Ancient and modern pastoralism in central Italy: an interdisciplinary study in the Cicolano mountains

Barker, Graeme; Grant, Annie; Beavitt, Paul; Christie, Neil; Giorgi, John; Hoare, Peter; Leggio, T.; Migliavacca, Mara

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“…Those taking to the mountains relied on new subsistence strategies involving small-scale transhumance from winter lowland pastures to summer upland grazing areas. A host of upland cave stations in which bone profiles, micromorphology, and phytolith analysis all converge show that cattle and sheep/goats provided the economic and social foundations for specialized animal husbandry (Barker 1981;Barker and Grant 1991;Maggi 1997Maggi , 2002Skeates 1997b). Evidence of winter camps is harder to come by, with the possible exception of Le Cerquete-Fianello, a lagoon-side village near Rome.…”

Section: Settlement and The Subsistence Economymentioning

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From the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in Central Italy: Settlement, Burial, and Social Change at the Dawn of Metal Production

Dolfini

2019

J Archaeol Res

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The Late Neolithic and Copper Age were a time of change in most of Europe. Technological innovations including animal traction, the wheel, and plow agriculture transformed the prehistoric economy. The discovery of copper metallurgy expanded the spectrum of socially significant materials and realigned exchange networks away from Neolithic “greenstone,” obsidian, and Spondylus shells. New funerary practices also emerged, signifying the growing importance of lineage ancestors, as well as new ideas of personal identity. These phenomena have long attracted researchers’ attention in continental Europe and the British Isles, but comparatively little has been done in the Italian peninsula. Building on recent discoveries and interdisciplinary research on settlement patterns, the subsistence economy, the exchange of socially valuable materials, the emergence of metallurgy, funerary practices, and notions of the body, I critically appraise current models of the Neolithic-Bronze Age transition in light of the Italian regional evidence, focusing on central Italy. In contrast to prior interpretations of this period as the cradle of Bronze Age social inequality and the prestige goods economy, I argue that, at this juncture, prehistoric society reconfigured burial practices into powerful new media for cultural communication and employed new materials and objects as novel identity markers. Stratified political elites may not be among the new identities that emerged at this time in the social landscape of prehistoric Italy.

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Section: Settlement and The Subsistence Economymentioning

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From the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in Central Italy: Settlement, Burial, and Social Change at the Dawn of Metal Production

Dolfini

2019

J Archaeol Res

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“…Certainly the confiscation and redistribution of land for Roman colonies constituted a dramatic external intervention, but it was far from the universal experience. Moreover, the 69 Barker and Grant (1991). 70 CIL X, 5146.…”

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The Global Roman Countryside: Connectivity and Community

Witcher¹

2017

The Economic Integration of Roman Italy

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“…These shepherds constructed temporary wooden huts and carried limited material culture (FIGURE 2); the chances of detecting these shepherds' ancient predecessors in the archaeological record are therefore low. However, survey of upland landscapes has identified large stone enclosures intended to corral animals (Barker and Grant 1991) and zooarchaeological analysis has begun to provide further insights. For example, MacKinnon (2004, 216) notes that sheep bones from large urban sites cluster in the 7-12 month bracket (lamb) and over 36-48 months (mutton).…”

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Agricultural Production in Roman Italy

Witcher¹

2016

A Companion to Roman Italy

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Agricultural production in Roman Italy Robert WitcherAbstract: This chapter considers the practice and organisation of agricultural production in Roman Italy drawing on textual, archaeological and ethnoarchaeological evidence. As well as reviewing the types of crops cultivated and animals husbanded, it considers broader questions about the scale of production and the social organisation of labour (e.g. peasants, slaves, tenants). The chapter outlines the significance of critical new approaches to ancient texts and recent archaeological discoveries for established narratives of agricultural production and agrarian relations. This includes questioning the extent to which peasant farmers were systematically pushed from the land and the significance of oil and wine production in the economic fortunes of the republican aristocracy. Throughout, examples are used to demonstrate how powerful ancient and modern assumptions (e.g. the self-sufficient peasant, 'decline', etc.) shape interpretation of texts and archaeological evidence.

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Ancient and modern pastoralism in central Italy: an interdisciplinary study in the Cicolano mountains

Cited by 95 publications

References 6 publications

From the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in Central Italy: Settlement, Burial, and Social Change at the Dawn of Metal Production

From the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in Central Italy: Settlement, Burial, and Social Change at the Dawn of Metal Production

The Global Roman Countryside: Connectivity and Community

Agricultural Production in Roman Italy

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