Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo is Professor of Archaeology at the University of the Basque Country. His principal interests are focused on landscapes, social archaeology and historical archaeologies. He has directed several projects devoted to the study of early medieval local societies, social complexity and inequality. As a result, he has published several volumes on these topics, including Social Inequality in Early Medieval Europe Local Societies and Beyond (Brepols 2020).

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• Preface (Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo); Inequality and social complexity in peasant societies. Some approaches to early medieval north-western Iberia (Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo); Settlement patterns and social inequality: The Duero Basin in Early Middle Ages (4th-8th centuries) (Carlos Tejerizo García); Social inequality in Early Medieval rural settlements: The case of central-northern Portugal in the 10th century (Catarina Tente); Faunal remains and social inequality in the Basque Country during the Early Middle Ages (Idoia Grau-Sologestoa); Food consumption patterns and social inequality in an early medieval rural community in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula (Maite Iris García-Collado); Technology and social complexity: iron tools and peasant communities in the Medieval period (David Larreina García); Production, consumption and political complexity: early medieval pottery in Castile and Southern Tuscany (7th-10th centuries) (Francesca Grassi); Invisible social inequalities in early medieval communities: the bare bones of household slavery (Alfonso Vigil-Escalera Guirado); Words, things and social inequality: the village of Torrentejo (Igor Santos Salazar)

Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo is Professor of Archaeology at the University of the Basque Country. His principal interests are focused on landscapes, social archaeology and historical archaeologies. He has directed several projects devoted to the study of early medieval local societies, social complexity and inequality. As a result, he has published several volumes on these topics, including Social Inequality in Early Medieval Europe Local Societies and Beyond (Brepols 2020).

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• Preface (Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo); Inequality and social complexity in peasant societies. Some approaches to early medieval north-western Iberia (Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo); Settlement patterns and social inequality: The Duero Basin in Early Middle Ages (4th-8th centuries) (Carlos Tejerizo García); Social inequality in Early Medieval rural settlements: The case of central-northern Portugal in the 10th century (Catarina Tente); Faunal remains and social inequality in the Basque Country during the Early Middle Ages (Idoia Grau-Sologestoa); Food consumption patterns and social inequality in an early medieval rural community in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula (Maite Iris García-Collado); Technology and social complexity: iron tools and peasant communities in the Medieval period (David Larreina García); Production, consumption and political complexity: early medieval pottery in Castile and Southern Tuscany (7th-10th centuries) (Francesca Grassi); Invisible social inequalities in early medieval communities: the bare bones of household slavery (Alfonso Vigil-Escalera Guirado); Words, things and social inequality: the village of Torrentejo (Igor Santos Salazar)