Exploration of the maritime façade of Utica: The potential location of the Phoenician and Roman harbours
| Autor: | Abdelhakim Abichou, Hugo Delile, J.-Ph. Goiran, Faouzi Ghozzi, Andrew Wilson, Nathalie Fagel, Elizabeth Fentress, Ahmed Gadhoum, I. Ben Jerbania, Elisa Pleuger |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien (Archéorient), Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Argiles, Géochimie et Environnements sédimentaires - AGES (Liège, Belgium) (AGEs), Université de Liège, Institut national du patrimoine (INP), Faculty of Classics and Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunis, Tunisia |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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010506 paleontology
[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences 14. Life underwater Wadi ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes computer.programming_language geography Promontory geography.geographical_feature_category Geoarchaeology [SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography Archaeology [INFO.INFO-MO]Computer Science [cs]/Modeling and Simulation [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society language.human_language [SHS.ENVIR]Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental studies Harbour language Sedimentary rock Phoenician Progradation [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History Bay computer |
| Zdroj: | Quaternary International Quaternary International, Elsevier, 2019, 511, pp.140-152. ⟨10.1016/j.quaint.2019.04.007⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1040-6182 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.quaint.2019.04.007⟩ |
| Popis: | International audience; According to ancient literary tradition, Utica is considered to be one of the first three Phoenician foundations in the Western Mediterranean, supposedly founded in 1101 BC by Levantines from Tyre. In the Phoenician and Roman periods, it was an important merchant coastal town, on a promontory facing the sea. Over the centuries Utica lost its access to the sea, and its ports silted up as a consequence of the activity of the wadi Medjerda, which flowed to the south of the city. Despite over a century of investigation by archaeologists and associated researchers, the location of the city's harbour structures from the Phoenician and Roman periods remains unknown, buried under sediments resulting from the progradation of the Medjerda. Based on the study of sedimentary cores, the research presented here highlights the existence of a long maritime façade to the north of the Utica promontory in Phoenician and Roman times. A deep-water marine environment is attested in the former bay from the 6th mill. BC and the depth of the water column along the northern façade was still 2 m around the 4th-3rd c. BC. Another core to the east of the Kalaat El Andalous promontory showed the possibility that this sector was a sheltered harbour during the Phoenician and Roman periods. This paper illustrates the contribution of geoarchaeology to address this archaeological problem and to understand the relations of this important port city with the sea. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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