Publication: Epigrafía y territorio: las civitates de la Asturia meridional y la Lusitania nororiental
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2016-10-11
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La tesis Epigrafía y territorio: las civitates de la Asturia meridional y la Lusitania nororiental tiene como objetivo analizar contextualmente el hábito epigráfico provincial en un territorio rural. Éste se circunscribe a una región que se extiende por el occidente de Zamora (comarcas de Aliste y Sayago) y el oriente del Distrito de Bragança (concelhos de Miranda do Douro y Mogadouro). Se trata de una zona interfronteriza en la actualidad, que se ha considerado tradicionalmente parte de la civitas más meridional del conventus Asturum, la de los zoelas, y cuyos límites marcarían también las fronteras entre las provincias Lusitania y Citerior, además de las demarcaciones de los conventus Bracarensis, Asturum, Cluniensis y Emeritensis. En este trabajo, a través de una metodología basada en la Arqueología del Paisaje, se integran las diferentes fuentes de información disponibles en un estudio integral y diacrónico del territorio. De esta manera es posible analizar los procesos sociales ocurridos en esta zona desde la conquista romana hasta el final del Alto Imperio. Para ello se parte de una serie de presupuestos iniciales. Fundamentalmente se considera el hábito epigráfico provincial como una herramienta política de autopromoción utilizada por los grupos de poder locales surgidos a partir de la conquista romana. Esta concepción elitista de la epigrafía local parte de la configuración del nuevo sistema social, basado en la desigualdad, impuesto por Roma a las comunidades conquistadas y que se articula a través de la entidad administrativa de referencia: la civitas. Esta nueva organización, que rompe radicalmente con la realidad prerromana local, posibilita la estructuración de un territorio de carácter rural, ajeno al modelo urbano–cívico clásico. Sin embargo, esto no equivale a negar la integración de estas poblaciones en el Imperio, pues la conquista romana supuso un cambio de primer orden en el conjunto de la estructura social y territorial. A partir de un nuevo modelo de datación de las inscripciones propuesto en esta tesis, se puede observar cómo la epigrafía revela unas dinámicas particulares por parte de las aristocracias locales en toda esta zona. Algunos de los centros donde los grupos de poder proyectan su posición a través de la epigrafía durante el siglo I d.C., pasan a un segundo plano a partir de los primeros años del siglo II d.C. Con ello, es posible definir variaciones en los centros de poder, que forman parte de un territorio descentralizado en el que diferentes grupos locales compiten para afianzar y extender su influencia. Precisamente las estelas que se han considerado como características de este populus, el “estilo Picote”, se restringen al área oriental y no se documentan en uno de los principales centros, Castro de Avelãs, el único lugar donde aparece recogido el ordo Zoelarum...
The dissertation Epigraphy and Territory: the civitates of southern Asturia and north–western Lusitania aims to analyze the context of the epigraphic habit in this rural provincial territory. It includes the western part of Zamora province (regions of Aliste and Sayago), and the western part of Bragança district (concelhos of Miranda do Douro and Mogadouro). It is currently a frontier area, traditionally considered the most southerly civitas of the conventus Asturum: that of the Zoelas, whose frontier also served as provincial frontier between Lusitania and Citerior, and conventual border of the Bracarensis, Asturum, Cluniensis and Emeritensis. This research, done using landscape archaeology methodologies, integrates the various layers of information into an integrated and diachronic study of the territory. This enables the analysis of the social processes that took place in this area from the Roman conquest to the end of the Early Empire. There are certain tenets which have pervaded this study. The provincial epigraphic habit is a political tool of self–promotion used by local power groups which appeared after the Roman conquest. This elitist approach to local epigraphy is based on the configuration of a new social system rooted in inequality, a system imposed by Rome on the conquered communities which finds its articulation in the new administrative entity: the civitas. This new organization, radically different from local pre–Roman reality, structures a rural territory which is quite different from the classic urban city model. Nonetheless, these communities did effectively become part of the empire, as the conquest entailed a thorough transformation of the social and territorial structure. A new dating model has been proposed for the epigraphy studied here. Its application has revealed the particular dynamics of local aristocracy in this area. Some centres, from which power groups projected their position during the 1st century, became secondary in the early decades of the 2nd century. This implies variation in the geography of power within a de–centralized territory in which various groups competed in order to secure and extend their influence. The steles which have traditionally been considered characteristic of this populous, the ‘Picote style’, are only present in the eastern part. They are absent, however, in one of the main centres, the Castro de Avelãs, only place where the ordo Zoelarum has been documented epigraphically. These trends must be understood together with the appearance under the Flavians of certain predominant families, a sustained presence of given nomina which was absent before. This epigraphic ascendance of certain centres can be understood as either the appearance of a new administrative entity different from the civitas Zoelarum, or as the creation of a new civitas in part of what previously was Zoelan...
The dissertation Epigraphy and Territory: the civitates of southern Asturia and north–western Lusitania aims to analyze the context of the epigraphic habit in this rural provincial territory. It includes the western part of Zamora province (regions of Aliste and Sayago), and the western part of Bragança district (concelhos of Miranda do Douro and Mogadouro). It is currently a frontier area, traditionally considered the most southerly civitas of the conventus Asturum: that of the Zoelas, whose frontier also served as provincial frontier between Lusitania and Citerior, and conventual border of the Bracarensis, Asturum, Cluniensis and Emeritensis. This research, done using landscape archaeology methodologies, integrates the various layers of information into an integrated and diachronic study of the territory. This enables the analysis of the social processes that took place in this area from the Roman conquest to the end of the Early Empire. There are certain tenets which have pervaded this study. The provincial epigraphic habit is a political tool of self–promotion used by local power groups which appeared after the Roman conquest. This elitist approach to local epigraphy is based on the configuration of a new social system rooted in inequality, a system imposed by Rome on the conquered communities which finds its articulation in the new administrative entity: the civitas. This new organization, radically different from local pre–Roman reality, structures a rural territory which is quite different from the classic urban city model. Nonetheless, these communities did effectively become part of the empire, as the conquest entailed a thorough transformation of the social and territorial structure. A new dating model has been proposed for the epigraphy studied here. Its application has revealed the particular dynamics of local aristocracy in this area. Some centres, from which power groups projected their position during the 1st century, became secondary in the early decades of the 2nd century. This implies variation in the geography of power within a de–centralized territory in which various groups competed in order to secure and extend their influence. The steles which have traditionally been considered characteristic of this populous, the ‘Picote style’, are only present in the eastern part. They are absent, however, in one of the main centres, the Castro de Avelãs, only place where the ordo Zoelarum has been documented epigraphically. These trends must be understood together with the appearance under the Flavians of certain predominant families, a sustained presence of given nomina which was absent before. This epigraphic ascendance of certain centres can be understood as either the appearance of a new administrative entity different from the civitas Zoelarum, or as the creation of a new civitas in part of what previously was Zoelan...
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