Alfonso Vigil-Escalera Guirado

University Carlos III de Madrid | UC3M · Department of Humanities: History Geography and Art

Archaeological research on early medieval funerary universe has traditionally focused on large necropolis and dressed burials. Other forms of inhumation are common, however, in sites of this period across all European regions. Inhumations in non funerary structures (or special deposits) and isolated burials or scattered groups of graves are present...

An overview of the economic profile of the visigothic (6th-8th) village of Gózquez, as exemplified by its fauna and botanical records, is presented. The site, located in the center of the Iberian Peninsula, has been one of the first Early Medieval sural sites in Spain to be extensively excavated in the context of preventive/rescue archaeology. Arch...

The paper reviews the published data on the hydraulic structure recently discovered in Gijón (Northern Spain) and suggests an interpretation alternative to the current one. Instead of a process of abandonment lasting several centuries, the disuse of the well may have been the result of a traumatic event happened in the late 8th c AD. The exceptiona...

The toft is the Cinderella of early medieval farmhouses. Most maintenance and social reproduction activities occurred in this space: harvest processing and storage, animal husbandry, daily chores, manure collection, tool, fodder, and fuel storage, etc. Archaeological characterization of this space was overlooked in convergent conceptual and methodo...

Arqueologia & História, Revista da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, Volume 73 (A península ibérica entre os séculos v e x-continuidade, transição e mudança)

The aftermath of the Roman empire was a period of stark socio-political, economic and ideological transformation. It led to a substantial reconfiguration of the earlier rural landscapes and to radical changes affecting the daily experiences of the people who lived in the countryside. Recent historiographical approaches to the archaeological assessm...

Why is it common to find lyriform belt-buckles outside funerary contexts while it is exceptional in the case of other type of belts?, Why are the findings of milling devices so scarce in certain early medieval sites and regions? Why the palaeobotanical remains of some species do not appear in large collections of samples while we know by other mean...

Se revisan algunos casos extraídos del rico repertorio arqueológico de la Alta Edad Media del Norte peninsular en los que es posible reconocer diferencias expresadas a través del ritual funerario entre individuos o familias dentro de una comunidad o entre comunidades vecinas. Cabe explicar algunas de esas peculiaridades como manifestaciones de la c...

reseñas Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca / Stud. hist., H.ª mediev., 38(1), 2020, pp. 244-246

This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of glass compositions from Visigothic Spain using high resolution laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Major, minor and trace element patterns of 169 well-dated samples from three rural Iberian sites (Congosto, Gózquez and El Pelícano) have brought to light maj...

This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of glass compositions from Visigothic Spain using high resolution laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Major, minor and trace element patterns of 169 well-dated samples from three rural Iberian sites (Congosto, Gózquez and El Pelícano) have brought to light maj...

Este volumen recoge los resultados de la intervención arqueológica realizada entre los años 2005-2009 en el despoblado medieval situado en la colina alavesa de Zornostil o los altos de Zornostegui, identificable con el poblado medieval de Zornoztegi. Con anterioridad se habían realizado durante los años 2001-2003 una serie de prospecciones intensiv...

Estudio de la vajilla cerámica doméstica recuperada en los contextos tardorromanos del despoblado alavés de Zornoztegi. Las mayores dificultades derivan de la fragmentación y deterioro de las piezas, pero también de la incertidumbre sobre el proceso de formación de alguno de los principales contextos.

The aim of this paper is to assess the possible differences between the pottery from the city and the countryside in the visigothic period. We will try to tell if analytical biases or real productive and consumption patterns are responsible for the differences. Social, economic and political interplay between the cities and the rural settlements du...

The site of La Marañosa (S Martín de la Vega, Madrid) is located on the edge of a cliff above the floodplain in the western bank of the Jarama river, 20 km to the southeast of the city of Madrid, in the center of the Iberian Peninsula. The defensive character of its location, surrounded by abrupt and deep ravines, is reinforced by a linear wall at...

El objetivo de esta contribución es evaluar crítica y comparativamente la complejidad social y económica de las comunidades rurales de dos territorios europeos, la región de Toledo en el centro de España, y la Toscana meridional, a través del análisis de los sistemas de producción, distribución y consumo de cerámica doméstica. Tras revisar el estad...

En este trabajo se presenta la revisión de una selección de los materiales cerámicos así como de algunos contextos cerrados de los asentamientos de Castro Ventosa (Cacabelos-Villafranca del Bierzo, León) y La Cabeza de Navasangil (Navasangil, Ávila), como dos de los ejemplos más significativos de asentamientos fortificados altomedievales en el nort...

An extensive palaeobotanical sampling program was carried out at the Early Medieval village of Gózquez (central Spain, AD 525-750). It is one of the most comprehensive collections of botanical remains so far analysed for this kind of geographic and chronological context. 8800 items from 34 positive samples were retrieved. Hulled barley and free-thr...

The presence of a peculiar building near the creek of El Soto (Móstoles, Madrid) is suggested from several early medieval architectural elements recently unearthed while plowing. The style of these pieces is similar to other coming from a few sites in the province of Toledo, south of the Tagus, dating from the late 7th and the 8th century AD. These...

The review of some early medieval burial contexts suggests that inhumation of people with different religious beliefs in the same graveyard was for some time a non exceptional event. When distinct identities were to be managed, the one which defined membership in the local community seems to prevail over other, including religious affiliation. The...

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La configuración de la casa urbana y su evolución diacrónica ha centrado la atención de los medievalistas durante mucho tiempo, lo que resulta comprensible dada la penuria de los datos concernientes al medio rural. Por fortuna, el panorama arqueológico ha cam-biado bastante durante los últimos veinte años en algunas partes de España y de Europa, y...

During the last 15 years a deep renovaion on the study of medieval landscapes has taken place in the north of the Iberian Peninsula as a consequence of the boost of prevenive archaeology, the execuion of large projects and the development of integrated geo- and bioarchaeological researches. In this context it has been possible to build up a holisic...

The presentation showed several examples of graveyards with Islamic, Jewish and Christian funerary rites in early medieval Iberia (400-1000 AD). By continuing classical Roman tradition, many cemeteries were used during this period by all members of the community living in a particular place (village or town). Funerary and residential segregation of...

La configuración de la casa urbana ha centrado la atención de los medievalistas durante mucho tiempo, lo que resulta comprensible dada la penuria de los datos concernientes al medio rural. El panorama arqueológico ha cambiado bastante durante los últimos veinte años en España y Europa, y la información disponible sobre los espacios domésticos del c...

ISSN: 2255-5560 This paper sketches the study of the last ceramic productions assigned to Terra Sigillata Hispanica Tardía (TSHT) in the surroundings of Madrid. Dating proposal is based upon correlated archaeological sequences from different sites.

This paper calls for attention to the architecture of domestic combustion structures (hearths and ovens) in the rural settlements of central Spain during the first early medieval centuries. Some of the major problems of identification and the possibilities of morphological categorization are outlined through a brief review of their main features, a...

El objetivo del trabajo es doble. Por una parte, se lleva a cabo una síntesis crítica de los principales hallazgos realizados en los últimos años en el noroeste peninsular, señalando las diferencias regionales y la heterogeneidad de la muestra disponible. Se propone en segundo lugar un análisis sistémico de los paisajes altmedievales de esta región...

The paper summarizes the recent archaeological works carried out at this site (2009-2010). They challenge previous traditional interpretation and chronology, leading to a whole new set of questions.

El debate sobre las implicaciones de dos opuestas formas de interpretación de los más antiguos registros funerarios altomedievales esta levantando una gran polvareda en fechas recientes. El análisis arqueológico de un par de yacimientos de reciente excavación en el centro de la península Ibérica en los que la necrópolis ha sido documentada al mismo...

The debate on the implications of two conflicting ways of interpreting the early medieval funerary records is raising a great dust in this days. The archaeological analysis of a couple of recently excavated sites in the center of the Iberian Peninsula (in which the cemetery has been documented at the same time that the habitat) reveals some of the...

El análisis de una serie de contextos arqueológicos del centro de la península Ibérica obtenidos en fechas recientes nos brinda la oportunidad de plantear la forma y los ritmos con que arrancó el proceso de islamización religiosa entre las comunidades rurales de la comarca. Los datos disponibles obligan sin embargo a tomar con cautela la forma en q...

A partir de finales del siglo V o la primera mitad del VI d.C. el paisaje rural de algunos sectores del interior peninsular queda configurado por una densa malla de asentamientos rurales abiertos (granjas y aldeas). En el trabajo se plantea una temprana implantación de formas de sociabilidad y territorialidad de carácter aldeano en determinadas reg...

Una caracterización arqueológica precisa de las formas del poblamiento rural altomedieval (siglos V-VIII d.C.) proporciona las herramientas analíticas con las que plantear una redefinición del expediente. Desde un enfoque como el planteado en este artículo se analizarán los procesos de recomposición territorial, social y política que siguieron a la...

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