ABSTRACT
This chapter explores archaeological novelties and to suggest new lines of research based on their differential potential. The arrival of Roman power implied their integration and generic grouping into three conuentus, those called after the Callaeci Lucenses, the Callaeci Bracarenses, and the Astures. The awakening of Roman military archaeology as an autonomous discipline in Spain has forced a transformation of this scenario. During the Early Empire, much of the Roman military deployment in Hispania was concentrated in the Spanish plateau area north of the river Douro. The development of Roman military archaeology as a discipline and the implementation of new remote sensing methodologies has revolutionised the archaeological scene in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. The traditional historiographical discourse on the conquest of the north-western region of the Iberian Peninsula was excessively based on literary sources and very little on archaeological data. It can be also considered the most complex Roman military camp of those documented in the Iberian Peninsula.
