Mirroring Worlds: Rural Domestic Spaces through Multidisciplinarity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Contents

Introducción

Lectura espacial y evolución temporal de un ámbito doméstico de la Dehesa de Navalvillar (ss. VII-VIII) – Silvia Berrica

La conformación del territorio castral en la Alpujarra (Granada y Almería) en la Alta Edad Media – Jorge Rouco Collazo, José Mª Martín Civantos

Farming and resilience at the Late Antique hilltop site on Zidani gaber, Slovenia – Vesna Tratnik, Nejc Dolinar

Cambios en la cotidianidad de los asentamientos rurales de la Gallaecia de los siglos IV-VI d.C. – Celtia Rodríguez González

‘Wind of Change’. Funerary landscape transformations in the North-West Iberian Peninsula (5-8th centuries AD): The case of Galicia (Spain) – Laura Blanco-Torrejón

Elusive but not forgotten. The rural Mozarab community of Santa Coloma d’Àger (8th to 11th centuries AD) – Júlia Olivé-Busom, Jesús Brufal, Olalla López-Costas

Castro de Guifões (Northwest Portugal) during Late Antiquity. Perspectives on archaeological and anthracological data recovered in an Archaeological Research Project framework – Andreia Arezes, Catarina Magalhães

Wine and iron. Research of an early medieval hamlet at Pržanj near Ljubljana, Slovenia – Daša Pavlovič

El yacimiento emiral de Torrevieja (Cádiz). (Re)definiendo los modelos de ocupación del medio rural durante los primeros siglos de al-Andalus – José María Gutiérrez López, Ana Mateos-Orozco

Constructing peasant landscapes in the Early Middle Ages. Reflections on domestic spaces, funerary areas, and productions systems in western Iberia – Sara Prata, Fabián Cuesta-Gόmez

About the Author

Silvia Berrica, an Outstanding Cum Laude PhD graduate with International Mention from the University of Alcalá (February 2023), received an Extraordinary Doctoral Award in July 2024. Since June 2024, she has been a Postdoctoral researcher at the Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma (EEHAR-CSIC), focusing on Late Antique Landscape Archaeology in the Mediterranean. She has been awarded a Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship at IFAO in Cairo and has secured significant predoctoral grants and participated in archaeological projects across Italy, Spain, and the UK. Her research centres on Rural Landscape Archaeology from the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods.

Júlia Olivé-Busom completed her PhD in Bioarchaeology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in May 2023. Her research scope includes the funerary archaeology and bioarchaeology of Christian and Islamic communities during the Al-Andalus and Mudéjar periods, particularly in northeastern Iberia. She has published extensively on funerary practices, paleopathology, and isotopic dietary patterns. Currently, she is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bonn, which has allowed her to broaden her research horizons by conducting innovative bioarchaeological studies in various cemetery areas of the Mongolian Plateau and expanding her focus on Islamic funerary archaeology to Medieval Central Asia.