El trabajo artesanal en Augusta Emerita durante los ss. I-IV d. C

Abstract

Nowadays in the ancient Lusitanian capital it is possible to examine, besides the architectural remains of his public buildings and a set of a splendid mosaics in domestic areas, the evidences of other local productions to which till now it had not been granted to them any interest. In the present work we announce a synthesis of the archaeological existing evidences of the Emeritan craft during the ss. I-IV AD. This theme had been checked in an isolated and sporadic way. Here we value the structures, productive manners and possible evidences of the workforce. The constant excavations developed in the last decades have extracted to the light 33 ceramic ovens, 2 food mills, 7 fullonicae, 1 officina infectae, 4 glass workshops, 1 lanifricaria, 2 workshops of bone, 2 pistrinae, 2 metallurgical furnaces and 3 lime furnaces that allow the development of studies of certain importance. The textile industry, ceramic, nutritious or metallurgical are analyzed from a point of archaeologic view. Since then it has been possible to establish a distribution map of the different manufacturing areas and of its possible zones of influence.