The Food Technology and Engineering Research Group of the University of Cadiz and the “From Turdetania to Baetica” research group of the University of Seville offer the public the opportunity to learn about the production methods of some of the most common foods of high Imperial Roman gastronomy, such as wine, salted fish and garum.
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The first edition of this Congress dedicated specifically to the history and culture of the world of food has the slogan “Spices, sailors and civilisation”, focusing on the theme of the V Centenary of the first round-the-world voyage, although not exclusively, as other aspects such as food in ancient Egypt and Rome will also be included.
The conference is part of the project “600 quintals: the historical weight of a voyage around the world” *, which aims to disseminate the historical context, and other aspects such as music, literature and food of an era coinciding with the voyage of exploration and discovery that Magellan and Elcano undertook. A voyage that changed the world forever and that, in a way, was the beginning of what we now call “globalisation”. Thus, the commemoration of the V Centenary is the recognition of a feat that facilitated the circulation and exchange of different foods, ideas and arts around the planet.
* 600 quintals” was the cargo of spices that the ship Victoria, the vessel that completed the first round-the-world voyage, transported to Seville at the end of its voyage (1522).
André Carneiro (University of Évora)
IX Lusitania International Round Table. Roman Lusitania: from past to present research.
Francisco Javier Sánchez-Palencia (Institute of History, CCHS of the CSIC).
IX Lusitania International Round Table. Roman Lusitania: from past to present research.
Our intention with this Study Day is to offer some insight into the dialogue between the Greek world and the Iberian sphere. Let us recall the magnificent images, including female ones, which the Iberians bought, looked at and integrated into their tombs, houses and sanctuaries. These images, signs of status, may or may not have been assimilated into the Iberian iconographic language. On this occasion, we will deal with the various questions that these contacts raise in current research.
The purpose of the seminar is to address the concept of the soul in different areas of the ancient world -Greece, India and Egypt- and in different contexts -literary, philosophical, religious- based on the analysis of written and iconographic sources. The seminar is aimed at high school and university students and the general public. Each participant will have a 15-minute presentation followed by a brief discussion. This will be followed by a guided tour of various pieces in the Museum that illustrate the passage of the deceased to the Afterlife.
The mining-metallurgical centre of Cerro de los Almadenes is located southwest of the village of Otero de Herreros and since 2009 several members of the Spanish Society for the History of Archaeology (SEHA) have been excavating at this site.
The archaeological work has located copper mines and a battery of ore reduction furnaces of a type hitherto unknown on the peninsula. The excavations have documented structures and materials dating mainly from the Late Republican, High-Imperial and Late Antique periods, although there are also remains from the 6th century BC. Monetary finds and the sculpture of a seated lady with her head removed also stand out.
In this conference we will deal with a series of Roman constructions that until now have not been analysed with the attention they deserve and therefore have not been well interpreted. The most recognisable remains of these, excavated in the coastal rock, can be found in the northern half of the Alicante coast in the towns of Jávea, Calpe, El Campello and Alicante (the latter next to the Roman city of Lucentum). A new installation of this type has also recently been proposed at Cape Trafalgar (Cádiz), although with less obvious remains than those in Alicante.
Numerous nurseries are scattered along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and there is very little evidence of both types of constructions in the same place. In reality, most of the nurseries were part of sumptuous maritime villas, an element that made them stand out as an expression of maximum luxury and ostentation.
The scarcity and uniqueness of these Roman constructions on the Iberian Peninsula, even with their remarkable monumentality and almost all of them grouped together in a very specific stretch of the Spanish Mediterranean coast, are strong arguments for proposing measures for their conservation. In recent years we have witnessed the partial destruction of some nurseries in El Campello due to marine erosion and others, for the same reason, are in danger of disappearing.
Audiovisual introduction to the urban world in Roman Hispania. Visual image of urban and monumental development
Food. This paper presents the research and physical reproduction process followed by the Baetica and Flor de Garum teams (made up of researchers from the University of Cadiz and the University of Seville), aimed at obtaining these foods, which formed part of the diet of Roman society.
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