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Interpreting protohistoric societies through place names of landscape features: a case study in València, Spain

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  • Joan Carles Membrado-Tena

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Protohistoric place names, created before written history and related to extinct languages, are analysed in this article. Our case study deals with place names of current towns (over 20,000 inhabitants) in the Spanish region of València. Linguistics is needed when dealing with the origin of an opaque protohistoric place name, but observation of landscape features is crucial when finding or choosing the most plausible origin of a place name if there is more than one theory. Protohistoric names are thus interpreted in this article from two perspectives: landscape feature observation and philology. This multimethod analysis produces more reliable results. The main results reveal that protohistoric town names in our case study derive from natural features of landscape, while historic town names refer mainly to cultural features of landscape. Place names are one of the most valuable sources available to explain the concerns of protohistoric peoples.

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  • Joan Carles Membrado-Tena, 2021. "Interpreting protohistoric societies through place names of landscape features: a case study in València, Spain," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(6), pages 811-827, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:46:y:2021:i:6:p:811-827
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2021.1914567
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    1. Joan Carles Membrado-Tena & Jorge Hermosilla-Pla, 2023. "The Precarious Survival of an Ancient Cultural Landscape: The Thousand-Year-Old Olive Trees of the Valencian Maestrat (Spain)," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-20, July.

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