Bracara between Late Antiquity and Middle Ages: a contribution of pottery study

Late Antiquity marks the processes of disarticulation of cultural and technological models of the ancient world and the emergence of those that will characterize Middle Ages and feudal society. During this period the city of Bracara was established as the capital of the province of Gallaecia, becoming the capital of the Suebi kingdom between the 5th and 6th centuries, and politically dependent on Visigothics from 585. These events had a natural impact on the urbanism, economy and society of Bracara, aspects that have been investigated with different degrees of depth. We are particularly interested in the analysis of the potential of ceramics to understand the mechanisms of technological and social change. In this way, we have studied the materials obtained in an archaeological intervention implemented between 2015 and 2016, in 166-168 Frei Caetano Brandão street, in a property located where the Roman city was overlayed by the medieval one.