The Ager Tarraconensis Project (PAT) has studied an area of the Baix Camp region, focusing on landscape studies. An evaluation of sites of military importance has shown that, within the PAT area of study, visual control points from Iberian times did not survive into the Roman era. The Romans set up military control points next to the main towns from the Iberian era, as well as some strategic points on the coastal hills. The structure of the countryside’s population also underwent a radical change in the 2nd and 1st century BC, together with a totally new division of agricultural land. A study of how water was managed has provided important findings for the countryside. It has been deduced that the significant linen production industry mentioned in various sources was located on the banks of the River Francolí due to the location of bleaching grounds in this area. The irrigation channels that brought water via dams on the Francolí River and the rivercourse of Maspujols fed pottery industries, crops and installations of baths and fountains for the villas. In summary, these were very significant changes in the subsequent evolution of the landscape at the Camp de Tarragona.
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Aportacions de la prospecció arqueològica a l’estudi diacrònic de les dinàmiques del poblament rural antic al Vallès Oriental (segles V aC-v dC).
The contributions of archaeological surveying to the diachronic study of the ancient rural sett lement dynamics in the Vallès Oriental region (5th c. BC – 5th c. AD)
Abstract
Since 2005, the Vallès Oriental area, located in a peri-urban basin near the city of Barcelona, has been the subject of a landscape archaeology research project undertaken by the Landscape Archaeology Research Group (GIAP) hosted by the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC). Within the framework of this project, a biannual archaeological survey programme (2008-2009) has been carried out with the aim of improving the quantity and quality of the available archaeological information. Archaeological surveys and fieldwalking have allowed us a) to check the basic information about the archaeological sites (location, extension, typology, chronology), b) to expand (and improve) the archaeological data, and c) to identify new archaeological sites. This paper is focused on the contribution of archaeological surveying to the diachronic study of ancient rural settlement dynamics.
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Des de l’any 2005, el Vallès Oriental ha estat objecte d’un projecte de recerca en arqueologia del paisatge desenvolupat pel Grup d’Investigació en Arqueologia del Paisatge (GIAP) de l’Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC). En el marc d’aquest projecte, s’ha desenvolupat un programa biennal (2008-2009) de prospecció arqueològica dirigit principalment a millorar quantitativament i qualitativament la informació arqueològica disponible. Els treballs de prospecció intensiva i extensiva ens han permès: a) verificar la informació bàsica dels jaciments ja inventariats (localització, extensió, tipologia, cronologia, etc.; b) ampliar i millorar les dades arqueològiques materials; c) identificar jaciments arqueològics inèdits. El present article se centra en la contribució de la prospecció arqueològica a l’estudi diacrònic de la dinàmica del poblament rural antic.