2003
DOI: 10.1017/s104775940001309x
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‘Vanishing villas’: what happened to élite rural habitation in the West in the 5th-6th c?

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“…4-5); they are used with this intention in Demarest et al (2004a) to discuss Maya archaeology. The world of late antiquity, too, is identified as ''world in transition,'' not in ''decline from some previously lofty standard'' (Bowersock 1988, p. 170; see also Ando 2008;Bowersock 1996;Bowes and Gutteridge 2005;Lewit 2003Lewit , 2009). However, these can be equally controversial and value laden.…”
Section: Decline and Fall Or Transition And Transformation?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…4-5); they are used with this intention in Demarest et al (2004a) to discuss Maya archaeology. The world of late antiquity, too, is identified as ''world in transition,'' not in ''decline from some previously lofty standard'' (Bowersock 1988, p. 170; see also Ando 2008;Bowersock 1996;Bowes and Gutteridge 2005;Lewit 2003Lewit , 2009). However, these can be equally controversial and value laden.…”
Section: Decline and Fall Or Transition And Transformation?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the northern courtyard of the villa many post-holes have been found, together with a round sunken hut. This reoccupation of villa spaces in perishable materials has been related to marginal occupation or squatters 8 (Lewit, 2003;Sánchez Montes and Rascón Marqués, 2006). However, this relationship is based on the analysis of isolated cases, and not on regional studies, which actually show that these apparent «margin-ality» is, in fact, the norm.…”
Section: The Archaeological Evidence: the Domesticmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Un primer aspecto en el que hay que fijarse es la relación establecida entre las inhumaciones y el poblamiento antiguo, donde destaca la relación con los procesos de transformación de las villae (LEWITT, 2003; CHAVARRÍA ARNAU,comprobación, sería estimar como coetáneas las tumbas y los restos de época romana, cuya densidad invita a pensar en un asentamiento de tipo vicus. Desde luego esto no significa que en todos los casos exista una sincronía, ni que no haya que pensar en variaciones a lo largo del tiempo -con abandonos incluidos-, pero resulta a todas luces llamativo observar el alto índice de estaciones arqueológicas en las que es posible encontrar a menos de 500 metros de distancia restos romanos del tipo ya señalado e inhumaciones en roca (32,6%).…”
Section: Las Tumbas Como Elemento Visibilizador Del Poblamientounclassified