LA STATIO ROMANA DE MAS GUSÓ

The present volume on the site of Mas Gusó, presents in detail the results obtained during fourteen excavation campaigns, focusing, this time, on the Roman settlement. This complex was built in the late second century BC over an old Iberian settlement, which in turn occupied the space on which an Early Iron Age community had previously settled, following a previous Bronze Age settlement. The Roman complex of Mas Gusó, had a military-public function, as a praesidium intended to control the hinterland territories of Emporion and to take part in military actions within the province of Hispania Citerior, beginning with the Late Republic, c. 135 BC, and continuing for several centuries until its disappearance around 280 AD. During the first decades of the Common Era, the complex was probably transformed into a statio, directly linked to the local road network, although it did not lose its military function. The building presents a classical structure, showing a clear Italic influence that is observed repeatedly and with little variation throughout the Empire.En el presente volumen sobre Mas Gusó, se exponen extensamente los resultados obtenidos a lo largo de catorce campañ,as de excavaciones, referidos, en esta ocasió,n, al establecimiento de é,poca romana. Un complejo levantado hacia finales del siglo II a.C. sobre un antiguo asentamiento ibé,rico, el cual, a su vez, ocupó, el mismo espacio en el que anteriormente se estableció, una comunidad de la primera Edad del Hierro, sucesora de otra de la Edad del Bronce. El conjunto romano de Mas Gusó, tuvo un cará,cter pú,blico-militar, un praesidium relacionado con el control del hinterland ampuritano y con las operaciones militares en la Hispania Citerior, desde la Baja Repú,blica, hacia el 135 a.C., prolongá,ndose su existencia a lo largo de los siglos, hasta desaparecer alrededor del añ,o 280. A partir de las primeras d&eacu