Roman use, petrography and elemental geochemistry of the Surco Intrabético limestones (western region of Málaga province, Spain)

José Beltrán Fortes ^[1] ; Esther Ontiveros Ortega ^[2] ; María Luisa Loza Azuaga ^[2] ; Manuel Romero Pérez ^[3]
1. [1] Universidad de Sevilla
  
  Universidad de Sevilla
  
  Sevilla, España
2. [2] Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico (IAPH), Sevilla
3. [3] Servicio de Arqueología, Ayuntamiento de Antequera, Málaga
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Localización: Interdisciplinary studies on ancient stone: proceedings of the IX Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA) Conference (Tarragona 2009) / coord. por Anna Gutiérrez García-Moreno, María Pilar Lapuente Mercadal, Isabel Rodà de Llanza, 2012, ISBN 978-84-939033-8-1, págs. 500-510
Idioma: inglés
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- This paper examines the white, pinkish-white to red limestones and breccias from the south-western sector of the Surco Intrabético (province of Málaga) which were exploited in Roman times. The quarry areas are located at El Torcal and Las Cabras hills (Antequera municipal district), Los Castillejos (Teba) and Peña Cerrada (Ronda). Evidence of ancient exploitation is preserved at Las Cabras and Peña Cerrada quarries. Our aim is the petrographic characterisation of the different limestones, as a first step to discriminate between these stones and similar ones from other limestone outcrops districts of this sector of the Penibaetic Chain, specifically in the provinces of Córdoba and Granada. Elemental geochemistry has been tested as a complementary description. These materials were, mostly, given a local and regional use in towns and "Villae" of this area of Roman Baetica, although in some cases they must have been distributed beyond this geographic sector, as is documented by some archaeological sites of the Guadalquivir Valley