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The Archaeology of Lusitania: structures and dynamics
Main Researcher
Pedro Jorge Cardoso de Carvalho
Researchers in the Group (Ph.D. Only)
Jorge Nogueira Lobo de Alarcão e Silva
Santiago Augusto Ferreira Macias
Other Researchers in the Group (Ph.D. Only)
Françoise Mayet
Nuria de la O Vidal Teruel
Other Researchers in the Group (non Ph.D.)
Ana Bica Dias Osório
Carlo Emanuele Bottaini
Maria João Silva Simões Ângelo
Maria Pilar Miguel dos Reis
Rafael António Ezequiel Alfenim
Nuria de la O Vidal Teruel
Objectives and Achievements
General Objectives
The generic aims were: The perception of procedures in the Lusitanian Province since the early proto-historical contexts till the medieval period. The interior Beira and low Alentejo were the geographical areas brought into focus in this investigation. The peopling patterns were the principal approach of the considered themes.
Main Achievements
Research into protohistory and the Roman era in the Beira Interior region. An initial summary of knowledge of protohistory in this region has been produced, providing a critical analysis of the results of previous research and, in particular, incorporating the data obtained by researchers from the Unit. The summary included the formulation and problems that will guide future work.
With regard to the Roman era in the same region, considerable advances have been made in knowledge of rural settlement patterns.
Collaboration on visitor itineraries, museum catalogues and the mounting of exhibitions in municipal museums following requests from conferences or seminars on archaeology in general or the archaeology of particular regions.
Productivity
International publications
Raquel Vilaça- "Acerca da existência de ponderais em contextos do Bronze Final / Ferro Inicial no território português", O Arqueólogo Português, XXI, Lisboa, 2003, p. 245-288.
Raquel Vilaça- "Entre Douro e Tejo, por terras do interior: o I milénio a.C.", in Lusitanos e Romanos no Noroeste da Lusitânia, Guarda, Centro de Estudos Ibéricos, 2005, p. 13-22.
Raquel Vilaça- "A Roça do Casal do Meio (Calhariz, Sesimbra): novos contributos", Al-madan, n.º 13, 2004, p. 48-57 (de col. com Eugénia Cunha).
Raquel Vilaça, Proto-História Peninsular, Fluc, 2006
Jorge Alarcão, Introdução ao Estudo da Tecnologia Romana, CEAUCP, Coimbra, 2004, 195, p
Jorge Alarcão, “In Território Colimbrie; Lugares velhos (alguns deles, deslembrados) do Mondego”, Trabalhos de Arqueologia, 38, Lisboa
Jorge Alarcão, “Notas de arqueologia, epigrafia e toponímia – I”, Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia, 7(1), 2004: 317-342.
Jorge Alarcão, “A origem das aldeias na região de Coimbra”, Munda, 47, 2004: 15-18.
ALARCÃO, Jorge de, "As vias romanas de Olisipo a Augusta Emerita", Conimbriga, XLV, 2006, p.211-251
ALARCÃO, Jorge de, "Notas de arqueologia, epigrafia e toponímia - IV", RPA, 2006, p. 131-147.
ALARCÃO, Jorge de, “A origem das aldeias na região de Coimbra”, Munda, 47, 2004: 15-18.
ALARCÃO, Jorge de, “Arqueologia da acção”, ERA-Arqueologia, 6, 2004: 100-115.
ALARCÃO, Jorge de, “Conimbriga, 20 anos depois”, in Virgílio Hipólito Correia (ed.), Perspectivas sobre Conimbriga, Conimbriga, 2004: 96-114.
ALARCÃO, Jorge de, “Notas de arqueologia, epigrafia e toponímia – II”, Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia, 7(2), 2004: 193-216.
Carvalho, Pedro - "Identificação e representação espacial das capitais de civitates da Beira Interior", Actas das IIas Jornadas de Património da Beira Interior: Lusitanos e Romanos no Nordeste da Lusitânia, Centro de Estudos Ibéricos / ARA, Guarda, 2005, p. 155-169.
CARVALHO, Pedro, “À porta duma quinta do Alto Império. Resultados preliminares do estudo intra-sítio do assentamento romano de Terlamonte I (Teixoso, Covilhã)”, Conimbriga, XLIII, 2004, p. 99-147 (de colab. António Silva).
CARVALHO, Pedro, “Castelo da Lousa: alguns apontamentos acerca da intervenção arqueológica de 1997-2002”, Museu da Luz. Arqueologia nas Terras da Luz, EDIA, 2004, p. 53-65 (de colab. Ana Gonçalves).
CARVALHO, Pedro, “Intervención arqueológica en el Castelo da Lousa (1997-2002): Resultados preliminares”, Torres, Atalayas y Casas Fortificadas: explotación y control del territorio en Hispania (S. III a. de C. – S. I d. de C.), Ed. P. Moret y T. Chapa, Universidad de Jaén, 2004, p. 65-76 (de colab. com Ana Gonçalves).
Vilaça, Raquel, "Artefactos de ferro em contextos do Bronze Final do território português: Novos contributos e reavaliação dos dados-, Complutum, 17, 2006, pp. 81-101.
Lopes, Conceição; Vilaça, Raquel (edit), O passado em Cena, Coimbra 2003
Master and Ph.D. thesis completed
20006, Ph.D Pedro Carvalho, Cova da Beira: Ocupação e exploração do território na época romana"
2005, Master Sara Costeira Olveira, A Idade do Ferro no Planalto de Viseu: o caso do Morro e Sé
2005, Ricardo Costeira da Silva Génese e transformação da estrutura do povoamento do 1º milénio a. C na Beira Interior
Organization of conferences
XII Congresso Internacional dos Mosaicos Antigos e Medievais , da AIEMA, Conimbriga, 2005, Joint with Instituto Portugês dos Museus.
A Indústria Mineira : Passado e presente, Semana Cultural da Universidade de Coimbra. in collaboration with the University Research Unity CEIS XX
The International Conference on the Graeco-Roman Sea, in collaboration with the FLUP Institute of Classical Studies;
The International Conference on the Graeco-Romano, Sun, 2007, in collaboration with the FLUP Institute of Classical Studies;
Internationalization
On an individual basis, the following achievements should be noted:
Raquel Vilaça was member of the research team BARTEC - -Bases para una investigación arqueométrica y tecnómica sobre metalurgia en la Prehistoria y Antigüedad. La Península Ibérica- (coord. de Alicia Perea - Centro de Estudios Históricos do Concejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid).
Raquel Vilaça is Portuguese Member of the Scientific Committee to prepare -Corpus dês Antiquités phéniciennes et puniques-, in the scop of the União das Academias Internacionais.
Raquel Vilaça is the Portuguese Coordinator in the "Committee on the study of amber" da "International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences".
Future Research
Objectives
The geographical area which this research group will investigate is the ancient Roman province of Lusitania. Greater attention will be paid to the area of Lusitania which corresponds to present-day Portuguese territory, although it is intended that contact will be maintained with Spanish institutions, in particular the Mérida National Museum of Roman Art, the Mérida Institute of Archaeology, the University of Extremadura and the University of Huelva, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa (Napoli), CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid).
The research will cover an extensive period of time, from the end of the 2nd. or the beginning of the 1st. millennium BC to the end of the ancient world in the 6th. or 7th. centuary AD. In this distant era, socio-political, socio-economic and socio-cultural structures were established due to internal dynamics (since no society remains paralysed for centuries) but predominantly due to external impacts (the most important of which, in Lusitania, was obviously the Roman conquest.) From this perspective, the concept of evolution, either transformed or reconfigured, seem more apt than that of revolution in our long-term understanding of Lusitania.
Given the rarity of written sources for the period in question, the history will have to be constructed mainly from the remains of the material culture, which implies excavation work at selected sites. However, this information will be cross-referenced with other working parties from the same Centre, namely those based in epigraphics and archeogeography.
We will pay particular attention to regional differences on the basis of the belief that major differences have always existed, for example, between the lower Tejo valley and the Beira Interior or between the latter and the Alentejo and Algarve. We intend to seek out these differences, not only in terms of geography or natural resources, but also with regard to cultural factors. Thus we aim to reach an understanding of the deep-rooted reasons for an imbalance which has remained evident throughout modern history and even in the present day situation of the country.
Taking as our reference point the local communities within the study area, we aim to investigate the nature and material form of contacts that were established, both within the Atlantic zone and the Mediterranean world, in order to understand their subsequent dynamics.
With regard to the more distant periods, we hope to be able to define cultural areas that may be related to ethnic groups. This will lead us into a theoretical discussion on the factors shaping identity, namely what defines an ethnic group: race, language, mental attitude or history? and to what extent can difference be integrated into identity?
The definition of ethnic groups will led us to a definition of territories which, in turn, will involve us in a theoretical discussion on borders and the crossing of borders.
Previous publications in the area
Raquel Vilaça, Proto História de Portugal, FLUC, 2006
Raquel Vilaça, Artefactos de ferro em contextos do Bronze Final do território português: Novos contributos e reavaliação dos dados-, Complutum, 17, 2006, pp. 81-101.
Jorge Alarcão, Introdução ao Estudo da Tecnologia Romana, CEAUCP, Coimbra, 2004, 195,
Jorge Alarcão, In Território Colimbrie; Lugares velhos (alguns deles, deslembrados) do Mondego”, Trabalhos de Arqueologia, 38, Lisboa
Pedro Jorge Carvalho, Cova da Beira: Ocupação e exploração do território na época Romana, FLUC, policipiado, 2006
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