Santa Susana Archaeological Project 2016

Ziridava, 2024

The 2024 excavation of this Late Bronze Age barrow targeted the first sector (SIIA) of its northern half. There was no post-construction intervention identified on the funerary monument. The base of the barrow displayed the same pattern as the southern half, with a few minor differences. The segment of Fence 1 uncovered in SIIA excavation unit reveals two phases of construction, the latter of which was continued to the south. Two cremation depositions were recorded in the northern area of the excavation unit (C.79 - in layer deposition and C.80 – in layer and alveola deposition). Based on the stratigraphic evidence, we can argue that C.79 was placed later than C.80. Having demonstrated that the C.80 feature was contemporary with the ash layers belonging to Structure 1 of the southern half of the barrow, it was possible to conclude that C.79 represents an intermediate stage between phases IIa and IIb as defined on the stratigraphic matrix developed for the prehistoric funerary monument.

Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras, 2022

Julio Martínez Santa-Olalla (1905-1972), the Spanish Commissioner General of Archaeological Excavations (1939-1956) and acting Full Professor of Primitive History of Man at the University of Madrid (1939-1954), was an amateur archaeologist since he was very young. After studying at the universities of Madrid, Barcelona and Valladolid (1923-26), Santa-Olalla obtained a position as a lecturer at the University of Bonn (Germany) between 1927 and 1931. He defended his doctoral thesis in Spain (1932) and became Hugo Obermaier’s assistant (1931-32), Assistant Professor (1932-36), secretary of the Spanish Society of Anthropology, Ethnography and Prehistory (1935) and Full Professor of Archaeology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (1936). This enabled him to join the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists in 1934 and the Portuguese Society of Anthropology and Ethnology in 1938. In 1944, 1945 and 1947 he visited Portugal, lecturing in Lisbon, Coimbra and Oporto, but was unable to undertake other trips planned for 1945 and 1948. His correspondence shows that he maintained relations with the leading Portuguese archaeologists of the time, although he kept a more distant relationship with Veiga Ferreira. He had a special interest in the Chalcolithic and Late Bronze Age phases of Portuguese archaeology. Keywords : History of Archaeology, Iberian Peninsula, Martínez Santa-Olalla, Mário Cardozo, A. A. Mendes Corrêa, Eugénio Jalhay, Afonso do Paço,J. R. dos Santos Júnior, Virgínia Rau, Abel Viana, O. da Veiga Ferreira, Vila Nova de São Pedro

Neuro Quantology, 2022

This is an informative synthesis of what, from May 2006 to January 2019, was done and achieved within and with the Samarina Archaeological Project (PAS) of the Santa Elena Peninsula State University (UPSE). Its importance lies in demonstrating what a Public University (State) with a small budget can achieve when it is proposed, thanks to the awareness and commitment of its authorities to the identity, memory and cultural heritage (local, regional and state), as well as what happens otherwise. This article aims not only to show the scientific nature of the study but also the high possibilities of interweaving with the environment, particularly with local governments and communities, for the sake of the common good, interests and heritage. This article aims to make visible and draw attention to the processes developed, which more than once have been hindered by a series of situations that today have it practically in a state of risk and abandonment. For this, methodologically, we have resorted to the review of archives and the experiential synthesis of the direct actors of this project.

SPAL, 2024

This paper discusses the archaeological research and historical contextualisation of the Alto da Raia enclosure located on the border between northern Portugal and Galicia, identified as a possible Roman camp, following an interdisciplinary and multi-proxy approach. This included archaeological excavation, remote sensing and geophysical survey, as well as sample collection for archaeobotanical and geochemical studies by means of chemical and mineralogical analyses and absolute dating using radiocarbon and luminescence protocols. The results seem to indicate that this site was a Roman camp probably built and occupied between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, when major changes occurred in Northwest Iberia driven by the expansion of the Roman State. The camp overlaps with previous prehistoric occupations possibly dating back to the Bronze Age and Iron Age.

SPAL, 2024

Roman-indigenous interaction in the Salas River valley (Northwest Iberia): the Roman camp of Alto da Raia and its archaeological landscape João Fonte et al.

Álvarez Tortosa, J.F.; Catalán González, F.J.; Mateo Corredor, D.; Ruiz Barroso, M.; Molina Vidal, J. 2022: Non-Invasive Archaeological Methodologies for the Analysis of the Port Structures of Portus Ilicitanus (Santa Pola, Alicante). Land 11, 2159. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11122159, 2022

The traditional identification of the ancient port of Ilici with the current town of Santa Pola in Alicante (Spain) has been based on a small number of punctual, unconnected, and too partial archaeological interventions. Since 2017, a program of geophysical surveys has been performed with a Stream X model multi-channel georadar IDS. This program has been focused mainly on the so-called Mercado de Viguetes, an area in which archaeological excavations have hardly been carried out. The geophysical surveys have allowed us to draw part of the urban fabric of the central core of the Portus Ilicitanus, revealing a set of structures that can be assimilated into a port area: warehouses, houses, open spaces, and decantation basins to produce salted fish, and the probable eastern boundary of the complex identified with the port dock. Altogether, two predominant alignments can be assimilated into the Early Imperial and Late Imperial construction phases. Non-invasive archaeological methodologies have become the main resource for archaeological analysis and heritage protection in view of the current impossibility of carrying out archaeological excavations in this area of Santa Pola.

Estrat Critic Revista D Arqueologia, 2011

is officially founded, in the city of Porto, becoming the 6th convent belonging to the order of Saint John Evangelist in Portugal. Although relatively small, it soon became one of the most important convents of this order in Portugal, having gone through some stages of renovation to increase its dimensions. By the year 1788 it is already considered one of the wealthiest convents of the city. A few years after the Liberal Revolution, it is demolished and the sold area was turned into a Palace. The convent was located in the Largo das Cardosas in downtown Porto, an area which is being object of a rehabilitation project that aims to promote residence and tourism through the renovation and construction of new facilities. A Preliminary report was done during the exhumation of the remains, based solely on the skeletal material removed from the ossuaries and coffins. The site held evidence of Christian burial practice with multiple reuse of the graves, and the materials recovered placed made possible to place the site in a 18th century timeline.

Congreso Internacional Las villas romanas Bajoimperiales de Hispania – Actas, Palencia, 15-17 Noviembre 2018, 2020

The development of large, Roman-style villae have been seen as powerful illustrations of the consolidation of Roman administrative and economic control, even in supposed backwater territories in far- flung areas of the Roman Empire. Their demise, moreover, sheds light on the collapse of Roman con- trol and the appearance of new social realities. In this paper, we approach these research questions from the point of view of a new landscape archaeology project launched in 2018, researching North Alentejo (Portu- gal) from the Roman conquest to the Late Roman Em- pire. Our research, still work in progress, deploys non-destructive methods such as archaeological sur- vey, landscape photogrammetric reconstruction, ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys and several excavation campaigns. Here, we preliminarily discuss the examples of Horta da Torre and Monte de São Francisco to illustrate the situation in this rural area in the Late Roman period.

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State, 1976

2017

The third and final excavation season at Stabiae of the Advanced Program of Ancient History and Art (APAHA) in 2014 in-tended to reach a better understanding of the architectural development of the Villa San Marco. To that end, two trenches were excavated. The first was located in a small, enclosed garden (viridarium) close to the atrium, suggested to be the Villa’s original core. This room is one of only a handful where two different architectural alignments meet (that of the Villa’s main part and that of its bathing complex) and where it is possible to excavate without removing mosaic flooring. In the adjacent architecture, signs of restructuring are visible, suggesting alterations to the arrangement of rooms. Those alterations notwithstanding, the results of the excavations showed that little rebuilding had occurred in this part of the Villa, except for a change to a system of drains related to a wall alteration. The second trench was located just north of the threshold of the Vi...