En abril de 2021 se localizó y rescató mediante una pequeña intervención arqueológica de emergencia financiada por la Consejería de Cultura del Principado de Asturias, el que hasta el momento ...constituye el mayor tesorillo romano en cueva del norte de España. Se trata de un conjunto de 209 piezas entre los siglos III y V d.C., la gran mayoría, depositadas de forma secundaria en un sumidero natural. Proponemos un momento de la tesaurización a partir de mediados del siglo V d.C., en consonancia con otros hallazgos vecinos como el de cueva Chapipi, que bien podrían estar en relación, con el momento de inestabilidad política que supone, o bien la expansión sueva hacia el interior del territorio astur-romano, o bien la propia transición al génesis del reino de Asturias. Estas primeras hipótesis generales, a falta de otros datos cronológicos que esperamos obtener en las próximas excavaciones, son producto de disponer únicamente del tesorillo como indicador cronológico, un fósil director poco fiable por la extensa perduración de la moneda de bronce bajoimperial.
Since 2013, the University of Cagliari has been operating in the sector of the Punic-Roman city of Nora, formerly occupied by a Navy base. The investigations allowed to bring to light a sector ...characterized by the presence of a large space paved with andesite blocks and marked by the presence of monumental and decorative structures connected with the use of water. Among these, here is analyzed an exedra structure, whose study and relief is accompanied by a processing of a digital model performed through the use of photogrammetric software. Riassunto: Dal 2013 l’Università di Cagliari opera nel settore della città punico-romana di Nora occupato in passato da una base della Marina Militare. Le indagini hanno permesso di portare alla luce un settore caratterizzato dalla presenza di un ampio spazio pavimentato con basoli di andesite e segnato dalla presenza di strutture monumentali e decorative connesse con l’acqua. Tra queste, ne viene qui analizzata una conformata a esedra, il cui studio e rilievo è corredato da una elaborazione di un modello digitale eseguito attraverso l’uso di software fotogrammetrico.
During two campaigns in 1997 and 1999, archaeologists from Esbjerg Museum excavated a spectacular Late Roman Iron Age weapon burial at Veldbæk in Esbjerg, Denmark. In addition to full weaponry, the ...deceased was buried with magnificent grave goods such as gilded fittings for a military belt, gaming pieces, a gold finger ring, a silver animal fibula, a red carnelian intaglio, and a copper-alloy-clad wooden bucket. The assemblage dates the grave to the transition between periods C1b and C2 of the Late Roman Iron Age, which is to say ca. AD 250 or shortly thereafter. The grave is a crucial new piece in the puzzle to understand how power was distributed in southern Jutland during the Late Roman Iron Age.
During two campaigns in 1997 and 1999, archaeologists from Esbjerg Museum excavated a spectacular Late Roman Iron Age weapon burial at Veldbæk in Esbjerg, Denmark. In addition to full weaponry, the ...deceased was buried with magnificent grave goods such as gilded fittings for a military belt, gaming pieces, a gold finger ring, a silver animal fibula, a red carnelian intaglio, and a copper-alloy-clad wooden bucket. The assemblage dates the grave to the transition between periods C1b and C2 of the Late Roman Iron Age, which is to say ca. AD 250 or shortly thereafter. The grave is a crucial new piece in the puzzle to understand how power was distributed in southern Jutland during the Late Roman Iron Age.
•Archaeobotanical data are used to investigate cereal cultivation practices of the Italian peninsula during the first millennium CE.•Non-parametric multivariate statistics are used to compare ...archaeobotanical samples from northern and southern Italy.•Northern Italy has a wider range of cereals cultivated during the early medieval period than southern Italy.
This study investigates the cereal farming practices of the Italian peninsula during the first millennium CE, with a particular focus on the Early Middle Ages. Using non-parametric multivariate statistics and a dimensionality reduction algorithm (PERMANOVA; nMDS), this research presents and compares 177 archaeobotanical caryopses assemblages from three areas of Italy. The results showed that differences in cereal farming practices between Northern and Southern Italy were not statistically significant during the Roman period, but became significant during the early medieval period. The research suggests that after the collapse of the Roman Empire, northern peasants had more autonomy in selecting their crops, while southern farmers were more resistant to change. These findings challenge the prevailing assumption that early medieval peasants across the entire peninsula uniformly adopted cereal crops like millets and rye. Overall, the study sheds new light on the diversity of cereal farming practices in early medieval Italy and presents a comprehensive collection of cereal macroremains from mainland Italy.
Nemeske still belongs to the sparsely researched area of Baranya County. Here during plowing human bones came to light. Archaeologists of the Janus Pannonius Museum conducted a rescue excavation and ...an instrumental survey, too. During the excavation three Árpádian period tombs were found. In surway trenches traces of several demolished Roman walls were observed. The most interesting find is a bronze plate depicting an armed rider, a lion and an altar.
This paper has been composed as the second in a series on the archaeological research undertaken in 2008 and 2018– 2020 at the large (Reformed) church of Aiud Fortress. The first study of the series ...has consisted of a brief presentation of the main data collected inside the monument. This second study presents even more briefly the main data collected outside the monument, as they appeared in more convoluted and fragmentary contexts. These excavations have established the main stratigraphic sequence of this area of Aiud Fortress as consisting of Roman age habitation in mortarless structures, followed by a hiatus, then by an early‑second‑millennium settlement, with at least two phases, which similarly made use only of mortarless structures. Despite its long existence, and even though sources infer the existence of local priests in the 13th century, there is no solid ground to contest, based on archaeological data, the traditional ascription of the small church (erected 1333– 1334, demolished and rebuilt 1865– 1866) as the beginning of religious masonry building at Aiud – and likely of the present‑day religious site. Nevertheless, the development of the large church of the fortress remains uncertain. Research conducted inside the current building has revealed that it was preceded by a smaller, yet still Gothic, church. Research conducted outside the building helped establish that the eastern part of the church was build first, in several phases, and only afterward was the body of the church also expanded. However, the western parts of the current structure show obvious signs of rebuilding, and dismantled structures indicate that the tower was not initially part of the extended planimetry. Due to the partial nature of the investigation, archaeology cannot yet establish the succession of the construction phases involved, or what they exactly involved, nor can it help in solving the questions raised by the varied modifications noticeable in the aboveground structure. While most late‑ and post‑medieval results presented below relate to the large church, they also include data about the small one, about a series of built structures identified in the area between the two churches and west of the large one, and about the overall development of the site, severely marked by arson and destruction in the early 18th century. The graveyard and materials are only mentioned, and not discussed, as they’ll be the subject of following papers
In 106 A.D. the kingdom of Decebalus was conquered by the roman emperor Trajan and upon its ruins was created the Roman province of Dacia. In about one century and a half the newly created province ...was so deeply transformed, that when Dacia was abandoned by the Roman administration around 275 A.D., the material culture dominating this area was the Roman one. These transformations are well illustrated by two Roman sites located several kilometres northwest of the junction between the Arieș and Mureș Rivers, namely the town of Potaissa and the legionary fortress of Legio V Macedonica. In the area where these two sites are located, only a small indigenous settlement is presumed to have existed prior to the Roman conquest. Nonetheless, at the end of the second century A.D., both the town of Potaissa, and the legionary fortress reached their peak, making this area of the highest importance for Roman Dacia. For this reason, these two sites were intensely investigated by the scholars over the last decades. As testimony to the intense processes of colonisation, urbanisation and Romanisation undertook in Dacia until the last quarter of the third century also stands the high number of settlements which developed during the Roman period around Potaissa. Most of these settlements are located to the south and west of the present municipality of Turda, towards Cheia, Săndulești and Copăceni villages, but there are also some settlements to the north and east. In the eastern side of the territory of Turda municipality the literature mentions three archaeological sites in the areas known as “Valea Sărată”, “Izvorul Sf. Ioan”, and “Valea Florilor”. In contrast with Potaissa and the legionary fortress of Legio V Macedonica the large majority of the numerous settlements which developed around the abovementioned town and fortress were investigated to a much lower degree. In the current state of research are lacking essential data about these settlements, as for example: their exact locations, dimensions and archaeological inventories. To improve the current state of research it is necessary to sum up the information from the literature, to conduct new field surveys in this area and to create accurate maps with all the sites and discoveries. These are the goals of a project that started a couple of years ago and envisaged all Roman-Era sites around Potaissa. Starting with 2019 the results of this project have been published in a series of studies, the present study, dealing with the Roman age sites located in the eastern side of Turda municipality, belonging to this series.
Archaeobotanical analyses (mainly on seeds and fruits – over 1000 l of sieved material with unpublished data) from three urban sites (2nd cent. BC – 2nd cent. AD) provided interesting ethnobotanical ...information about a Roman colony, Mutina (Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy), founded in 183 BC.
In this paper, comparisons are made between productive areas, landfills and one site that shows the evolution of a rich domus. The information obtained concerns the environment in which the town was born and developed, but especially plant-man relationships (food, crafts, green décor etc.) in a thriving Roman colony in Northern Italy.
A good example is provided by analyses carried out in a tank, where the recovery of some archaeozoological finds indicates that it was used for fish farming; this hypothesis is supported by some particular vegetal findings.
The objective of this research is to reconstruct the recent Holocene history of Cupressus sempervirens from the Bronze to the Roman Age in Italy. Our work consisted both in a review of published data ...and in the identification of novel archaeobotanical remains stored in the deposits of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. The literature permitted to collect information linked to different plant remain typologies of the Italian cypress; 362 botanical remains were counted, of which 292 were from the Vesuvian area and 70 from other archaeological sites of the central and western Mediterranean. Data chronology spans from the second century BC to the AD fifth century for the archaeological area of ancient Campania and from the 14th century BC to the AD fourth century for the sites located in different regions. It is clear that the ‘cypress culture’ is confirmed by the archaeobotanical data found in the Roman world. Romans especially appreciated its timber but cypress was also used for many other purposes. Furthermore, the employment of timber for wells was documented in pre-Roman sites and the presence of fruits/seeds in central Italy confirms its importance also in the Bronze Age.
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