FORNACIS at the International Scientific Meeting PLVMBVM HISPANIAE. Lead Production in Roman Hispania
The FORNACIS project was present at the international meeting PLVMBVM HISPANIAE, held in La Carolina (Jaén) on March 28 and 29, 2025. Team members A. Rodríguez Díaz, I. Pavón Soldevila, D. M. Duque Espino, M. Hunt Ortiz, A. Roldán Díaz, and Ester Boixereu i Vila presented a paper titled “The Exploitation of Argentiferous Galena in […]
FORNACIS, in a scientific meeting on protohistoric urban landscapes
The FORNACIS project will be present at the Scientific Meeting Urban Landscapes of Peninsular Protohistory: New Perspectives for a Comparative Anatomy (Mérida-Botija, May 26 and 27, 2023), coordinated by V. Mayoral (IAM-CSIC), I. Grau (UA) and J. P. Bellón (IUIAI-UJA). A. Rodríguez Díaz (G.I. PRETAGU-UEx) will present the communication entitled “FORNACIS Project: geophysical and archaeometallurgical […]
David Salguero Gordillo, incorporated into the FORNACIS Work Team
In December 2022, David Gordillo Salguero, a recent PhD in Antiquity Sciences (University of Salamanca) and currently an archaeologist at the company ANTA CB, has joined the FORNACIS Project Work Team. Said researcher will carry out the study of the classical sources on the conquest and integration of Beturia in the Roman world.
Cruces Blázquez (USAL), new researcher of the FORNACIS Project
At the end of October 2022, M.ª Cruces Blázquez Cerrato (G.I. HESPERIA, University of Salamanca) has joined the research team of the FORNACIS Project. Said researcher, specialist in Numismatics, will carry out the study of the coins that appeared in the excavations of the oppidum and the Hornachuelos-Fornacis necropolis, their integration in the already known […]
Geo-mining and archaeological surveys in the surroundings of Fornacis
Between June 6 and 10, 2022, we have carried out geo-mining and archaeological surveys in the surroundings of Hornachuelos-Fornacis. These works are included in Objective A.4. «Mining-metallurgical characterization of the Sierra de Hornachos». Ester Boixereu (IGME), Mark Hunt (US), Alonso Rodríguez (UEx), Ignacio Pavón (UEx), David M. Duque (UEx) and Andrés Roldán (UEx) have participated. […]
