Objetivo
The present project aims at presenting an interdisciplinary way of looking at the history of the African grain in Roman age, in particular from the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD, starting from the data that can be found at archaeological level. The project of starting a new research arises from the lack of a comprehensive study, sufficiently updated and complete, considered all noticeable evidence emerged from the excavations of the past forty years. The present study intends to develop and to deeply investigate grain provision in the Roman provinces of the Mediterranean coasts/shores in North Africa (actual Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt), shifting the perspective to the study of granaries as containers, to their technological aspects and productive contexts. The matter of this project will be techniques of construction, interior arrangement/layout, storage system, evaluation of thermo-igrometric conditions, grain species, climatic conditions, lithology and pedology of the soils. Where were the store buildings located? Who built them and which were the architectures and techniques used? How were the seeds preserved? How was the production organized? Which were the best soils? Which were the cultivated species? The innovation of the project consists in using different methodologies: archaeological investigation; stratigraphic analysis and application technologies; geophysical prospection (magnetic method); use of the custom-made softwares to calculate storage capacity of the building and to evaluation of thermo-igrometric conditions. During the project will be carried out the geoarchaeological study (paleo-environmental conditions of the site, dynamics and the evolution of soils) and the anthropological investigation of traditional storage system. Another important aspect of this project is to understand the grain commerce that was developed at regional level and at a long distance level.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologylithology
- humanitieshistory and archaeologyhistory
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturegrains and oilseeds
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencessoil sciencespedology
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommerce
Tema(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF
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Régimen de financiación
MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)Coordinador
13284 Marseille
Francia