The lagoon, the coastal space behind the dunes permanently or periodically flooded, or even dried up, has always been an environment with considerable possibilities for sustenance and settlement. The specialized productions established in these environments range from cultivation as saltworks to fish or shellfish (especially oysters) farming, to hunting. Salt stands out in particular as an essential component for the conservation of fish and for the production of purple, as evidenced by the contiguity between tuna traps and ancient salting tanks and the lagoons. On the basis of these assumptions, settlement phenomena have developed which have also led to the reclamation and regulation of the lagoons through the excavation of channels connecting with the riverbeds and the sea, which in many cases also had nautical routes as an implicit result. The availability of flooded or floodable spaces behind the dunes was also the prerequisite for the construction of ports based on the method of total or partial excavation of the basin in the land.
La laguna, lo spazio costiero retrodunale inondato permanentemente o periodicamente, o anche prosciugato, è da sempre un ambiente con notevoli possibilità di sostentamento e insediamento. Le produzioni specializzate che vi si attestano vanno dalla coltivazione a salina alla piscicoltura o molluschicoltura (soprattutto ostriche), alla caccia. Il sale si distingue in particolare come componente essenziale per la conservazione del pesce e per la produzione di porpora, come evidenziato dalla contiguità fra tonnare e antiche vasche da salagione e le lagune. Sulla base di questi presupposti si sono sviluppati fenomeni insediativi che hanno portato anche alla bonifica e regolazione delle lagune attraverso lo scavo di canali di collegamento con gli alvei fluviali e il mare, che in molti casi hanno avuto come esito anche implicita viabilità nautica. La disponibilità di spazi retrodunali allagati o allagabili è stato anche il presupposto per la realizzazione di porti basati sul metodo dello scavo totale o parziale del bacino in terraferma.
Lagune nel Mediterraneo antico. Materiali per un atlante
enrico felici
2023-01-01
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The lagoon, the coastal space behind the dunes permanently or periodically flooded, or even dried up, has always been an environment with considerable possibilities for sustenance and settlement. The specialized productions established in these environments range from cultivation as saltworks to fish or shellfish (especially oysters) farming, to hunting. Salt stands out in particular as an essential component for the conservation of fish and for the production of purple, as evidenced by the contiguity between tuna traps and ancient salting tanks and the lagoons. On the basis of these assumptions, settlement phenomena have developed which have also led to the reclamation and regulation of the lagoons through the excavation of channels connecting with the riverbeds and the sea, which in many cases also had nautical routes as an implicit result. The availability of flooded or floodable spaces behind the dunes was also the prerequisite for the construction of ports based on the method of total or partial excavation of the basin in the land.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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