The Valesio Project

BOERSMA, Johannes; Burgers, G.-J.; Yntema, D.G.

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“…Some of these farms are likely to have been constructed on land that was already cultivated by people living at Valesio. Boersma et al 1991;Burgers 1998, 204-207. 37 The Monte Papaluccio sanctuary has been excavated by the University of Lecce.…”

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“…38 See in particular D 'Andria 1988, 660;Lombardo 1991, 39;Pagliara 1989 and1991. 39 Boersma et al 1991;Burgers 1998. main settlement to live in the fields themselves will have allowed the rural dwellers to work these fields more intensively. However, the scale of the transformation suggests that previously untilled land was also brought under cultivation.…”

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Regional Pathways to Complexity : Settlement and Land-Use Dynamics in Early Italy from the Bronze Age to the Republican Period

Attema¹,

Burgers²,

Leusen³

2010

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A m s t e r d a m U n i v e r s i t y P r e s s 15Regional Pathways to Complexity s e t t l e m e n t a n d l a n d -u s e dy n a m i c s i n e a r ly i ta ly f ro m t h e b ro n z e ag e to t h e r e p u b l i c a n pe r i o d All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the editors of this book. A study of central and southern Italy between the end of the Bronze Age and the end of the Roman Republican period presents several major challenges: the size of the region, the length of the period under investigation, and especially the difficulty to investigate effectively the long-term processes operating at this time in this area, processes that involved the growing complexity of indigenous societies, and the transformation of traditional rural and pastoral ways of life into urbanism during the period of 'external' Greek and Roman colonization.Our purpose was not only to synthesize the results of the fieldwork, but also to present interpretations of and reflections on these processes, the approaches we used to investigate them, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the theoretical models applied by ourselves and others to explain our findings. This is why the introductory and concluding chapters contain extensive discussions of methodology. It is hoped that the RPC experience, once published, will be of interest to others pursuing similar studies.           f     b   kChapter 1 introduces the RPC project itself and provides an outline of its methodology. The chapter discusses, firstly, the integration of settlement archaeology, environmental research, ethnography and ceramics studies; and, secondly, the problems presented by, on the one hand, systematic biases in the archaeological record and, on the other, by our attempt to compare differently constituted regional archaeological records. The remainder of the volume is organised into two parts, the first (chapters 2 to 4) being arranged chronologically by region, the second (chapters 5 to 8) chronologically by theme. A final chapter pulls together the main threads and conclusions of our argument.The first few chapters deal with each of the three RPC regions in turn (chapter 2: Pontine region, chapter 3: Salento isthmus, chapter 4: Sibaritide). Each chapter begins with a reconstruction of the principal geographical and environmental factors that influenced the forms of human habitation and land use. This is followed by a chronologically ordered discussion of actual settlement configurations and land use patterns, based on comparisons of the various field surveys and other settlement data. Each chapter sets out to describe the intra-regional differentiation in settlement and land use in relation to geography and environment. Together, these chapters pr...

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Regional Pathways to Complexity : Settlement and Land-Use Dynamics in Early Italy from the Bronze Age to the Republican Period

Attema¹,

Burgers²,

Leusen³

2010

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Case studies in indigenous developments in early Italian centralization and urbanization: a Dutch perspective

Attema

Burgers²,

Kleibrink

et al. 1998

Eur. j. archaeol.

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The authors discuss results of long-term Dutch field projects in three regions in Italy and review case studies taken from these study areas in the light of indigenous developments in early Italian centralization and urbanization. By looking at regional developments in the domains of economy, religious and funerary practice as well as that of social relationships, they arrive at the conclusion that material culture was actively used in indigenous contexts. There is a consequent need for re-definition of centralization and urbanization, which in the Italian context are often seen as nonindigenous achievements. Comparative regional research, as suggested by the authors' case studies on the Sibaritide, the Brindisino and the Pontine region, will reveal both general trends concerning the concepts discussed and regional idiosyncrasies depending on regional traditions, histories and the regional landscape. To this end, a new project was launched, known as the Regional Pathways to Complexity project, that is introduced to the reader at the end of this paper.Mediterranean archaeology has a long-established tradition of studies in early urbanization. It is above all the urban success of the Roman town and the Greek ATmMA ET AL.: CASE STUDIES IN INDIGENOUS DEVELOPMENTS 327polis that has attracted majofattention in this regard. Traditionally, the focus of these studies was on physicaLaspects of urbanization, in particular on the development of'an urban lay~out and of monumental architecture. However, in the last three decades research perspectives have widened considerably. In several respects, a very significant contribution to these new approaches was made by the development of the technique of field survey alongside the excavations of urban sites inthe tradit ion of the 'big·dig' . First, the regional scope of surveys·made it possible.to include the wider landscape in urbanization studies and thus to focus on the relationship between town and countryside. This allowed questions to be asked on the town's role as economic centre and the spread of market exchange, on the town's consumer role versus the supply role of the countryside, and on the political and religious relationship between town and countryside. Of course, these questions have long been central to the. debate on urbanisrnamong historians. Archaeology, indeed, has much to of&r in this regard (d. Wq.llace~Hadrill1992). This is even more so sin.ce, secondly, the ability of surveys to monitor long~termtrends in the occupat ional history of a region has made it possible to study such questions from a diac hronic, .developmental perspective, and to give ample attention to centralization processes preceding the spread of urbanism. Thirdly, the surveys' focus on regional landscapes encouraged an interest in internal processes of centralization and urbanization in areas which were previously only marginally considered in studies of ancient urbanism. With regard to these regions, indications of such processes have long been treated merely as signs of the diffusive stre...

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The Valesio Project

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Regional Pathways to Complexity : Settlement and Land-Use Dynamics in Early Italy from the Bronze Age to the Republican Period

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Case studies in indigenous developments in early Italian centralization and urbanization: a Dutch perspective

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