Trade Networks in the Neighbouring Roman Provinces of Aquitania-Tarraconensis on the Bay of Biscay: Evidence from Petrographic and Chemical Analyses of Common Coarse Ware Pottery

Common non-wheel-thrown Roman pottery from the southern Aquitania and north-eastern of Tarraconensis provinces (CNT-AQTA) of the Early and Later Roman Empire (1st to 5th centuries AD) has been studied. Petrological, mineralogical, and chemical analyses were conducted to contrast with the archaeological study of the pottery. The chemical composition of many pottery samples displays different patterns of burial chemical modification, limiting their use for provenance and diffusion studies. Particular emphasis has been paid to the petrographic features of the fabrics, as they do not change during burial, reflecting the nature of the raw material and making it possible to identify the provenance areas of the raw materials. Around the Bay of Biscay, the same pottery tradition continued in the neighbouring provinces during Roman times. Petrographic studies make it possible to determine the distribution of pottery and the changes in trade networks during the Roman period across the area of the Bay of Biscay being studied.This research was funded by Fundación José Miguel de Barandiaran Fundazioa, grant number 2004, and the Basque Country government, grant number IT1442-22. The APC was funded by the Basque Country government, grant number IT1442-22

La cultura material como indicador de relaciones económicas. Aportaciones desde el mobiliario cerámico de época romana recuperado en Gipuzkoa

El análisis de las relaciones económicas a partir de los enseres cerámicos recuperados en el actual territorio guipuzcoano, evidencia la disparidad cuantitativa y cualitativa de los datos disponibles hasta el momento. Ello no obsta para tratar de formular una hipótesis explicativa de los distintos ritmos e intensidades que sincrónica y diacrónicamente presumimos en la integración económica de las gentes que en época romana habitaron la actual Gipuzkoa, a través de una conjunción del registro arqueológico y su contextualización histórica y geográfic