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Only citizens vote: citizens, clients, pilgrims and slaves

Javier Cabrero Piquero. Director of the Department of Ancient History. Lecturer. UNED.

UNED Summer Course. “Roma vivet: Inheritance and survival of ancient Rome”.

December 1, 2022

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Remember Me: Beyond Death

Pilar Fernández Uriel. Professor Emeritus of Ancient History. UNED.

UNED Summer Course. “Roma vivet: Inheritance and survival of Ancient Rome”.

December 1, 2022

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A narrative in continuous transformation: a decade of research by the Romanarmy collective on the Roman conquest of the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula

In recent decades, archaeology has witnessed an interesting process of methodological renewal related to the incorporation of numerous digital tools and resources. To the growing use of geographic information technologies (GIT) or geospatial data available in open access (aerial photography, satellite images, LiDAR), we must add the extension of new technical equipment -such as drones- and the remarkable progress experienced by the so-called archaeological sciences -geophysical methods, palaeoenvironmental analysis, dating systems, etc.-.
The Romanarmy collective has experienced these changes at the forefront of research, incorporating them into our methodology with the aim of better understanding the impact of the extension of the Roman state on the diverse archaeological landscapes of northwestern Iberia. The voluminous information obtained now allows us to overcome the old narratives about this phenomenon -excessively based on Greco-Latin sources- and to propose new interpretative models. This archaeology of the new millennium cannot focus solely on the study of the Roman army as an agent of change, but must also analyse the role played by the indigenous communities, which retained a certain decision-making capacity in the process.

December 1, 2022

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Security in cities: security guards, police and firefighters

Miguel Ángel Novillo López. Assistant Professor of the Department of Ancient History. UNED.

UNED Summer Course. “Roma vivet: Inheritance and survival of ancient Rome”.

December 1, 2022


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Soul: between science and religion

The purpose of the seminar is to address the concept of the soul in different areas of the ancient world -Greece, India and Egypt- and in different contexts -literary, philosophical, religious- based on the analysis of written and iconographic sources. The seminar is aimed at high school and university students and the general public. Each participant will have a 15-minute presentation followed by a brief discussion. This will be followed by a guided tour of various pieces in the Museum that illustrate the passage of the deceased to the Afterlife.

December 1, 2022

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The Roman and Late Antique mining and metallurgical centre of the Cerro de los Almadenes (Otero de Herreros, Segovia)

The mining-metallurgical centre of Cerro de los Almadenes is located southwest of the village of Otero de Herreros and since 2009 several members of the Spanish Society for the History of Archaeology (SEHA) have been excavating at this site.
The archaeological work has located copper mines and a battery of ore reduction furnaces of a type hitherto unknown on the peninsula. The excavations have documented structures and materials dating mainly from the Late Republican, High-Imperial and Late Antique periods, although there are also remains from the 6th century BC. Monetary finds and the sculpture of a seated lady with her head removed also stand out.

December 1, 2022

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Roman nurseries and Villae Maritimae in Hispania

In this conference we will deal with a series of Roman constructions that until now have not been analysed with the attention they deserve and therefore have not been well interpreted. The most recognisable remains of these, excavated in the coastal rock, can be found in the northern half of the Alicante coast in the towns of Jávea, Calpe, El Campello and Alicante (the latter next to the Roman city of Lucentum). A new installation of this type has also recently been proposed at Cape Trafalgar (Cádiz), although with less obvious remains than those in Alicante.
Numerous nurseries are scattered along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and there is very little evidence of both types of constructions in the same place. In reality, most of the nurseries were part of sumptuous maritime villas, an element that made them stand out as an expression of maximum luxury and ostentation.
The scarcity and uniqueness of these Roman constructions on the Iberian Peninsula, even with their remarkable monumentality and almost all of them grouped together in a very specific stretch of the Spanish Mediterranean coast, are strong arguments for proposing measures for their conservation. In recent years we have witnessed the partial destruction of some nurseries in El Campello due to marine erosion and others, for the same reason, are in danger of disappearing.

December 1, 2022

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Lapis specularis. The crystal mines of the Roman Empire

The Roman mining of lapis specularis played an important role in the early Empire, during the 1st and early 2nd centuries AD, among the lapidary materials demanded and incorporated into the architectural programmes implemented, especially in the cities, due to the need for large windows that would allow light and sunlight to pass through, also allowing the exterior to be seen and ensuring climatic comfort. It was at this juncture that specular gypsum made its place as one of the best materials that met the required characteristics, and where the glass mines of Hispania, with greater production, and with a mineral of higher quality and transparency than those of other areas, would impose themselves on the markets, making this resource a versatile and essential product in many of its applications.

December 1, 2022

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The great Corduba-Emerita road, the territory and the exploitation of the gold-bearing heart of the conventus Cordubensis

Through various national and regional research projects, the “Ager Mellariensis” team of the University of Cordoba (www.uco.es/mellaria) has documented several kilometres of the great connecting artery between Cordoba and Merida as it passes through the territory of Cordoba and Mellaria.
This road was the evacuation channel for the wealth of the famed gold-producing land of Córdoba. Thus, a series of major and minor settlements and production complexes were set up around its course. We begin to glimpse the structure that allowed the financial power of the capital of Baetica in the powerful mining district of which it was a reference point.

December 1, 2022

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