Exploring economic integration of peasant settlements in Roman Central Spain (1st c. − 3rd c. AD)

Similarity in Consumption Patterns among Peasant Communities in Roman Central Hispania through Network Science

“…Dissimilarities are also present in the 2nd century AD, for example between El Guijo and Arroyo Paeque (Table 2, Figure 4), and in the 3rd century AD when the site of La Huelga presents a lower degree of correlation with all the other active sites during this century (Table 3, Figures 6 and 7). In other analyses carried out on this same case study (Bermejo 2022;Moreno-Navarro in press;Moreno-Navarro, Brughmans & Bermejo 2023) we found that the archaeological record of these sites is mainly composed of a small number of forms. These objects may belong to types shared by items also used by the elite, such as Hispanic Terra Sigillata.…”

“…In line with previous project publications, we have adopted the same case study (Bermejo 2022;Moreno-Navarro, Brughmans & Bermejo 2023). The research context is geographically rooted in the Madrid basin, tracing the course of rivers that originate from the Sistema Central mountains and flow towards the right bank of the Tagus River (Figure 1).…”

Peasant Settlement Patterns in Central Roman Iberia: A Network Analysis of Material Assemblages

“…Nevertheless, it is important to analyse the integration of these peasant communities into trade networks at different scales. This possible integration is an aspect that we have explored in previous work (Moreno-Navarro et al, 2023). In it, we have found that the peasant communities in our case study were strongly integrated into local and regional trade networks.…”

“…To analyse the archaeological data, we must represent the archaeological material as network data 3 . We created similarity networks, represented as 1-mode projections from 2-mode networks, following methods similar to those used in other archaeological contexts (Östborn and Gerding, 2014;Feugnet et al, 2017;Moreno-Navarro et al, 2023). We first created a 2-mode network, where one set of nodes represents sites (mode 1), and the other set of nodes represents the material variable (mode 2), in our case can be chronotypes or forms.…”

“…In contrast, in the centre of the network are those artefacts that are found in the archaeological records of most of the analysed sites. The different types of artefacts found at each site can be checked in the dataset used for this work (an analysis based on the networks generated by the chronotypes in this same case study can be found in Moreno-Navarro et al, 2023) The following analysis (fig. 3) is based on the 1-mode projection of the archaeological sites resulting from the 2-mode network linking sites and chronotypes.…”