Wave Hindcasting and Anchoring Activities in Ancient Harbours: The Impact of Coastal Dynamics on Ancient Carthago Nova (Cartagena, Spain)

Paths Across the Sea: Meteo-Marine Conditions for Coastal Navigation Around the Balearic Islands During the Middle and Late Bronze Ages

“…As previously stated, several Middle and Late Bronze Age anchorages have been identified across the Balearic Islands, mostly in connection with the downwind southern route that connects the islands (see Table 1 and Figure 1). They can be divided into three different typologies: settlements on top of coastal islets, settlements in small bays or coves, and anchorage places nearby coastal sites, that is, beaches or coves where no archaeological remains have been documented but which have a direct geographical 1 Also, an advanced theoretical analysis on the wind and wave impact in anchoring in ancient harbours is Cerezo Andreo et al, 2020. connection with coastal promontories where Middle and Late Bronze Age sites have been found (Guerrero et al, 2007;Calvo et al, 2011;Calvo Trias and Galmés-Alba, 2018;Galmés-Alba and Calvo Trias, 2022). All of them are generally protected from extreme meteo-maritime conditions, especially northern storms, which are the most intense.…”