Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: From Traditional to New Approaches: Methodological Insights
6. Early Imperial Roman Peasant Communities in Central Spain: Agrarian Structure, Standards of Living, and Inequality in the North of Roman Carpetania 23
7. Perceiving the Countryside: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Agrarian Cycles and Tasks in the Mosaics of Roman Spain 49
8. Investigating Livestock Practices in the Countryside of Roman Spain: An Archaeozoological Approach 71
9. Part II: Beyond Villascapes: Peasants in Landscapes
10. A Peasant Landscape in the Eastern Roman Spain. An Archaeological Approach to Territorial Organization and Economic Models 91
11. Exploring the Complexity of Roman Agrarian Landscapes. State of the Art and a Study Case from the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula 111
12. Roman Peasantry, Spatial Archaeology, and Off-site Survey in Hispania 143
13. Part III: Comparing Villae and Peasants Habitats in Settlement Systems
14. On the Margins of the Villa System? Rural Architecture and Socioeconomic Strategies in North-Eastern Roman Spain 169
15. Villae and Farms: Early Imperial Rural Settlement in the Adaja-Eresma Basin (Central Roman Spain) 201
16. With the measure you use you will be measured back… Late Roman and Early Medieval Peasants in Central Spain on Examination 229
17. From Villa to Village? Relational Approaches within Roman and Medieval Iberian Rural Societies 253
18. Conclusions 277
19. List of Contributors 285
20. List of Figures 291
21. Index 295