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The European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) is a native species that was consumed as a luxurious product by the Romans. In the Strait of Gibraltar area, between southwest Iberia and North Africa, numerous oyster shells have been found in... more
The European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) is a native species that was consumed as a luxurious product by the Romans. In the Strait of Gibraltar area, between southwest Iberia and North Africa, numerous oyster shells have been found in Roman archaeological sites located in both, the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The origin of these oysters is unknown, as so if they were farmed or harvested in the wild and/or even imported for consumption. This study presents the results of pollen analysis of oyster shells from six archaeological sites in the Strait of Gibraltar area dated between the 1st and 6th centuries AD. This is the first time that such research is undertaken in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa; the second worldwide for a discipline rarely known until now: conchopalynology. Our study suggests that differences observed in pollen spectra could be used to identify the origin of the consumed specimens, i.e. where they were grown or harvested, discriminating whether oyster shells originated from the Mediterranean Sea or the Atlantic Ocean coastline.
Resumen: Aportamos las conclusiones obtenidas tras la realización de una serie de sondeos arqueológicos en la zona de La Isabelita, cuyos resultados arrojan luz tanto sobre los procesos morfodinámicos acaecidos en los niveles de... more
Resumen: Aportamos las conclusiones obtenidas tras la realización de una serie de sondeos arqueológicos en la zona de La Isabelita, cuyos resultados arrojan luz tanto sobre los procesos morfodinámicos acaecidos en los niveles de aterrazamientos del río Guadalete a su paso por la localidad de Arcos de la Frontera, como sobre los modos de trabajo de las formaciones sociales cazadoras-recolectoras del Pleistoceno Superior. Abstract: We report the conclusions obtained after conducting a series of archaeological surveys in the area of La Isabelita, the results of which illuminate both morphodynamic processes occurring in the levels of terracing Guadalete River as it passes through the town of Arcos de la Frontera, as working on ways of hunter-gatherer social formations Upper Pleistocene.
Hemos realizado en los años 80 y 90 del siglo pasado una serie de proyectos de investigación en el sur de la Península Ibérica encaminados al conocimiento de la secuencia histórica y al análisis social y económico de las diversas... more
Hemos realizado en los años 80 y 90 del siglo pasado una serie de proyectos de investigación en el sur de
la Península Ibérica encaminados al conocimiento de la secuencia histórica y al análisis social y económico de las
diversas sociedades que ocuparon dicho territorio. Hemos comprendido el interés y la necesidad de investigar en las
relaciones y contactos entre el sur de la Península Ibérica y el norte de África. Para desarrollar dicho objetivo hemos
realizado diversos proyectos interdisciplinares en el norte de África. Trabajamos desde perspectivas metodológicas
de la Arqueología Social y en una visión interdisciplinar de la Geoarqueología y la Arqueometría.
Además estos proyectos tienen una dimensión de socialización del conocimiento, de profundizar en una perspectiva
social del Patrimonio, como legado histórico y en el estudio de unas relaciones comunes, en un territorio
que entendemos como región histórica.
The archaeological excavations carried out between August 2007 and July 2008 in thenecropolis of Campo de Hockey (transit Vth–IVth millennium BC) documented levels andstructures of interest. We report the first data on the grave goods... more
The archaeological excavations carried out between August 2007 and July 2008 in thenecropolis of Campo de Hockey (transit Vth–IVth millennium BC) documented levels andstructures of interest. We report the first data on the grave goods study, with a special focuson the “funerary” as social work investment. The correlations between the “grave goods”(such as social prestige values) and funerary structures can be established. The individual,double or triple characters of these burials imply social effort and sometimes involve aninvestment of community work. In the study of the necropolis, it has been observed that veryfew tombs have grave goods elements; this finding is of great interest because it confirmsthat incipient hierarchisation processes occurred in these Neolithic societies of South Iberia.We emphasise the analysis of so-called exotic products (amber, turquoise, variscite, silli-manite, etc.) as indicators of inequality, focusing on the correspondence between them andthe most monumental or complex structures.
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Las excavaciones realizadas en los años 2011 a 2013 en el barrio meridional de la ciudad hispanorromana de Baelo Claudia en la zona cercana al curso de la playa, junto a las recientemente descubiertas Termas Marítimas, han permitido la... more
Las excavaciones realizadas en los años 2011 a 2013 en el barrio meridional de la ciudad hispanorromana de Baelo Claudia en la zona cercana al curso de la playa, junto a las recientemente descubiertas Termas Marítimas, han permitido la documentación de niveles arqueológicos de época bajomedieval/moderna. Se trata de una fase de gran interés, ya que son mínimos los datos arqueológicos de estos momentos documentados en la ensenada de Bolonia, que fue objeto de ocupación muy puntual entre el abandono de la ciudad romana y época contemporánea. Se han recuperado monedas de Alfonso X (1252-1284) y de Enrique IV (1471-1474) -maravedíes y blancas respectivamente- junto a cerámicas de tradición islámica y cristiana, asociadas a varias fosas de expolio de estructuras precedentes, todo ello amortizado por un posible terremoto, según se desprende del traumático desplome
de unidades constructivas sobre la habitación H-2. Son muy frecuentes en estos niveles de ocupación los restos haliéuticos, tanto de ictiofauna como de malacología, lo que denota la importancia de la explotación de recursos marinos en estas fechas.
En el trabajo se presenta la problemática de los recursos marinos y los datos históricos relativos a las almadrabas en la zona de estudio en estas fechas, posiblemente causantes de la reactivación del poblamiento en la fértil ensenada tarifeña, una interesante y novedosa línea de investigación sobre la cual habrá que profundizar en el futuro. Se han identificado 19 especies distintas de malacofauna (6 bivalvos – Callista chione, Cerastoderma edule, Chamelea gallina, Glycymeris sp., Mytilus galloprovincialis, Mytilus sp.- y 13 gasterópodos -Charonia lampas, Cymbium olla, Cymbula nigra, Cymatium cutacea, Cymatium sp., Phorcus lineatus, Patella caerulea, Patella intermedia, Patella rustica, Patella ferruginea, Patella sp., Patella ulyssiponensis, Stramonita haemastoma), procedentes de diversos contextos estratigráficos.
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A study on the Late Roman shells coming from the Maritime Baths at Baelo Claudia
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Recent research on Late Medieval and Early Modern archaeological layers from Baelo Claudia related to marine resources exploitation
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Abstract: This paper presents a synthesis of the current state of knowledge of Neolithic tribal societies in the Cádiz area between the 6th and 4th millennia BC, including the transition of hunter-gatherer societies into the early... more
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This paper presents a synthesis of the current state of knowledge of Neolithic tribal societies in the Cádiz
area between the 6th and 4th millennia BC, including the transition of hunter-gatherer societies into the
early neolithisation. Towards this end, we discuss the most recent contributions in the study of catchment
of marine resources, megalith-building at the piedmonts of the mountains and long-distance distribution of
exotic products.
Abstract We expose in this paper a synthesis of the current knowledge of the Neolithic tribal societies on the Atlantic Coast of Cadiz province, SW Spain. We present their situation in the historical region of the Strait of Gibraltar... more
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We expose in this paper a synthesis of the current knowledge of the Neolithic tribal societies
on the Atlantic Coast of Cadiz province, SW Spain. We present their situation in the historical region
of the Strait of Gibraltar and provide the corresponding data to the exploitation of marine resources in
the Holocene, as fundamental basis of the ways of life. We hypothesize that the exploitation of salt was
important for food consumption and for product distribution processes. Salt could have been exploited
from the sea and from sources located within Triassic, Keuper materials. Moreover, it could have been
considered a valuable product among the exotic materials which entered in distribution networks -
variscite, quartz, sillimanite, talc, amber ...- and which were controlled by the social elite.
Excavators examining breccia deposits are faced with the prospect of extracting finds from a material akin to concrete. Nevertheless such deposits are sometimes the only witness of early Palaeolithic occupation. Our inventive authors... more
Excavators examining breccia deposits are
faced with the prospect of extracting finds
from a material akin to concrete. Nevertheless
such deposits are sometimes the only witness of
early Palaeolithic occupation. Our inventive
authors put aside the hammers, acids and
explosives of earlier days, and used quarry
techniques to cut the breccia into small
blocks, which they then freed from their finds
in the laboratory, using tools developed in
palaeontology. As a result, they gathered a huge
harvest of stone tools, bones and shells. It all
goes to show that archaeological excavation
is an exercise of infinite variety: to every
problem, its solution; to every terrain, its
method.
ABSTRACT: Archaeological excavations carried out by Professor M. Tarradell in the 50s of last century in the caves of Gar Cahal and Kaf That Gar (Northern Morocco), made with methods typical of the time, provide data of great interest to... more
ABSTRACT: Archaeological excavations carried out by Professor M. Tarradell in the 50s of last century in the caves of Gar Cahal and Kaf That Gar (Northern Morocco), made with methods typical of the time, provide data of great interest to understand the historical processes that occurred in northern Morocco from social formations hunter-gatherer to the initial class. The marine fauna of these sites, so far unpublished and deposited in the offices of the Archaeological Museum in Tetouan, has served to analyze the ways of life and mobility of these prehistoric social groups. We approach the analysis to approach the species collected both for consumption and for making ornaments, pendants. These data are framed in the context of the historical region of the Strait of Gibraltar, where today a team from the University of Cadiz has been developing several projects both in the shelter and cave Benzú (Ceuta) and the North African region.
From so-called Social Archaeology boarded an analysis of the exploitation of marine resources for hunter-gatherer-shellfish and tribal community mode social formations in the historic region of the Gibraltar Strait. His analysis brings us... more
From so-called Social Archaeology boarded an analysis of the exploitation of marine resources for hunter-gatherer-shellfish and tribal community mode social formations in the historic region of the Gibraltar Strait. His analysis brings us closer to the lifestyles and ways of working of the societies from the Medium Pleistocene to the Early Holocene of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. Advances in recent year’s research are showing archaeo-malacological results of great interest in this area, demonstrating the importance of fishing and shelling such as activities of great importance in the alimentary sustenance from societies linked to a technology of Mode III- Mousterian, to tribal groups, when real lifestyles of fishing and shellfish are defining.
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... explicadas extraordinariamente por F. Bate (1998), son las que expresan los distintos niveles de ... geográfica durantes esta etapa fueron (Rodríguez Vidal et alii, 2002): msnm ei Ka. ... por hasta “2 m. de arenas masivas de color amarillento, levemente laminadas, que a techo se ...
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Se ofrece una síntesis del estado actual del conocimiento de las sociedades tribales neolíticas en la zona de Cádiz entre el VI y el IV milenios ANE, incluyendo la transición de las sociedades cazadoras-recolectoras a los inicios de la... more
Se ofrece una síntesis del estado actual del conocimiento de las sociedades tribales neolíticas en la zona de Cádiz entre el VI y el IV milenios ANE, incluyendo la transición de las sociedades cazadoras-recolectoras a los inicios de la neolitización. En este sentido, se presentan las últimas aportaciones sobre la captación de recursos marinos, los asentamientos en el entorno litoral, la construcción de dólmenes en el piedemonte de la sierra y de la distribución de productos exóticos a larga distancia.

This paper presents a synthesis of the current state of knowledge of Neolithic tribal societies in the Cádiz area between the 6th and 4th millennia BC, including the transition of hunter-gatherer societies into the early neolithisation. Towards this end, we discuss the most recent contributions in the study of catchment of marine resources, megalith-building at the piedmonts of the mountains and long-distance distribution of exotic products.
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Résumé Nous présentons des résultats obtenues après un examen des matériaux archéologiques provenant des fouilles faites par l’archéologue M. Tarradell en 1954 dans la grotte de Gar Cahal (nord du Maroc). Nous avons analysé les... more
Résumé
Nous présentons des résultats obtenues après un examen des matériaux archéologiques provenant
des fouilles faites par l’archéologue M. Tarradell en 1954 dans la grotte de Gar Cahal
(nord du Maroc). Nous avons analysé les produits archéologiques (industrie de la pierre taillée
et polie, de la céramique, la faune et autres organismes marins) à partir de les derniers
chasseurs cueilleurs, aux formations sociales tribales et les sociétés de la Préhistoire Récente.
Aussi, on compare ce site avec le reste des sites archéologiques existants dans la Péninsule
Tingitane de ces chronologies insistant sur le contexte historique et géologique de la région.
Mots clés : Péninsule Tingitane, Gar Cahal, patrimoine historique, carte archéologique,
matières premières.
← Miguel Tarradell
(Padró et alii, 1993: “El
profesor Miquel Tarradell
i Mateu”, Estudis
Universitaris Catalans
XXIX, Homenatge a
Miquel Tarradell,
Barcelona, pp. I-VII)
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ABSTRACT A multidisciplinary group of researchers from the University of Cadiz (Spain), University of Abdelmalek Esaadi, Ministry of Culture of the Region Tangier-Tetouan and the INSAP from Rabat (Morocco) has developed the re-search... more
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A multidisciplinary group of researchers from the University of Cadiz
(Spain), University of Abdelmalek Esaadi, Ministry of Culture of the Region
Tangier-Tetouan and the INSAP from Rabat (Morocco) has developed the re-search project titled: “Archaeological Chart of Northern Morocco”. We have
carried out four campaigns of archaeological survey and excavations at El
Hafa Cave and the Shelter of Marsa. We have also analysed the archaeological
remains deposited at the Museum of Tetouan from Miguel Tarradell´s excavations.
In this work we offer a general view about geoarchaeological contexts,
settlement patterns, raw material studies, mobility processes and resource
types of the Palaeolithic hunter-fisher-gatherers and Neolithic tribal societies.
ABSTRACT The rock-shelter of Benzú is located near the city of Ceuta in North Africa. The Benzú rock-shelter contains a sequence of 7 archaeological levels, which are associated with a clearly defined Mode 3 lithic technology. The... more
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The rock-shelter of Benzú is located near the city of Ceuta in North
Africa. The Benzú rock-shelter contains a sequence of 7 archaeological levels,
which are associated with a clearly defined Mode 3 lithic technology.
The similarities with other assemblages found in the south of the Iberian
Peninsula are clear. We must also emphasise the exploitation of marine resources
by these hunter-gatherer societies from the beginning of the Middle
Pleistocene sequence. On the basis of this archaeological evidence and in the context of recent studies on North Africa, this work assesses the
possible relationships and contacts between societies on both shores of the
historical region of the Straits of Gibraltar.
Some data of the digs carried out in Baelo Claudia in 2005-2009 area shown, focused in the Eastern Wall and the Late Roman necropolis
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A synthesis of the historical results of the research project "Archaeological mapping of Northern morocco (2008-2012)" are shown in this paper
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The inventory and detailed information of the 204 archaeological sites & 62 isolated findings discovered or studied during the "Archaeological Mapping of Northern Morocco project (2008-2012)"
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El Ayuntamiento de Algeciras y la Universidad de Cádiz están desarrollando de manera conjunta el Proyecto General de Investigación "De Iulia Traducta a al-Bunayya. Topografía y evolución urbana de Algeciras entre época romana y... more
El Ayuntamiento de Algeciras y la Universidad de Cádiz están desarrollando de manera conjunta el Proyecto General de Investigación "De Iulia Traducta a al-Bunayya. Topografía y evolución urbana de Algeciras entre época romana y bajomedieval (ss. I a.C.-XIV d.C.)", aprobado por la Consejería de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucía. Como parte del mismo figura el estudio exhaustivo del barrio pesquero-conservero de la ciudad romana, ubicada bajo la actual Villa Vieja de Algeciras.
En este trabajo se presentan los resultados del estudio arqueomalacológico de una intervención arqueológica realizada en el Parque de las Acacias durante el año 2015, la cual permitió exhumar parte de una de las fábricas de salazón del barrio industrial de Iulia Traducta, con contextos diversos fechados entre momentos avanzados del s. II e inicios del s. V d.C., bien fechados estratigráficamente, y con un amplio registro cerámico y numismático.
Entre los diversos taxones de bivalvos y gasterópodos marinos destaca la elevada presencia de “corrucos” (Acanthocardia tuberculata), un tipo de bivalvo de gran tamaño que cuenta con un sistema de extracción singular, caracterizado por una perforación en una de las valvas. Abundan las ostras (Ostrea edulis) y los patélidos, y se ha documentado un posible buccinum realizado sobre una caracola con el ápice intencionalmente fracturado (Charonia lampas).
El principal interés de este trabajo radica en comprobar la evolución de la explotación de los recursos malacológicos en un área de producción especializada en la economía marítima durante un período prolongado, y la confirmación del empleo de estos alimentos en la fabricación de conservas marinas, ya que se han documentado como restos desechados en estratos deposicionales en estas fábricas de producción pesquero-conservera, sumándose a los hallazgos ya conocidos de las cercanas cetariae  de la c/ San Nicolás de Algeciras.
First results of the archaeological and archaeometric research conducted on the Punic and Roman mortars of ancient Cadiz Bay. Some of the, used to build cisterns and other types of vats, had exceptional features such as adding smashed... more
First results of the archaeological and archaeometric research conducted on the Punic and Roman mortars of ancient Cadiz Bay. Some of the, used to build cisterns and other types of vats, had exceptional features such as adding smashed seashells to the mixture.
Recent (2012, 2015, 2016) archaeological digs in the so called Cueva de Enrique at Ceuta have unearthed new information about the Prehistorical & Modern-Contemporary occupation of this so important area in the Circle of the Strait of... more
Recent (2012, 2015, 2016) archaeological digs in the so called Cueva de Enrique at Ceuta have unearthed new information about the Prehistorical & Modern-Contemporary occupation of this so important area in the Circle of the Strait of Gibraltar region
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