Complutense University of Madrid

Postgraduate Researcher, Departamento de Historia Medieval

Thesis Title: Territory and material culture in Soria ( VII-XII century). From Middle Marche to Castillian Extremadura.

About

My PhD focussed in the analysis of settlements and material culture from Landscape Archeology perspective in early medieval east Castille. This area of analysis allows the approach to different superposes societies, the Hispanic-Roman one influenced by Visigoth presence that survives up to the IXth and Xth  century, and the Islamic society after 711, mainly represented by the Berber families clients of the Omeya power.
My study has been focused in the analysis of settlement, considering villages, farms, cave occupation, certain hilltop fortified placed and cemeteries. All this settlements represents the rural communities occupation, largely invisible to the monumentalist approach focused in the analysis of military frontier between Muslim and Christian communities in this area.
This research has been designed using a multidisciplinary approach from landscape archeology starting with written sources to the recent developments in the field of rescue archeology, paleoenviromental work to describe vegetation history and ethnology to explain societies subsistence strategies and identity process.