RT Journal Article
T1 Echoes from the past: Bioarchaeological insights into the burial grounds of Portus Romae
A1 De Angelis, Flavio
A1 Vaccaro, Serena
A1 Rossi, Paola Francesca
AB Since its establishment, Portus Romae represented a hub for the trade of goods to and from Rome. Similarly,commercial activities should have pushed the intermingling of people and cultures. However, the politicaldisruption following the starting decline of the Empire led to trade shrinkage, with the silting out of a portion ofthe basin in the 5th century CE and the building of defensive walls.14 burials were discovered in the Antemurale area in the southwestern part of the port zone, around the LateAntique defensive structures. The bioarchaeological data from these burials herein presented contributes tobroadening knowledge about the biological and cultural characteristics of people living at the chronological edgeof the Roman Empire.The osteological analysis showed that main part of the sample pertains to skeletally immature individuals, whowere impacted by the harsh lifestyle experienced by the community, whose subsistence strategy was grounded onlocal and autarchic supply.The isotopic characterization of the enamel and the individuals’ genomic makeup suggest that people fromAntemurale could be considered more similar to the Italian population of the Imperial Age and Late Antiquitythan to the invading groups from Central Europe. Thus, the studied group of individuals were not biologicallyconditioned by the arrival of foreign armies to the outskirts of Rome in the previous centuries.
PB Elsevier
SN 2352-409X
SN 2352-4103 (electrónico)
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/25249
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/25249
LA eng
NO De Angelis, F., Vaccaro, S., Romboni, M., Di Cicco, M. R., Mantile, N., Altieri, S., Mezzogiorno, A., Lo Blundo, M., Rickards, O., Lubritto, C., & Rossi, P. F. (2025). Echoes from the past: Bioarchaeological insights into the burial grounds of Portus Romae. In Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (Vol. 61, p. 104931). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104931
NO FDA was supported by the project: MNESYS—a multiscale integratedapproach to the study of the nervous system in health and disease(PNRR).This work was partially supported by the Italian Ministerodell’Universit`a e della Ricerca (PRIN 2017 action ID 20177PJ9XFallotted to OR).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026