Duke University set up in 2015 a new excavation project in Renieblas (Soria, Spain), where at least five Roman camps loosely dated to the 2nd-1st centuries BCE were found in the early 20th century. The camps were involved in the early conquest of the province of Hispania and the siege of the native settlement at Numantia, which resulted in Rome’s annexation of much of the Iberian Peninsula in 133 BCE. Many basic questions about Renieblas (including the chronology of each of the camps) remain unanswered despite the spectacular results of Schulten’s excavations at the site between 1914 and 1931. However, Renieblas continues to figure prominently in analyses of the Roman Republican army, the early phases of the conquest of Hispania, and the basic structure of the Republican army, not in small part because according to Schulten, the archaeological remains clearly corresponded to the best description of a Roman camp that has survived from Roman times, written by Polybius in the 2nd c. BCE (History, book 6). In this paper, the most important results of last fieldwork seasons will be discussed, together with its implications for our understanding of the earliest Roman settlements in the western provinces.
Der Vortrag ist Teil der Reihe "Mainzer Vorträge zur Römischen Archäologie" (MaVRA), gemeinsam veranstaltet von dem Arbeitsbereich für Klassische Archäologie der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz und dem Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie.
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