Power and Rural Communities in the Banû Salîm Area (eighth-eleventh centuries). Peasant and Frontier Landscapes as Social Construction

Abstract

This article aims to explain, from an archaeological landscape perspective, the characteristics of rural settlements in the Duero-Jalón area, mainly reshaped in the Umayyad period. Landscape is presented as a social construction integrating activities and structures of different societies settled in this area with different functions and ways of understanding territory. The methodological approach includes extensive field surveys based on documentary, bibliographical, and toponymic references related to the early medieval period and the results of a number of excavations carried out in this territory.