ARCHAEOLOGY OF A ROMAN LANDSCAPE IN THE RUINS OF THE ROMAN TOWN OF AMMAIA ARE LOCATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF MARVÃO, IN THE HEART OF THE CENTRAL PORTUGAL | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Environmental Change | ||
| Article 2, Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2009, Pages 1-7 PDF (1.78 M) | ||
| Document Type: Peer-reviewed articles | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejec.2009.96542 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Since 2001 an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers from the universities of Gent (Belgium), Evora (Portugal) and Cassino (Italy) has organized several campaigns of geo-archaeological fieldwork in and around the Roman town site of Ammaia in Northern Alentejo (Portugal, figure 1). These investigations aimed at achieving a better understanding of the town/countryside nexus in Antiquity as well as of Man’s effects on the landscape during the ancient Roman times. Particular geo-archaeological questions that were dealt with include; the topographic setting and site location choices by the Romans, water provisioning and exploitation of important natural resources such as building stone (granite, marble), metal ore and rock crystal. | ||
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