El yacimimento agrícola de El Cuquero y el modelo de poblamiento en época visigoda en el valle del río Alagón (Salamanca, España)
- Ariño Gil, Enrique
- Barbero, Lorenzo
- Díaz Martínez, Pablo de la Cruz
ISSN: 1137-8034
Year of publication: 2004
Issue: 6
Pages: 205-231
Type: Article
More publications in: Lancia: revista de prehistoria, arqueología e historia antigua del noroeste peninsular
Abstract
The Alagon River valley, to the south of Salamanca province, presents a high concentration of settlements from the Visigothic period, discovered through extensive/selective survey. The archaeological material of this sequence is defined by the presence of tegula, associated to cooking ware and storage pottery, and occasional fragments of both late Hispanic and African terra sigillata. El Cuquero is a representative site of this stage. Its excavation has made it possible to document the presence of an oil production installation, as lipids were recovered from the deposits. The ceramic contexts allows us to date its origin in a moment of VIth century or maybe inmediately after, a dating not refuted by radiocarbon.