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J Narbarte

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ID58365
NAMEJ Narbarte
GIVEN NAMESJ
FAMILY NAMENarbarte
SIGNATURENARBARTE J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Basque Country
ORCID0000-0002-0297-8526
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2
  • New Data on the Sertorian War at the Vascon Site of Irulegi (Aranguren Valley, Navarre)

    Open Access•Mattin Aiestaran, J Narbarte et al.•ARTICLE•Oxford Journal of Archaeology•2026•References: 20

    Literary sources provide limited information on specific developments during the civil wars of the late Roman Republic, including the Sertorian War. This study describes the attack on the Vascon settlement of Irulegi (Aranguren valley, Navarre), in northern Spain, within the context of this conflict, using the methodological and theoretical frameworks of conflict archaeology. In doing so, it seeks to demonstrate that Roman cultural influences wer…

  • Human Agency and Coastal Landscape Transformation in Early Modern Atlantic Europe: An Interdisciplinary Research Approach in the Urola Estuary (Basque Coast)

    J Narbarte, Eneko Iriarte•ARTICLE•Environmental Archaeology•2026•References: 39

    Landscapes are the result of historical human–environment interactions whose material imprints are recorded in the local topography, hydrography, and sedimentary archives. Human influence is particularly visible in coastal and estuarine landscapes, due to the continuity and intensity of occupation since, at least, the Middle Ages. This paper analyses the historical evolution of an estuarine landscape in Atlantic Iberia, based on the combined anal…

  • Environmental Constraints and Human Agency in Early Medieval Village Formation: A Geoarchaeological Approach in the Western Pyrenees (Navarre, Spain)

    J Narbarte, Mattin Aiestaran et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Archaeology•2026•Cited by: 1•References: 46

    The interaction between human agency and environmental factors is a key topic in the archaeological study of early medieval village formation. Such interactions are particularly visible in the construction and maintenance of agrarian landscapes, which often become central to the local socio-economic development. This article explores these processes in a local context of the western Pyrenees (Navarre, Spain) through a combined analysis of documen…

  • La materialidad del poder regio en la frontera medieval del Ebro: El complejo eclesiástico de Santa María de Resa (Andosilla, Navarra)

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Ana Célia Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Arqueología y Territorio Medieval•2025

    Between the 10th and 12th centuries, the middle Ebro valley was an area of frontier and interaction between the Pamplona monarchy and its neighbours, first the Muladi dynasty of the Banu Qasi, and then the Castilian Crown. In this context, the strategies of territorial control and organization set in place by the royal power and the local elites took various forms, endowment of their own churches that functioned as centres for the reception and m…

  • How Deep in Time and Far in Space: Multiproxy Geophysical, Coring and Geochemical Prospection of an (Not Only) Iron Age Village (Ebro Valley, Navarre)

    Open Access•Mattin Aiestaran, Ekhine Garcia‐Garcia et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeological Prospection•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    The archaeological research carried out at Irulegi, a hilltop site on the namesake mountain (Aranguren Valley, Navarre, Spain), has revealed one of the most important examples of fortified protohistoric settlements in the western Pyrenees, characterized by its long evolution and the exceptional preservation of its remains. This site has been systematically explored using a range of methods, both geophysical and direct, including GPR, ERT and magn…

  • Paisaiaren arkeologia Oma haranean (Kortezubi, Bizkaia)

    Open Access•J Narbarte•ARTICLE•Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia•2025

    Over the last three decades, archaeological research has made relevant advances in the study of cultural heritage related to the local societies of the Basque Country. Two aspects, in particular, have provided very interesting results for the study of rural contexts: industrial activity, namely ferrous metallurgy; and individual farmsteads (baserriak), which articulated different economic activities related to agriculture, and husbandry. This wor…

  • “Ad reprimenda pirratarum latrocinia”. Arqueología de una fortaleza costera en época bajomedieval y moderna: El castillo de San Telmo en el cabo de Higer (Hondarribia, Gipuzkoa)

    Open Access•Aritz Diez Oronoz, J Narbarte et al.•ARTICLE•Arqueología de la Arquitectura•2024

    La arquitectura militar es un elemento clave en la construcción del Estado moderno, con una función de articulación del poder y control territorial. Este hecho se hace particularmente evidente en entornos de frontera como la línea de los Pirineos, donde las monarquías hispánica y francesa a menudo reutilizaron estructuras y dinámicas preexistentes para afianzar su autoridad a partir del siglo XVI. En este trabajo, se propone el análisis arqueológ…

  • Nueva ara dedicada a Larrahe hallada en Arriaundi (Larunbe, Navarra)

    Open Access•Oihane Mendizabal-Sandonís, Javier Velaza et al.•ARTICLE•Palaeohispanica Revista sobre…•2024

    In this paper we present a Roman altar found in Arriundi (Larunbe, Navarra), dedicated to the Vasconic god Larra/Larrahe

  • Serora Houses In Basque Vernacular Architecture (Sixteenth To Eighteenth Centuries): Distribution, Social Function And Building Typologies

    J Narbarte, Aritz Diez Oronoz•ARTICLE•Vernacular Architecture•2024•References: 1

  • A Vasconic inscription on a bronze hand: Writing and rituality in the Iron Age Irulegi settlement in the Ebro Valley

    Open Access•Mattin Aiestaran, Javier Velaza et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2024•Cited by: 2

    Relatively few examples of Palaeohispanic writing have been recovered from the Vasconic territories of present-day Navarre, leading to the assumption that the Vascones were a pre-literate society. Here, the authors report on an inscription on a bronze hand recovered at the Iron Age site of Irulegi (Aranguren Valley, Navarre) in northern Spain. Its detailed linguistic analysis suggests that the script represents a graphic subsystem of Palaeohispan…

  • Forma y función en la arquitectura vernácula vasca: El ejemplo de las casas de seroras (siglos XVI-XVIII)

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Aritz Diez Oronoz•ARTICLE•Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia•2024

    La arquitectura vernácula vasca ofrece una amplia variedad de tipologías y variantes regionales. Ejemplo prominente de ello son las casas de seroras, construidas durante la Edad Moderna en las inmediaciones de iglesias y ermitas para albergar a las mujeres encargadas de mantener la iglesia y asistir en el culto. En este artículo se aborda el desarrollo geográfico y cronológico de este fenómeno mediante la combinación de fuentes documentales y ora…

  • What is a village? Agroscapes, collective action and medieval villages in northern Iberia

    Open Access•Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo, J Narbarte et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2023•Cited by: 3

    Why, how and when villages emerged across medieval Europe are enduring questions for archaeologists and historians because of the wider social and economic transformations implied-and because many of these settlements persist to the present day. Most archaeological investigations have focused on the nucleated centres of these communities; here, instead, the authors examine the role of agroscapes. Focusing on an agricultural area near the village …

  • Integrando los registros de 50 años de investigación: Arqueología del paisaje rural en Astigarribia (Gipuzkoa, País Vasco)

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Eneko Iriarte•ARTICLE•Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia•2023

    Las últimas décadas han presenciado un notable desarrollo de las investigaciones e intervenciones arqueológicas de urgencia en el medio rural del País Vasco. Ello ha generado un gran volumen de datos, que sin embargo resultan a menudo parciales y fragmentarios. Este artículo propone adoptar una perspectiva de paisaje, basada en una integración multiescalar de distintas fuentes de información, para afrontar esta dificultad. Esta aproximación se ha…

  • “From bank to bank, as much as the tide and the sea’s waves cover.” Possession, border and conflicts around salmon fishing resources in the Bidasoa estuary (Basque Country): A long-term approach

    Open Access•J Narbarte•ARTICLE•Water History•2022

  • Vida cotidiana, Sociedad y Control Territorial en el Entorno Circumpirenaico Occidental: El Castillo Medieval de Irulegi (Valle de Aranguren, Navarra)

    Open Access•Mattin Aiestaran de la Sotilla, Javier Javier et al.•ARTICLE•Arqueología y Territorio Medieval•2022

    El castillo de Irulegi, localizado en la cima del monte Irulegi o Peña de Lakidain (Valle de Aranguren), es uno de los ejemplos más destacados del Reino de Navarra. El castillo se erigió con finalidades defensivas y de control del territorio circundante. Su inicio se encuentra entre el siglo XI y principios del XII, y muestra una ocupación ininterrumpida hasta finales del siglo XV. Los materiales que se presentan en este trabajo constituyen eleme…

  • Landscapes of Agricultural Expansion in the Estuaries of the Basque Coast (Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries)

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Eneko Iriarte et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Wetland Archaeology•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 6

    Land reclamation is the process of creating new land from regularly flooded surfaces. This paper explores the role of land reclamation on the historical transformation of estuarine landscapes in the Basque coast (N Spain & SW France) during the Early Modern period (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries). Documentary sources, historical cartography, and field survey are combined to document the main social practices that have shaped polder-like landscape…

  • Una aproximación a la tipología de las casas de pescadores de la costa vasca durante la Edad Moderna: Zeria etxea (Hondarribia, Gipuzkoa)

    Open Access•Aritz Diez Oronoz, J Narbarte et al.•ARTICLE•Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia•2022

    Frente a los numerosos trabajos realizados en torno al caserío, la arquitectura vernácula de las comunidades pesqueras del País Vasco ha sido hasta la fecha muy poco estudiada. Este artículo propone una primera aproximación a esta temática, planteando el primer estudio arquitectónico de una casa de pescadores del arrabal de la Magdalena (Hondarribia, Gipuzkoa), la casa Zeria. Mediante una combinación de fuentes documentales, cartográficas, fotogr…

  • Baserri-paisaiaren geoarkeologia Zizurkilen (Gipuzkoa): Erdi Arotik XXI. mendera

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Oihane Mendizabal et al.•ARTICLE•Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia•2021

    El caserío, entendido como un paisaje formado por unidades domésticas autónomas distribuidas de manera dispersa, constituye el principal modelo de ocupación del espacio rural en la vertiente atlántica del País Vasco. En las últimas décadas, el estudio arqueológico de muchos caseríos ha permitido definir series tipo-cronológicas de gran detalle para este tipo de edificios. El presente trabajo propone abordar el estudio de los paisajes culturales a…

  • Monte compartido, monte dividido. Apropiación y gestión de un paisaje de montaña: Los seles de la sierra de Hernio (País Vasco), siglos XIV-XIX

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Ander Rodríguez-Lejarza et al.•ARTICLE•Historia Agraria Revista de…•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    Mountain landscapes reflect the interaction between human groups and their environment. This relation relies on social practices aimed at the appropriation and management of mountain resources, like agriculture, forestry, and husbandry. This paper proposes a reconsideration of mountain landscapes in the Atlantic sector of the Basque Country as highly anthropized spaces, defined by a constant intersection of social actors and practices. The combin…

  • La transformación histórica del paisaje de montaña en la vertiente atlántica del País Vasco: El caso de Aiako Harria (Oiartzun, Gipuzkoa)

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Josu Narbarte Hernandez et al.•ARTICLE•Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia•2020

    Los paisajes de montaña son el reflejo de las interacciones entre los grupos sociales y su medio ambiente, que se materializan en el espacio mediante la activación de los recursos por medio de diversas prácticas sociales. Este trabajo propone el desarrollo de una metodología de prospección basada en el análisis combinado de las coberturas terrestres y de los artefactos presentes en el paisaje, con el fin de reconstruir la historia social, económi…

  • Royal power and proprietary churches in the eleventh-century Kingdom of Pamplona

    Ana Célia Castro, J Narbarte•ARTICLE•Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    The involvement of eleventh-century kings in ecclesiastical reform initiatives has usually been approached from the standpoint of their relationship with high-standing ecclesiastical institutions and their participation in the struggles for dominance between the cadres of lay and ecclesiastical elites. However, other associated phenomena, such as the increase in the number of grants of proprietary churches and monasteries, may have opened further…

  • What is a village? Agroscapes, collective action and medieval villages in northern Iberia

    Open Access•Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo, J Narbarte et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2023•Cited by: 3

    Why, how and when villages emerged across medieval Europe are enduring questions for archaeologists and historians because of the wider social and economic transformations implied-and because many of these settlements persist to the present day. Most archaeological investigations have focused on the nucleated centres of these communities; here, instead, the authors examine the role of agroscapes. Focusing on an agricultural area near the village …

  • Landscapes of Agricultural Expansion in the Estuaries of the Basque Coast (Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries)

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Eneko Iriarte et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Wetland Archaeology•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 6

    Land reclamation is the process of creating new land from regularly flooded surfaces. This paper explores the role of land reclamation on the historical transformation of estuarine landscapes in the Basque coast (N Spain & SW France) during the Early Modern period (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries). Documentary sources, historical cartography, and field survey are combined to document the main social practices that have shaped polder-like landscape…

  • A Vasconic inscription on a bronze hand: Writing and rituality in the Iron Age Irulegi settlement in the Ebro Valley

    Open Access•Mattin Aiestaran, Javier Velaza et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2024•Cited by: 2

    Relatively few examples of Palaeohispanic writing have been recovered from the Vasconic territories of present-day Navarre, leading to the assumption that the Vascones were a pre-literate society. Here, the authors report on an inscription on a bronze hand recovered at the Iron Age site of Irulegi (Aranguren Valley, Navarre) in northern Spain. Its detailed linguistic analysis suggests that the script represents a graphic subsystem of Palaeohispan…

  • Monte compartido, monte dividido. Apropiación y gestión de un paisaje de montaña: Los seles de la sierra de Hernio (País Vasco), siglos XIV-XIX

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Ander Rodríguez-Lejarza et al.•ARTICLE•Historia Agraria Revista de…•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    Mountain landscapes reflect the interaction between human groups and their environment. This relation relies on social practices aimed at the appropriation and management of mountain resources, like agriculture, forestry, and husbandry. This paper proposes a reconsideration of mountain landscapes in the Atlantic sector of the Basque Country as highly anthropized spaces, defined by a constant intersection of social actors and practices. The combin…

  • Environmental Constraints and Human Agency in Early Medieval Village Formation: A Geoarchaeological Approach in the Western Pyrenees (Navarre, Spain)

    J Narbarte, Mattin Aiestaran et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Archaeology•2026•Cited by: 1•References: 46

    The interaction between human agency and environmental factors is a key topic in the archaeological study of early medieval village formation. Such interactions are particularly visible in the construction and maintenance of agrarian landscapes, which often become central to the local socio-economic development. This article explores these processes in a local context of the western Pyrenees (Navarre, Spain) through a combined analysis of documen…

  • How Deep in Time and Far in Space: Multiproxy Geophysical, Coring and Geochemical Prospection of an (Not Only) Iron Age Village (Ebro Valley, Navarre)

    Open Access•Mattin Aiestaran, Ekhine Garcia‐Garcia et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeological Prospection•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    The archaeological research carried out at Irulegi, a hilltop site on the namesake mountain (Aranguren Valley, Navarre, Spain), has revealed one of the most important examples of fortified protohistoric settlements in the western Pyrenees, characterized by its long evolution and the exceptional preservation of its remains. This site has been systematically explored using a range of methods, both geophysical and direct, including GPR, ERT and magn…

  • Royal power and proprietary churches in the eleventh-century Kingdom of Pamplona

    Ana Célia Castro, J Narbarte•ARTICLE•Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    The involvement of eleventh-century kings in ecclesiastical reform initiatives has usually been approached from the standpoint of their relationship with high-standing ecclesiastical institutions and their participation in the struggles for dominance between the cadres of lay and ecclesiastical elites. However, other associated phenomena, such as the increase in the number of grants of proprietary churches and monasteries, may have opened further…

  • Royal power and proprietary churches in the eleventh-century Kingdom of Pamplona

    Ana Célia Castro, J Narbarte•ARTICLE•Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    The involvement of eleventh-century kings in ecclesiastical reform initiatives has usually been approached from the standpoint of their relationship with high-standing ecclesiastical institutions and their participation in the struggles for dominance between the cadres of lay and ecclesiastical elites. However, other associated phenomena, such as the increase in the number of grants of proprietary churches and monasteries, may have opened further…

  • La transformación histórica del paisaje de montaña en la vertiente atlántica del País Vasco: El caso de Aiako Harria (Oiartzun, Gipuzkoa)

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Josu Narbarte Hernandez et al.•ARTICLE•Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia•2020

    Los paisajes de montaña son el reflejo de las interacciones entre los grupos sociales y su medio ambiente, que se materializan en el espacio mediante la activación de los recursos por medio de diversas prácticas sociales. Este trabajo propone el desarrollo de una metodología de prospección basada en el análisis combinado de las coberturas terrestres y de los artefactos presentes en el paisaje, con el fin de reconstruir la historia social, económi…

  • Baserri-paisaiaren geoarkeologia Zizurkilen (Gipuzkoa): Erdi Arotik XXI. mendera

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Oihane Mendizabal et al.•ARTICLE•Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia•2021

    El caserío, entendido como un paisaje formado por unidades domésticas autónomas distribuidas de manera dispersa, constituye el principal modelo de ocupación del espacio rural en la vertiente atlántica del País Vasco. En las últimas décadas, el estudio arqueológico de muchos caseríos ha permitido definir series tipo-cronológicas de gran detalle para este tipo de edificios. El presente trabajo propone abordar el estudio de los paisajes culturales a…

  • Monte compartido, monte dividido. Apropiación y gestión de un paisaje de montaña: Los seles de la sierra de Hernio (País Vasco), siglos XIV-XIX

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Ander Rodríguez-Lejarza et al.•ARTICLE•Historia Agraria Revista de…•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    Mountain landscapes reflect the interaction between human groups and their environment. This relation relies on social practices aimed at the appropriation and management of mountain resources, like agriculture, forestry, and husbandry. This paper proposes a reconsideration of mountain landscapes in the Atlantic sector of the Basque Country as highly anthropized spaces, defined by a constant intersection of social actors and practices. The combin…

  • “From bank to bank, as much as the tide and the sea’s waves cover.” Possession, border and conflicts around salmon fishing resources in the Bidasoa estuary (Basque Country): A long-term approach

    Open Access•J Narbarte•ARTICLE•Water History•2022

  • Vida cotidiana, Sociedad y Control Territorial en el Entorno Circumpirenaico Occidental: El Castillo Medieval de Irulegi (Valle de Aranguren, Navarra)

    Open Access•Mattin Aiestaran de la Sotilla, Javier Javier et al.•ARTICLE•Arqueología y Territorio Medieval•2022

    El castillo de Irulegi, localizado en la cima del monte Irulegi o Peña de Lakidain (Valle de Aranguren), es uno de los ejemplos más destacados del Reino de Navarra. El castillo se erigió con finalidades defensivas y de control del territorio circundante. Su inicio se encuentra entre el siglo XI y principios del XII, y muestra una ocupación ininterrumpida hasta finales del siglo XV. Los materiales que se presentan en este trabajo constituyen eleme…

  • Landscapes of Agricultural Expansion in the Estuaries of the Basque Coast (Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries)

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Eneko Iriarte et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Wetland Archaeology•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 6

    Land reclamation is the process of creating new land from regularly flooded surfaces. This paper explores the role of land reclamation on the historical transformation of estuarine landscapes in the Basque coast (N Spain & SW France) during the Early Modern period (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries). Documentary sources, historical cartography, and field survey are combined to document the main social practices that have shaped polder-like landscape…

  • Una aproximación a la tipología de las casas de pescadores de la costa vasca durante la Edad Moderna: Zeria etxea (Hondarribia, Gipuzkoa)

    Open Access•Aritz Diez Oronoz, J Narbarte et al.•ARTICLE•Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia•2022

    Frente a los numerosos trabajos realizados en torno al caserío, la arquitectura vernácula de las comunidades pesqueras del País Vasco ha sido hasta la fecha muy poco estudiada. Este artículo propone una primera aproximación a esta temática, planteando el primer estudio arquitectónico de una casa de pescadores del arrabal de la Magdalena (Hondarribia, Gipuzkoa), la casa Zeria. Mediante una combinación de fuentes documentales, cartográficas, fotogr…

  • What is a village? Agroscapes, collective action and medieval villages in northern Iberia

    Open Access•Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo, J Narbarte et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2023•Cited by: 3

    Why, how and when villages emerged across medieval Europe are enduring questions for archaeologists and historians because of the wider social and economic transformations implied-and because many of these settlements persist to the present day. Most archaeological investigations have focused on the nucleated centres of these communities; here, instead, the authors examine the role of agroscapes. Focusing on an agricultural area near the village …

  • Integrando los registros de 50 años de investigación: Arqueología del paisaje rural en Astigarribia (Gipuzkoa, País Vasco)

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Eneko Iriarte•ARTICLE•Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia•2023

    Las últimas décadas han presenciado un notable desarrollo de las investigaciones e intervenciones arqueológicas de urgencia en el medio rural del País Vasco. Ello ha generado un gran volumen de datos, que sin embargo resultan a menudo parciales y fragmentarios. Este artículo propone adoptar una perspectiva de paisaje, basada en una integración multiescalar de distintas fuentes de información, para afrontar esta dificultad. Esta aproximación se ha…

  • “Ad reprimenda pirratarum latrocinia”. Arqueología de una fortaleza costera en época bajomedieval y moderna: El castillo de San Telmo en el cabo de Higer (Hondarribia, Gipuzkoa)

    Open Access•Aritz Diez Oronoz, J Narbarte et al.•ARTICLE•Arqueología de la Arquitectura•2024

    La arquitectura militar es un elemento clave en la construcción del Estado moderno, con una función de articulación del poder y control territorial. Este hecho se hace particularmente evidente en entornos de frontera como la línea de los Pirineos, donde las monarquías hispánica y francesa a menudo reutilizaron estructuras y dinámicas preexistentes para afianzar su autoridad a partir del siglo XVI. En este trabajo, se propone el análisis arqueológ…

  • Nueva ara dedicada a Larrahe hallada en Arriaundi (Larunbe, Navarra)

    Open Access•Oihane Mendizabal-Sandonís, Javier Velaza et al.•ARTICLE•Palaeohispanica Revista sobre…•2024

    In this paper we present a Roman altar found in Arriundi (Larunbe, Navarra), dedicated to the Vasconic god Larra/Larrahe

  • Serora Houses In Basque Vernacular Architecture (Sixteenth To Eighteenth Centuries): Distribution, Social Function And Building Typologies

    J Narbarte, Aritz Diez Oronoz•ARTICLE•Vernacular Architecture•2024•References: 1

  • A Vasconic inscription on a bronze hand: Writing and rituality in the Iron Age Irulegi settlement in the Ebro Valley

    Open Access•Mattin Aiestaran, Javier Velaza et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2024•Cited by: 2

    Relatively few examples of Palaeohispanic writing have been recovered from the Vasconic territories of present-day Navarre, leading to the assumption that the Vascones were a pre-literate society. Here, the authors report on an inscription on a bronze hand recovered at the Iron Age site of Irulegi (Aranguren Valley, Navarre) in northern Spain. Its detailed linguistic analysis suggests that the script represents a graphic subsystem of Palaeohispan…

  • Forma y función en la arquitectura vernácula vasca: El ejemplo de las casas de seroras (siglos XVI-XVIII)

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Aritz Diez Oronoz•ARTICLE•Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia•2024

    La arquitectura vernácula vasca ofrece una amplia variedad de tipologías y variantes regionales. Ejemplo prominente de ello son las casas de seroras, construidas durante la Edad Moderna en las inmediaciones de iglesias y ermitas para albergar a las mujeres encargadas de mantener la iglesia y asistir en el culto. En este artículo se aborda el desarrollo geográfico y cronológico de este fenómeno mediante la combinación de fuentes documentales y ora…

  • La materialidad del poder regio en la frontera medieval del Ebro: El complejo eclesiástico de Santa María de Resa (Andosilla, Navarra)

    Open Access•J Narbarte, Ana Célia Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Arqueología y Territorio Medieval•2025

    Between the 10th and 12th centuries, the middle Ebro valley was an area of frontier and interaction between the Pamplona monarchy and its neighbours, first the Muladi dynasty of the Banu Qasi, and then the Castilian Crown. In this context, the strategies of territorial control and organization set in place by the royal power and the local elites took various forms, endowment of their own churches that functioned as centres for the reception and m…

  • How Deep in Time and Far in Space: Multiproxy Geophysical, Coring and Geochemical Prospection of an (Not Only) Iron Age Village (Ebro Valley, Navarre)

    Open Access•Mattin Aiestaran, Ekhine Garcia‐Garcia et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeological Prospection•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    The archaeological research carried out at Irulegi, a hilltop site on the namesake mountain (Aranguren Valley, Navarre, Spain), has revealed one of the most important examples of fortified protohistoric settlements in the western Pyrenees, characterized by its long evolution and the exceptional preservation of its remains. This site has been systematically explored using a range of methods, both geophysical and direct, including GPR, ERT and magn…

  • Paisaiaren arkeologia Oma haranean (Kortezubi, Bizkaia)

    Open Access•J Narbarte•ARTICLE•Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia•2025

    Over the last three decades, archaeological research has made relevant advances in the study of cultural heritage related to the local societies of the Basque Country. Two aspects, in particular, have provided very interesting results for the study of rural contexts: industrial activity, namely ferrous metallurgy; and individual farmsteads (baserriak), which articulated different economic activities related to agriculture, and husbandry. This wor…

  • New Data on the Sertorian War at the Vascon Site of Irulegi (Aranguren Valley, Navarre)

    Open Access•Mattin Aiestaran, J Narbarte et al.•ARTICLE•Oxford Journal of Archaeology•2026•References: 20

    Literary sources provide limited information on specific developments during the civil wars of the late Roman Republic, including the Sertorian War. This study describes the attack on the Vascon settlement of Irulegi (Aranguren valley, Navarre), in northern Spain, within the context of this conflict, using the methodological and theoretical frameworks of conflict archaeology. In doing so, it seeks to demonstrate that Roman cultural influences wer…

  • Human Agency and Coastal Landscape Transformation in Early Modern Atlantic Europe: An Interdisciplinary Research Approach in the Urola Estuary (Basque Coast)

    J Narbarte, Eneko Iriarte•ARTICLE•Environmental Archaeology•2026•References: 39

    Landscapes are the result of historical human–environment interactions whose material imprints are recorded in the local topography, hydrography, and sedimentary archives. Human influence is particularly visible in coastal and estuarine landscapes, due to the continuity and intensity of occupation since, at least, the Middle Ages. This paper analyses the historical evolution of an estuarine landscape in Atlantic Iberia, based on the combined anal…

  • Environmental Constraints and Human Agency in Early Medieval Village Formation: A Geoarchaeological Approach in the Western Pyrenees (Navarre, Spain)

    J Narbarte, Mattin Aiestaran et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Archaeology•2026•Cited by: 1•References: 46

    The interaction between human agency and environmental factors is a key topic in the archaeological study of early medieval village formation. Such interactions are particularly visible in the construction and maintenance of agrarian landscapes, which often become central to the local socio-economic development. This article explores these processes in a local context of the western Pyrenees (Navarre, Spain) through a combined analysis of documen…

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