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From Safin to Roman investigates the Central Adriatic Apennines (roughly the modern region of Abruzzo), occupied in antiquity by Italic populations variously termed ‘Sabelli’, ‘Sabellics’ or ‘Sabellians’. For too long the region has been seen merely as a mountainous and isolated ‘terra di pastori’, sparsely populated with shepherds from prehistory to the late Hellenistic period, thus overestimating the role of the Romans in the organisation and exploitation of the landscape. The region in general has received little scholarly attention internationally compared with Tyrrhenian Italy, although the last three decades have been very rich in excavations and finds. The role of stock‑raising itself needs to be reinterpreted, because it changed greatly from period to period and certainly did not exclude other economical resources, already in early periods. The topography of the area and recent finds, show that agriculture was also important for the large sub‑Apennine and coastal areas, hilly but certainly not only mountainous, and that other resources were also important for the local economy, such as the exploitation of the forest and metallurgy. The monograph is complemented by appendices presenting the latest research and conclusions from a range of scholars working on the area.

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Author:   Oliva Menozzi (Professor in Classial Archaeology, Director of the Centre of the Athenaeum of Archaeometry and Microanalysis, University G.d'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara)
Publisher:   Archaeopress
Imprint:   Archaeopress Archaeology
Weight:   0.776kg
ISBN:  

9781803274577

ISBN 10:   1803274573
Pages:   604
Publication Date:   06 June 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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INTRODUCTION Defining the Central Appenines              Hellenization and Romanization: problems of interpretation and Hybridization             Aims and methodologies of the research             THE LAND Chapter 1. Historical Geography Reading the ancient topography through the sources. The infrastructure of ancient communications: road-network, tratturi and ports              Chapter 2. The Region: Geology and Landscape   Plates 1 – 32   THE MID-ADRIATIC APENNINES BETWEEN THE 6TH AND THE 4TH CENTURIES BC Chapter 3. Ethnographic and Cultural Background between the 6th and 4th centuries BC From the Safin to the Sabelli     The political situation   Language and script of Archaic Abruzzo              The Sabellians between the mid 5th and the mid 4th centuries BC       Trade and external contacts       Plates 33 - 64   Chapter 4. Settlement Structure Territorial organisation Hillforts               Villages               Sanctuaries                       Chapter 5. Funerary Practices Cemeteries       Funerary sculpture   Conclusions. The mid-Adriatic Apennines in the Archaic and Classical periods   Plates 65 – 96   THE CONVENTIONAL PERIOD OF ‘ROMANIZATION’ Chapter 6. The General Historical Background according to the Sources   Chapter 7. Society and Economy The social context         Rural settlement and local production Coins and currency         Plates 97 - 128   Chapter 8. Settlement Structure Territorrial organization                Hillforts               Sanctuaries      Villages, vici and pagi    Colonies             Municipia and praefecturae        Chapter 9. Art and Architecture Public and private architecture               Terracotta votive offerings          Votive bronze statuettes             Cemeteries and funerary equipment    Sculpture and portraits                  Plates 129 - 160   PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS   ABBREVIATIONS   BIBLIOGRAPHY   APPENDICES Appendix 1. Geoarcheologia, cambiamenti climatici e paesaggi archeologici in Abruzzo: un punto della situazione – Silvano Agostini Appendix 2. Un aggiornamento sulle strutture abitative in Abruzzo – Vincenzo d’Ercole e Oliva Menozzi Appendix 3. A diachronic overview of the S. Maria Cardetola necropolis in Crecchio (CH) (seasons 2015-2020, 2022) – Luca Cherstich Appendix 4. Archeologia funeraria in Abruzzo: un aggiornamento – Vincenzo d’Ercole Appendix 5. Preliminary data from the investigations in the municipality of San Giovanni Lipioni (CH): the archaeological areas of Colle Vernone and Il Monte – Eugenio Di Valerio Appendix 6. Economia e organizzazione territoriale tra IV sec. a.C. e I d.C.: il ruolo dei ‘centri minori’ in area Centro-Adriatica e Appenninica – Maria Cristina Mancini e Oliva Menozzi

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Oliva Menozzi began her studies at Chieti University and completed her doctorate at Oxford in 2001. She has been Researcher and Lecturer in Classical Archaeology and Archaeology of Greek Colonization at the University G.d’Annunzio of Chieti‑Pescara (Italy) since 2002 and is now Associate Professor. She has been Director of the CAAM‑Centre of the Athenaeum for Archaeometry and Microanalysis since 2015 and of the Master STARch (Sciences and Technologies for Archaeology at risk) since 2019.

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