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Submitted January 18, 2022
Published 2022-01-18

Artículos académicos

Vol. 1 No. 3 (2022): Revista Contacto

First Results of the Portitxol Archaeological Project, Xàbia, Alicante (Spain). A new Interpretation of the Bay of Portitxol and its Island


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Published: 2022-01-18

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Pérez Prefasi, A. J., & Blázquez Martínez, J. (2022). First Results of the Portitxol Archaeological Project, Xàbia, Alicante (Spain). A new Interpretation of the Bay of Portitxol and its Island. Revista Contacto, 1(3), 109–036. Retrieved from https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/contacto/article/view/2626

Abstract

In this article we present the advances obtained after the underwater archaeological campaigns carried out since 2019 in the bay of Portitxol in Xàbia, Alicante. This inlet is located at the easternmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula in a strategic point within the trade routes along the Levantine current coast and towards the eastern Mediterranean. The uniqueness of the island, which is located in the middle of the bay and which has been protected at a cultural level with the nomenclature of BIC, gives clues about a stable occupation in different chronological periods, but above all in the period of the lower Roman Empire (4rd-5th century). The actions carried out in its maritime environment have consisted of systematic surveys, detection of anomalies and documental techniques in some of the points with the highest concentration of archaeological materials, documenting more than a hundred anchors, amphorae cargoes and other heterogeneous remains. After three years of rigorous study and research, results have been obtained that provide evidence of a transcendental function that has not been documented to date, and which may have functioned in certain periods of history as a natural port of great importance, leading to a change of model in the comercial dynamics and socio-cultural relations of the peninsular east with the rest of the renowned Mare Nostrum.  

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