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oapen-20.500.12657-640472023-07-21T02:46:16Z Torregarcía, Purpura y Agua López Medina, María Juana Anthropogenic geomorphological changes;Non-invasive methods;Purple dye;Maritime trading;Roman economy;Roman Empire;Southeast Iberian Peninsula;Water supply; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology::HDD Archaeology by period / region bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology Along the coast of the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, there are numerous remains linked to the manufacture of purple dyes. This study focuses on the site of Torregarcía (Almería, Spain), located in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, a protected coastal area of particular ecological interest. Torregarcía was initially excavated during 1980s and was identified as a Roman salting factory where the complementary activity of dyeing was also practised. Despite its importance, it has gone unnoticed in the historiography of the last three decades and has never been the subject of dedicated scientific publication. The investigations presented in this book have been carried out using non-invasive prospecting techniques, such as ground-penetrating radar (GPR), and have revealed the importance of the exploitation of purple dye as the main site activity. More complex installations associated with the excavated structures and a large shell pit are also described. Alongside these, other buildings and shells have also been documented along the coastline of this site. All of this forms what we call the "purple landscape" in the southeast of the peninsular coast, which allows the Natural Park to show archaeological heritage beyond any excavations carried out to date. 2023-07-20T14:09:10Z 2023-07-20T14:09:10Z 2023 book 9781407360478 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64047 spa BAR International application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781407360485.pdf https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/ff365774k BAR Publishing 10.30861/9781407360478 10.30861/9781407360478 a76f2a2d-78ce-406e-9123-c9a5f01b7fe4 9781407360478 3123 241 Oxford UAL18-HUM-C010-A Proyectos de Investigación I+D+i UAL-FEDER 2018 / Research Projects I+D+i UAL-FEDER 2018 “Aprovechamiento y uso del agua en contextos de ribera en el Sureste peninsular desde la Prehistoria a la Edad Media” / “Water use and exploitation in riverside contexts in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula from prehistoric to medieval times” open access
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Along the coast of the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, there are numerous remains linked to the manufacture of purple dyes. This study focuses on the site of Torregarcía (Almería, Spain), located in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, a protected coastal area of particular ecological interest. Torregarcía was initially excavated during 1980s and was identified as a Roman salting factory where the complementary activity of dyeing was also practised. Despite its importance, it has gone unnoticed in the historiography of the last three decades and has never been the subject of dedicated scientific publication. The investigations presented in this book have been carried out using non-invasive prospecting techniques, such as ground-penetrating radar (GPR), and have revealed the importance of the exploitation of purple dye as the main site activity. More complex installations associated with the excavated structures and a large shell pit are also described. Alongside these, other buildings and shells have also been documented along the coastline of this site. All of this forms what we call the "purple landscape" in the southeast of the peninsular coast, which allows the Natural Park to show archaeological heritage beyond any excavations carried out to date.
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