The Role of Fresh Water in Fish Processing in Antiquity

López, Elena Sánchez

doi:10.1007/s11457-018-9193-3

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“…17 In these, water was needed for the elaboration of some products, and also for boiling the guts, cleaning the fish, the vats, and the employees (Wilson 1997: 180). The abandonment of a factory gives a rather unreliable terminus ante quem for the abandonment of the aqueduct: the end of the aqueduct could cause the end of the fish factory although alternative water supplies, like cisterns, might have been more common (Sánchez López 2018). This may have been the case with the aqueduct of Baelo Claudia, which was destroyed by an earthquake, soon followed by the abandonment of the fish factories (Jiménez 1974, 293, Lagóstena Barrios 2001.…”

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“…While the local geology does not favour the digging of wells, cisterns appear to have been the most common way of water supply, with and without the aqueduct. It could appear at first that the aqueduct might have continued into the sixth century, based on the continuity to this date of the J baths and some of the cetariae, but the late chronology of these baths is very debatable (Lenoir 1992) and the factories were fed by rainwater cisterns (Sánchez López 2018).…”

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“…Miko Flohr (2006) and ElenaSánchez (2018) have been working on these issues in the last years, but much still needs to be done.17 Particularly in the late period, as only those fish factories that were located in urban or suburban areas survived in the fifth century (LagóstenaBarrios 2001, 355-6).…”

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Aqueducts and Urbanism in Post-Roman Hispania

Jiménez¹

2019

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WATER AND CITIES IN THE ROMAN WORLDWhile aqueducts are the most easily recognisable elements of Roman water supply systems, they were not simply supplying drinking water, as it can be assumed from a modern perspective, nor were they the only ways in which cities and towns obtained water. The first water supply systemsThe dense habitation that characterises urban settlements has always made water supply a matter of concern for town dwellers -water is essential for life and, the more concentrated the population, the higher the stress on local hydric resources.Despite some badly founded claims that Sagunto had an aqueduct built by the Iberians before the Second Punic War (Civera Gómez 2004, and the existence of pre-Roman irrigation channels in Marroquíes Bajos and Martos (Sánchez López and Gozalbes Cravioto 2012), long distance urban water supplies arrived in the Peninsula with the Romans. Springs, wells, rainwater cisterns, and rivers were the only pre-aqueduct sources of water in towns; they continued to be so while aqueducts functioned, and after the aqueducts fell out of use. This is a common feature of all the urban or proto-urban settlements of pre-Roman Spain, as well as of the first Roman republican settlements.Springs are places where water flows naturally out of the ground, and Frontinus mentions them as one of the main sources of water in the city of Rome, especially because they were healthy and even curative (Aq., I.4). These springs also supplied the inhabitants of Rome after the aqueducts were cut during the Ostrogothic siege of 537 (Lib. Pont., LX.4.5).Intra-mural and peri-urban springs seem also to have been very common in Spanish towns, and even though there is little positive evidence for their use in Late Antiquity, it is very probable that they were used alongside aqueducts, and even more once these ceased to function.Wells (Hodge 1992, 50-3) are pits dug into the soil that reach the water table, and despite the procedures mentioned by Vitruvius (Arch., VIII.1.1-7) on how to find a good spot, it seems that well-digging was highly speculative. Because of their nature, in which water needs to be pulled out of the well, well-shafts need to be lined (with masonry, brickwork and even old barrels), lest they collapsed, and must have some sort of support to allow the

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Aqueducts and Urbanism in Post-Roman Hispania

Jiménez¹

2019

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“…El único manantial tradicionalmente explotado (La Fontica o Santa Catalina), todavía activo, suele secarse durante los meses de verano. Tanto es así que el descubrimiento del acuífero subterráneo y la puesta en marcha de un sistema que garantizase la disponibilidad regular de agua dulce constituyen premisas ineludibles para que el enclave haya podido ser habitado de forma estable, adquiriera un carácter defensivo, se dotara de un establecimiento termal (como el atestiguado en Campo Valdés) o incluso que pudiera establecerse la industria de salazones documentada en el istmo (Fernández Ochoa 1994, 1997Blanco 2003;Sánchez López 2018).…”

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Relectura arqueológica del pozo-cisterna de la fortaleza de Gijón (Asturias, Norte de España): la civitas Gegionem durante el primer siglo del Reino de Asturias (720-840 AD)

Vigil-escalera¹

2018

Munibe, Antropol.-Arkeol.

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RESUMENUna revisión de los datos publicados sobre la estructura hidráulica descubierta en Gjón permite articular una lectura alternativa a la mantenida hasta ahora. Frente a un proceso de abandono plurisecular se plantea la amortización del pozo a consecuencia de un evento traumático durante el último tercio del siglo VIII d.C. El excepcional conjunto de hallazgos que apareció en su interior es congruente con la vinculación del pozo a una autoridad política relevante. Esta circunstancia motiva la discusión sobre el posible papel jugado por la fortaleza de Gijón durante la formación del Reino de Asturias y el paradójico silencio que sobre este centro mantienen las crónicas asturianas entre la retirada de la guarnición musulmana (ca. 720 d.C.) y la primera referencia a la llegada de normandos a la costa asturiana (ca. 844 d.C.). LABURPENAGijonen aurkitutako egitura hidraulikoaren inguruan argitaratu dituzten datuak berrikusiz gero, orain arte indarrean egon denarekiko ezberdina den irakurketa egin dezakegu. Ehunka urtez abandonatuta egon zela ziotenen ustearen aurka, K.o. VIII. mendeko azken herenean izandako gertakizun traumatiko baten ondorioz zuloa berreskuratu egin zutela planteatu da. Barruan topatutako aparteko aurkikuntza multzoa bat dator zuloa agintaritza politiko esanguratsuarekin lotu izanarekin. Gorabehera horren ondorioz, Gijoneko gotorlekuak Asturiaseko erreinua eratu zenean bete zuen rolaren eta garnizio musulmanak atzera egin (K.o. ca 720) eta Asturiaseko kostaldera normandiarrak iritsi izan zireneko lehen erreferentziaren arteko (K.o. ca 844) garaiaren inguruan Asturiaseko kroniketan gune horrekin lotuta dagoen isiltasun paradoxikoaren eztabaida sortu da. ABSTRACTThe review of the published data on the hydraulic structure discovered in Gijon leads to an interpretation alternative to the current one. Instead of a process of abandonment lasting several centuries, we propose that the disuse of the well was the result of a traumatic event happened during the last third of the eighth century AD. The exceptional assemblage of findings recovered inside is consistent with a connection between this well-cistern and a relevant political authority. This fact brings out the discussion about the role possibly played by the fortress of Gijón during the formation of the Kingdom of Asturias and the paradoxical silence maintained about this centre in the Asturian chronicles between the withdrawal of the Muslim garrison (ca. 720 AD) and the first reference to the arrival of Normans to the Asturian coast (ca. 844 AD).(1) aveg@usal.es

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