Una propuesta para el estudio de yacimientos costeros de época tardorrepublicana en Menorca (Islas Baleares) a partir del caso de Mongofre Nou

Abstract

This paper presents a proposal for the study of coastal sites dating back to the Roman Late Republican period on the island of Menorca (Balearic Island), with the aim of studying and validating the hypothesis held by the authors of the possible existence of a set of small lookouts for the control of the coast by the Roman army during and right after the conquest of the Balearic Islands (123 – 121 BC). This long-term ongoing project, whose main characteristics and actions will be presented in the following pages, has already included the systematic survey and excavation of a first site on top of a coastal headland in the northeast coast of the island (Mongofre Nou, Maó), the data of which will be also presented here.