Transformación social y agrosistema en el interior peninsular durante la Alta Edad Media (s. VI-VIII d. C.): nuevas evidencias desde Recópolis (Zorita de los Canes, Guadalajara)

Reccopolis is the only archaeologically-attested Visigothic city in the Iberian Peninsula. Founded under King Leovigild in A.D. 576, the city played a notable role in the landscape, persisting as the focal point in the territory until the 8 th century AD. This paper offers an overview of the most recent results from the project undertaken around Reccopolis, whose landscape has been explored as a social construction, which enables a fuller understanding of the agrosystem. Indeed, considering the paleo-biological and environmental data, together with the archaeological ones, it has been possible to analyze the evolution across the Early Middle Ages of this complex territory in the Central Plateau of the Iberian Peninsula.