This workshop-seminar organised in Strasbourg will be focusing on the archaeology and geoarchaeology of Cádiz. New sedimentary cores drilled in a marine palaeochannel crossing the city in Antiquity will be discussed. Researchers from the University of Cádiz, the CNRS, the ENGEES, and the University of Strasbourg will be present.

Presentation

This workshop-seminar organised in Strasbourg will be focusing on the archaeology and geoarchaeology of Cádiz. New sedimentary cores drilled in a marine palaeochannel crossing the city in Antiquity will be discussed. Researchers from the University of Cádiz, the CNRS, the ENGEES, and the University of Strasbourg will be present.

This event is organised in the context of the project Retracer la paléotopographie et l’histoire de Cadix à travers ses archives sédimentaires under the framework of the IdEx Unistra (Université de Strasbourg) and supported by the investments for the future program of the French Government. It is oragnised in collaboration with the University of Cádiz.

Programme

MORNING – DATA AND METHODOLOGY - WORKSHOP

THE PALAEOCHANNEL OF Cádiz: PRELIMINARY RESULTS

• 9:00 – 9:10 – Introduction – Dr. Ferréol Salomon and Dr. Gilles Rixhon
• 9:15 – 9:25 – Historical context of the area of the Valcárcel building - Dr. Jose Juan Díaz-Rodríguez
• 9:30 – 9:40 – Results from the archaeological trenches excavated in the Valcárcel building - Dr. Macarena Lara-Medina
• 9:45 – 9:55 – Geoarchaeological corings & chronology of the palaeochannel of Cádiz – Prof. Darío Bernal
• 10:00 – 10:10 – Depositional contexts in the palaeochannel of Cadiz – Dr. Ferréol Salomon & Martine Trautmann
• 10:15 – 10:25 – Archaeometry and petroarchaeology: X-Ray diffraction, optical microscopy of the Valcárcel cores – Prof. Salvador Domínguez-Bella, Javier Martinez Lopez, Angel Sanchez Bellón
• 10:30 – 10.40 – Lipid analysis of a series of samples from the city of Cadix covering the last ca. 2500 yrs BP: Preliminary results from Val-2018-Core 2 – Dr. Pierre Adam & Dr. Philippe Schaeffer

10:45 – 11:00 - BREAK

• SPECIFIC METHODOLOGIES
• 11:00 – 11.10 – The portable OSL reader: a "new" method for innovating implications – Dr. Gilles Rixhon
• 11:15 – 11.25 – Tracking sediment origin with Mid-InfraRed Spectrometry technique (MIRS) - Dr. Damien Ertlen
• 11:30 – 11:40 – Identifying and characterising tsunami deposits with the technique of the Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) – Dr. Patrick Wassmer
• 11:45 – 11:55 – Cherchez la canne: could a poorly known reed be a biomarker of the Phoenician and Punic civilisations?  Laurent Hardion, Régine Verlaque, Bruno Vila, Ferréol Salomon, Jean-Philippe Goiran, Pierre Zalloua, Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat

12:00 – 14:00 – LUNCH BREAK

AFTERNOON - SEMINAR

• 14:00 – 14:15 – An interdisciplinary study of the palaeochannel of Cádiz - Dr. Ferréol Salomon, Dr. Darío Bernal-Casasola, Dr. Jose Juan Díaz-Rodríguez, Dr. Macarena Lara-Medina and Dr. Gilles Rixhon
• 14:15 – 14:45 -  Geological setting of the province and Bay of Cádiz – Prof. Salvador Domínguez-Bella, Javier Martinez Lopez, Angel Sanchez Bellón
• 14:50 – 15:20 - Phoenicians & Romans in the Fretum Gaditanum – Dr. Jose Juan Díaz-Rodríguez
• 15:25 – 15:55 - Gadir/Gades: urbanism of a historical city - Dr. Macarena Lara-Medina
• 16:00 – 16:30 - Amphorae & Garum: the evidence from the Halieutic Testaccio - Prof. Darío Bernal-Casasola