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- Title
Roman-indigenous interaction in the Salas River valley (Northwest Iberia): the Roman camp of Alto da Raia and its archaeological landscape.
- Authors
Fonte, João; Pedro Tereso, João; Costa Vaz, Filipe; Luísa Rodrigues, Ana; Isabel Dias, Maria; Marques, Rosa; Russo, Dulce; Monteiro, Patrícia; Costa Rodrigues, Mariana; do Pereiro, Tiago; Carvalho, José; Raimundo, Francisco; Cardoso, Vanessa; Jorge, Carlos; García Sánchez, Jesús; Gago, Manuel; Alberto Gonçalves, José; Meunier, Emmanuelle; Oliveira, Nuno; Oltean, Ioana
- Abstract
This paper discusses the archaeological research and historical contextualisation of the Alto da Raia enclosure located on the border between northern Portugal and Galicia, identified as a possible Roman camp, following an interdisciplinary and multi-proxy approach. This included archaeological excavation, remote sensing and geophysical survey, as well as sample collection for archaeobotanical and geochemical studies by means of chemical and mineralogical analyses and absolute dating using radiocarbon and luminescence protocols. The results seem to indicate that this site was a Roman camp probably built and occupied between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, when major changes occurred in Northwest Iberia driven by the expansion of the Roman State. The camp overlaps with previous prehistoric occupations possibly dating back to the Bronze Age and Iron Age.
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; THERMOLUMINESCENCE dating; ARCHAEOLOGICAL geology; RADIOCARBON dating; GEOPHYSICAL surveys; IRON Age; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; REMOTE sensing
- Publication
Spal: Revista de Prehistoria y Arqueologia de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2024, Vol 33, Issue 1, p137
- ISSN
1133-4525
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12795/spal.2024.i33.06