Medieval History
A team of archaeologists, working in Portugal, are exploring a system of 24 hilltop watchtowers set up in the aftermath of a Roman civil war.
?You have a rebellion put down and a landscape pacified and reorganized and you have these towers suddenly appearing,? said Joey Williams, of the University at Buffalo, who is co-leading the project along with archaeologist Rui Mataloto of the Câmara Municipal de Redondo.
The team?s work began 10 years ago when Mataloto surveyed the watchtowers, recording their features and investigating the artefacts found on the surface. Later he teamed up with Williams to excavate one of them, a 9 x 5 metre tower named Caladhino. The team?s preliminary results were presented recently at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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Medieval History
A land of watchtowers ? New research sheds light on Roman occupation of Portugal
A team of archaeologists, working in Portugal, are exploring a system of 24 hilltop watchtowers set up in the aftermath of a Roman civil war.
?You have a rebellion put down and a landscape pacified and reorganized and you have these towers suddenly appearing,? said Joey Williams, of the University at Buffalo, who is co-leading the project along with archaeologist Rui Mataloto of the Câmara Municipal de Redondo.
The team?s work began 10 years ago when Mataloto surveyed the watchtowers, recording their features and investigating the artefacts found on the surface. Later he teamed up with Williams to excavate one of them, a 9 x 5 metre tower named Caladhino. The team?s preliminary results were presented recently at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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