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    Qart-Hadasht: La "nueva capital" de Cartago en Iberia
    (Universidad Popular de Mazarrón, 2025) Ramallo Asensio, Sebastián Federico; Martin Camino, Miguel; López Ballesta, José María; Prehistoria, Arqueología, Historia Antigua, Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas; Cutillas Victoria, Benjamín; Ramallo Asensio, Sebastián Federico; Facultades de la UMU::Facultad de Letras
    In this paper the most significant features of the original topography of the city of Qart Hadasht are specified and defined through the results obtained in the Arqueotopos project. The archaeological findings from the Punic period, superimposed on the restituted orography, provide a glimpse of the configuration of the urban fabric and its adaptation to the natural environment by means of infrastructure works of considerable magnitude. These works helped overcoming the limitations imposed by a hostile, rugged environment with large depressed and easily flooded sectors. On the other hand, the characterisation of the barchid material contexts in the urban environment, based above all on tableware and transport containers, makes it possible to identify the deposits in the exploitation area with the same ceramic record and to correlate them with those of the city. The resources, typical of a semi-arid environment, are listed in the classical sources. The most important of these ones are the mining sites, which contain the greatest amount of material evidence from the pre-Roman period, and in particular the high peaks of heavy metal contamination of the urban subsoil dating back to the beginning of the first millennium BC.