Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

In 1470 the Incas conquered the north coast of Peru. They administered and controlled new territories using a variety of strategies, such as the relocation of roadways in order to shor ten distances, the construction of walls that oriented travelers to a single direction, and the utilization of loyal, diversely specialized subjects to displace rebellious or intransigent groups. These new populations brought with them their native cultural practices; in the Chicama Valley, they introduced Southern Highland traditions that ultimately syncretized with local, coastal cultures. The discovery of five coastal apachetas associated with coast-highland routes provides new evidence of Inca presence in one of the most fertile valleys on the Peruvian coast.

The debate on the restitution and return of the Archaeological Heritage to its countries of origin continues to be today an issue that still has a difficult solution, especially with regard to archaeological objects of greatest historical value. Despite this, there is a broad consensus within society on the need to seek the best solution to this issue, giving priority to heritage protection in any case. We will analyze some pending issues today, as well as the cases that have aroused the most interest at the media level.

The route XVIII of the Antonine Itinerary or uia noua, setting back to the Flavian period, came forward as a new direct link between two capitals of the western territory of Hispania Citerior: Bracara Augusta and Asturica Augusta. One of the most impressive aspects related to this route, considering that it doesn’t have origin in Augustan times, is the large number of milestones associated, which catapults it to the forefront of those with the highest density of these epigraphic supports throughout the whole empire. This ar ticle presents two milestones attributable to the sons of Constantine, which were recovered, in the 1990s, at miles XXX and XXXI a Bracara Augusta, in the Gerês mountain range (Terras de Bouro, Braga, Portugal). A revision of the text of a third milestone attributable to Maximinus and Maximus and more recently recovered at the first of these miles is also made. A peculiar aspect of one of the unpublished milestones is the fact that it preserves traces of painting associated with the inscription. A complete epigraphic study is carried out, also attending the sense of these supports in the local landscape context.

This paper deals with the archeometric and archaeological study of a tiny fragment of Roman monumental sculpture from the urban settlement of El Forau de la Tuta (Artieda, Zaragoza, Spain). This item, made of Luni-Carrara marble, represents a human left hand bearing a patera umbilicata belonging to a large-format statue, datable probably between the second half of the 1st and the beginning of the 2nd centuries, which would have been originally located in a public building, possibly a temple, of the city forum. According to the preserved iconographic parallels, we think that this statue would have been an Imperial Cult image, hypothetically a Lar Augusti or a Genius Augusti.

The Iron Age artistic representations identified in the Vale do Côa Archaeological Park (PAVC) lack associated occupation contexts, that is, the stratigraphic contexts necessary for a chronological and interpretative framework. In the absence of evidence of protohistoric habitat in the immediate surroundings of the engravings, we attempted to analyse other sites in the region on which there was evidence of Iron Age occupation. Thus, as part of the RARAA - Open Repository of Rock Art project, funded by FCT COA/OVD/0097/2019, we selected the Alto das Malhadas site to carry out a diagnostic intervention, due to its relative proximity to the mouth of the Côa River, associated with the presence of rock panels with engravings, a pebble with «protohistoric» incised engravings and handmade ceramic materials. In this paper we present the results of this archaeological intervention, where the Alto das Malhadas site has revealed itself as one of the most interesting sites in nor th-eastern Portugal for the characterization of the transition between the III and II millennium BC, and for the understanding of the transition keys from the regional Chalcolithic to a Bronze Age, increasingly linked to the settlement dynamics developed in the Meseta.  

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The transition to the new Late Antiquity reality was materially reflected in various transformations in the urban elements: from the city walls to the street map, including domestic spaces and necropolises. This document provides a map that locates these urban mutations in different areas of the city of Ecija (Seville) that have not been studied in depth. This is accompanied by a general analysis of the late-antique urban phenomenon, in order to culminate with the interpretation and comparison of both aspects.

This brief report presents a new Roman funerary stele from the Numantia area. The simple inscription is dedicated to Marcus Marius, a young emigrant from the Roman city of Cascantum, who died and was buried in this region of the Upper Duero around the turn of BCE/CE or shortly after.

Set of six Roman tombstones found in the wall of Leon in June-July 2020.