Early Modern Seaports in the Context of Global Cities Emergency. Harbour, Maritime and Landscape Archaeology

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Early Modern Seaports in the Context of Global Cities Emergency. Harbour, Maritime and Landscape Archaeology," at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

During the process of the first globalization, seaports and port cities play a central role, being nodes of contact and exchange between different geographies, cultures and economic and political interests. In the scope of CONCHA project: “The construction of early modern global Cities and oceanic networks in the Atlantic: An Approach via Ocean’s Cultural Heritage”, and EU funded staff exchange project experience, we aim to address and discuss the complexity of seaports, including environmental and landscape features, underwater studies on harbour infrastructures, shipwrecks inside harbours, archaeological collections and maritime landscapes connected with the development of port cities through different perspectives. The main goal is contributed, in a comparative way, to the conceptualizations of port cities growth in the early modern period, having in account early settlements, insular and continental, seaport structures, natural environments, economic activities and marine resource availability.

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  • Archaeology of the Atlantic Early Modern Seaports. An Approach Via CONCHA Project. (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrícia Carvalho. José Bettencourt.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Early Modern Seaports in the Context of Global Cities Emergency. Harbour, Maritime and Landscape Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. CONCHA’s main goal is to address the different ways that port cities developed around the Atlantic from the late 15th to the early 18th century in relation to differing global, regional, and local ecological and economic environments. The project is framed around seven...

  • Funchal, Angra and Ribeira Grande: Results of a Comparative Study About the Origin of Three Early Modern Atlantic Ports. (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ana Catarina Garcia.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Early Modern Seaports in the Context of Global Cities Emergency. Harbour, Maritime and Landscape Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this presentation the main goal is to show the final results of a study about the emergency of three insular port towns in Azores, Madeira and Cape Verd. This research is focused on a deeper knowledge about first experiences of insular colonization in Portuguese and...

  • Kaše Breakwater - The Symbol Of The Old Port of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Irena Radic Rossi. Mauro Bondioli. Kotaro Yamafune.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Early Modern Seaports in the Context of Global Cities Emergency. Harbour, Maritime and Landscape Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. At the peak of the development of Maritime Republic of Ragusa, at the end of the 15th century, the Port of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) gained its present appearance with the construction of the Kaše breakwater. Within the project APPRODI (Interreg ADRION), for the first time...

  • Maritime Cultural Landscapes Of São Tomé And Príncipe - The Results Of A Field Mission (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Joana Baço. Gonçalo C. Lopes.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Early Modern Seaports in the Context of Global Cities Emergency. Harbour, Maritime and Landscape Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Starting from the concept forged by Westerdahl in 1992 and during a mission in São Tomé and Príncipe in February 2020, in the framework of the “CONCHA Project - The construction of early modern global Cities and oceanic networks in the Atlantic: An approach via Ocean’s...