We are glad to announce that the next GIAP seminar will be conducted next 24th April between 12 pm – 1pm CEST (UTC+2).
This new GIAP seminar will be conducted by Dr Margarita Fernández Mier, Full Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oviedo (Spain).
Access the webinar here: https://bit.ly/3G7kt3M Open event. No registration required. Hosted in Microsoft Teams (no Microsoft/Teams account needed)
Abstract:
Since 2009, the LLABOR research group has launched a line of research in Agrarian Archaeology addressing the holistic study of several mountain villages in the Cantabrian Mountains. Starting from the territorial boundaries of medieval villages that defined management units, the study of all the agricultural elements that comprised them was proposed, using the village of Vigaña as a research laboratory with the aim of understanding the processes that form mountain landscapes. Thus, from the excavation of cultivated areas, to communal pasture areas, including boundary sites and supra-local meeting places, and of course, habitat sites, the information obtained allows us to trace the history of this mountain village from 6,000 years ago to the present day, documenting periods for which there is little information at a regional level, such as the Early Middle Ages and the Bronze Age.
About Dr Margarita Fernández Mier:
Margarita Fernández Mier is a Full Professor in the Department of History at the University of Oviedo (Spain). Her extensive research career has focused on the study of the genesis of feudal society during the Early Middle Ages, the characterization of the peasantry, and the approach to local communities using different types of sources: documentary, archaeological, and toponymic. She has made quantitative progress in the development of an archaeological methodology suitable for the study of peasant communities. Founder of the LLABOR initiative, Llaboratoriu rural del paisaxe, Hestoria y Patrimoniu, consolidated in the LANDS research group. She leads this team, which has developed extensive research activity in the fields of village archaeology and agricultural archaeology. She has been the principal investigator on numerous national and European R&D&I projects, as well as competitive knowledge transfer projects.
