Archaeobotanical Remains from the Roman Harbor Vada Volaterrana

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

We present preliminary botanical data and interpretations from the ancient Roman harbor of Vada Volaterrana, located in the modern province of Livorno, Italy. The harbor 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 began investigating the cultural activity at San Gaetano's buildings I, L, and M. Archaeobotanical samples were collected during the 2017 to 2023 field seasons. Paired with architectural, artifactual, and zooarchaeological data, our botanical results help uncover shifts in both subsistence patterns and cultural enterprises at this building complex.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40195.0