Naviganti, merci e approdi nell'Adriatico meridionale

Abstract

In recent decades, there has been a
renewed interest in the study of the
Adriatic, increasingly analyzed as a
complex system thanks to the convergence
of a series of historical, archaeological,
anthropological, economic,
and political studies. The historiographical
focus of some of these studies
is the sea itself, examined through
its coastal landscapes, its routes,
the circulation of goods, people, and
ideas, and the stratification of its civilizations.
Research in coastal and underwater
landscape archaeology carried out
over the past twenty years in Albania
and Apulia, aimed at the creation of
an archaeological map of the southern
Adriatic coasts, has made it possible
to investigate several sites of particular
interest that were almost completely
unexplored: port facilities of
commercial and military character,
natural bays suitable for anchorage
used as temporary shelters, subsidiary
landings and/or small commercial
ports, landing places connected to
places of worship, and sites of stone
extraction and quarrying.