’ along the frontier: the formation of Roman ‘ethnic’ identities in post-Roman environments;
The Empire as a thing of the past: literary identification of the Roman Empire as a historical subject in the early middle ages;
Waiting for the Restoration? Continuing Roman identity long after the legions have left.
These are only a few possible ways of looking at the question. Researchers looking at all aspects of it are strongly encouraged to join the discussion.

Organised by Thomas J. MacMaster (PhD student, University of Edinburgh)

If you are interested in offering a 20-minute paper within this session please send a title and a brief abstract of 100 words by 1 September 2013 to Thomas J. MacMaster at empireatleeds@gmail.com.

Please note: Speakers invited cannot present a paper in another session at the IMC. All speakers will have to pay the appropriate IMC registration fee to attend.

For more information on the IMC see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/ and for the call for papers for the 2014 Congress see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2014_call.html.

Call open from 7th 2014 to 15th Mai 2014 http://proyectoifach.blogspot.com.es

Sono aperte le iscrizioni allo scavo di Santa Cristina in Caio 2014 (Buonconvento - SI) Santa ... more Sono aperte le iscrizioni allo scavo di Santa Cristina in Caio 2014 (Buonconvento - SI)

Santa Cristina è un vicus-mansio frequentato dal I secolo a.C.. Comprendeva un grande impianto termale pubblico dismesso nel IV secolo. Dopo fasi di spoliazione e riuso delle strutture si impiantò un villaggio di capanne.
Il villaggio è al momento databile tra VI e VIII secolo. L’indagine 2014 si svolgerà sulla collina di Poggio alle Fonti.

Obiettivi:
- individuare la Chiesa attestata nell’anno 814
- individuare la fornace da ceramica a pareti sottili indiziata da materiali di superficie
- continuare a indagare il cimitero tardoantico.

Direzione scientifica: Marco Valenti
Direzione sul campo: Stefano Bertoldi

in collaborazione con: Vasco La Salvia
Insegnamento di Metodologia della ricerca archeologica
Università degli Studi di Chieti

Dal 9 giugno 2014 inizierà la sesta campagna di scavo sul sito di Santa Cristina in Caio. Gli scavi avranno termine il 18 luglio, per una durata complessiva di 6 settimane.

Sono previsti due turni di tre settimane ciascuno:
I turno: 9 giugno - 27 giugno
II turno: 30 giugno - 18 luglio

Durante il periodo di scavo sono previsti seminari di informatica applicata all'archeologia medievale, di studio preliminare dei reperti ceramici ed il lavoro di aggiornamento in tempo reale del sito WEB e della pagina Facebook.
- Vitto e alloggio gratuiti (presso i locali dellʼAzienda agricola Piana).
- Ogni scavatore dovrà stipulare con un'agenzia di sua scelta una polizza anti-infortunio per cantiere edile, estesa alla durata della propria partecipazione (gli studenti dell'Ateneo senese sono invece già coperti).
- Gli scavatori dovranno essere muniti di scarpe antinfortunistiche, cuscino e lenzuola.
- Le richieste, complete di dati anagrafici, recapito telefonico, e-mail, corso di studi e turno preferenziale dovranno pervenire via e-mail al recapito sotto indicato.
- La presenza minima richiesta è di un turno di scavo.

Per le iscrizioni contattare Cristina Menghini (entro e non oltre l 20 maggio) all'indirizzo cristinamenghini@yahoo.it o compilare il form seguente

http://archeologiamedievale.unisi.it/santa-cristina
http://www.facebook.com/groups/santacristina/

"Partecipa allo scavo di Miranduolo (Chiusdino – SI) Direzione scientifica: Marco Valenti Dir... more "Partecipa allo scavo di Miranduolo (Chiusdino – SI)

Direzione scientifica: Marco Valenti
Direzione sul campo: Vittorio Fronza, Alessandra Nardini
Insegnamento di Archeologia Medievale
Università degli Studi di Siena

in collaborazione con: Vasco La Salvia
Insegnamento di Metodologia della ricerca archeologica
Università degli Studi di Chieti

Modalità di partecipazione alla XIV° campagna di scavo del castello di Miranduolo (1 settembre – 31 ottobre 2014)

Sono previsti tre turni di tre settimane ciascuno:
I turno: 1 settembre – 19 settembre
II turno: 22 settembre – 10 ottobre
III turno: 13 ottobre – 31 ottobre

Durante il periodo di scavo sono previsti seminari di informatica applicata all’archeologia, di studio preliminare dei reperti ceramici ed il lavoro di aggiornamento in tempo reale del sito WEB e della pagina Facebook.

- Vitto e alloggio gratuiti (presso abbazia di San Galgano).

- Ogni scavatore dovrà stipulare con un’agenzia di sua scelta una polizza anti-infortunio per cantiere edile, estesa alla durata della propria partecipazione (gli studenti dell’Ateneo senese sono invece già coperti).

- Gli scavatori dovranno essere muniti di scarpe antinfortunistiche, cuscino e lenzuola.

- Le richieste, complete di dati anagrafici, recapito telefonico, e-mail, corso di studi e turno preferenziale dovranno pervenire via e-mail al recapito sotto indicato.

- La presenza minima richiesta è di un turno di scavo.

Per le iscrizioni contattare, entro e non oltre il 10 agosto, Manuele Putti (manuele.putti@gmail.com), Cristina Menghini (cristinamenghini@yahoo.it)

http://archeologiamedievale.unisi.it/miranduolo http://www.facebook.com/miranduolo"

The site of the crannog at Drumclay in Co. Fermanagh has been known to archaeologists since the n... more The site of the crannog at Drumclay in Co. Fermanagh has been known to archaeologists since the nineteenth century. The plans for the A32 link road originally envisaged bridging the site, allowing it to be preserved in situ. The plans were changed during the course of road construction and excavation began, directed initially by Declan Hurl and subsequently by Dr Nora Bermingham.

Crannogs are artificial islands constructed in lakes and are found in Ireland and Scotland. Few have been excavated in recent years because of the complexities of disentangling these multiphase structures, and the costs of conserving the waterlogged finds. The wet conditions in which these sites are found produces exceptional survival of organic materials and environmental evidence, as the work at Drumclay has demonstrated.

Excavations there have revealing houses of early medieval date, probably of the eighth to ninth centuries, but the site continued in occupation up to the seventeenth century with the replacement of houses directly on top of earlier ones, levelling up of ground with material to compensate for slumping and collapse, and the maintenance of a central area as an open communal space. The house walls were insulated with heather and other plants. There is a consistent, recurring pattern of several houses being in use at any one time. It is estimated that the stratigraphy had an original depth of 5m.

Some of the most striking finds are a wooden bowl that has a cross carved into its base, parts of wooden vessels with interlace decoration, and combs made from antler and bone that date to between 1000 and 1100 AD. The site has produced a large collection of pottery. Parts of at least two different log boats have been discovered, and a wooden oar – from deposits several centuries older than the boats – has also been found.

http://www.medievalarchaeology.co.uk/index.php/projects/drumclay/

This project aims to redress this imbalance through the holistic reconstruction of the documented... more This project aims to redress this imbalance through the holistic reconstruction of the documented monastic community of Lyminge,Kent, one of a network of ‘double houses’ (a mixed-sex community presided over by a royal abbess) established by the Kentish royal family during the final two thirds of the 7th century. Previously known to archaeologists as the site of an Anglo-Saxon masonry church of the ‘Kentish Group’ brought to light by mid-19th-century antiquarian excavations and a late 5th-6th-century furnished inhumation cemetery excavated on the northern outskirts of the village in the 1950s, Lyminge provides an exciting opportunity to investigate the process of monastic foundation and its impacts in a region crucial to the earliest stages of the Anglo-Saxon conversion.

Since 2008 the University of Reading has been assessing Lyminge’s archaeological potential by targeting open spaces surrounding the churchyard of St Mary and St Ethelburga with geophysics, test-pitting and open-area excavation. This systematic exercise in ‘village-core’ archaeology has demonstrated the existence of extensive and richly-preserved horizon of Anglo-Saxon occupation. This spans a monastic phase of the late 7th-9th centuries A.D., encompassing several distinct zones (domestic, agricultural processing; a site of industrial-scale ironworking), as well as an earlier, late-5th- to early-7th- century, settlement focus. The ability to interrogate and interpret this archaeology within a refined and historically-contextualised chronological framework, means that Lyminge has the potential to generate unique insights into how cultural identity and daily life within an Anglo-Saxon community was transformed over the Conversion period: in short, a dynamic view of the ‘monasticization’ of a Kentish district centre.

http://www.reading.ac.uk/archaeology/research/Lyminge/

http://www.medievalarchaeology.co.uk/index.php/projects/reconstructing-the-anglo-saxon-monastic-landscape-of-lyminge-kent/"

Die elfenbeinernen Buchdeckel des Lorscher Evangeliars, der Karlsschrein in 3D, ein neuer Blick a... more Die elfenbeinernen Buchdeckel des Lorscher Evangeliars, der Karlsschrein in 3D, ein neuer Blick auf die Pfalz: Aachen feiert das Karlsjahr 2014 mit einem spektakulären Ausstellungsprojekt. Drei Teilausstellungen an ausgewählten Orten der Aachener Pfalz – dem Rathaus, dem Centre Charlemagne und der Domschatzkammer – werden den Besuchern bis zum 21. September 2014 das Leben und Wirken des Frankenkönigs vor Augen führen.
Die Kuratoren sind angetreten, den bedeutendsten Beitrag innerhalb der Reihe von Ausstellungen zu liefern, die anlässlich des 1200sten Todesjahres Karls des Großen im In- und Ausland zu sehen sein werden. Der professionellen Vorbereitung ist es zu verdanken, dass bereits ein Jahr vorher eine ganze Reihe Zusagen für hochkarätige Exponate vorlagen und zahlreiche Gruppenführungen gebucht wurden.
Der Europarat, das Europäische Parlament und das Goethe-Institut sind offizielle Unterstützer der Ausstellung. Schirmherren sind Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck, der französische Präsident François Hollande und der italienische Präsident Giorgio Napolitano. Joachim Gauck wird an der Eröffnungsfeier am 19. Juni teilnehmen.

"Le Parc archéologique européen de Bliesbruck-Reinheim accueille, du 16 mai au 30 septembre 2014,... more "Le Parc archéologique européen de Bliesbruck-Reinheim accueille, du 16 mai au 30 septembre 2014, l’exposition « C’était là ! Sous nos pieds… Découvertes archéologiques de la Ligne à grande vitesse Est européenne ». Consacrée aux résultats des recherches archéologiques menées sur le tracé de la ligne, en Lorraine et en Alsace, elle présente 6 000 ans d’histoire du territoire. Née de la volonté commune de l’Inrap, du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, de Réseau ferré de France et du PAIR, cette exposition (bilingue français-allemand) sera itinérante jusqu’en 2017.

http://www.inrap.fr/archeologie-preventive/Actualites/Communiques-de-presse/p-18113-archeologie-ligne-grande-vitesse-est-europeenne.htm"

"Das Interessante: Die Besucher erhalten Einblicke in die Fragen und Methoden, mit denen die arch... more "Das Interessante: Die Besucher erhalten Einblicke in die Fragen und Methoden, mit denen die archäologische Forschung ein solches Bauwerk „zum Sprechen“ bringt und in der Folge auch unser Verständnis für die Zeit Karls des Großen erweitert.
Bereits mehr als 1000 Jahre vor der Erbauung des Ludwig-Donau-Main-Kanals Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ließ Karl der Große einen Kanal errichten, um die Flusssysteme von Rhein und Donau miteinander zu verbinden. Damit sollte die europäische Hauptwasserscheide überwunden und die Schiffahrt zwischen Nordsee und Schwarzem Meer entscheidend erleichtert werden. Dieses ambitionierte Vorhaben hat in der Landschaft Spuren hinterlassen, die noch heute von einem der bedeutendsten wasserbaulichen Großprojekt des Frühen Mittelalters Zeugnis abgeben. Ein aktuelles Forschungsprojekt untersucht den „Karlsgraben“ als Bindeglied der Hafen-Netzwerke an Rhein und Donau. Dabei wird nicht nur das Bauwerk selbst untersucht, sondern es wird auch der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich das Bauvorhaben auf die umgebende Siedlungslandschaft auswirkte.
Die Ausstellung führt die Besucherinnen und Besucher in den laufenden Forschungsprozess; sie beschäftigt sich mit Fragen nach planerischen und technischen Voraussetzungen des Kanalbaus, aber auch nach der Art und Weise seiner Nutzung, nach wirtschaftlichen und machtpolitischen Aspekten. Und nicht zuletzt zeigt sie, mit welchen Methoden die Wissenschaft diese Fragen beantworten will.
Die Ausstellung zieht im Anschluss weiter: Sie wird ab dem 5. September in der Säulenhalle des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Denkmalpflegen, Alte Münze, Hofgraben 4, 80539 München, zu sehen sein.

http://web.rgzm.de/a/article/grossbaustelle-793-das-kanalprojekt-karls-des-grossen-zwischen-rhein-und-donau.html

http://www.welt.de/geschichte/article127645119/Im-Mittelalter-zog-man-Grossprojekte-einfach-durch.html

Discover the world of the Vikings in this major exhibition – the first at the British Museum for ... more Discover the world of the Vikings in this major exhibition – the first at the British Museum for over 30 years. The Viking Age (800–1050) was a period of major change across Europe. The Vikings expanded from their Scandinavian homelands to create an international network connecting cultures over four continents, where artistic, religious and political ideas met. The Vikings’ skill in shipbuilding and seafaring was central to their culture and achievements, and at the heart of the exhibition will be a 37-metre-long warship. Found in 1997, and dating to around 1025, it is the longest Viking ship ever discovered. Many other new discoveries, including part of a mass grave of Viking warriors, will be on display for the first time showing how our understanding of the Vikings is still being changed by new excavations and recent research.The exhibition will also present personal objects, including jewellery, amulets and idols, which help to reveal more about how the Vikings saw themselves and their world. Exquisite objects, including the magnificent Vale of York Hoard, demonstrate the global reach of the Viking network of trade, plunder and power – a network that left a lasting legacy in countries from Ireland and the UK to Russia and Ukraine. Enter a world of warriors, seafarers and conquerors to discover the many fascinating aspects of a history that is both strangely alien yet remarkably familiar.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/vikings.aspx

“Fiesole e i Longobardi” è il titolo della mostra organizzata per il centenario che verrà ospitat... more “Fiesole e i Longobardi” è il titolo della mostra organizzata per il centenario che verrà ospitata nelle sale del Museo Civico Archeologico di Fiesole. L’esposizione, realizzata in collaborazione con la Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana, vede esposti per la prima volta i corredi funerari longobardi rinvenuti nel corso degli scavi condotti dalla stessa Soprintendenza nell’Area Garibaldi a Fiesole. Le scoperte di questi ultimi anni hanno, infatti, portato Fiesole alla ribalta dell’archeologia longobarda: qui è stato scoperto un esteso insediamento fortificato – al momento più di 40 le sepolture rinvenute che, se sommate a quelle già note, portano a più di cento le tombe portate alla luce dalla fine dell’Ottocento – di grande importanza strategica nel controllo delle vie di transito dell’Italia centrale e assolutamente dominante sulla Firenze del periodo. Proprio per l’importanza di Fiesole nella storia longobarda, nel contesto della mostra è prevista anche una giornata di studio per aggiornare lo stato dell’arte dell’archeologia longobarda in Toscana e, più diffusamente in Italia, data la consistenza di quanto finora rinvenuto.

" Die Kultur der Wikinger steht im Mittelpunkt einer Sonderausstellung im Martin-Gropius-Bau Berl... more " Die Kultur der Wikinger steht im Mittelpunkt einer Sonderausstellung im Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, die bereits 2013 im Prinzen-Palais des Nationalmuseums in Kopenhagen zu sehen war. Organisiert wird sie vom dänischen Nationalmuseum, dem Britischen Museum London und dem Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. "Wikinger" ist ab Frühjahr 2014 im British Museum in London und vom 10. September 2014 – 4. Januar 2015 im Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin unter dem Titel Die Welt der Wikinger - Kulturen im Kontakt zu sehen.

Die Ausstellung über die Wikinger ist eine der größten seit 20 Jahren. Sie wird Ausstellungsstücke von Museen aus 12 europäischen Ländern zeigen. Bedeutendes Ausstellungsstück ist ein 37 Meter langes Kriegsschiffwrack, das in Roskilde entdeckt wurde. 100 Wikinger hatten Platz auf dem Schiff, und vermutlich gehörte es zur königlichen Flotte.

In der großen Sonderausstellung zum Thema "Wikinger" werden Themen wie Krieg, Expansion, Macht, Aristokratie, Rituale, Handel oder Glaube des nordischen Volkes anschaulich dargestellt. Die verschiedenen Themen werden miteinander verbunden durch das Statussymbol Schiff, das die Macht der Wikinger demonstrierte. Sie waren hervorragende Seemänner, was auch die Basis für ihren globalen Erfolg bildete. Die hochseetüchtigen Wikingerschiffe brachten die "Nordmänner" in andere Kontinente - unter anderem kolonialisierten sie Grönland und Island, erreichten Amerika, handelten mit dem mittleren Osten, dem byzantinischem Reich und sogar mit China. Die Kriegsschiffe transportieren gewaltige Invasionsarmeen, mit denen England erobert wurde oder ein Nordseeimperium errichtet wurde.
http://www.ostsee-portal.info/index.php/event-und-veranstaltungs-tipps/1305-martin-gropius-bau-berli..."

This fourth volume (Proceedings 4) provide the results of the International Conference "In Concav... more This fourth volume (Proceedings 4) provide the results of the International Conference "In Concavis petrarunt habitaverunt: El fenómeno rupestre en el Mediterráneo Medieval: De la investigación a la puesta en valor" held at the Museo de los Orígenes (Casa de San Isidro) on December 2008. This volume is divided into three parts: First, four studies on general aspects of the "rock world" in the Iberian Peninsula, the chronology of the caves artificially created, the troglodyte’s in the Greco-Roman tradition, and the chronology of the rock-cut tombs. Secondly, eleven studies of various regions and "rock complexes" of the Iberian Peninsula ("San Vítor", in San Lorenzo da Barxacova, Parada del Sil, Ourense; "El Bierzo"; the upper valley of the Ebro; "San Martín de Albelda", in "La Rioja"; the middle valley of the Cidacos river; the high valley of the Arlanza river; "San Frutos del Duratón", Segovia; the 'suburbium' and territory of 'Ercavica' in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages; the territory of Sierra Magina; and finally, the Almagruz caves, in Purullena, Granada. Thirdly four studies in other Mediterranean regions, as the "rock city" of Matera (Italy), the valley of the Euphrates (northern Syria); the churches built on the rock of Lalibela (Ethiopia), and the "rock world" in the provinces of 'Arabia' and 'Palestine Tertia' in Jordan.

One of the main objectives of this conference is to implement the need to use, from a critical pe... more One of the main objectives of this conference is to implement the need to use, from a critical perspective, all types of sources available to approaching the study of so-called 'barbarian societies', without prioritizing one kind or another type of record, particularly when we study the complex question of socio-political identities. In this sense has been shown on numerous occasions the limits, conceptual and methodological, of Archaeology to address issues related to Identity through the analysis of the funerary world. Just as the close dependence of the archaeological record regarding the information provided by narrative sources about the 'barbarian world'. Moreover, the texts provide a picture of the 'barbarians' from an exclusively Roman perspective, which serves the interests and geopolitical strategies of the Roman Empire in the management of their relationship with the gentes barbarae. From a series of studies, conducted by renowned experts on various European areas and under different research perspectives, we intend to lay the foundations for a constructive dialogue on a key topic in the study of the Late Antique and Early Medieval societies in Europe.

J. Almansa Sánchez: El futuro de la Arqueología en España, Madrid, 2011

This book is an interesting reflexion about Archaeology in Spain under different points of view. ... more This book is an interesting reflexion about Archaeology in Spain under different points of view. 45 archaeologist make a critical, and also constructive, approach to the actual situation of the Archaeology in Spain in the University and also at a professional level. We recommended the lecture of this book. We include here also an article about the situation of the archaeology in the spanish university.

Zona Arqueológica 11 (2008) 134-147

Resumen El número de hallazgos arqueológicos atribuibles a las primeras oleadas bárbaras, y que a... more Resumen El número de hallazgos arqueológicos atribuibles a las primeras oleadas bárbaras, y que abar-caría los dos primeros tercios del siglo V, continúa siendo muy reducido en la arqueología de la Península Ibérica. En el presente artículo se aborda el estudio de la cultura material atribuible a un momento anterior a la instalación de los visigodos y que podríamos fijar hacia los años 409/411, con la llegada de las primeras oleadas de vándalos, alanos y suevos aprovechando la guerra civil generada por Geroncio, y el 480/490, momento de la arribada de los visigodos a la península. Este nivel I se corresponde con los niveles D2 y D3 de la cronología establecida por Tejral para los materiales de esta naturaleza encontrados en Centroeuropa. Abstract The amount of archaeological finds attributable to the first Barbarian incursions, included in the first two thirds of the 5th century, it's still reduced in the archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula. With the present paper the authors approach the study of the material culture attributable to the previous moment of the Visigoth's installation, which could be fixed around the year 409/411. This period would correspond with the Vandal, Alani and Suebi's arrival taking advantage of the civil war generated by Gerontius, and 480/490, when the Visigoths arrival to the Peninsula. This Level I corresponds to the Levels D2 and D3 of the chronology established by Tejral for this kind of materials found in Central Europe.

Published in 37 th. CAA 2009. computer Applicantions and Quantitative Methods in Arcaelogy. Making History Interactive (Williamsburg, Virginia. March 22-26, 2009), p. 86.

The reconstructions or anastilosys in 3D are nowadays one of the best instruments for the diff us... more The reconstructions or anastilosys in 3D are nowadays one of the best instruments for the diff usion and scientifi c publication in Archaeology. Images, videos and interactive material become the perfect information vehicles to achieve all the scopes of a society infl uenced by the image's world. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to show several examples of building reconstructions, landscapes and other objects of diverse historical periods from the Madrid's Community: a 3D terrain model of the route of High Speed Train (A. V. E.) and archaeological sites of 'Las Zanjillas' (Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid); the reconstruction of longhouse of Iron Age I of 'Las Camas' (Villaverde Bajo, Madrid); a model of land reconstruction of the village of 'La Gavia' (Vallecas, Madrid); the reconstruction of a Roman fournace (Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid); the reconstruction of the foundations of the fountain of Tritons of Francesco Sabatini (Boadilla del Monte, Madrid); 3D visions of some disches of the 'social assistance' for orphans during Franco (Boadilla del Monte, Madrid); the reconstruction of a raid shelter of the Spanish Civil War , 1936-1939.

I JORNADAS ARS MEDIAEVALIS: ARTE Y CULTURA VISUAL EN LA EDAD MEDIA MURCIA, 4 Y 5 DE MAYO DE 2016 ... more I JORNADAS ARS MEDIAEVALIS: ARTE Y CULTURA VISUAL EN LA EDAD MEDIA MURCIA, 4 Y 5 DE MAYO DE 2016 Organizan: Red nacional de excelencia Ars mediaevalis Grupo de Excelencia de la Región de Murcia Estudios Visuales Grupo TEMPLA

El complejo rupestre de san Pedro de Rocas y el eremitismo en la Ribeira Sacra. , 2019

Seminario: Entre el pergamino y la piedra: los mappaemundi en los Beatos y en el complejo de San... more Seminario: Entre el pergamino y la piedra: los mappaemundi en los Beatos y en el complejo de San Pedro de Rocas. FILO:UBA.

Instituto de Teoría e Historia del Arte Julio E. Payró, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

El origen eremítico de la Ribeira Sacra se encuentra en el complejo de san Pedro de Rocas, remontando sus inicios al siglo VI. Su primera etapa se desarrolla hasta el siglo XI, donde la vida anacorética preside y protagoniza una labor arquitectónica rupestre relevante que dará lugar a la creación del complejo. A partir del siglo XI, este monasterio de vida ascética denominado “laura”, se transforma en un monasterio benedictino de vida cenobítica, donde hay que enmarcar la creación de la pintura mural del mapamundi; fruto de una tradición anterior y consecuencia de un cambio importante en el contexto religioso. San Pedro de Rocas nos muestra la evolución del monacato altomedieval, donde se produce una clara transición y convivencia entre el eremitismo y el cenobitismo.

El mapamundi de san Pedro de Rocas, una pintura mural funeraria como unicum en la historia de los mapas de los Beatos. , 2019

Instituto de Teoría e Historia del Arte Julio E. Payró, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

El proyecto de investigación en curso, desarrollado mediante un estricto método científico de análisis, nos está permitiendo analizar todas las dimensiones posibles de la pintura mural del mapamundi: material, procedimental, iconográfica, artística e histórica. El tipo de mapa, relacionado con la diáspora apostólica hasta la fecha, hablaría de la evangelización desde Oriente a Occidente, lo que tendría una especial y directa vinculación con el conjunto de san Pedro de Rocas y sus orígenes, ya que de alguna manera la expansión del movimiento eremítico bien podría ser la diáspora anacorética que se produce en varios periodos de la historia, desde el siglo IV hasta la Alta Edad Media, al modo de los apóstoles. Estamos ante un mapa de T en O, clasificado como TO. El mundo conocido y cálido habitable se encuentra dividido en tres partes, mediante la cruz de tau: T y organizado a través del mar Mediterráneo que actúa a sí mismo de división, donde se disponen los continentes de África, Asia y Europa alrededor de Jerusalén, en el centro. El mundo desconocido, zona australis frígida inhabitabilis, se ubica en la parte derecha reservada por una cuarta división longitudinal y centrada por el sol en su caída.

El complejo rupestre de San Pedro de Rocas (Ourense) y los orígenes del monacato en Galicia. , 2019

Workshop. Materiales y materialidad en la imagen medieval. 28 y 29 de noviembre de 2019. Sede M... more Workshop. Materiales y materialidad en la imagen medieval.
28 y 29 de noviembre de 2019.
Sede Museo de la Inmigración. (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero UNTREF

San Pedro de Rocas es uno de los lugares emblemáticos del territorio de la Ribeira Sacra (Galicia, España), siendo el testimonio más antiguo de la presencia de vida eremítica y de arquitectura rupestre en este territorio. Se trata de un complejo que es el resultado de la unión entre Patrimonio Natural y Patrimonio Cultural. La Ribeira Sacra es actualmente Candidata a Patrimonio Mundial para 2021.
En San Pedro de Rocas, hayamos lo que se conoce como el espacio natural sagrado, Inter Alpes roccas nominata. La propia naturaleza y la orografía del lugar son interpretadas como espacio sacro, emulando al monte sagrado de tradición judía, el Sinaí, el lugar por excelencia donde Moisés se comunica directamente con la divinidad y recibe por primera vez en la historia la Ley Divina, de ahí que Rocas, como otros lugares similares, sea elegido lugar de asentamiento de los primeros eremitas. Con posterioridad, este lugar se va transformando gracias a la arquitectura construida y a los “hombres santos”, hasta llegar ser un complejo que adquiere carácter de lugar santo. Asistimos a la presencia de una naturaleza sacralizada por su morfología natural en un primer momento, a la roca como arquitectura en sí misma con marcado carácter primitivo y a la integración de las acciones del hombre en el paisaje sagrado, sin modificar el medio, mediante una progresiva e intensa simbolización del mismo. Del paisaje natural se da el salto a su simbolización-sacralización como obra sagrada (establecimiento de ascetas en abrigos), para porsteriormente intervenirlo y antropizarlo (arquitectura rupestre altomedieval realizada por los eremitas), hasta llegar a un estado de nueva construcción e intrepretación del medio mediante obra de fábrica (arquitectura construida románica).
Se trata de un eremitorio rupestre cuyo origen se remonta al siglo VI, ampliado durante los siglos VIII, IX y X, y posteriormente transformado en un monasterio benedictino y adaptado a las necesidades que exigía la reciente vida cenobítica, a partir del siglo XII. San Pedro de Rocas constituye en su primer momento un complejo arquitectónico concreto, conocido como laura, un amplio recinto con espacios definidos, celdas y zonas de acceso, que configuran el espacio habitacional, la ecclesia con función litúrgica, de culto y devocional, y el espacio destinado a enterramientos con carácter funerario, que convive con los dos anteriores integrándose con ellos. De este primer periodo son importantes los elementos arquitectónicos singulares, hagioscopios para uso litúrgico, capillas funerarias y arcosolios con carácter devocional, funerarios y de memoria, celdas construidas en la roca con tecnología específica y un conjunto de elementos utilitarios y simbólicos, tales como canales, silos, escaleras, zonas de paso, terrazas de acceso y plataformas. Estamos ante una arquitectura altomedieval que se caracteriza por la combinación de la roca labrada y de estructuras de madera sobre ésta (carpintería de armar).
Es necesario además, destacar la presencia de un número importante de inscripciones, de elementos arquitectónicos reutilizados de una edificación altomedieval, hoy desaparecida, y de manera especial, la presencia de una pintura mural de carácter funerario con la representación del “mapamundi”, de finales del siglo XI. El estudio preciso de la luz, la orientación exacta de la construcción y el diseño del espacio en base a la acústica y la visibilidad del interior de la ecclesia y paraecclesias, hacen del complejo rupestre, un lugar completamente organizado y planificado. Mientras que en el espacio habitacional, hallamos una arquitectura doméstica realizada por cada uno de los eremitas, con la básica planificación que requiere la adaptación de la roca a una cabaña de madera, espontánea, orgánica y con tradición histórica en los sistemas constructivos, hasta alcanzar la configuración de una gran “ciudad de monjes”.

Conference at the "Société National des Antiquaires de France"; Department of Sculptures and Art ... more Conference at the "Société National des Antiquaires de France"; Department of Sculptures and Art Objects, Louvre Museum, 17 April 2019.

Contributors: Sebastian Brather (University of Freiburg), Florin Curta (University of Florida), Bruno Dumézil (University of Paris X), Dawn Hadley (University of Sheffield), Guy Halsall (University of York), Vujadin Ivanišević (Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade), Michel Kazanski (CNRS-Collège de France), Jörg Kleemann, Michael Kulikowski (University of Pennsylvania), Jorge López Quiroga (Autonomous University of Madrid), Anna Mastykova (Academy of Science, Moscow), Patrick Périn (Archaeological National Museum, Paris), Annamaria Pazienza (University of Venice), Luis Ríos Frutos (Autonomous University of Madrid), Michel Rouche (University of Paris-Sorbonne), Tivadar Vida (University of Budapest).

Resumen La última fase en los cementerios tardoantiguos hispanos se corresponde a plena época... more Resumen

La última fase en los cementerios tardoantiguos hispanos se corresponde a plena época visigoda, después de la unificación étnica operada a partir de Leovigildo y Recaredo. Vienen a fecharse entre los siglos VI-VIII, gracias al adorno personal de tipo bizantino. Parece claro que el mayor problema para los arqueólogos que estudian este mundo funerario es encontrar cementerios de transición entre el mundo tardorromano y el visigodo.

Palabras clave: Necrópolis, visigodos, “necrópolis del Duero”, “necrópolis asociadas”.

Abstract

The last phase in the spanish cementeries corresponds to the Visigoth plain epoch, after the ethnic unification operated by Leuvigild and Reccared. They are dated between the 6th and 8th century, particularly by the presence of Byzantine type personal adornment. It seems to be clear that the major problem for those archaeologists who study the funeral world in Spain is to find cemeteries from the transitional between the late Roman world and the Visigoth one.

Keywords: Necropolis, Visigoth, “Douro necropolis”, “related necropolis”.