RT journal article
T1 Transport and distribution of heavy loads in ancient times: Estremoz Marbles in the Roman province of Lusitania
A1 Trapero Fernández, Pedro
A1 Carneiro, André
A1 Moreira, Noel
A2 HistoriaGeografía y Filosofía
K1 Estremoz marbles; GIS; Lusitania; Roman times; Transport and distribution
K1 Estremoz marbles
K1 Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
K1 Lusitania
K1 Roman times
K1 Transport and distribution
AB This article analyses the distribution of Estremoz marble from the production centers to the redistribution ports and consumption areas. The marble of the Estremoz Anticline is the most important of the Roman province of Lusitania, and one most of the Hispania, located over150 km from the coast. This product was exploited and distributed to several cities in Roman Hispania and North Africa. This article examines how this transport was carried out by land and river, calculating the economic costs involved. To do this, it is used several Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools in order to find the optimal routes and discuss the transport for heavy loads, relating the mobility to the cumulative economic cost of displacement.
PB Elsevier
SN 2352-409X
YR 2023
FD 2023-02
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/28764
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/28764
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 13-nov-2026