Arqueología de las aldeas habitadas en AsturiasLos casos de Vigaña Arcéu y Villanueva de Santu Adrianu
- Margarita Fernández Mier 1
- Jesús Fernández Fernández
- Pablo López Gómez
- César Martínez Gallardo
- Santiago Rodríguez Pérez
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Universidad de Oviedo
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ISSN: 2341-3573
Year of publication: 2019
Issue Title: 1300 Aniversario del origen del Reino de Asturias Congreso internacional. Del fin de la Antigüedad Tardía a la Alta Edad Media en la península ibérica (650-900)
Issue: 5
Pages: 99-119
Type: Article
More publications in: Anejos de Nailos: Estudios interdisciplinares de arqueología
Abstract
The study of peasant communities has burst upon the medieval archaeology of Northwestern Spain in the last decade. The excavations carried out in agrarian spa-ces, deserted medieval villages and inhabited ones have yielded a great amount of dates about a period, a space and a social group that usually offers little information. At the same time, it raises new questions —both methodological and interpretati-ve— that force us to rethink this historical period in a more complex way.In this work we advance the results concerning the Early Medieval period pro-duced in the excavations carried out in the inhabited villages of Vigaña Arcéu and Villanueva de Santu Adrianu: a comparative study between these two villages lo-cated in different ecological niches and that have an unequal relationship with the centers of power. The outcome of this comparison shows the different dynamics ge-nerated in the formation, evolution and use of the environment of these villages, as well the processes of change at different scales that influence their territorial plan-ning and the identity developments experienced by the local communities, providing a view of the complexity and dynamism of the Asturian early medieval landscape.