"Ancient History of the Basque Country" is an optional subject in the third year of the Degrees in History, Art History, Basque Studies and Geography and Territorial Planning. It is taught in the second semester and it consists of 6 credits. It is integrated into the minor specialization in "History of the Basque Country".

The essential training objectives pursued in its development are:

- To provide a capacity for analysis and an adequate understanding of the progressive formation of the communities documented since pre-Roman and Roman times in the territories that are currently assigned to the Basque Autonomous Community and bordering areas, focusing especially on the organizational structures (social, economic, political, religious and cultural).

- To furnish, with theoretical-practical contents, contact with the different specific sources (written testimonies and archaeological evidences) related to mentioned population groups.

- To develop the methodological bases for the adequate historical analysis of the direct evidences (epigraphy, numismatics, archaeology) and indirect evidences (Greco-Latin authors).

- To achieve knowledge of the different historical factors of an endogenous and exogenous nature that intervened in the evolution of the organizational structures of these communities.

- To develop skills in the analysis of the historical information available for the study of these communities, which allow for the elaboration of synthesis and structuring qualified discourses.

With all this, students will be able to move towards professional practice in the fields in which historical records and knowledge of history are managed.

Competencies

-M03CM01: To be able to obtain, organize and interpret the various contents of the historical information available and show the ability to develop the basic methods and techniques of historical research in their application to documentation and sources of information related to the history of the Basque Country .

-M03CM02: To show an adequate understanding of the synchronies between the processes and events related to the history of the Basque Country and those corresponding to peninsular, European and universal history.

-M03CM03: To develop the ability to examine critically current historiographical contributions and identify the different historiographical approaches and their correspondence with the cultural tradition of each historical era.



Learning outcomes

After studying the subject, students must be able to:

- RA1. Understand and interpret the historical processes developed and the progressive formation of the communities documented since pre-Roman and Roman times in the territories that are currently attached to the Basque Autonomous Community and bordering areas.

- RA2. Apply the basic methods and techniques of historical research for the analysis of documentation (written and archaeological) and sources of information concerning the study of these communities in the currently available formats.

- RA3. Develop synthesis and structure qualified discourses on a historical problem and present them orally and/or in writing with formal correction and appropriate terminology.

1. Historical and historiographical aspects.

- Methodological commentary on the available documentary and historiographic information.

- Ethnogeographic commentary on the study area.

2. Cultural processes and settlement structures during the First and Second Iron Ages.

- The internal (peninsular) and external (continental and Atlantic) protohistoric cultural processes.

- Settlement structures and cultural projection: Mediterranean and Atlantic slopes.

3. Indigenous communities in contact with Rome.

- Beginning and evolution of the Roman military intervention in the northern area.

- Indigenous communities: organizational structures.

4. The diffusion of Roman organizational models. Driving factors and integration processes.

- The political-administrative organization: provincial, conventual and local.

- Social structures and relationships.

- Economic activity: human and material resources and commercial activity.

- Local and Roman pantheons.

5. The processes of continuity and transformation in Late Antiquity.

- The political-administrative reorganization.

- Socio-economic transformations.

- Pagan survivals and the process of Christianization.

- The presentation of the theoretical contents will be accompanied by practical exercises (commentary on historical sources, maps, images), with the student having access to material resources on the e-Gela platform (bibliography, cartography, images, presentations in power-point, etc.).

- It will be deepended into the historical concepts and processes essential for the study of the ancient history of the Basque Country, taking into account the progressive learning and the use of specific historical vocabulary.

- The practical part will require the previous preparatory work by the student, in accordance with the materials and guidelines provided by the teachers.

- Individual tutorials aimed at guiding the study and learning process, as well as cooperative work.

• Continuous Assessment System
• Final Assessment System
• Tools and qualification percentages:
  • Written test to be taken (%): 50
  • Realization of Practical Work (exercises, cases or problems) (%): 50

A. Continuous evaluation

Evaluation instruments:

A.1. Practical exercises with continuous evaluation throughout the course: ancient sources`´historical comments, attendance at conferences and taking a written test on them, reviews of readings, etc.

Evaluation criteria: active participation in the various practical exercises, clarity and expository organization, precise use of historical concepts, oral expression skills, correct spelling and cleanliness in the graphic presentation of content.

Final grade percentage: 50%.

A.2. Written tests on the theoretical and practical content taught throughout the course.

Evaluation criteria: clarity and expository organization, degree of assimilation of knowledge, ability to relate historical concepts, ability to synthesize, correct spelling and cleanliness in the graphic presentation of content.

Final grade percentage: 50%.



To pass the subject it will be mandatory to obtain at least 50% of the grade in both the practical exercises (A.1) and the written tests (A.2).



B. Final evaluation

Evaluation instrument:

Individual written test with questions to be developed related to the theoretical and practical contents.

Evaluation criteria: clarity and expository organization, degree of assimilation of knowledge, ability to relate historical concepts, ability to synthesize, correct spelling and cleanliness in the graphic presentation of content.

Final grade percentage: 100%.



According to the regulations relating to evaluation systems, students will have the right to be evaluated using the final evaluation system (BOPV 13.03.2017, art. 8.3): "In any case, students will have the right to be evaluated using the evaluation system final, regardless of whether or not they have participated in the continuous evaluation system. To do so, the students must submit in writing to the teaching staff responsible for the subject the waiver of continuous evaluation, for which they will have a period of 9 weeks for quarterly subjects and 18 weeks for annual subjects, counting from the beginning of the semester or course respectively, in accordance with the academic calendar of the center (...)".



C. Renunciation of the ordinary call.

According to the degree management regulations, it will be sufficient to not appear at the call.

Evaluation instrument:

Individual written test with questions to be developed, related to the theoretical and practical contents.

Evaluation criteria: clarity and expository organization, degree of assimilation of knowledge, ability to relate historical concepts, ability to synthesize, correct spelling and cleanliness in the graphic presentation of content.

Final grade percentage: 100%.



Renunciation of the extraordinary call.

According to the degree management regulations, it will be sufficient to not appear at the call.

Materials available on the e-Gela virtual platform, uploaded by the teachers.

Basic bibliography

1. REFERENCE WORKS:

ALDAY, A., ARRIZABALAGA, A., CIPRÉS, P., ORTIZ DE URBINA, E., YANGUAS, S., TORREGARAY, E., VALLEJO, J.M., (2006), Historia del País Vasco. Prehistoria y Antigüedad, San Sebastián: Hiria.

ANDREU, J., (ed.), (2009), Los vascones de las fuentes antiguas. En torno a una etnia de la Antigüedad peninsular, Barcelona: Universidad de Barcelona (Colección Instrumenta, no 32).

BEGUIRISTAIN, M., LLANOS, A., LOZA, R., TOBIE, J.L., MEZQUÍRIZ, M., (2012), Prehistoria y romanización. Historia de un proceso económico y cultural en Euskal Herria, Lasarte-Oria: Etor-Ostoa.

GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, Ma. C., SANTOS YANGUAS, J., (1994), Las estructuras sociales indígenas del Norte de la península Ibérica, Vitoria-Gasteiz: UPV/EHU.

NAVARRO SANTANA, F.J. (2010), Nueva Historia de Navarra, Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra.

PEÑALVER IRIBARREN, X., (2008), La Edad del Hierro. Los vascones y sus vecinos. El último milenio anterior a nuestra era, San Sebastián: Txertoa.

SAYAS, J.J., (1994), Los vascos en la Antigüedad, Madrid: Cátedra.



2. DICTIONARIES:

JIMENO, R., (dir.), (2019), Notitia Vasconiae. Diccionario de historiadores, juristas y pensadores políticos de Vasconia. Tomo I: Antigüedad, Edad Media y Moderna, Madrid: Marcial Pons.

ROLDÁN, J. M., (coord.) (2006), Diccionario de Historia Antigua de España, Madrid: Akal.



3. TOPOGRAPHY AND MAPPING:

Gran Atlas Histórico de Euskal Herria, Bilbao: Lur, 1995.

Tabula Imperii Romani (TIR) (Hoja K-30: Madrid. Caesaraugusta, Clunia, Madrid: CSIC, 1993.

AZKÁRATE, A., (1994), Vasconia. Gran atlas del mundo vasco, Bilbao: El Mundo del País Vasco. BELTRÁN, F., MARCO, F., (2019), Atlas de Historia Antigua, Zaragoza: Pórtico (1a ed. 1987).



4. TEXTS:

LARRAÑAGA, K., (1988), Euskal Herria Antzinatean. Materiale eta agiriak, Donostia: UNED Bergara.

LARRAÑAGA, K., (1992), Euskal Herria Antzinate Berantiarrean eta Lehen Ertaroan. Materiale eta agiriak, Bilbo: UPV/EHU.

SEGURA, S., (2001), Mil años de historia vasca a través de la literatura greco-latina. De Aníbal a Carlomagno, Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto (1a ed. 1997).

In-depth bibliography

AAVV, (2005), L'Aquitaine et l'Hispanie septentrionale à l'époque julio-claudienne. Organisation et explotation des espaces provinciaux, Burdeos (Aquitania suppl. 13).
AAVV, (2007-2008), Dominio e integración de pueblos de montaña en el Estado romano: vascones, isaurios y pueblos alpinos (Boletín Arkeolan, 15).
ARMENDÁRIZ, J., (2008), De las aldeas a ciudades. El poblamiento durante el primer milenio a.C. en Navarra, Pamplona.
ARRIZABALAGA, Á, GORROCHATEGUI, J., ORTIZ DE URBINA, E. (eds.), (2024), Entre el Ebro y el Garona. Espacios, sociedades y culturas durante la Prehistoria y la Antigüedad, Vitoria-Gasteiz: UPV/EHU.
DUPLÁ, A., PÉREZ MOSTAZO, J., (eds.), (2022), Recepciones de la antigüedad vascona y aquitana en la cultura histórica vasca. De la historiografía a las redes sociales (ss. XV-XXI), Vitoria-Gasteiz: UPV/EHU.
LARRAÑAGA, K., (2007), El hecho colonial romano en el área circumpirenaica occidental, Vitoria-Gasteiz: UPV/EHU.
FERNÁNDEZ, M., (2020), La epigrafía funeraria de época romana del área autrigona. Conmemoración, relaciones familiares y sociedad, Madrid.
LANZ, J., (2020), Los vascones y sus vecinos, Pamplona.
ORTIZ DE URBINA, E., (2005), Autrigones, caristios, várdulos, berones. Contribuciones historiográficas (1983-2003) relativas a su evolución en época prerromana y romana, Vasconia 34, 47-88.
PEÑALVER IRIBARREN, X., (2004), El Bronce Final y la Edad del Hierro en Euskal Herria, en: J. Agirreazkuenaga (dir.), Historia de Euskal Herria. Historia General de los vascos. Tomo I, Bilbao, 360-401.
PÉREZ MOSTAZO, J, (2019), Lustrando las raíces. Antigüedad vasca, política e identidades en el siglo XIX. Pamplona.
SANTOS, J. (ed.), (2009), Los tiempos antiguos en los territorios pirenaicos, Vitoria-Gasteiz.
SAYAS, J.J. (2005), Protohistoria e historia de los vascones. Balance historiográfico(1983-2003), Vasconia 34, 89- 116.

Journals

CADeusto (Cuadernos de Arqueología de Deusto). Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto.
CAUNavarra. (Cuadernos de Arqueología de la Universidad de Navarra). Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra.
EAA (Estudios de Arqueología Alavesa). Vitoria-Gasteiz: Diputación Foral de Álava, Instituto Alavés de Arqueología.
Iberia. Revista de la Antigüedad. Logroño: Universidad de La Rioja.
Isturitz. Cuadernos de Prehistoria-Arqueología. San Sebastián: Eusko Ikaskuntza/Sociedad de Estudios Vascos.
Kobie. Paleoantropología. Bilbao: Diputación Foral de Bizkaia.
Munibe. Antropología-Arqueología; Arqueología-Prehistoria. San Sebastián: Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi.
TAN (Trabajos de Arqueología Navarra). Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Instituto Príncipe de Viana.
Veleia. Revista de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua, Arqueología y Filología Clásica. Vitoria-Gasteiz: UPV/EHU.

Web addresses

This list includes references to websites created and managed by university researchers, university departments, research centers or groups. It is not recommended to use the resources available on personal web pages, fan association websites, mailing lists, etc., which no scientific endorsement.

EUSKO IKASKUNTZA/SOCIEDAD DE ESTUDIOS VASCOS PUBLICACIÓN ELECTRÓNICA SOBRE LA CULTURA VASCA
http://www.euskonews.com, http://www.euskomedia.org

FUNDACIÓN SANCHO EL SABIO. VITORIA-GASTEIZ. CENTRO DE DOCUMENTACIÓN DE LA CULTURA VASCA
http://www.fsancho-sabio.es

INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS DE LA ANTIGÜEDAD. UPV/EHU http://www.ica-azi.ehu.es/p295-home/eus
DIALNET. SERVICIO DE ALERTAS Y HEMEROTECA VIRTUAL CON SUMARIO DE REVISTAS CIENTÍFICAS ESPAÑOLAS, UNIVERSIDAD DE LA RIOJA http://dialnet.unirioja.es/index.jsp

INSTRUMENTOS INFORMÁTICOS PARA EL ESTUDIO DE LA ANTIGÜEDAD CLÁSICA, UNIVERSIDAD DE BOLONIA
http://www.rassegna.unibo.it/index.html

INTERCLASSICA. ENLACES PARA LA INVESTIGACIÓN Y DIFUSIÓN DEL MUNDO GRIEGO Y ROMANO ANTIGUO UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA
http://interclassica.um.es/de_interes/enlaces