Petrographic and neutron activation analysis of Late Iron Age amphorae from the south western Iberian Peninsula

Megías, Violeta Moreno; Fernández, Francisco José García; Fragnoli, Pamela; Sterba, Johannes H.

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102598

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“…Compositional data is used to link ceramics to the landscape and/or workshops. Such an approach has made a significant contribution to the study of ancient trade in the western (Martínez Ferreras et al 2007Fantuzzi et al 2016Fantuzzi et al , 2019Moreno Megías et al 2020) in the Central Mediterranean; Italy ( Barra Bagnasco et. al.…”

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Origins and Distribution of Hellenistic and Late Republican Transport Amphorae in the Dalmatian Region and its Implications for Adriatic Trade and Economy

Miše

Quinn

2022

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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The presence of Hellenistic and Late Republican transport amphorae at numerous sites along the Adriatic and within shipwrecks off the coast indicates that intense trade and/or exchange in commodities such as olive oil and wine took place in this region from the fourth until the first century BC. The details of this commercial activity are nevertheless unclear in terms of the sources, destinations, and routes via which transport containers and their contents were circulated. The present study brings compositional data to bear on this topic by analysing petrographically and geochemically 248 amphorae sherds from 15 sites along the Dalmatian coast of present-day Croatia, including production sites, places of consumption, and shipwrecks. This revealed the existence of several larger amphora workshops whose amphorae were used to export goods to Dalmatia during the fourth and third centuries BC. They were involved in direct trade or through intermediaries in the redistribution centres. In the second and first centuries BC, only one workshop supplied amphorae in the region, which is probably the Dalmatian town of Issa. Aspects of the regional and inter-regional distribution and redistribution of amphorae from these workshops have been reconstructed, as well as changes within the trading system over time.

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Origins and Distribution of Hellenistic and Late Republican Transport Amphorae in the Dalmatian Region and its Implications for Adriatic Trade and Economy

Miše

Quinn

2022

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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“…Both shape and epigraphic information are not always available from small fragmented sherds and compositional analysis of the clay paste of transport amphorae via ceramic petrography and geochemistry has therefore been widely applied to determine the production location or provenance of amphorae and other types of ancient transport vessels in Western Mediterranean (Martínez Ferreras et al 2007;Martínez Ferreras et al 2015;Fantuzzi et al 2016;Fantuzzi et al 2019;Moreno Megías et al 2020), in Central Mediterranean in Italy (Barra Bagnasco et. al.…”

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“…Bulk instrumental geochemistry has been widely applied to ancient amphorae in the study of ancient shipping and trade within the Mediterranean basin, via methods such as instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA), X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) (e. g. Farnsworth et al 1977;Barra Bagnasco et al 2001;Barone et al 2004a; Barone et al 2004b;Hein et al 2008;Fantuzzi et al 2019;Moreno Megías et al 2020). In most such studies, quantitative multivariate chemical data is explored and classified statistically in order to identify compositional groups of known origin and match samples from different sites.…”

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Lost at sea: Identifying the post-depositional alteration of amphorae in ancient shipwrecks

Miše

Quinn

Glascock

2021

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Trade dynamics between Carthage and Iberia at the end of the 3rd century BC: analytical characterisation of central mediterranean amphorae from Qart-Hadasht (Cartagena, Spain)

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Asensio

2024

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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The founding of Qart-Hadasht, or ‘New Carthage’, in 228/227 BC reaffirmed the Carthaginian presence on the Iberian Peninsula. The city would serve as its main political base and military port in the Western Mediterranean before being lost to Rome in the Second Punic War. Although the conquest was led on the ground by the Barcid family, the town’s flourishing also led to an increase in the metropolis’s economic and commercial activities. In this study, a total of 37 amphorae of Central Mediterranean typology and located in different Punic contexts of the town were analysed using X-ray fluorescence (XRF), thermogravimetry (TG), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and thin-section petrography (OM). The analyses reveal that a significant number of them originated in North Africa, mainly in the area of Tunisia, though some originated from other production centres on the island of Sicily and probably Algeria. The results also confirm the existence of shared amphora types produced in different Punic production areas and workshops. Thus, the central argument here is that the arrival of containers from such diverse provenances allows us to identify the economic opportunity that this foundation represented for the metropolis as a whole and to explore how this new trade relationship was structured.

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Petrographic and neutron activation analysis of Late Iron Age amphorae from the south western Iberian Peninsula

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

Origins and Distribution of Hellenistic and Late Republican Transport Amphorae in the Dalmatian Region and its Implications for Adriatic Trade and Economy

Origins and Distribution of Hellenistic and Late Republican Transport Amphorae in the Dalmatian Region and its Implications for Adriatic Trade and Economy

Lost at sea: Identifying the post-depositional alteration of amphorae in ancient shipwrecks

Trade dynamics between Carthage and Iberia at the end of the 3rd century BC: analytical characterisation of central mediterranean amphorae from Qart-Hadasht (Cartagena, Spain)

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