Assessing place-based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post- Roman Iberia Martínez Jiménez, Alan Javier Sociological models of place-based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post-Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the Visigothic period (sixth–eighth centuries) as a preliminary case study. We argue that this approach can give us not only a more complex understanding of community agencies but also allows us to reconsider the social context for past social interactions. Furthermore, it will open a new archaeological perspective for future work on the relations between groups and individuals with their built, social, and natural environments. 2023-02-10T08:57:58Z 2023-02-10T08:57:58Z 2023-01-12 journal article Martínez Jiménez, J., and Tejerizo-García, C. (2022) Assessing place-based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post-Roman Iberia, Early Medieval Europe, doi: [https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12597] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/79813 10.1111/emed.12597 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/693418 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Wiley