Archaeology and Landscape in Central Italy

by A. Faustoferri

Overview

These seventeen papers reflect John Lloyd's wide ranging interests in Ancient History, new technologies and methods, geomorphology and anthropology and how they can all be combined in the study of past landscapes. Scholars from Italy, the UK, the USA and Germany write about various projects based mainly in central Italy with seven of the papers describing aspects of John's major fieldwork project in the Sangro Valley, Abruzzo.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781905905065
Publisher:	Oxford University School of Archaeology
Publication date:	04/01/2008
Series:	Ousa Monograph Series
Pages:	253
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword and acknowledgements 5

John Lloyd (1948-1999) an obituary by Graeme Barker 7

Greetings from the Mayor of San Salvo, Arnaldo Mariotti 16

Introduction, Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri 17

List of Contributors 20

Sangro Valley Project related papers

The Sangro Valley Project - an outline Gary Lock Amalia Faustoferri 23

1 Excavation and environmental reconstruction at the Riparo del Fauno in the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, Italy Silvano Agostini Giovanni Bertolani Nunzia Stivaletta 25

2 Change and continuity in surface survey data: exploring thresholds in the Sangro Valley, Italy Gary Lock 33

3 Slicing Abruzzo history in Nanoseconds Kent Schneider 47

4 'What lies beneath': ploughsoil assemblages, the dynamics of taphonomy and the interpretation of field survey data Edward Bispham Keith Swift Nicholas Wolff 53

5 The archaeological park of Monte Pallano, Abruzzo: a work in progress Amalia Faustoferri 77

6 Life 'on the edge': a view from the Abruzzo Susan Kane 93

7 Of sheep and men: castles and transhumance in the upper Sangro Valley and in the Cicolano, Italy Neil Christie 105

Other papers

8 In the footsteps of John Lloyd: the activities of the Cattedra di Archeologia Classica at Chieti University, Abruzzo, Italy Emanuela Fabbricotti 121

9 New information on the Italic temples of Schiavi d'Abruzzo, Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy Sandra Lapenna Paola Riccitelli 127

10 The Iuvanum Survey Project, Abruzzo, Chieti, Italy Guy Bradley, Domenico Fossataro, and Oliva Menozzi 137

11 Abruzzo, land of warriors Maria Ruggeri 151

12 The early medieval necropolis at Villalfonsina, Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy Davide Aquilano 159

13 AmorPatriae: a cult statue from Amiternum, San Vittorno, L'Aquila, Italy Wilfred Geominy 177

14 San Martino in Pensilis, CampoBasso, Molise, Italy: the 'villa' of Contrada Mattonelle Valeria Ceglia 191

15 The Necropolis of Santo Venditto, near Carlantino, Foggia, Italy Gianfranco De Benedittis 205

16 The landscape of the Ager Portuensis, Rome: some new discoveries, 2000-2002 Cinzia Morelli Andrea Carbonara Viviana Forte Rosalba Giudice Paola Manacorda 213

17 Site recovery rates and the ancient population of the Biferno Valley Andrew Wilson 233