Three coloniae and three municipia: non-invasive exploration of urban contexts in Roman Hispania

Since 2016 our team has been developing non-invasive research methodologies applied to the study of large archaeological areas corresponding to ancient cities in Roman Hispania. The Roman colonies of Hasta Regia (Mesas de Asta, Jerez de la Frontera), Ilici (La Alcudia, Elche) and Libisosa (Lezuza, Albacete), and the Latin municipalities of Balsa (Luz de Tavira, Faro), Arva (Alcolea del Río) and Calduba (La Perdiz, Arcos de la Frontera) located in the Roman provinces of Baetica, Tarraconensis and Lusitania have been used as case studies presented in this paper (Figure 1). The cities in this each differ, offering a wide variety