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The Development and Characteristics of Ancient Harbours-Applying the PADM Chart to the Case Studies of Ostia and Portus.
Salomon, Ferreol; Keay, Simon; Carayon, Nicolas; Goiran, Jean-Philippe.
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  • Salomon F; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Southampton SO17 1BF, Great Britain.
  • Keay S; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Southampton SO17 1BF, Great Britain.
  • Carayon N; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Southampton SO17 1BF, Great Britain.
  • Goiran JP; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 5133-Archéorient, MOM, 7 rue Raulin, 69007 Lyon, France.
PLoS One ; 11(9): e0162587, 2016.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27631985
Over the last 20 years, the geoarchaeology of ancient harbours has been a very active area of research around the Mediterranean basin, generating much palaeoenvironmental data from many sites, including estimations of sedimentation rates, the height of the ancient sea-level at different dates and palaeo-geographical reconstructions. Combining this information has proved a major challenge. This article proposes a new chart called the Palaeoenvironmental Age-Depth Model (PADM chart), that allows the researchers to combine all relevant indicators in order to estimate harbour potential of a given ancient port, and to generate comparable data between harbours in terms of degree of closure and water depth available against a synchronised chronology. This new approach, developed in the context of the ERC-funded RoMP Portuslimen project, takes into account estimations of water depths relating to differing Roman ship draughts at different periods. It is tested against the palaeoenvironmental evidence published over 10 years from two Roman harbours located at the mouth of the river Tiber: Ostia and Portus. This reveals that: (1) there has been an underestimate of the real sedimentation rates due to the margins of error of the radiocarbon dates; (2) there was effective control of the water column by dredging; (3) there were different periods of control of the sedimentation. We suggest that the navigability of the Ostia harbour by ships with shallower draughts was maintained until sometime between the 2nd c. BC and 1st c. AD, while at Portus it was retained until the 6th-7th c. AD.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Navíos / Monitoreo del Ambiente Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies País/Región como asunto: Europa Idioma: En Revista: PLoS One Asunto de la revista: CIENCIA / MEDICINA Año: 2016 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Reino Unido Pais de publicación: Estados Unidos
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Navíos / Monitoreo del Ambiente Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies País/Región como asunto: Europa Idioma: En Revista: PLoS One Asunto de la revista: CIENCIA / MEDICINA Año: 2016 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Reino Unido Pais de publicación: Estados Unidos