A la vista de las murallas: Análisis arqueológico del entorno del castro prerromano de Villasviejas del Tamuja (Cáceres)

Abstract

The systematic exploration of the immediate environment of Villasviejas del Tamuja oppidum allows to document a sequence of occupation from the mid-first millennium B.C. to the first centuries of the first millennium A.D. Throughout this extensive period of time in such a short spatial area the succession of several models of occupation and exploitation of the territory, corresponding to very different social formations, has been recorded. During the time when Villasviejas oppidum occupied the central place of this human landscape, we have been able, for the first time, to approach the complex structure of an habitat that was not limited only by its walls, but in which we can estimate the existence of separated activities outside, and infer about the origin of the site itself and of the Late Iron Age populations in the regional level.