Una paradoja de la teonimia y la antroponimia lusitano-galaica: ¿Migraciones hacia el sur del Sistema Central y el valle del Tajo?

Abstract

The present work analyzes the epigraphic testimonies of indigenous cults and Hispanic personal names registered in the Lusitanian-Galician area, differentiating the areas in which specific groups of theonyms and anthroponyms are documented. From this study, two different cultural areas have been detected that converge in a concrete geographical space. The first one extends from the Hispanic northwest to the south of the Tagus valley, and another very distinctive one occupies exclusively the central region of Lusitania, around the Tagus valley. The coincidence in this last region of the characteristic theonyms and personal names of the two cultural areas is interpreted as a consequence of migratory movements. These took place from the western regions of the Lusitanian-Galician territory located north of the Sistema Central mountains, towards the south of this range, where they were integrated with the populations that inhabited the central Lusitania region. The consequences of these migrations of communities in search of cultivable land would have been an important factor in the struggles between Romans and Lusitanians in the middle of the s. II BC.