RT Journal Article
T1 A multidisciplinary analysis of shell deposits from Saltés Island (SW Spain): the origin of a new Roman shell midden
A1 Ruiz Muñoz, Francisco
A1 González-Regalado Montero, María Luz
A1 Rodríguez Vidal, Joaquín
A1 Gómez Álvarez, Gabriel
A1 Cáceres Puro, Luis Miguel
A1 Gómez Gutiérrez, Paula
A1 Clemente Pérez, María José
A1 Bermejo Meléndez, Javier
A1 Campos Carrasco, Juan Manuel
A1 Toscano Grande, Antonio
A1 Abad de los Santos, Manuel
A1 Izquierdo, Tatiana
A1 Muñoz, Juan Manuel
A1 Carretero, María Isabel
A1 Prudencio, María Isabel
A1 Dias, María Isabel
A1 Marques, Rosa
A1 Tosquella Angrill, Josep
A1 Romero Aguilar, Verónica
A1 Monge Gómez, Guadalupe
K1 Geología
K1 Paleogeografía
K1 Paleoecología
K1 Paleoclimatología
AB The analysis of shell deposits eroded by a ebb-tide channel on Saltés Island (Tinto-Odiel estuary, SW Spain) resulted in the identification of a new shell midden, associated with the activity of a nearby Roman factory over the 4th-5th centuries CE. This midden differs from other old shell deposits (sandy tidal flats, cheniers, washover fans) in several features: a) its malacological content, dominated by edible species (mainly the bivalve Glycymeris nummaria) and differentiated by statistical analysis; b) a partial selection and better conservation of Glycymeris nummaria (Linnaeus), its most abundant species; c) the absence of microfauna, which implies a previous washing to its final deposit; and d) an age concordant with the one deduced from the Roman amphoraic remains found in this area and subsequent to the washover fans on whom it was deposited. All these features, together with the absence of both anthropic fractures or cooking, would indicate that this Roman shell midden was the end result of a trawling on subtidal Glycymeris-rich sandy bottoms with adjacent grasslands, where the gastropod Bittium reticulatum (da Costa) was the most abundant mollusc. This gastropod is the dominant species in the remaining shell deposits.
PB Elsevier
SN 1872-616X (electrónico)
YR 2019
FD 2019-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24835
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24835
LA eng
NO Francisco Ruiz, Gabriel Gómez, María Luz González-Regalado, Joaquín Rodríguez Vidal, Luis Miguel Cáceres, Paula Gómez, María José Clemente, Javier Bermejo, Juan Campos, Antonio Toscano, Manuel Abad, Tatiana Izquierdo, Juan Manuel Muñoz, María Isabel Carretero, Maria Isabel Prudêncio, Maria Isabel Dias, Rosa Marques, Josep Tosquella, Verónica Romero, Guadalupe Monge, A multidisciplinary analysis of shell deposits from Saltés Island (SW Spain): The origin of a new Roman shell midden, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 538, 2020, 109416, ISSN 0031-0182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109416. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018219306492)
NO This work has been carried out through the project ´From the Atlantic to the Tyrrhenian. The hispanic ports and their commercial relations with Ostia Antica. DEATLANTIR II - HAR2017-89154-P - (Plan Nacional de I+D+i). Other funds have come from Andalusian Gouvernement (groups HUM-132, RNM-238, RNM-293 and RNM-329) and the Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares (University of Lisbon, Portugal). It is a contribution to the Research Centre in Historical, Cultural and Natural Heritage (CIPHCN) of the University of Huelva.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026