Estructuración y uso sociocultural del espacio en el mundo ibérico del valle del Ebro

Abstract

This thesis represents an approximation to the way in which the Iberian inhabitant of the Ebro Valley 'thought' his territory, his village and his housing through the analysis of models of regularity, persistence and change reflected in the archaeological record, as a manifestation of the active design of the environment. The evolution of these proto communities finds two fundamental cognitive dissonances, in which significant changes can be seen in its territorial and constructive regularities: the first that occurred to the centuries BC V and VI and the second, towards the end of the change of era, with the presence of Roman elements. There is a strong relationship between the patterns of behaviour and the built environment, at the same time as between economic reality and the spatial image. The architectural and symbolic spatial planning, result of the cognitive adaptation of a given environment society, is determined largely by the role of each of its elements in the existing socio-economic system, and it becomes increasingly clear as one gains a greater complexity. Transformations on images 'designed' by these Iberians are not the cause of its socio-economic evolution, but in large part, its spatial consequence. However, it should not be forgotten, that its purpose is the adaptation to the environment, and in this we must include the internal management of society itself, so obtaining the relevance of a given image, a way of 'thinking' space, helps the perpetuation of the system in question. As well as, the deliberate introduction of dissonant elements therein, is generally aimed at the achievement of a change in behaviour, be achieved, has as a result new transformations in the articulation of space.