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abundant, together with small forest patches of holm and/or cork oak. In these ecosystems, human communities collected firewood for domestic purposes, while heath was being carefully selected to be used as fuel in metallurgy. Moreover, fruit/seed remains demonstrate that barley and wheat, as well as figs, were being consumed, although it is not possible to evaluate neither the scale of production nor its impact in the landscape.
Keywords: Iron Age, Roman Period, Islamic Period, Archaeobotany
shapes that have been designated as ›ovoid types‹ and ›early Lusitanian‹, which are related to the late Republican ovoid types (mainly the Baetican ones), up to the early imperial Dressel 7/11 and Haltern 70 types. To date, manufacture can be linked to the Sado and Tagus Valleys, as well as to Peniche. From the middle of the 1st century onward, however, the main amphora type known in these regions is the Dressel 14 type. This is also the period when this amphora seems to have achieved an established position in the internal market of Lusitania, with a significant role in both urban and rural areas, as well as in western and central Mediterranean markets.
From the second half of the 2nd century onward, there was a clear modification in both the fish salt production structures and in the amphora shapes, which now diversified, with new ones being related to new products, such as wine.
Some forms occur in different modules that correspond to different capacities, as seems to be the case of the Lusitana 3, Almagro 51C, and Algarve 1 type. This reveals how the workshops operated in direct connection with the fish-salting units as well as with the wine producers. The role of market pressure is also discussed in this context.
estudos & memórias 20.
Lisboa: UNIARQ/FL-UL.
A collaboration between the Centre for Classical Studies, the Centre for Archaeology (School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon), and the National Museum of Archaeology.
Proceedings of a seminar / workshop held in Seixal (Portugal), in 2010.
abundant, together with small forest patches of holm and/or cork oak. In these ecosystems, human communities collected firewood for domestic purposes, while heath was being carefully selected to be used as fuel in metallurgy. Moreover, fruit/seed remains demonstrate that barley and wheat, as well as figs, were being consumed, although it is not possible to evaluate neither the scale of production nor its impact in the landscape.
Keywords: Iron Age, Roman Period, Islamic Period, Archaeobotany
shapes that have been designated as ›ovoid types‹ and ›early Lusitanian‹, which are related to the late Republican ovoid types (mainly the Baetican ones), up to the early imperial Dressel 7/11 and Haltern 70 types. To date, manufacture can be linked to the Sado and Tagus Valleys, as well as to Peniche. From the middle of the 1st century onward, however, the main amphora type known in these regions is the Dressel 14 type. This is also the period when this amphora seems to have achieved an established position in the internal market of Lusitania, with a significant role in both urban and rural areas, as well as in western and central Mediterranean markets.
From the second half of the 2nd century onward, there was a clear modification in both the fish salt production structures and in the amphora shapes, which now diversified, with new ones being related to new products, such as wine.
Some forms occur in different modules that correspond to different capacities, as seems to be the case of the Lusitana 3, Almagro 51C, and Algarve 1 type. This reveals how the workshops operated in direct connection with the fish-salting units as well as with the wine producers. The role of market pressure is also discussed in this context.
estudos & memórias 20.
Lisboa: UNIARQ/FL-UL.
A collaboration between the Centre for Classical Studies, the Centre for Archaeology (School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon), and the National Museum of Archaeology.
Proceedings of a seminar / workshop held in Seixal (Portugal), in 2010.
Palabras Clave: Cerámicas importadas; Ánforas; Guadiana; Arade; Sado; Mira; Tajo.
Summary: Some examples are presented of how the rivers of Southern Lusitania were means of distribution of imported cera-mics. The main rivers of Southern Lusitania have urban centres at their mouths and estuary bottoms, which were places of reception and redistribution of imported ceramics, in close relationship. Some examples are presented: Anas (Guadiana), with the interaction of Baesuris (Castro Marim) and Myrtilis (Mértola); Callipus (Sado), with the interaction Caetobriga/Tróia and Salacia (Alcácer do Sal); Tagus (Tejo), with the interaction Olisipo (Lisbon) and Scallabis (Santarém). Even in smaller rivers, this diffusion towards the interior is notorious, as in the cases of the Arade or Mira rivers. These large rivers generated estuary economies, with multiple interactive settlement points. The reception and diffusion of ceramics can be seen in its presence in harbours and inland settlements reached by navigable rivers. These places were, in turn, redistribution centres for wider inland territories.
Key words: Redistribution; Imported ceramics; Amphoras; Guadiana; Arade; Sado; Mira; Tagus.
era, with space (territory studies) and time (searching settlement dynamics) being central issues, chiefly for the first Roman rural settlement but also for Late Antiquity. Some comments on new research directions, such as monetary circulation (also a heritage from the
S. Cucufate / Vidigueira project) and zooarchaeological research, crucial for landscape studies, economic exploitation, but also to perceive the land owners cultural habits.
Resumen: Se presenta un panorama historiográfico del estudio de las villae romanas en Portugal, desde las primeras excavaciones y estudios, donde Abel Viana es excepción en un panorama general pobre de
agenda de investigación y método, hasta el cambio mayor que supuso el proyecto de S. Cucufate / Vidigueira.
Con el proyecto de S. Cucufate / Vidigueira comienza un nuevo tiempo, donde el espacio (estudios de territorio) y el tiempo (reconocimiento de dinámicas de poblamiento) se vuelven centrales, con particular destaque para los comienzos de la colonización de los campos y para los cambios de la Tarda Antigüedad. Finalmente, se hace un breve repaso por algunas de las más novedosas líneas de investigación,
como la circulación monetaria (también una herencia del proyecto de S. Cucufate / Vidigueira) y los estudios arqueozoológicos, relevantes para el conocimiento del paisaje, de la explotación económica, pero también de los hábitos culturales de los propietarios.
the Twentieth Century. However, both for being published in Portuguese and small-circulation journals that information remain unaware by the
scientific community and was ignored by all the subsequent debates on the origin and spread of that new technology. Neither the papers from Curwen nor did the Gordon Childe’s seminal paper mention the querns from the Lower Mondego River valley Iron Age sites. The same happened in more recent debates on the subject. Even in Portugal, the data from the lower Mondego River sites was ignored.
By their dimensions and also by its mechanical system, with a horizontal hole for the handle, the rotary querns from Santa Olaia are different
from those found at the Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, the supposed area of origin of this type of querns.
So revisiting the evidence provided by Santos Rocha’s excavations, I hope to reopen the debate on the origin and spread of the manual rotary
querns in the Iberian Peninsula.
Resumo:
Nos trabalhos que realizou nos povoados da Idade do Ferro do baixo Mondego, Santos Rocha recolheu as que serão no estado atual dos conhecimentos as mais antigas mós circulares manuais do ocidente da Península Ibérica. Consciente da relevância destes dados, publicou
nos inícios do século XX dois trabalhos sobre o tema. Contudo, por se tratar de publicações em língua portuguesa e em periódicos de limitada
circulação, estas relevantes informações passaram despercebidas, não se inscrevendo nos debates posteriores sobre a origem e difusão desta
tecnologia. Nem os trabalhos de Curwen nem o de Childe incorporam a informação do baixo Mondego, nem tampouco os mais recentes estudos e debates sobre o tema o fizeram. Mesmo na produção portuguesa dedicada à história dos sistemas de moagem a informação do baixo Mondego não foi particularmente valorizada.
Os moinhos de Santa Olaia, pelas suas dimensões e mecanismo rotativo, são distintos dos mais antigos moinhos circulares manuais da área Ibérica do NE peninsular, supostamente a área nuclear de criação/difusão. Assim, reabilitando a obra de Santos Rocha, relança-se o debate sobre os focos de origem e difusão desta nova tecnologia
na Península Ibérica.
Abstract:
Portugal was pioneer in the making of a general law protecting de material remains from the past, by Royal Decree from 1721, due to the Royal Academy of Portuguese History. The 1721 law protected all the material remains form the past, Phoenicians, Romans, Goths, and Muslims, on behalf of the Nation. Despite the renew of the law, in 1802, it proved to be always ineffectual.
On the first half of the Nineteen Century, with the modern positivist historiography and the French influence of the historical monument concept, the previous legal tradition was forgotten and a brand new concept of National Monument was born, centered on Mediaeval buildings, the so-called “castle and abbey” binominal. The first proposal for a National Monuments list almost ignore the archaeological remains except the megaliths. This new concept created by the intellectual Liberals was the pattern for the National Monuments policy of the authoritarian regime (Estado Novo).
Resumo:
Portugal foi pioneiro na criação de legislação genérica de defesa dos vestígios materiais do passado, pelo Decreto de 1721, suscitado pela Real Academia da História Portuguesa. A lei de 1721 protegia em nome do interesse nacional todos os vestígios materiais do passado, fenícios, romanos, godos, árabes. Apesar da legislação ter de análogo teor de 1802, foi sempre ineficaz nos seus propósitos.
Na primeira metade do século XIX, com o nascimento da moderna historiografia positivista e com a influência francesa do conceito de monumento histórico, a tradição legislativa anterior foi totalmente esquecida e nasceu um novo conceito de Monumento Nacional, valorizando o edifício medieval, o binómio “castelo e abadia”. A primeira proposta de uma lista de monumentos nacionais portugueses praticamente ignora os vestígios arqueológicos, com a excepção dos monumentos megalíticos. Este conceito gerado nos meios intelectuais do Liberalismo foi a matriz da política dos Monumentos Nacionais do regime autoritário do Estado Novo.
This paper deals with the identification of some examples of a not well known late amphora type called “La Orden”.
This amphora was produced at the outskirts of Huelva (formerly Onuba) and it’s a good indicator for the
persistence of fish based products production and distribution from Baetica’s western area (nowadays western
Andalusia) from late Fifth Century until the first half of the Sixth Century. From several ceramic assemblages
where this amphora type was recently identified we essay some comments on import contexts and diffusion
routes in the southernmost area of Lusitania (nowadays Portuguese Algarve).
Keywords: Algarve, Baetica, Late Antiquity, Amphorae, La Orden, Economy.
Capital. In that essay I have commented on the major historic landmarks on Lisbon’s archaeology but also in its major present
constrains.
Twenty one years after, the archaeological activity has change a lot as its legal and institutional framework. Lisbon’s archaeology
has grown exponentially but also has grown its public visibility and the challenges posed by the urban dynamics.
The present communication essays a new critical survey on the last twenty one years of Lisbon’s archaeology, commenting
on its main problems: more reaction than predictive action, with heritage damages and losses; too much agents acting but no
central coordination and information control; a clear difficulty on passing the fresh new data for the general historical discourse on
Lisbon; a notorious incapacity to deal with the archaeological remains and use them as actual historical heritage.
The multicultural town with its three thousand years of existence, cross path between Atlantic and Mediterranean, gate of
Europe to the rest of the world and entrance of the world into Europe that archaeological activity constantly shows is not part of
Lisbon’s postcard.
KEY WORDS:
Lisbon, Archaeology, History, Cultural Heritage.
A detailed analysis of morphological features of the later one allows the proposal of a new amphora type called Algarve 1, also produced in other kiln centres of the region, such as Martinhal (Sagres), Lagos and S. João da Venda (Loulé).
A detailed description of Algarve 1 morphology suggests the existence of two different modules for this container used to transport fish sauces and exported to the Southern and Eastern areas of the Iberian Peninsula and probably also to other Mediterranean areas in Late Antiquity
As time passed, new and more refined classification and study tools were acquired and the both local and imported items were combined for a better understanding of the role ceramics could have played in Roman Lusitania. The sixties and the seventies of the twentieth Century can be seen as crucial for the growing quality of Roman ceramics research,
and then Roman wares were seen as relevant sources of information for the history of Roman Empire.
understanding the design of internal communication network.
últimos años, ello se debe, sobre todo, al estudio de las ánforas en las que se transportaron algunos de los alimentos básicos del mundo antiguo mediterráneo: aceite, vino y salazones de pescado. Estos estudios han generado nuevas perspectivas
sobre la organización de la producción de estos alimentos y las regiones desde dónde proceden, del comercio interprovincial y,
en particular, una nueva discusión sobre el papel de la administración romana en el control y distribución de estos productos, a través de la praefectura annonae. En última instancia han contribuido a estudiar la interacción entre producción y comercio de alimentos y evolución administrativa y política del Imperio Romano. Esta jornada tiene como finalidad: Realizar una revisión general de lo realizado desde el CEIPAC en este campo. Presentar y proponer los nuevos métodos de trabajo que pretende desarrollar el proyecto EPNet. Al mismo tiempo que se invita a cuantos colegas estén interesados en discutir estas ideas y participar en el desarrollo del proyecto.
During the last decades, the study of the amphorae, containers of basic dietary items such as olive oil, wine and fish sauce, has drawn scholarly attention to questions of production and distribution of food during the Roman Empire. These
studies have contributed to new perspectives for the understanding of organization of production and
distribution, as well as the interprovincial trade. In particular, these studies have shed new light on the role of Roman
administration in the control and distribution, through the praefectura annonae. Ultimately, these studies have
facilitated the study of the interaction of production and trade with the evolution of the administration and politics in the
Roman Empire. The main aim of this event is to examine
the latest work developed by CEIPAC. It also aims to present and suggest the innovative framework developed in the
EPNet project. At the same time we would like to encourage all participant engagement by discussing these ideas.
The paper presents a brief synthesis on how was built the actual knowledge about the Roman town of Felicitas
Iulia Olisipo, underneath modern Lisbon (Portugal). An Atlantic city located in the mouth of Tagus River, and a
major port of Lusitania.
Felicitas Iulia Olisipo was first just one town name in classical literature. A place of some relevant historical
events described by Strabo and also a place of mirabilia, according to Pliny the Elder. Was also a place name
inscribed in some Latin epigraphs recorded by scholars. From the actual Ancient Roman town, just the notice of
one Roman dam was mentioned, in the context of all the studies related to the new water supply system that
should be done to Lisbon. Documents and studies about the water supply system, from the Sixteenth to the
Eighteenth Centuries always put on the table the hypothesis of following the ancient Roman piping. It looks like
the Roman aqueduct was still visible in those times, at least in some of its sections.
After the great 1755 earthquake, the reconstruction of the town revealed a couple of monumental public
buildings. First, a cryptoporticus that now we know was the substructure of the monumental Bath house of the
Port, then another great public baths, the so called thermae cassiorum, from an epigraph found there; and, at the
end, the theatre. Despite some intents from an Italian Architect to preserve in situ the theatre ruins, all three
monuments were not preserved. On one hand, due to the necessity of building the new town of Lisbon, on the
other hand, for all the political instability of the early Nineteenth Century (the Napoleonic invasions and the
displacement of the Portuguese crown to Brazil, then the civil war between Liberals and Absolutists). These
discoveries related to the rebuilding of the town are important for the knowledge of Felicitas Iulia Olisipo major
public buildings, but it is rather strange why no private houses with stucco paintings and mosaics and neither the
fish salted tanks related to the fish processing factories, archaeological structures that we now know are very
frequent at the down town, were noticed and recorded during the huge process of reconstruction. It looks they
didn’t attracted the scholars attention.
From the second half of Nineteenth Century to de end of Twentieth Century, few attention or protection was
payed to the Roman town. Some rescue excavations were done: at a large necropolis and at some remains of the
circus found during the works to set the first Metro network or the Roman theatre once again discovered, but no
actual policy for archaeological remains preservation was settled. In this period, many studies were published on
the history of Lisbon, some with relevant interest to the better understanding of the Roman town, but they deal
chiefly with already published information, not searching nor using new fresh data.
At the end of the Twentieth Century, when Lisbon was the European Cultural Capital (1994), a great exhibition
done, named “Subterraneous Lisbon”, was important to put the Archaeological remains underneath the modern
town on the media agenda and in full display to the so called general public, but it was also a clear proof of the
few progresses in the Roman town knowledge all over de Twentieth Century, as the exhibition exposes chiefly
what was already known at the beginning of the Century, with no relevant fresh information besides the
recognition of the relevant fish processing (salsamenta) industry of Felicitas Iulia Olisipo.
In the last decades, the changing in Portuguese archaeological activity legislation produced a major change. We
pass from some accidental rescue excavations to contract excavations to be done previous to any subsoil
* Felicitas Ivlia Olisipo (Lisboa): o grande porto da Lusitania.
** Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Centro de Arqueologia (Uniarq). cfabiao@campus.ul.pt
Esta publicação foi financiada por fundos nacionais através da FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., no âmbito do Projecto
UIDB/00698/2020 / This work was financed by Portuguese funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, in the framework
of the Project UIDB/00698/2020
— 110 —
Felicitas Ivlia Olisipo
1 Faria, 2001: 353-355; Fernandes; Fernandes, 2020.
2 Geog. III, 3, 1, Deserto; Marques, 2019: 59-60.
3 Plínio-o-Velho, Nat.: 4.116; Guerra, 1995; Guerra, 2019a.
4 Plínio-o-Velho, Nat.: 9. 9; Guerra, 1995; Guerra, 2019a.
5 Plínio-o-Velho, 4, 113; Guerra, 1995; Guerra, 2019a.
6 Fernandes, 1985; Guerra; Cachão; Freitas, 2019, particularmente Guerra, 2019b.
7 Góis, [1554], 1988.
8 Silva, 1944, com extensas referências às diferentes descobertas de epígrafes, p. 10-39.
9 D’Hollanda [1571], 1984.
intervention. We pass also from amateur and academic archaeology to professional archaeology. Many different
agents in many different conditions and situations worked from then on in Lisbon. The major renewal of the
historic buildings, increased chiefly by touristic demand, produced a huge amount of new excavations.
Nowadays the Roman town is better known day by day by the several urban excavation done in the context of
urban rehabilitation. Unfortunately, excavations are much more than the recommended publication of the results
and there is some lack of truly historical knowledge coming from all that activity. We have now much more dots
related to Roman occupation in the modern urban map, but those dots didn’t mean truly information about the
historical sequences of building / transformations / abandonment, what we expect to know from any
archaeological excavation.
In the last years Lisbon municipality was aware of the problem and creates a new institution, the Centro de
Arqueologia de Lisboa (CAL), aiming to centralize and managed the huge amount of new information generated
by the new excavation dynamics. The CAL launch a new cycle of Conferences on Lisbon Archaeology (two of
them already done and a third one in preparation) with the aim of sharing information about the progresses of
urban archaeology (not just about the Roman period, but all periods considered). It was launched a research /
divulgation Project, Lisboa Romana / Felicitas Iulia Olisipo with a coherent program of publication and
dissemination of the knowledge on the Roman town. So, we may be optimists about the future of the knowledge
of the many towns underneath the modern Lisbon, including Felicitas Iulia Olisipo.
The paper presents a brief synthesis on how was built the actual knowledge about the Roman town of Felicitas
Iulia Olisipo, underneath modern Lisbon (Portugal). An Atlantic city located in the mouth of Tagus River, and a
major port of Lusitania.
Felicitas Iulia Olisipo was first just one town name in classical literature. A place of some relevant historical
events described by Strabo and also a place of mirabilia, according to Pliny the Elder. Was also a place name
inscribed in some Latin epigraphs recorded by scholars. From the actual Ancient Roman town, just the notice of
one Roman dam was mentioned, in the context of all the studies related to the new water supply system that
should be done to Lisbon. Documents and studies about the water supply system, from the Sixteenth to the
Eighteenth Centuries always put on the table the hypothesis of following the ancient Roman piping. It looks like
the Roman aqueduct was still visible in those times, at least in some of its sections.
After the great 1755 earthquake, the reconstruction of the town revealed a couple of monumental public
buildings. First, a cryptoporticus that now we know was the substructure of the monumental Bath house of the
Port, then another great public baths, the so called thermae cassiorum, from an epigraph found there; and, at the
end, the theatre. Despite some intents from an Italian Architect to preserve in situ the theatre ruins, all three
monuments were not preserved. On one hand, due to the necessity of building the new town of Lisbon, on the
other hand, for all the political instability of the early Nineteenth Century (the Napoleonic invasions and the
displacement of the Portuguese crown to Brazil, then the civil war between Liberals and Absolutists). These
discoveries related to the rebuilding of the town are important for the knowledge of Felicitas Iulia Olisipo major
public buildings, but it is rather strange why no private houses with stucco paintings and mosaics and neither the
fish salted tanks related to the fish processing factories, archaeological structures that we now know are very
frequent at the down town, were noticed and recorded during the huge process of reconstruction. It looks they
didn’t attracted the scholars attention.
From the second half of Nineteenth Century to de end of Twentieth Century, few attention or protection was
payed to the Roman town. Some rescue excavations were done: at a large necropolis and at some remains of the
circus found during the works to set the first Metro network or the Roman theatre once again discovered, but no
actual policy for archaeological remains preservation was settled. In this period, many studies were published on
the history of Lisbon, some with relevant interest to the better understanding of the Roman town, but they deal
chiefly with already published information, not searching nor using new fresh data.
At the end of the Twentieth Century, when Lisbon was the European Cultural Capital (1994), a great exhibition
done, named “Subterraneous Lisbon”, was important to put the Archaeological remains underneath the modern
town on the media agenda and in full display to the so called general public, but it was also a clear proof of the
few progresses in the Roman town knowledge all over de Twentieth Century, as the exhibition exposes chiefly
what was already known at the beginning of the Century, with no relevant fresh information besides the
recognition of the relevant fish processing (salsamenta) industry of Felicitas Iulia Olisipo.
In the last decades, the changing in Portuguese archaeological activity legislation produced a major change. We
pass from some accidental rescue excavations to contract excavations to be done previous to any subsoil
* Felicitas Ivlia Olisipo (Lisboa): o grande porto da Lusitania.
** Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Centro de Arqueologia (Uniarq). cfabiao@campus.ul.pt
Esta publicação foi financiada por fundos nacionais através da FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., no âmbito do Projecto
UIDB/00698/2020 / This work was financed by Portuguese funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, in the framework
of the Project UIDB/00698/2020
— 110 —
Felicitas Ivlia Olisipo
1 Faria, 2001: 353-355; Fernandes; Fernandes, 2020.
2 Geog. III, 3, 1, Deserto; Marques, 2019: 59-60.
3 Plínio-o-Velho, Nat.: 4.116; Guerra, 1995; Guerra, 2019a.
4 Plínio-o-Velho, Nat.: 9. 9; Guerra, 1995; Guerra, 2019a.
5 Plínio-o-Velho, 4, 113; Guerra, 1995; Guerra, 2019a.
6 Fernandes, 1985; Guerra; Cachão; Freitas, 2019, particularmente Guerra, 2019b.
7 Góis, [1554], 1988.
8 Silva, 1944, com extensas referências às diferentes descobertas de epígrafes, p. 10-39.
9 D’Hollanda [1571], 1984.
intervention. We pass also from amateur and academic archaeology to professional archaeology. Many different
agents in many different conditions and situations worked from then on in Lisbon. The major renewal of the
historic buildings, increased chiefly by touristic demand, produced a huge amount of new excavations.
Nowadays the Roman town is better known day by day by the several urban excavation done in the context of
urban rehabilitation. Unfortunately, excavations are much more than the recommended publication of the results
and there is some lack of truly historical knowledge coming from all that activity. We have now much more dots
related to Roman occupation in the modern urban map, but those dots didn’t mean truly information about the
historical sequences of building / transformations / abandonment, what we expect to know from any
archaeological excavation.
In the last years Lisbon municipality was aware of the problem and creates a new institution, the Centro de
Arqueologia de Lisboa (CAL), aiming to centralize and managed the huge amount of new information generated
by the new excavation dynamics. The CAL launch a new cycle of Conferences on Lisbon Archaeology (two of
them already done and a third one in preparation) with the aim of sharing information about the progresses of
urban archaeology (not just about the Roman period, but all periods considered). It was launched a research /
divulgation Project, Lisboa Romana / Felicitas Iulia Olisipo with a coherent program of publication and
dissemination of the knowledge on the Roman town. So, we may be optimists about the future of the knowledge
of the many towns underneath the modern Lisbon, including Felicitas Iulia Olisipo.
Five sessions revolve around new insights from landscape archaeological projects, developments in the economy, the process of military expansion, processes of centralization and urbanization, and the ritual and religious sphere. A key goal of the conference is to discuss how the Portuguese panorama compares to other areas in the Iberian peninsula, and to foreground its contribution to current debates about Roman expansion and incorporation in the Central and Western Mediterranean.
With a view to assess the potential of integrating best practices in archaeological approaches and methodology, different national and disciplinary research traditions and historical frameworks will be explicitly discussed. As such, the conference aims to explore ways to collaborate more closely between various Mediterranean areas and research projects, and to develop a shared research agenda.