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Leandro Fantuzzi currently works at the University of Barcelona (Spain). Leandro does research in Archaeology, Cultural History, Archaeometry, Pottery Studies, and Classical Archaeology.
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The kiln site of Los Matagallares (Salobreña, Granada, Spain) is one of the most important pottery production sites of the Roman period in southern Iberia, particularly for the third century AD. The workshop produced a wide variety of ceramics, but focused on the manufacture of amphorae for the long-distance trade of local/regional fish products, w...
A study of a 2nd century AD assemblage of handmade/slow wheel-made cooking wares, found at the Roman settlement of Tamuda (Tetouan, Morocco) is presented. Such ceramics are rare in Early-Middle Roman Imperial contexts of the western Mediterranean. A combined typological and archaeometric approach – including petrographic, mineralogical, and chemica...
Between 2019 and 2022, the complete excavation of the cargo of the late Roman wreck of Ses Fontanelles (Palma de Mallorca, 4th century A.D.) was carried out. It has allowed the complete preservation of the vessel and a cargo made up of 300 amphorae circa, with their original palaeocontents, still sealed and with the opercula in situ. In addition, t...
This contribution presents the preliminary findings of wine amphorae recovered from two tabernæ in the forum of the Roman city of Pollentia, situated in Alcúdia, Mallorca. These tabernæ were destroyed by a fire in the second half of the 3rd century AD, leading to the devastation of various sectors of the city. Remarkably, the fire acted as a seal,...
Between 2014 and 2019, a research project has been carried out in the Hellenistic city of Tamuda (Tetouan). A generalised level of abandonment has been documented in the Eastern Quarter (80s BC), with a multitude of complete amphorae, both imported and of local-regional production (Western Mauritanian I-IV). The archaeometric study (GC/MS) has veri...
The kiln site of Los Matagallares (Salobreña, Granada, Spain) is one of the most important pottery production sites of the Roman period in southern Iberia, particularly for the 3rd century AD. The workshop produced a wide variety of ceramics, but focused on the manufacture of amphorae for the long-distance trade of local/regional fish products, win...
En este artículo se presenta una síntesis de un reciente proyecto de investigación centrado en el estudio arqueométrico del conjunto de ánforas púnicas halladas en el denominado Punic Amphora Building (PAB) de Corinto, excavado en la década de 1970 por la American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Este conjunto de ánforas púnicas occidentales...
Recent archaeological excavations in Málaga city, in southern Spain, uncovered a Late Punic pottery workshop (2nd-1st c. BC) in association with a large assemblage of red-slip tablewares ascribed to the so-called ‘Kuass ware’. These wares, which were very widespread in the Western Punic world, are known to have been produced mainly in the area of C...
The Ergasteria project. Experimental and Virtual Archaeology for the study of the production processes and trading of amphoras during Protohistory, gathers the results of a long research career on pottery workshops and typologies of contain- ers from Southwestern Iberia, both in the coast (Bay of Cadiz) and the Lower Guadalquivir hinterland. It con...
Se presentan los primeros resultados de un reciente proyecto de investigación focalizado en el estudio arqueométrico de las producciones anfóricas de algunos centros alfareros en el litoral del conventus Gaditanus. Por una parte, se llevó a cabo la caracterización composicional de ánforas de tres alfares romanos localizados en diferentes sectores d...
En esta contribución se presenta una primera aproximación al cargamento del pecio tardorromano de Ses Fontanelles hallado recientemente en la isla de Mallorca (islas Baleares, España). Una primera campaña de excavaciones realizada en 2019 permitió obtener una muestra significativa de los materiales que transportaba la embarcación. El estudio tipoló...
Se presenta una primera valoración de un contexto cerámico inédito procedente de la actividad arqueológica preventiva realizada en una de las arterias viarias principales de la norteafricana ciudad de Ceuta (Parcela 7 de la c/ Gran Vía), que ha deparado una interesante secuencia deposicional fechada a inicios del siglo VII (600 d. C. circa). Se tra...
En esta contribución se da a conocer un conjunto inédito de ánforas procedentes de la Domus Aterrazada de la ciudad romana de Ercavica, (Cañaveruelas, Cuenca). El estudio del conjunto de envases de transporte hallado permite identificarlos como ánforas vinarias de tipo Dressel 2 evolucionadas, cuya producción puede adscribirse a los siglos II y III...
Un inesperado hallazgo en la playa de Palma en Mallorca en 2019 ha permitido la localización, excavación y estudio arqueológico y arqueométrico, aún en curso, de un pecio en un excepcional estado de conservación, fechado en momentos muy avanzados del siglo IV d. C. Se corresponde con una pequeña embarcación (13 x 5 m circa) con un cargamento mixto...
The paper presents the results of an interim analytical approach to the Late Roman shipwreck of Ses Fontanelles recently found in the island of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). The excellent state of preservation of the hull and the cargo, including amphorae with painted inscriptions (tituli picti), and its location in shallow waters offshore of...
The paper presents the results of an interim analytical approach to the Late Roman shipwreck of Ses Fontanelles recently found in the island of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). The excellent state of preservation of the hull and the cargo, including amphorae with painted inscriptions (tituli picti), and its location in shallow waters offshore of...
Tarraco was the ancient capital of Hispania Tarraconensis, a Roman province in the Western Mediterranean. It was a strategic enclave and one of the most important ports during the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. The archaeological record of the city shows a variety of imported products arrived from several regions including a significant amount of...
En este trabajo, presentamos un estudio completo, que incluye diferentes perspectivas de análisis, de una de las formas cerámicas más atípicas del conjunto material de la Edad del Hierro del noroeste peninsular: los vasos cilíndricos. Estas piezas, en sus diferentes formatos, son un tipo cerámico propio de la cuenca media y/o inferior del río Miño,...
This contribution offers a study of one of the most particular ceramic forms found in the material culture of the Iron Age of the northwestern Iberian Peninsula: the cylindrical vessels. These objects, in their different formats, are typical of the middle and/or lower basin of the Miño River, found in contexts between the mid-1st century BC and mid...
En: Ex Officina Hispana. Boletín de la SECAH, 13: 72-76.
Recientemente se ha retomado el estudio de la villa maritima romana y de la problemática arqueológica del Cabo Trafalgar, el antiguo Promontorium Iunonis (Barbate, Cádiz), con el objetivo fundamental de caracterizar su piscina de acuicultura, única hasta la fecha en Baetica. Se presenta en este trabajo un avance de la campaña de marzo de 2021, que...
Cooking and common wares presumably produced regionally are frequent in archaeological context of Late Antique rural sites in northeastern Spain. 142 of these wares from four settlements in the region of Vallès, in the surroundings of the ancient city of Barcino/Barcelona, were characterized through a combination of instrumental analytical techniqu...
In previous studies, the Reference Group (RG) for common wares produced in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD at the kiln found at the Roman rural site of Sa Mesquida (western Mallorca) was established. Recent excavations have revealed that the Roman villa was founded at the beginning of the Augustan period or slightly earlier and that some ceramics foun...
We present the study of a ceramic assemblage from the outer area -the so-called Eastern Mauritanian Quarter- of the Tamuda military camp (Tetouan, Morocco), located in the northern limes of the Mauretania Tingitana. The ceramic materials formed part of the infilling of a pit linked to a large Roman building, dated to the first quarter of the 5th AD...
En este trabajo se realiza una valorización diacrónica de las evidencias arqueológicas existentes en el cabo de Trafalgar desde una doble vertiente. En primer lugar, se realiza un recorrido historiográfico por los principales hitos de la investigación mientras que en segundo lugar se enumeran cada una de las fases de ocupación documentadas, caracte...
EN: During the archaeological excavation carried out in the summer of 2020 in the so-called "Bastion of the Flag" of the ancient Byzantine city of Septem (modern Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta), on the North African coast of the Strait of Gibraltar, a follis coined by Emperor Phocas (602-610) has been found, which is the first example of Byzantine numera...
The so-called Early Roman Ware 1, identified by P. Reynolds in the Alicante region, was widely distributed in the eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula. The presence of this ware in Elche (Alicante) and Valencia opened the possibility that it was widely distributed across the region. Indeed, it has been considered as a possible regional product of...
Absolute past geomagnetic intensity values can mainly be recovered by fired archaeological materials and volcanic rocks. Here, we present 10 new archeointensities from the Mediterranean region that help to better constrain geomagnetic field intensity changes in Europe over the last two millennia. The new archeointensity results were obtained from t...
En: Ex Officina Hispana. Boletín de la SECAH, 12: 80-84.
The Roman city of Pollentia was founded in 123 BCE in the northern part of the island of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). The city developed through the Republican and Imperial periods. At the end of the third century CE, a large fire destroyed parts of the city, although it survived through the Vandal and the Byzantine periods. At the beginning...
Bluefin tuna fishing in the Strait of Gibraltar was a major economic resource in Antiquity, and at certain times its by-products (salted fish and sauces such as garum) were in great demand in the Mediterranean world at the time, especially among the "gourmets" of the social elites of Classical Greece. An international project promoted by the Univer...
En: Ex Officina Hispana. Boletín de la SECAH, 11: 32-35.
En Ex Officina Hispana. Boletín de la SECAH, 11: 20-24.
The Punic Amphora Building (PAB) at Corinth, Greece, excavated in the late 1970s and dated to the mid-5th century BC, provided a remarkable archaeological context for the study of trade connections between Classical Corinth and the Punic West, based on the finding of hundreds of Punic amphorae and associated fish remains. The first studies indicate...
This paper presents an archaeometric analysis of utilitarian ceramics from a Late Antique rural site in the area of Vallès (Catalonia, Spain), with the aim of investigating their provenance and shedding light on some aspects of their production technology. A total of 55 samples of cooking and common wares were analyzed using a combination of instru...
Amphorae from Palestine, Turkey, the Aegean and other areas of the eastern Mediterranean are frequently documented in Late Antique
archaeological contexts in northeastern Spain, in relation to the transport of wine and other products. In order to gain further information on their compositional variability, provenance and production technology, a se...
Diversos contextos cerámicos recuperados en las excavaciones de L’Horta Vella (Bétera, Valencia) han proporcionado evidencias sobre la ocupación de este asentamiento rural en la Antigüedad Tardía. En este artículo, se presenta un estudio arqueométrico realizado sobre parte de este conjunto cerámico, en particular sobre una serie de cerámicas de coc...
This paper presents a scientific analysis of Late Roman amphorae from four kiln sites located in the Guadalquivir river basin: Azanaque-Castillejo (AZ), Isla de la Barqueta (IB), Las Monjas-Soto del Rey (SR), and Picachos (PIC). This region was a significant producer and exporter of oil in the Roman Empire and also during the Late Roman period. The...
This paper proposes a typological classification of the amphorae that appeared in Mauritanian contexts of the archaeological site of Tamuda (Tetouan, Morocco), and performs an analysis of their production and role in the amphoric production of Western Mauritania.
En este trabajo, se presenta una síntesis de los resultados de un estudio arqueométrico realizado sobre un conjunto de ánforas béticas tardorromanas halladas en una serie de contextos arqueológicos del nordeste de la península ibérica, en el litoral del actual territorio catalán. Se seleccionaron para su análisis contenedores relacionados con los p...
This contribution presents the results of the archaeometric characterization of Late Roman pottery from the city of Valencia (Spain). The ceramic samples, including common wares, amphorae, and cooking wares, have been characterized using WD-X-ray fluorescence for the chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction for the mineralogical study, and optical micr...
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This paper examines indigenous ceramic production at the Iron Age site of Son Ferrer in Western Mallorca in the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean) through archaeometric characterization using chemical and mineropetrographic techniques. Results show an important shift in ceramic production thr...
This paper presents the results of an archaeometric characterization of Late Roman Pottery from a rural site on the island of Eivissa (Balearic Islands, Spain). The ceramic samples, including common wares, amphorae and cooking wares, have been analysed using X-ray fluorescence for the chemical characterization, optical microscopy by thin-section an...
A large number of transport amphorae coming from various Late Antique archaeological contexts in Mataró (Catalonia, Spain) have been analysed, in order to characterise the materials, investigate the diversity of fabrics and shed light on their provenance. A total of 96 individuals were subjected to petrographic (OM), chemical (XRF) and mineralogica...
In this paper, the results of the archaeometric study of an assemblage of Late Roman amphorae, found in several contexts from the ancient city of Iluro (Mataró, Catalonia, Spain) and with a presumable origin in Roman Africa, is presented. A total of 57 samples have been analysed, by means of optical microscopy (thin-section analysis), X-ray fluores...
This paper presents the results of an inorganic and organic approach to Roman amphorae found at the rural Roman site of Sa Mesquida (Mallorca). A set of amphorae were discovered in some rooms of the earlier phases of the villa. These amphorae were assigned to a general Tarraconensian and Italic provenance on a macroscopic level. In order to verify...
Excavations carried out by the Superintendency of Ostia between 1998 and 2002 in the area of the railway station of Ostia Antica have brought to light a series of funerary structures, dwellings and a circular trench, the sides of which were lined with a double wall of amphorae. The remains of a wooden waterwheel were found on the bottom of the tren...
http://amphorae.icac.cat/amphora/dressel-23-baetica-coast
Baetican amphorae of the type Dressel 23 found in Late Roman consumption centres from the northeastern Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands were archaeometrically investigated in order to characterise the materials and examine their provenance. A combination of analytical techniques was used, including optical microscopy (thin-section analysi...
The aim of this work is to present the results of the archaeometric characterization of amphorae recovered at the Late Antique city of Emporiae, currently Sant Martí d'Empúries (Catalonia, Spain). A total of 53 amphora samples have been analysed using a combination of techniques, including X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffraction and optical microscop...
This paper presents the results of the petrographic, mineralogical and chemical characterization of Late Roman amphorae from a sixth-century context found in the Medieval Cathedral of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). This city had an intense port activity in Late Antiquity as the capital of Hispania Tarraconensis and, from the late 5th century, as an...
This paper presents the results of the petrographic, mineralogical and chemical characterization of Late Roman amphorae from a sixth-century context found in the Medieval Cathedral of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). This city had an intense port activity in Late Antiquity as the capital of Hispania Tarraconensis and, from the late 5 th century, as an...
A partir del estudio de los principales contextos arqueológicos tardoantiguos del noreste peninsular, particularmente del territorio correspondiente al actual litoral catalán, se presenta un análisis de la distribución de ánforas hispánicas desde el siglo IV hasta el VII, con el fin de examinar las transformaciones acaecidas en las rutas comerciale...
The aim of this paper is to present an analysis of the distribution of Eastern Mediterranean Late Roman
amphorae in the current Catalan coastal territory, based on a review of the main archaeological contexts that have been excavated to this date. In particular, evidence recovered in major urban centres (Tarraco, Emporiae,
Barcino, Iluro) and in se...
RESUMEN En la década de 1920 se excavó en la localidad de La Ciénaga (valle de Hualfín, Provincia de Catamarca, Argentina) una zona de necrópolis constituida por un conjunto de 14 cementerios que décadas más tarde fue datada dentro del Período Temprano del Noroeste Argentino (200-600 d.C.). A partir de una revisión del amplio registro documental de...
El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar los principales procesos de alteración posdeposicional de la cerámica arqueológica, entendiendo que los mismos son el resultado de la acción de un conjunto de agentes intrínsecos -que forman parte del objeto- y extrínsecos –que definen el contexto de enterramiento-, o bien de una interacción entre am...
Se presenta un estudio de los contextos funerarios en el cementerio 13 correspondiente al sector sur de la necrópolis de La Ciénaga (Depto. de Belén, Prov. de Catamarca, Argentina), a partir del análisis de los registros y materiales que son el resultado de las excavaciones de la IX expedición Muñiz Barreto en 1927, y que hoy se conservan en el Mus...
Resumen. El objetivo del presente es dar a conocer los resultados de un Proyecto de Extensión Universitaria desarrollado por un equipo de arqueólogos de la Fac. de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, en el Depto de Belén, Catamarca. En los últimos años, se ha observado un creciente interés por parte de las autoridades de algunos de los municipios que integ...
