Social and Behavioral Implications of Architecture at the Cividade de Bagunte

Summary

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 the site’s remains may allow us to understand aspects of the ancient community’s construction of, perception of, and interaction with their own built environment. Toward this end, the architecture of Bagunte is interpreted as a reflection of past ways of seeing and being, and as a material dimension of fundamental significance to the daily experiences of the site’s ancient inhabitants.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Iron Age of Northwest Portugal: Leftovers of Behavior   •
• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

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Abstract Id(s): 32602