The church of Santa Comba de Bande and early medieval Iberian architecture: new chronological results - Volume 91 Issue 358 - José C. Sánchez-Pardo, Rebeca Blanco-Rotea, Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez
24 May 2018 in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Over the last five years, the EMCHAHE (Early Medieval Churches: History, Archaeology and Heritage) Project has analysed the architecture, archaeology and history of numerous rural churches of the High Middle Ages in Galicia (NW Spain), through its historical, stratigraphic and chronological study. As a result, the knowledge of this historical period has been broadened and even changed, as well as an interdisciplinary methodology on how to approach this type of study. According to the results obtained, the project has allowed us to reflect on two issues, the potential of a relatively low-cost type of study to understand, assess and disseminate this type of heritage and the special appreciation and ownership that local communities have towards these churches as an engine of sustainable social development.
En el presente artículo se realiza una revisión y comparación del registro arqueológico correspondiente a necrópolis y enterramientos de dos de los núcleos mejor estudiados de Gallaecia en el período de auge del priscilianismo: Lugo (Lucus Augusti) y Vigo. Nuestro objetivo en primer lugar es detectar semejanzas y diferencias en cuanto a la distribución, tipología y materialidad vinculada a estos enterramientos y establecer una primera síntesis de los comportamientos funerarios extrapolable al marco regional de Gallaecia entre los siglos IV y VI. Pero, además, esta base nos permitirá plantear algunas reflexiones sobre el papel de los enterramientos como marcadores de los profundos cambios sociales y mentales que operan en el noroeste peninsular durante este período.