Tesse D. Stek is Acting Director of the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome (KNIR) and Director of Ancient studies and Archaeology at KNIR. He has published widely on Mediterranean archaeology, and is director of ongoing excavations in the Tappino Area Archaeology Project (since 2004). André Miguel Serra Pedreira Carneiro is Professor Auxiliar in the Department of History at the University of Évora, Portugal. His research interests are Roman archaeology and Roman settlement and road building. He has published on several excavations of Roman sites in Portugal.

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• AcknowledgementsList of contributorsIntroductionTesse D. Stek and André CarneiroI. Contested landscapes: between pre-Roman polities and early Roman encroachment 1. Exploring Rome’s early military deployment strategies in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula Jordi Principal and Carles Padrós Gómez2. Late Iron Age and early Roman conflict and interaction in southern Callaecia (north-west Iberia) João Fonte3. Towers, territory, and the negotiation of a colonial landscape in the early Roman Central Alentejo Joey Williams, Rui Mataloto, and Karilyn Sheldon4. The last frontier: Late Iron Age society, Roman conquest, and the Romanisation of the territory north of the River DueroJesús García SánchezII. Economic targets: integrating and energising resources 5. Upgrading town appearances: relating white marble exploitation and town development in Roman Lusitania Devi Taelman6. Shifting landscapes: change and adaptation in the Lusitanian territory during the first globalisation André Carneiro7. Adding complexity to a complex world: the role of tableware imports in Portugal during the 2nd and 1st centuries BCVincenzo SoriaIII. Cities and hillforts: settlement organisation in the Roman west8. Land-use and settlement patterns around Ercavica in Antiquity: initial findingsMiguel Ángel Valero Tévar9. Understanding the town-territory relationship: a case study from Lusitania Cristina Corsi10. Why would we need a city? The dispersed civitates in Lusitania Pieter Houten11. Roman rural life in the far west: the case study of the Serena Region (Badajoz, Spain) Victorino Mayoral Herrera, Martina Cecilia Parini, and Luis Sevillano PereaIV. Local religious and cultural identity 12. The role of cult places in shaping landscapes during the Roman expansion: an Iberian perspective on a Mediterranean process Ignasi Grau Mira13. Men, women, children, animals: the votive statuary from the sanctuary of Endovellicus at São Miguel daMota/Alandroal (Portugal) Thomas G. Schattner14. Romanising the mountains? Exploring cultural change through archaeological spatial analysis in westernSierra Morena (Spain) Maria del Carmen Moreno Escobar15. Oppida and public spaces: constructing identities in Late Iron Age and early Roman north-west Iberia Manuel Fernández-Götz and Marco V. García Quintela16. Funerary practices and material culture: a ‘portrait from life’ in the fields of Lusitania Mónica Rolo

Tesse D. Stek is Acting Director of the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome (KNIR) and Director of Ancient studies and Archaeology at KNIR. He has published widely on Mediterranean archaeology, and is director of ongoing excavations in the Tappino Area Archaeology Project (since 2004). André Miguel Serra Pedreira Carneiro is Professor Auxiliar in the Department of History at the University of Évora, Portugal. His research interests are Roman archaeology and Roman settlement and road building. He has published on several excavations of Roman sites in Portugal.

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• AcknowledgementsList of contributorsIntroductionTesse D. Stek and André CarneiroI. Contested landscapes: between pre-Roman polities and early Roman encroachment 1. Exploring Rome’s early military deployment strategies in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula Jordi Principal and Carles Padrós Gómez2. Late Iron Age and early Roman conflict and interaction in southern Callaecia (north-west Iberia) João Fonte3. Towers, territory, and the negotiation of a colonial landscape in the early Roman Central Alentejo Joey Williams, Rui Mataloto, and Karilyn Sheldon4. The last frontier: Late Iron Age society, Roman conquest, and the Romanisation of the territory north of the River DueroJesús García SánchezII. Economic targets: integrating and energising resources 5. Upgrading town appearances: relating white marble exploitation and town development in Roman Lusitania Devi Taelman6. Shifting landscapes: change and adaptation in the Lusitanian territory during the first globalisation André Carneiro7. Adding complexity to a complex world: the role of tableware imports in Portugal during the 2nd and 1st centuries BCVincenzo SoriaIII. Cities and hillforts: settlement organisation in the Roman west8. Land-use and settlement patterns around Ercavica in Antiquity: initial findingsMiguel Ángel Valero Tévar9. Understanding the town-territory relationship: a case study from Lusitania Cristina Corsi10. Why would we need a city? The dispersed civitates in Lusitania Pieter Houten11. Roman rural life in the far west: the case study of the Serena Region (Badajoz, Spain) Victorino Mayoral Herrera, Martina Cecilia Parini, and Luis Sevillano PereaIV. Local religious and cultural identity 12. The role of cult places in shaping landscapes during the Roman expansion: an Iberian perspective on a Mediterranean process Ignasi Grau Mira13. Men, women, children, animals: the votive statuary from the sanctuary of Endovellicus at São Miguel daMota/Alandroal (Portugal) Thomas G. Schattner14. Romanising the mountains? Exploring cultural change through archaeological spatial analysis in westernSierra Morena (Spain) Maria del Carmen Moreno Escobar15. Oppida and public spaces: constructing identities in Late Iron Age and early Roman north-west Iberia Manuel Fernández-Götz and Marco V. García Quintela16. Funerary practices and material culture: a ‘portrait from life’ in the fields of Lusitania Mónica Rolo

Tesse D. Stek is Acting Director of the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome (KNIR) and Director of Ancient studies and Archaeology at KNIR. He has published widely on Mediterranean archaeology, and is director of ongoing excavations in the Tappino Area Archaeology Project (since 2004). André Miguel Serra Pedreira Carneiro is Professor Auxiliar in the Department of History at the University of Évora, Portugal. His research interests are Roman archaeology and Roman settlement and road building. He has published on several excavations of Roman sites in Portugal.

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• AcknowledgementsList of contributorsIntroductionTesse D. Stek and André CarneiroI. Contested landscapes: between pre-Roman polities and early Roman encroachment 1. Exploring Rome’s early military deployment strategies in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula Jordi Principal and Carles Padrós Gómez2. Late Iron Age and early Roman conflict and interaction in southern Callaecia (north-west Iberia) João Fonte3. Towers, territory, and the negotiation of a colonial landscape in the early Roman Central Alentejo Joey Williams, Rui Mataloto, and Karilyn Sheldon4. The last frontier: Late Iron Age society, Roman conquest, and the Romanisation of the territory north of the River DueroJesús García SánchezII. Economic targets: integrating and energising resources 5. Upgrading town appearances: relating white marble exploitation and town development in Roman Lusitania Devi Taelman6. Shifting landscapes: change and adaptation in the Lusitanian territory during the first globalisation André Carneiro7. Adding complexity to a complex world: the role of tableware imports in Portugal during the 2nd and 1st centuries BCVincenzo SoriaIII. Cities and hillforts: settlement organisation in the Roman west8. Land-use and settlement patterns around Ercavica in Antiquity: initial findingsMiguel Ángel Valero Tévar9. Understanding the town-territory relationship: a case study from Lusitania Cristina Corsi10. Why would we need a city? The dispersed civitates in Lusitania Pieter Houten11. Roman rural life in the far west: the case study of the Serena Region (Badajoz, Spain) Victorino Mayoral Herrera, Martina Cecilia Parini, and Luis Sevillano PereaIV. Local religious and cultural identity 12. The role of cult places in shaping landscapes during the Roman expansion: an Iberian perspective on a Mediterranean process Ignasi Grau Mira13. Men, women, children, animals: the votive statuary from the sanctuary of Endovellicus at São Miguel daMota/Alandroal (Portugal) Thomas G. Schattner14. Romanising the mountains? Exploring cultural change through archaeological spatial analysis in westernSierra Morena (Spain) Maria del Carmen Moreno Escobar15. Oppida and public spaces: constructing identities in Late Iron Age and early Roman north-west Iberia Manuel Fernández-Götz and Marco V. García Quintela16. Funerary practices and material culture: a ‘portrait from life’ in the fields of Lusitania Mónica Rolo