Zooarchaeological Remains from the Roman Harbor Vada Volaterrana
Author(s): Stephen B. Carmody; Lydia Carmody; Simonetta Menchelli; Ellie Shields; Madisen James
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The ancient Roman harbor of Vada Volaterrana was supported by a network of structures immediately surrounding the port at Vada's San Gaetano site. A 2015 GPR survey identified a series of rectangular buildings of unknown purpose in the southern sector of this site whose subsequent excavation produced several botanical and faunal remains. In 2019, a collaborative project between the University of Pisa and Troy University was initiated to address cultural activity at San Gaetano's buildings I, L, and M using these assemblages. This poster presents data and interpretations from Vada's 2017 to 2022 bone and shell samples. Paired with architectural, artifactual, and botanical data, our zooarchaeological results help uncover shifts in both subsistence patterns and cultural enterprises at this building complex.
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Zooarchaeological Remains from the Roman Harbor Vada Volaterrana. Stephen B. Carmody, Lydia Carmody, Simonetta Menchelli, Ellie Shields, Madisen James. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499817)
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Keywords
General
Subsistence and Foodways
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Zooarchaeology
Geographic Keywords
Europe
Spatial Coverage
min long: -11.074; min lat: 37.44 ; max long: 50.098; max lat: 70.845 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 40223.0