El asentamiento de Puente Melchor (Puerto Real, Cádiz): Integración de fotogrametría y teledetección aérea y sus visualizaciones con resultados arqueológicos en un yacimiento de carácter litoral.

The Puente Melchor settlement has been the subject of various archaeological interventions; these have shown his industrial character. The geographic context, coastal and anthropized, make difficult the historical knowledge. Aerial remote sensing and photogrammetry and the different visualizations of the generated products allow to detect historical-archaeological elements in areas where applying an invasive methodology becomes complicated. However, his advantage more important is the capacity to integrate and be complement with traditional historical or archaeological sources.El asentamiento de Puente Melchor ha sido objeto de diversas intervenciones arqueológicas de urgencia que han ido revelando el carácter artesanal del mismo. Su contexto geográfico, litoral y fuertemente antropizado, dificulta el conocimiento histórico del mismo. La teledetección y fotogrametría aéreas y la generación de distintas visualizaciones de los productos generados permiten detectar elementos histórico-arqueológicos en áreas donde aplicar una metodología invasiva se vuelve complicado. Pero su principal ventaja es la capacidad de integración e interacción con fuentes histórica o arqueológicas tradicionales.&nbsp

Reseña a: Lluís Pons Pujol, Paradeisos. Horti: los jardínes de la Antigüedad, Col.lecció Instrumenta 71, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 2021 (262 p.)

Reseña sobre obra editada por Lluís Pons Pujol, profesor del área de Historia Antigua de la Universidad de Barcelona y miembro del grupo CEIPAC, que recopila distintos trabajos sobre los Jardines en la Antigüedad en distintos contextos, geográfico y cronológico, así como a través de diferentes metodologías.pp. 178-19

The Puente Mechor settlement (Puerto Real, Cádiz): integration of aerial photogrammetry and remote sensing and their visualizations with archaeological results in a coastal site

El asentamiento de Puente Melchor ha sido objeto de diversas intervenciones arqueológicas de urgencia que han ido revelando el carácter artesanal del mismo. Su contexto geográfico, litoral y fuertemente antropizado, dificulta el conocimiento histórico del mismo. La teledetección y fotogrametría aéreas y la generación de distintas visualizaciones de los productos generados permiten detectar elementos histórico-arqueológicos en áreas donde aplicar una metodología invasiva se vuelve complicado. Pero su principal ventaja es la capacidad de integración e interacción con fuentes histórica o arqueológicas tradicionales.The Puente Melchor settlement has been the subject of various archaeological interventions; these have shown his industrial character. On account of his geographic context, coastal and anthropized, is very difficult detects the historical information. Aerial remote sensing and photogrammetry and the different visualizations of the generated products allow to detect historical-archaeological elements in areas where applying an invasive methodology becomes complicated. However, his advantage more important is the capacity to integrate and be complement with traditional historical or archaeological sources

Reseña a Lluís Pons Pujol (ed.), Paradeisos. Horti: los jardines de la Antigüedad. Col·lecció Instrumenta 71. Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona 2021, 262 pp.

Reseña al número 71 de la Col·lecció Instrumenta, editada por el profesor Lluís Pons Pujol, Paradeisos. Horti: los jardines de la Antigüedad.&nbsp

The great cemetery. Towards a new interpretation of Chalcolithic Valencina

El yacimiento calcolítico de Valencina tiene unas características tan peculiares que difícilmente puede ser interpretado como un poblado más de los conocidos en el Sur de la península ibérica. Su enorme extensión, su registro arqueológico y la falta de estructuras claramente domésticas le otorgan una gran singularidad. Por otra parte, la especial abundancia de registro funerario contrasta con la ausencia del mismo en muchos kilómetros a la redonda, donde se conocen otros yacimientos. Estos rasgos nos permiten proponer que Valencina fue básicamente una necrópolis comarcal con sus posibles servicios anejos, y no un asentamiento propiamente dichoThe chalcolithic site of Valencina has some singular characteristics that it can hardly be interpreted as one more known settlement in the South of the Iberian peninsula. Its huge extension, its archeological record and the lack of clearly domestic structures give it a great singularity. On the other hand, the special abundance of the funerary documentation contrasts with the absence of the same in many kilometers around, where other sites are known. These features allow us to propose that Valencina was basically a comarcal necropolis with its possible ancillary services, and not a genuine settlemen

Non-invasive prospection methods in the Roman City of Balsa (Luz de Tavira-Portugal): revealing the real townscape

Ever since Estácio da Veiga, at the end of the 19th century, identified the ruins of the Roman city of Balsa under Torre d’Aires estate (Luz de Tavira-Portugal) and its surroundings, the scientific questions about this Roman city have been constantly increasing. Despite the historical importance of this city, referenced in classical literature, the archaeological knowledge about it remains very scarce due to the difficulties around implementing any durable scientific research projects. Therefore, much of that written about the topographical features and configuration of the city has no unequivocal scientific support. Finally, 2019 saw the launch of this ongoing project “Balsa, searching for the origins of the Algarve”, which aims to ascertain the main features concerning the city’s extent and configuration, mainly through non-invasive methods. Since 2017, geomagnetic and geo-radar surveys have spanned several hectares and successfully identified many traces of the Roman city while discarding the existence of others in certain locations. In the last two years, the geo-radar surveys have intensified and established the boundaries to the Roman city as well as parts of its layout, remnants of buildings, and even fossilised agricultural crops in addition to other geophysical anomalies, whether or not they are subsequently confirmed by diagnostic pits.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The Iron Age Necropolis of El Toro (Alcubillas, Ciudad Real-Spain)—Combination of Archaeological and Geophysical Techniques with Ground Penetrating Radar in the Area around the Jabalón River.

The necropolis of El Toro is characterised as a space of prolonged use in northern Oretania. Several important archaeological finds were made in 1975 and 2012, leading to the excavation of six test pits in 2017. Based on the existing legacy data, an extension of the state of knowledge was carried out by combining several geophysical tools. The geophysical tools chosen for this sample consist of a combination of data from two different georadar systems, to which data from a magnetometer survey is added. A series of post-processes are applied to the preliminary results to improve the visualisation and interpretation of the data. The combination of these techniques used at the site is an improvement that helps us to understand these spaces and their interaction with the historical landscape of La Mancha

Els Ecles-La Rana/Les Puntes: un ejemplo de paisaje rural de producción en la Vall de Xàbia (Gata de Gorgos, Alacant)

PAIRO. Paisajes romanos en el sur de la provincia tarraconense. Análisis arqueológico de la estructura territorial y modelo socioeconómico (PID2019-107264GB-100

Exploración geofísica GPR en dos iglesias renacentistas andaluzas: San Sebastián de Puerto Real (Cádiz) y San Sebastián de Estepa (Sevilla)

The aims of the present work is to inform in two GPR geophysical surveys carried out in the subsoil of two Andalusian Renaissance churcheswith a bifrequency georradar GPR equipment, which have allowed to determine the existence of events possibly associated to the Christianburial world and modern/contemporary modifications. The detection in both churches of elements such as crypts and individual burials,as well as their disposition and location within the priority spaces of the period, confirm the effectiveness of the application of noninvasiveresearch techniques in the study of the building substrate in this type of construction. The work has also managed to identify possible structural reinforcements of pillars, extension works and/or modifications possibly undertaken in modern times, all of which are underground.The results of the geophysics of both cases allow us to conclude that there are multiple constructive similarities following their chronological parity and with the transformations that are carried out in the churches in modern times, a product of the customs and rites of theChristian world and the policies of rationalization of space.At the same time, the research has allowed a significant improvement in the establishment of the methodology for obtaining GPR data insidereligious buildings, with the use of relative georeference systems and other auxiliary means. Consequently, the optimal performances, theappropriate GPR data densities for the correct obtaining of results and the advantages of the use of a bifrequency GPR system 200 MHz 600 MHz are defined

El establecimiento rústico alto-imperial de Miramundo (Puerto Real, Cádiz). Un caso de estudio mediante combinación de técnicas de investigación no invasivas

We present a case study through the combined application of noninvasive research techniques on the Roman rural site of Miramundo(Puerto Real, Cádiz). The results of the geophysical prospection with multichannel georadar are offered for the definition of the archaeological structure discovered, together with the results of a surface microprospection with centimeter GPS over the location area of this Romanimperial building. The main objective is to advance, through the combination of both techniques, in the formulation of functional hypothesesabout the documented constructive spaces, as part of the methodological development of NonInvasive HistoricalArchaeological Research