Josefa Rey Castiñeira

University of Santiago de Compostela | USC · Department of History I

En el marco del proyecto Estrimnides, para entender las interacciones comerciales entre el Noroeste peninsular ibérico y el Sur creemos que es interesante conocer el orden temporal y geográfico de lo autóctono y como se relacionan con el afuera, con el sur de la Península, en concreto.

In this paper we present the results of the research Project “The route of the Estrimnides. Mediterranean Trade and Interculturality in the Northwest of Iberia” (HAR2015-68310-P). The main contribution is the review of the archaeological contexts of several castra (Toralla, Alcabre, A Lanzada, Neixón, etc.) and the imported material, in particular...

Recent archaeobotanical data published in the northwest of the Iberian peninsula make it possible to trace the evolution of vine cultivation with distinctive chronological patterns and internal characteristics. Pollen, carpological and charcoal analyses have identified the presence of Vitis vinifera subsp. sylvestris in the natural environment and...

We summarize the results about the research of pottery from the Galician “castros” or hill forts, ordered by location and time. We show some of the issues addressed, with created protocols and the applied criteria, in the framework of research on artefacts of the “Castrexa” culture, where the team of Grupo de Estudos para a Prehistoria do NW Ibéric...

The present work approaches the chronology of the Iron Age at the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula from the analysis of 457 dates 14C from 76 archaeological sites of the Iron Age. From these, a radiocarbon periodization is established that places the hillforts and other sites of this period on the calendrical scale.

This paper deals with the so-called modular kilns, ceramic structures characteristic of the Bronze and Iron Age periods in various regions of Europe. Despite the interest shown in these material forms in recent years, their exact function is still unclear. However, the dominant interpretation within archaeological research has tended to associate t...

This paper deals with the so-called modular kilns, ceramic structures characteristic of the Bronze and Iron Age periods in various regions of Europe. Despite the interest shown in these material forms in recent years, it is still unclear what their function was exactly. However, the dominant interpretation within archaeological research has tended...

This paper presents a synthesis of the results of the Proyecto Estrímnides, which includes the historiographical analysis of the Graeco-Latin and modern European literature on the Cassiterides and the study of the archaeological record of several Galician castros. With regard to the first of these subjects, the location of the archipelago has been...

Spatial analysis of materials has been and still being crucial in the study of past societies. Archaeologists have developed appropriate theoretical frameworks for addressing the study of material nature, involving aspects such as their distribution, meaning and mobility at different scales. Among others, the macro-scale analysis has been used to d...

Among the variety of archaeological materials registered in the NW of the Iberian Peninsula, the bronze situlae shows very peculiar and distinctive characteristics. Their profuse geometrical decoration has been highlighted in archaeological literature. In the current state of art, a great effort has been made to define, classify and even typify the...

Background and Aims Vitis vinifera seeds from one Medieval and two Roman‐era archaeological sites in Galicia (north‐western Spain) were morphologically compared to seeds of different cultivated varieties (V. vinifera subsp. sativa ) in the same areas and with those of wild grapevines (V. vinifera subsp. sylvestris ) from different parts of Spain an...

En este capítulo hacemos un balance de los conocimientos acumulados en las últimas décadas sobre el comercio de productos mediterráneos en los castros gallegos, exponemos los objetivos del Proyecto Estrímnides y la metodología empleada, y, a partir de los resultados de la revisión de los materiales procedentes de los yacimientos ana- lizados (Alcab...

Resumen: Uno de los grandes retos de la arqueología hoy en día es reivindicar a las personas "escondidas" detrás de objetos y estructuras. La cultura material es una fuente de datos privilegiada, puesto que puede ser observada desde muchas perspectivas, una de ellas es su lectura en clave de artesanía, de oficios. Con su estudio podemos establecer...

Wood rapidly perishes in archaeological contexts and the vast majority of objects made in this raw material are missing. But, could we recover evidences of wooden recipients through the analysis of ceramics? In Northwest Iberia during Iron Age wares are mostly composed by closed recipients that have been used for storing and cooking. Whilst open re...

O obxectivo principal desta tese doutoral é aportar unha nova perspectiva aos estudos de cerámica e metalurxia da Idade do Ferro do noroeste peninsular, establecendo paralelos entrambas producións. Durante décadas, na literatura arqueolóxica téñense feito continuas referencias á posible orixe metálica de determinadas formas e/ou decoracións dentro...

Much work has been done on dissemination and accessibility to museums as it is reflected in a number of publications. The entry to the museum has been promoted and encouraged, the tiredness during the visit has been considered and multiple initiatives have been analyzed and propitiated to overcome motor, sensory, memory disabilities. Museums are op...

An archaeological intervention was undertaken at the rock art panel of ‘Cova da Bruxa’, in the municipality of Muros (province of A Coruña, Galicia), in order to better understand the site and make it accessible to visitors. In addition to the methodological concerns of producing a documentary record, the main focus of analysis of this rock panel w...

The occurrence of several fire-events during the occupations of the Iron Age site of Castrovite (A Estrada, Pontevedra, Spain) favoured the in situ preservation of a large amount of carbonised remains. The archaeobotanical analysis of these evidences provides information about agriculture, seed storage, wood resources management and even forestry p...

Resumen: El presente trabajo aborda la problemática de la Edad del Hierro en el noroeste de la Península Ibérica desde una doble perspectiva. Por un lado se trata el tema de la cronología radiocarbónica de este periodo en el citado territorio y, por otro, se presenta el estado actual de los conocimientos sobre la evolución de los paisajes vegetales...

Entre el material cerámico recuperado en asentamientos castrexos del Hierro II prerromano del área de las Rías Baixas, uno de los tipos más abundantes son las jarras tipo Toralla, altamente estandarizadas e interpretadas en relación con el consumo de bebidas alcohólicas durante el banquete, dadas sus características formales y plásticas. Estas jarr...

We present the palstaves hoard of Cabeiras (parish of the same name, Arbo municipality and province of Pontevedra), who casually appeared in 1991 in a farm field and that has not been given know in detail. In the same way, we study other metal axes that appeared on the north side of the lower basin of the river Minho (Galicia). Finally, we carrie...

Memory is the cognitive process that codifies, stores and retrieves past actions that are perceived in the present, generating our remembrances and perceptions of the past and informing our knowledge of the world around us. Memory can also be contained within the inert, with some materials having the ability to return to their original form in reac...

The remains of baked clay structures with perforated bases have been found on several Iron Age sites in NW Iberia, with various interpretations as to their function. Following a new typological attribution of examples from the hillfort of Castrovite, a study is presented of one of the most complete combustion chambers from the site of Castromao, ma...

Portable ceramic firing/baking chambers have been found in fifteen Iron Age and Roman period sites in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. They are circular in plan with a diameter ranging from 55–65cm. Their fabric is poorly tempered, often quite roughly finished, with only one decorated example discovered so far. In the archaeological literatu...

La gran riqueza que posee la Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia en patrimonio arqueológico, unida a la intensa actividad desarrollada por los arqueólogos a lo largo del tiempo y especialmente en los últimos años, ha generado una gran cantidad de información histórica. La mayor parte de ésta se encuentra recogida en diferentes formatos, como los analógic...

The article is conceived as a methodological essay for the integration of information from excavations with different records in a database collated for the Iron Age. Castrovite is used as a practical case of reflection at the same time it provides news in the interpretation of the site.

This paper represents the opportunity to explore the field of the traditional pottery in Galicia, looking at it from the acquired knowledge about pottery of castro culture. We would like also to consider the current pottery artwork in order to get keys to gain a better knowledge of archaeological pottery.

Memoria de estudo dos materiais arqueolóxicos recuperados durante as intervencións no castro de Formigueiros (Samos, Lugo) dos anos 2007, 2008 e 2009..

No es cuestión de entrar en un análisis extenso de la situación en que se encuentra el estudio de la cerámica castreña porque ya es harto conocida, pero si es necesario denotar ciertos puntos para entrar en materia. Uno de ellos es el criterio selectivo que se aplicaba en las excavaciones antiguas. A la hora de almacenar hallazgos cerámicos: Se rec...

The present work gathers 388 radiocarbon dates from 69 Iron Age sites, located in Galicia, Asturias, NW Castilla y León (Spain) and N Portugal, in a single database for the first time. In the first phase of our work, we examined the validity of the dates in order to ensure that the experimental value of the radiocarbon dates corresponds well with t...

Este artículo ofrece los resultados obtenidos en los trabajos de campo y posterior estudio de los conjuntos grabados de Laxe das Rodas y Cova da Bruxa (Muros, A Co-ruña), tras el desarrollo de los proyectos de investigación: " Domumentación e rexistro da estación rupestre da Laxe das Rodas " y " Proxecto de domumentación, de rexistro e de acondicio...

This procedures of on-site registering of archaeological material and its subsequent deposition in museums, often impedes the dialogue between the recovered material and the information that can be retrieved from it, both at an investigatory level, and in its social and public value. This article attempts, trough the presentation of a case study, t...

Es objetivo básico y primordial de este estudio la obtención de una tipología dentro de la cerámica castreña, en una zona del Noroeste. Esta sistematización, como cualquier otra, permitirirá obtener múltiples resultados. Se trata primordialmente de asignarle a la cerámica de este ámbito el protagonismo que le corresponde, convirtiéndola en una refe...