The 2012 campaign. Image: University of Alicante
Posted on 09/15/2012 7:13:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Set in the current municipality of Tarifa (Cadiz) and opposite the Moroccan coast, Baelo Claudia is one of the best preserved Roman cities in Spain.
Declared a National Historic Monument in 1925, the once prosperous city was founded in the late 2nd century BC...
The archaeological work conducted at the site since the early twentieth century has uncovered what is probably the best preserved city from the high imperial Roman period of the Iberian Peninsula, though many elements link it to the Mauritanian-Punic African world, especially visible in certain architectural and structural features of the forum and the temple area. The necropolis also presents unmistakable features of Punic tradition in its early stages.
Baelo Claudia is the culmination of a complex urban process started in the eighth century BC as demonstrated by recent research. Baelo was the result of the evolution of a mixed race native population and their interrelation with incoming groups, Africans initially and later Romans, always linked to the development of economic activities, mainly fishing and fish preserves, and to its splendid geostrategic position at the gates of the ocean...
In the 2012 campaign, carried out between August and September, the University's excavations are focusing on the study of the central area of the necropolis and have uncovered several funerary monuments, some of certain monumentality and other minor structures that are also interesting as they show the older phases.
Among the findings, Fernando Prados highlights several cremation graves and others gathered in ceramic containers. The archaeologists have also uncovered burials complete with grave goods. Students and graduates of the Universities of Alicante, Cadiz, Stanford and Zaragoza are taking part in this project that is financed by various Andalusian institutions.
(Excerpt) Read more at pasthorizonspr.com ...
The 2012 campaign. Image: University of Alicante
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looks like Roman Santa Cruz; maybe they’ll find remains of longboards..
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Baloney.....this was a Swedish village. Only the crazy Swedes would make a sammich out of “fish preserves”.
;’) I garumtee it was Romans.
I visited this site in 1984. The ‘fish preserves’ was a sauce made from tuna. The little town had its own pottery which made ceramic jars to hold the sauce, which was shipped all over the ancient Mediterranean. When the tuna fish vanished, either over fished or migrated elsewhere, the fish sauce industry died.
This city is interesting in that the entire geologic strata on which it it located has buckled from tectonic pressure between the interaction of African and European plates at that location. When one walks down the main road toward the sea it looks as though the swells of the sea moved inland and froze. Not surprisingly, all that's left of the original buildings is their foundations.
The town must have been abandoned in the late Roman Empire period, as it wasn't built over.
This was not a major city, like Cadiz, originally founded by the Phoenicians. It was a small, provincial town, and as such is quite interesting and worth the visit if you are ever in the area traveling between Cadiz and Tarifa.
GARUMTEE? i BOW TO THE MASTER.
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Thanks! Glad there are some first-hand observation here.
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