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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 602: Community and Locality in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberian Peninsula

Tuesday 6 July 2021, 11.15-12.45

Organisers:Javier Martínez-Jiménez, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Carlos Tejerizo-García, Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Santiago de Compostela
Moderator/Chair:Javier Martínez-Jiménez, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Paper 602-aAnd Now, What Next?: Patterns of Economic Change in Southwest Lusitania after the End of the Roman Empire
(Language: English)
André Carneiro, Departamento de História, Universidade de Évora
Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites
Paper 602-bBetween Urban and Rural: A Complex Relationship Observed from the Material Culture of Central Iberia, 5th-8th Centuries
(Language: English)
Joaquín Checa-Herraiz, Independent Scholar, Madrid
Index terms: Archaeology - General, Geography and Settlement Studies
Paper 602-cIdentity, Ethnicity, or Materiality?: The Ebro Valley, 5th-7th Centuries
(Language: English)
Óscar Bonilla-Santander, Departamento de Ciencias de la Antigüedad, Universidad de Zaragoza
Ángel Santos Horneros, Independent Scholar, Madrid
Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Geography and Settlement Studies
Abstract

The nature of identity in the Early Middle Ages has been the source of a long and heated debate, especially in terms of ethnicity and political and religious belonging. However, despite the long tradition of place-based identities in social anthropology and sociology, this is not a model that has been used for this period. In this session we propose to address this issue of place-based identities through the concept of 'cognitive maps' in order to explore the saliency of locality in the Iberian Peninsula during the second half of the first Milennium.