Abstract
Beyond their importance in the development of cults and rituals, cult places had an essential role already during of the final Iron Age landscapes and the social representation of the local elites in the Iberian Peninsula. Rome noticed soon their strategic role at both level, territorial and socio-political, and they became key sites in the conquest and integration processes of Iberian communities in the Roman world.
This topic aims to understand the interesting developments of those cult places during the first centuries of the Roman presence in the Southeast of the Roman province of Hispania (3rd-1st centuries BC) by analysing them within the Roman strategies of territorial control. It relies on a information from two sites, which well reflect the situation and changes in this period.