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A glimpse under the water-table. The Magdala Harbour bio-archive: An integrated analysis of carpological and faunal data
Lena, Anna
Rossi, Veronica
Palmieri, Marco
Marchesini, Marco
2017
Abstract
The work aims to present the first results of the analysis and identification of vegetal and malacological remains – integrated with data from a micropalaeontological analysis – performed on some sediments of the harbour of the archaeological site of Magdala, on the western coast of the Lake of Galilee (Israel). The research at the site, which was carried out by means of a transdisciplinary approach, has shed a new light on the history of the city and on the geological history of this portion of the coast. As no geoarchaeological studies on specifically lacustrine ancient harbours are available to date, Magdala represents a case study of pivotal importance. The results of the analysis on the materials waterlogged in the harbour sediments – which can be considered a bio-archive – have contributed considerably to the palaeonvironmental reconstruction. The data that emerges from this preliminary study gives a reasonably clear and well delineated picture of the agrestic environment of Galilee in the Late Hellenistic and Roman period, a period In which the city of Magdala and its harbour achieved their greatest prosperity providing reliable evidence for the existence of a local and regional trade network at this moment of its history.
Series
West&East. Rivista della Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici delle Università di Udine, Trieste, Venezia Ca’ Foscari
2 (2017)
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Anna Lena, Veronica Rossi, Marco Palmieri, Marco Marchesini, “A glimpse under the water-table. The Magdala Harbour bio-archive: An integrated analysis of carpological and faunal data”, in: "West&East, 2 (2017)", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2017, pp. 42-62
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