Massa, S. and Cattaneo, N. (2020) Adulis (Eritrea). Criticità e peculiarità di un sito complesso nel Corno d’Africa. Archeologia e Calcolatori, 31 (2). pp. 47-57. ISSN 1120-6861
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Abstract
Since 2011 an Eritrean-Italian archaeological mission has initiated research and excavation activities in the area of ancient Adulis, an emporium town located along the coast of the Horn of Africa on the Red Sea, in current Eritrea, documented by the sources as early as the 1st century AD and disappeared between the 7th and 8th centuries. The site, due to the historical and geographical context that determined its ancient splendour, invites us to broaden the research field, extending it from the excavation area to the commercial networks that, in ancient times, set in communication the African, Asian and Mediterranean cultures, without neglecting the intermediate scale, necessary to understand the ways in which the settlement was related to the territorial context and its resources. Among the natural resources water, in particular thanks to the presence of the Haddas, a seasonal watercourse that reaches significant flows, was certainly crucial to the development of the town and to the probable agrarian exploitation of its surroundings. Haddas itself was probably the cause of Adulis’ sudden destruction between the 7th and 8th centuries. Today, this watercourse is at same time one of the main resources and one of the major vulnerability factors of this portion of the coast, where the villages of Zula, Afta and Foro live a fragile equilibrium, seasonally endangered by its floods. The same protection of the important cultural heritage constituted by the site of Adulis today, in a way not entirely dissimilar from what happened in ancient times, depends on this balance.
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| Additional Information: | in Bagnasco Gianni G., Bortolotto S., Garzulino A., Marzullo M. (eds.), Milano internazionale: la fragilità territoriale dei contesti archeologici. Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Milano, 13 marzo 2019) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | History of applications and research projects; Cultural Resource Management |
| Subjects: | 900 Storia, Geografia e discipline ausiliarie > 930 Storia dei mondo antico fino al 499 ca. > 930.1 Archeologia (Classificare qui la Storia fino al 4000 a.C., l'Archeologia preistorica, le opere interdisciplinari sull'Archeologia) > 930.102 Archeologia - Opere miscellanee > 930.1028 Archeologia – Tecniche, metodologie, apparecchi e strumenti (comprende: Archeometria) > 930.10285 Archeologia – Applicazioni informatiche (comprende: tecniche di datazione) |
| Depositing User: | Dott.ssa Paola Moscati |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2024 10:51 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Mar 2024 10:51 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/20443 |
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