Archaeobotanical and Faunal Remains from the Roman Harbor Vada Volaterrana

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In this poster we present updated botanical and faunal 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. 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, that included the recovery and identification of plant and animal remains. Samples collected during the 2017 thru 2024 field seasons are included in this updated presentation. Paired with architectural and artifactual data, our findings help uncover shifts in both subsistence patterns and cultural enterprises at this building complex.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 53797