By means of a paleoethnological, archaeological and autonomous historical analysis, based on regional records, this book presents a specific explanatory model of the origin and development of the city and the state in the Proto-history of the Northern Plateau of South-West Celtiberia, using as a case study the city of Termes, whose territory occupied a large part of this region in Celtiberic and Roman times, and analysing the subsequent integration process of this community as a civil territorial unit within the Roman Empire. Firstly, the pre-urban site is analysed; this is followed by an...