Torregarcía, purpura y agua aplicación histórica de metodología no invasiva en una officina purpuraria en el litoral Almeriense (España)

• Format: eBook
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Oxford BAR Publishing 2023
• Series: BAR international series
• Subjects: Antiquities; Cleaning and dyeing industry; Dyes and dyeing; Excavations (Archaeology); History; Almería; Almería (Spain); Spain
• DOI: 10.30861/9781407360478
• ISBN: 9781407360478; 1407360477

Along the coast of the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, there are numerous remains linked to the manufacture of purple dyes. This study focuses on the site of Torregarcía (Almería, Spain), located in the Cabo de Gata-Nijar Natural Park, a protected coastal area of particular ecological interest. Torregarcía was initially excavated during 1980s and was identified as a Roman salting factory where the complementary activity of dyeing was also practised. Despite its importance, it has gone unnoticed in the historiography of the last three decades and has never been the subject of dedicated scientific publication. The investigations presented in this book have been carried out using non-invasive prospecting techniques, such as ground-penetrating radar (GPR), and have revealed the importance of the exploitation of purple dye as the main site activity.