La economía agraria de la Hispania Romanacolonización y territorio

Abstract

The advance of the studies on agricultural economy in Roman Hispania during the last thirty years has been characterized in particular by the developement of the Archaeology along this period and, together with this, by a conceptual and methodological renewal when facing this subject. The huge amount of excavations which have been carried out (in the environment of the settlements which suffered, in an inmediate way, the effects of the conquering, as much as in the environment of the uillaé), together with the regional prospections and studies, although far from presenting a general view, allows us to approach the evolution of agriculture from the late republican period (in specific areas related to the earliest occupation points) to the imperial period, when the uillae became a general phenomenon, and was defined as the natural Roman rural habitat, with not only economical but also cultural implications.This evolution was built around the uilla as the articulating element of the agricultural environment, and it proved its dynamic character, its main features in the moment of its appearance, its evolution and its transformations, which reached their end with the abandoning of the model from the fifth century onwards.