As oficinas de preparados de peixe da Lusitânia: arquiteturas e dinâmicas económicas da sua produção (séculos I - VI d. C.)

This work approaches the economy of fish sauces in the Roman province of Lusitania during the 1st and 6th centuries CE. A chronology for this economic activity is characterized by a brief phase of cool down, followed by a retake into full activity. From the 3rd century onwards, Lusitania became the main producer of fish sauces. However, its workshops underwent a systematic process of partial or full abandonment, and the surviving cetariae suffered a radical reduction in dimensions and capacity. Such transformations are embedded by a context in which the main typology of the product in the market was changing and also a complex process of urban reconfiguration in all provinces in Hispania. Thus, a transformation in ways of life is also part of this whole picture of physical reconfiguration.