Oppida y castros de la Beturia céltica

Abstract

New archaeological investigations, made in Southwestern Iberia during last years, have confirmed the cultual personality of its populations, wich were called Celtic peoples in Pre-roman times, according to words of Ephorus, Herodotus, Strabo or Pliny. It is possible to affirm the specific cultural personality of the populations that occupied, at least from the end of the V century B. C., the basins of the Sado and Guadiana rivers. This context represents a new combination of cultural and ethnic traits among these people, just by the greater value placed on indigenous components after the end of the oriental influence and by the incorporation of foreing cultural elements, although sharing deep relations of ancestorship with the rest of the Indoenropean Peninsula and, beyond, with France and Septentrional Italy. Here, we estudy the resources, relations, settlement patterns and the system of geopolitical strategies of all these peoples.