The Transformat ions in the End of the Roman Rural World in the Southwest of iberian Peninsula: archaeologic evidences and problems (5th-7th C.)

Abstract

The subject of the Late Antiquity is, nowadays, objects of a renewed interest and is in the center of an interesting scientific discussion. The increase of the archaeological research for all Europe has allowed to draw a much more complete picture of the period that characterizes the end of the Roman World, characterized for multiple trends, sometimes contradictories, where a multivariate of the regional or micron-regional realities is evident. In the case of the Southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the south of the province of the Lusitania, a dense occupation of the countryside beyond the V century is a reality, with a panorama where dynamic forces of strong Mediterranean influences are conjugated with regressive trends in the plan of the material culture in relation to the previous period.