The Indigenous World in the Face of Romanization in the Mid-Duero Valley: The Case of Paredes de Nava

• Autores: Francisco Javier Abarquero Moras, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez, Jaime Gutiérrez Pérez
• Localización: Archaeology in the River Duero Valley / coord. por José Carlos Sastre Blanco, Óscar Rodríguez Monterrubio, Patricia Fuentes Melgar, 2018, ISBN 978-1-5275-1307-5, págs. 174-198
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The present paper offers an updated analysis of the data obtained from the site of "La Ciudad" (Paredes de Nava, Castilla y León, Spain). A town located in the territory of the Vaccei, an indigenous people from the Late Iron Age that was later Romanized. The town was protected by an impressive defensive system that has been explored using geophysical surveying techniques. The site is particularly relevant for the study of the Roman conquest and the subsequent process of Romanization, as proved by the finding of some key epigraphic evidence (four Bronze hospitality tesserae) that allows us to understand the social relations at the time.

    Furthermore, the paper describes some of the most remarkable findings, both from the indigenous period and from the Roman times, while it also displays the latest data obtained from recent excavations, such as the location of one of the trenches protecting the Vaccei wall and a monumental building from the Roman period. In the end, the paper provides us with an opportunity to consider the methods of conquest used by Rome, combining both military and diplomatic actions for over a century and a half.