scholarly journals The settling factors of Roman villas in southern Lusitania

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-55
Author(s):  
Anett Firnigl
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Maritime Trade ◽  
Fish Sauce ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Industrial Facilities ◽  
Roman Villa ◽  
Seafood Products ◽  
Great Mass

Abstract The Romans arrived to the Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century B.C.: they transformed the Hispanian administration, the landscape and culture. The area of Lusitania expanded in the middle and southern part of Portugal, south from the River Douro, as well as on the autonom community of Extremadura, Spain. The production of the Roman villas gave the great mass the agricultural and commercial background of the Province. These produced wares got to the several lands of the Empire on the well-established road network and across the rivers and seas. The Roman villa was on a cultivation- and stock-raising-adapted farming unit with living houses, bath, and outbuildings, which had the biggest importance. The villas of Lusitania were concetrated into several groups: around the cities of Cascais and Lisboa, Èvora and Mèrida, as well. A bigger group ran along the southern coast of the Iberian Peninsula: the villas presented in this study (e.g., Milreu, Cerro da Vila, and Abicada) were specialized on seafood products and maritime trade. Other sites are also known where the presence of a villa has not been discovered yet, but where economic and industrial facilities were excavated (e.g., cetaria, which means a basin for the production of the fish sauce garum in the Portuguese terminology).

scholarly journals KEVEOKI 1: Exploring the Hiri ceramics trade at a short-lived village site near the Vailala River, Papua New Guinea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno David ◽  
Nick Araho ◽  
Bryce Barker ◽  
Alois Kuaso ◽  
Ian Moffat
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Short Duration ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Maritime Trade ◽  
Drainage Channel ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Beach Ridge ◽  
Ceramic Assemblage ◽  
Ceramic Assemblages

Investigations at the newly discovered, once-coastal but now inland archaeological village site of Keveoki 1 allows us to characterise the nature and antiquity of ancestral hiri trade ceramics around 450-500 cal BP in the recipient Vailala River- Kea Kea villages of the Gulf Province of the southern coast of Papua New Guinea. This paper reports on the decorated ceramics from Keveoki 1, where a drainage channel cut in 2004 revealed a short-lived village site with a rich, stratified ceramic assemblage. It represents a rare account of the ceramic assemblage from a short duration village on a relic beach ridge in southern Papua New Guinea, and contributes to ongoing attempts to refine ceramic sequences in the recipient (western) end of the hiri system of longdistance maritime trade. Because of the presence of a single occupational period of a few decades at most, short duration sites such as Keveoki 1 allow for chronological refinement of ceramic conventions in a way that multilevel sites usually cannot, owing to the lack of stratigraphic mixing between chronologically separate ceramic assemblages in the former.

scholarly journals Epigraphic and archaeological evidence contributing to identifying the location and character of Timacum Maius

Balcanica ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 35-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Petrovic ◽  
Vojislav Filipovic
Keyword(s):  
Road Network ◽  
Geophysical Survey ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Entire Area ◽  
Roman Villa ◽  
Settlement Site ◽  
The Village

Systematic archaeological excavation in the area of the village of Nisevac near Svrljig, southeast Serbia, of a Roman settlement site, possibly Timacum Maius station on the main Roman road Lissus-Naissus-Ratiaria connecting the Adriatic and the Danube, has been going on for five years. Epigraphic and etymological analysis of an inscription dedicated to Hera Sonketene (dat. H?? ?????????) provides evidence for the possible balneological character of the entire area of Timacum Maius, which was geomorphologically similar to and connected by a road network with the Thracian region of Denteletika centred on Pautalia, where the dedicant, Tiberius Claudius Theopompus served as strategos. The archaeological evidence complements the conclusions suggested by the epigraphic material. The recently discovered secondcentury Roman structure furnished with a hypocaust system using perforated circular- sectioned pebble-filled ceramic tubuli for heating the floors and outer walls of the building may have served a balneal purpose. A sizeable Roman bathhouse, with remains of two pools and two rooms with a hypocaust and ceramic tubuli, has also been partially explored. In the broader area of Svrljig Valley (near the village of Prekonoga), a luxurious Roman villa with a marble hexagon, numerous rooms and a bath, recently subjected to a rescue excavation, has been completely cleared and recorded. The first geophysical survey on the Timacum Maius site has also been undertaken.

scholarly journals Diets of peracarid crustaceans associated with the orange coral Astroides calycularis in southern Spain

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 170 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. TERRÓN-SIGLERA ◽  
D. LEÓN-MUEZ ◽  
P. PEÑALVER-DUQUE ◽  
F. ESPINOSA TORRE
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Southern Spain ◽  
Gut Contents ◽  
Feeding Strategies ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Gut Content ◽  
Main Food ◽  
Main Food Source

The endangered and Mediterranean endemic orange coral (Astroides calycularis) hosts an important macrofaunal assemblage. The gut contents of the main peracarids associated with the orange coral were analysed. In total 161 specimens belonging to 11 species and 9 families were examined on the southern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. The gut content study was carried out introducing the specimens of each species in Hertwig’s liquid. The analysis revealed that the peracarid species associated with A. calycularis had different feeding strategies and their main food source was detritus. The results highlight that peracarids may depend on the host and the detritus that the coral produces.

Mediterranean Oran

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Schreier
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
First Century ◽  
Northern Coast ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Constant Flow ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
The West ◽  
The Mediterranean

This chapter recounts Oran’s history over the longue durée. It speaks of a city situated on the northern coast of Africa, but also on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Oran was a creation of Spain and southern Europe as well as of Tlemcen, the Sahara, and the African sources of goods that lay beyond it. Indeed, in the first century or two of its existence, Oran owed its existence to its proximity to the Iberian Peninsula. The westernmost section of the Mediterranean, stretching from Cape Tenès in the east to the Straights of Gibraltar in the west, has been described as a medieval “Ibero-African English Channel,” linking North Africa and Spain with a constant flow of commercial ships. Oran’s dependence on larger circuits of western Mediterranean commerce would continue into the nineteenth century.

scholarly journals Occurrence and Reduction of Biogenic Amines in Kimchi and Korean Fermented Seafood Products

Foods ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Kyoung Park ◽  
Jae Hoan Lee ◽  
Jae-Hyung Mah
Keyword(s):  
Biogenic Amines ◽  
Metabolic Activity ◽  
Biogenic Amine ◽  
Fish Sauce ◽  
Active Monitoring ◽  
Fermented Fish ◽  
Vegetable Products ◽  
Amine Content ◽  
Seafood Products ◽  
High Concentrations

Biogenic amines produced during fermentation may be harmful when ingested in high concentrations. As current regulations remain insufficient to ensure the safety of fermented vegetable products, the current study determined the risks associated with the consumption of kimchi by evaluating the biogenic amine concentrations reported by various studies. Upon evaluation, some kimchi products were found to contain histamine and tyramine at potentially hazardous concentrations exceeding the recommended limit of 100 mg/kg for both histamine and tyramine. The biogenic amines may have originated primarily from metabolic activity by microorganisms during fermentation, as well as from Jeotgal (Korean fermented seafood) and Aekjeot (Korean fermented fish sauce) products commonly used as ingredients for kimchi production. Many studies have suggested that Jeotgal and Aekjeot may contribute to the histamine and tyramine content in kimchi. Microorganisms isolated from kimchi and Jeotgal have been reported to produce both histamine and tyramine. Despite the potential toxicological risks, limited research has been conducted on reducing the biogenic amine content of kimchi and Jeotgal products. The regulation and active monitoring of biogenic amine content during kimchi production appear to be necessary to ensure the safety of the fermented vegetable products.

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