Un asentamiento de época púnica en la campiña costera de la Bahía de Cádiz. Estructuras, fases de uso y contextos materiales de Puerto-19

Abstract

During 1996-1997 several rescue excavations resulted in the discovery of the main components of a Punic fish-salting facility located in the area of Pinar Hondo in the current city of El Puerto de Santa Maria (Cadiz, Spain). The results of the excavations were subsequently released in some preliminary reports that only featured a partial picture of the characteristics of the main structures and contexts of Puerto-19. The study of the items recovered (pottery, fishing gear, faunal remains, etc.) through 2008-2010 has made possible to review the first hypotheses and develop a new scheme of the evolution of the rural site, and as well to complete a deeper characterization of the material assemblages linked to the successive stratigraphic phases. Throughout three main stages, the settlement evolved from the second half of the 6th century until the last decades of the 3rd century BCE from a fish-processing facility (Building A) to a multifunctional structure (Building B), probably abandoned before the Roman conquest of the area during the Second Punic War.