Archaeology of Roman mining landscape: Hispania and Lusitania

• Grant number: 09/03556-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2010
• End date: July 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Archeology - Historical Archaeology
• Principal Investigator: Maria Isabel D'Agostino Fleming
• Grantee: Alex da Silva Martire
• Host Institution: Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project is the unfolding and deepening of a theme presented in a FAPESP financed program of scientific initiation carried on from october 2006 to june 2009, namely, mining.The central goal is to analyze the complexity present in the Roman mining landscape in the Hispanic territory, including Lusitania.Based on the classic bibliographic sources and its interpreters we will look for resources which enlighten the role of provincial mining exploration and its reflexes on the Roman Empire.For that, use will be made of the methodology pertaining to the Landscape Archaeology in order to examine three fundamental segments of mining: the extraction zone, the infrastructure and the man power necessary for that activity. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MARTIRE, Alex da Silva. Archaeology of Roman mining landscape: Hispania and Lusitania. 2012. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE) São Paulo.