Roman Archaeology

Code: HIS12029L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Archeology

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

• To be able to work with the adequate methodologies to identify and investigate the
material evidences in the according realities;
• To recognize the main materials and portuguese archaeological sites in this period;
• To be able to critically analize the main tendencies in the actual investigation, and to
conceptualize the real significance and value of the material data and historical
events;
• To identifiy the material data that can be found in any kind of research program and
indicate the roman and medieval settlement.

1 - Ways of reading time: the sources available.
2 - The indigenous background : Hispania at the dawn of conquest
3 - The evidences for the military campaigns
- the military quarters
- - the new materials and products
4 - The new Imperial landscape
- The urbs, center for urban life - equipments to the cultural, social and political activities
- the field as a complement for the city (economic and commercial networks)
- the economical activities and the natural resources
- roman roads and ways to circulate
5 - The material evidence as a way to know the social order
6 - The funerary universe as a glance of the daily life
7 - The end of the empire
- what changes: patterns for evolution in the urban and rural world
- what remains: continuity in the end of the empire
- Christianity rising: changes in the material world, in architecture and in the funerary practice.