Archaeological methodology applied to the analysis of battlefields and military camps of the Second Punic War: Baecula

Abstract

This paper is a synopsis of the archaeological surface survey methodology applied to the location and analysis of a Second Punic War battlefield at Baecula. The strategy undertaken has allowed us to reconstruct the battle scene and analyse its material remains, camps and other elements and load them into a GIS, which we are using to show the initial proposals for a micro-territorial analysis of the scenario. We present the application of the system to the visibilities of the battlefield between the armies, based strictly on the archaeological data recovered from it.