Castros y aldeas galaicorromanas: sobre la evolución y transformación del poblamiento indígena en la Galicia Romana

Abstract

This paper raises some interpretative ideas and proposals about the so-called process of abandonment of hillforts, as main settlement sites, and the open-hamlets formation during the Roman period in Galicia. For doing this, we will base on the review of the available archaeological information and, overall, of the concepts and scales of analysis that we can use, trying to overcome frequent historiographical separations and only-monumental perspectives. This comprehensive and diachronic perspective will allow us to distinguish two major phases or tendencies in this process and will help us to frame it in a more heteregeneous and complex socio-historical coordinates.