
handle: 10174/31160
Resumen: Mértola ha sido, desde la Edad del Hierro, un importante puerto mercantil por su posición privilegiada al final del trozo navegable del río Guadiana. Durante más de veinte siglos, la población ha ocupado un espolón rocoso de topografía agreste en una posición interfluvial que le garantizaba condiciones excepcionales de defensa reforzadas por una muralla cuyo trazado ha respetado siempre, en lo esencial, el mismo perímetro. El control del puerto y el desarrollo de actividades artesanales y mercantiles condicionaron la expansión de la ciudad fuera de su muralla y la implantación de sus espacios funerarios. En esta comunicación, exponemos la síntesis de los trabajos de más de cuatro décadas de investigación que nos ha permitido identificar las constantes y variables de su evolución urbana y localizar y caracterizar los espacios de culto, las estructuras de poder, las áreas de vivienda, los terrenos dedicados a funciones funerarias, las zonas dedicadas a actividades artesanales; en suma, nos ha permitido determinar la evolución diacrónica de la estructura de la ciudad durante la Edad Media, desde el siglo V a 1509, momento en el que el dibujo de Duarte D'Armas nos ofrece una instantánea de su configuración espacial. Palabras-clave: secuencia arqueológica, evolución topográfica, transformaciones espaciales, urbanismo, diacronía. Abstract Mértola was an important trading port since the Iron Age because of it’s privileged position at the end of the navigable leg of the Guadiana River. For more than twenty centuries the settlement occupied a rocky spur, of harsh topography, at an interfluve position that guarantied exceptional conditions of enhanced defences by a wall which always stayed essentially with the same perimeter. The port’s control and the development of artisanal activities conditioned the city’s sprawl outside the wall and the implementation of it’s funerary areas. In this communication we present the synthesis of more than forty years of investigation work that allows to identify the constants and variables of it’s urban evolution. We also aim to locate and characterize the places of worship, the structures of power, the residential areas, the areas dedicated to funerary functions and the areas of artisanal activities. All in all, the investigation work allowed us to determine the diachronic evolution of the city’s structure during the Middle Ages, since the Vth century to 1509 (moment in which Duarte D’Armas’s painting gives us an idea of the city’s spacial configuration). Keywords: arqueological sequence, topographic evolution, spacial transformations, urbanism and diachrony
Mértola, urbanismo, Garb al-Andalus
Mértola, urbanismo, Garb al-Andalus
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