The Iron Age of Northwest Portugal: Leftovers of Behavior

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Iron Age of Northwest Portugal: Leftovers of Behavior" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeology is about material objects and human behavior. We leave our behavioral imprint in the things we think, invent, make, modify, and with which we interact. Materiality and its archaeological leftovers speak of the ways people in the past construct their world and in turn were shaped by that construction. These (now) social truisms are the backbone of inferring patterns of behavior. The papers in this session address various aspects of the multidimensional qualities of materiality using divergent thinking to consider past patterned behavior.

Other Keywords
Iron Age • Materiality • Ethnohistory/History • Material Culture and Technology • Architecture • Textile Analysis • Human Behavioral Ecology • Memory • Identity/Ethnicity • Archaeometry & Materials Analysis: Metallurgical Analysis

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  • Cividade de Bagunte: Learning Behaviors from Reconstruction and Excavation (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Pedro Brochado De Almeida.

    This is an abstract from the "The Iron Age of Northwest Portugal: Leftovers of Behavior" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The work of excavation and reconstruction of the Cividade de Bagunte’s Iron Age extant structures has revealed traces of earlier structures and refuse pits that provide new evidence and challenge previous interpretations. Similarly, the work of reconstruction and conservation has confronted us with ethical and practical dilemmas....

  • Glass: Breathing into Matter (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mariah Wade.

    This is an abstract from the "The Iron Age of Northwest Portugal: Leftovers of Behavior" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Blowing into molten glass gave it form, a breathtaking invention of the first century BCE. Before that, glass vessels were made by using the core-forming technique and by casting, which were more expensive and less efficient methods. Glass blowing enabled the play of forms and color while making glass vessels more accessible to a...

  • The Lure of the Sea: Objects and Behaviors (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ana Almeida.

    This is an abstract from the "The Iron Age of Northwest Portugal: Leftovers of Behavior" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It is generally accepted that Iron Age folk left the sodden lands in the valleys of large rivers and choose to settle on high ground, in locations with natural defenses, but very often near water sources. Agropastoral interests likely were part of the decision, but so were proximity to the mouth of major rivers and to the sea....

  • Materiality and Memory in Northwest Iberia: Water, Metal, and Stone (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth Van Dyke.

    This is an abstract from the "The Iron Age of Northwest Portugal: Leftovers of Behavior" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I explore the attractant qualities of water, metal, and stone as they have intertwined with human memory-making over three millennia in northwest Iberia. During the Bronze and Iron Ages, the confluence of the Rios Sar and Ulla may have been an important liminal space, as people consigned weapons and other metal...

  • Silver against Skin: Exploring the Materiality of the Cividade de Bagunte Torques (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Nadya Prociuk.

    This is an abstract from the "The Iron Age of Northwest Portugal: Leftovers of Behavior" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Among the most dazzling traces of behaviour left behind by the Castro people of the Cividade de Bagunte in northwestern Iberia are the five silver torques discovered together in a hoard in the mid-twentieth century. The items in the Bagunte hoard share stylistic similarities with other Castro torques, but their material, silver...

  • Social and Behavioral Implications of Architecture at the Cividade de Bagunte (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only John Duncan Hurt.

    This is an abstract from the "The Iron Age of Northwest Portugal: Leftovers of Behavior" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cividade de Bagunte is an Iron Age and Roman Period hillfort, or *castro, located in the municipality of Vila do Conde in northwestern Portugal. This paper looks at specific features of Bagunte’s architectural remains in order to speculate about past social behaviors. Novel approaches to the spatial and material properties of...

  • Understanding Textile Production at Cividade de Bagunte (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Bowers.

    This is an abstract from the "The Iron Age of Northwest Portugal: Leftovers of Behavior" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Textiles are a near ubiquitous feature of human society from antiquity through present-day. Unfortunately, most places around the world do not have the environmental conditions that allow for the preservation of textiles and the many tools associated with textile production. At Cividade de Bagunte, the only evidence for textile...