Marine Resources Exploitation (Other Keyword)

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Fishing Gear in the North-western Part of the Iberian Peninsula at Roman Times: the Underwater Deposit of Clay Weights in the Moaña Marina (Galicia, Spain) (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Casal Fernández. Víctor J. Barbeito Pose.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Roman building clay constitutes an ideal material for making weights by trimming fragments of tegula, imbrex, and later to an appropriate size and shape, and adding perforations or lateral notches, for suspension. This typology of weights is documented in archaeological sites directly linked to...

Rome and cetaceans: Archaeological Evidence from the Strait of Gibraltar (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Darío Bernal-Casasola.

Over the past 10 years, bones from whales and other marine mammals have been uncovered from archaeological excavations of Roman cities around the Straits of Gibraltar (Baetica and Mauritania Tingitana coasts). The high frequency of archaeozoological remains and their location within fish-preserving contexts (cetariae) has suggested the active exploitation of cetaceans throughout the Roman Imperial period (II BC - V AD). This paper reviews the evidence from Baelo Claudia, Iulia Traducta, Septem...