1st. International Conference Land and Sea:
Organisation and Occupation of the Landscape of the Southeast of Iberian Peninsula during the Ancient-Medieval world and its Mediterranean context. 1st.-2nd. September 2022- University of Almeria
Organising Committee
Mª Juana López Medina, Manuela García Pardo, Enrique Aragón Núñez, Patricia Ana Argüelles Álvarez, Francisco José Díaz Marcilla
Scientific Committee
Dr. Bárbara Boloix Gallardo (University of Granada)
Dr. Katarina Jerbic (Flinders University of South Australia)
Dr. Luis Ramón Menéndez Bueyes (University of Salamanca)
Dr. Diego Piay Augusto (University of Oviedo)
Dr. Catarina Tente (University of Nova Lisboa)
Dr. Dolores Villalba Sola (University of Granada)
Dr. Liu Xing (Science and Technology University of the Southwest of Sichuan)
Panagiotis Athanasopoulos, M.A. (Danish Institute at Athens/University of Ljubljana)
Guest speakers
Dr. Christophe A. Morhange
Adjunct teacher of universities of physic geography, geomorphology and geoarcheology AMU (ALLSH)-CEREGE (Centre de Recherche et d´Enseignement de Géosciences de l´Environnement ). Head of the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE-SHP). Chair of the achaeosciences and environment history PSLAOROC (Archéologie & Philologie d´Orient et d´Occident). Senior honorific member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).
Dr. Lázaro Lagóstena Barrios
Chair of Ancient History of the University of Cádiz. Head of the Unit of Remote Sensing of the University of Cádiz. Member of the Instituto de investigación vitivinícola y agroalimentario IVAGRO. Coordinator of the Seminario Agustín de Horozco de Estudios económicos de Historia Antigua y Medieval.
This conference aims to create synergy from a multidisciplinary perspective in studying the landscape of Almeria for Roman-medieval chronologies. We understand landscape both in its land and maritime context. Therefore, this seminar’s two main axes of study will be the land and the sea. The proposed objectives will be, firstly, to define the land communication infrastructures in Roman times, as well as their continuity in medieval chronologies. Thus secondly, to highlight the spatial analysis concerning population dynamics, with a particular interest in the medieval occupation (foundational stage of the city of Almería), with the alterations of anthropisation and changes in ecosystems.
Likewise, the research results on coastal dynamics, intertidal changes, coastlines and the management and exploitation of riverbanks in antiquity and the Middle Ages in the Almeria region and the south-east of the peninsula, in general, will be presented. Thirdly, the seminar aims to address how this management and exploitation of the territory is codified in written sources, both documentary and literary, serving as a guiding principle for communities at both regional and local levels, allowing us to delve into the historical study of contemporary intervention in the sustainability of landscapes in biological systems that remain productive over time in their chronological context.