The Chora Of Metaponto 6

Author : Francesca Silvestrelli,Ingrid E. M. Edlund-Berry
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477309476

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The Chora of Metaponto 6 by Francesca Silvestrelli,Ingrid E. M. Edlund-Berry Pdf

The sixth volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology’s series on the rural countryside (chora) of Metaponto is a study of the Greek settlement at Sant’Angelo Vecchio. Located on a slope overlooking the Basento River, the site illustrates the extraordinary variety of settlements and uses of the territory from prehistory through the current day. Excavators brought to light a Late Archaic farmhouse, evidence of a sanctuary near a spring, and a cluster of eight burials of the mid-fifth century BC, but the most impressive remains belong to a production area with kilns. Active in the Hellenistic, Late Republican, and Early Imperial periods, these kilns illuminate important and lesser-known features of production in the chora of a Greek city and also chronicle the occupation of the territory in these periods. The thorough, diachronic presentation of the evidence from Sant’Angelo Vecchio is complemented by specialist studies on the environment, landscape, and artifacts, which date from prehistory to the post-medieval period. Significantly, the evidence spans the range of Greek site types (farmhouse, necropolis, sanctuary, and production center) as well as the Greek dates (from the Archaic to Early Imperial periods) highlighted during ICA’s survey of the Metapontine chora. In this regard, Chora 6 enhances the four volumes of The Chora of Metaponto 3: Archaeological Field Survey—Bradano to Basento and provides further insight into how sites in the chora interacted throughout its history.

Author : Elisa Lanza Catti,Keith Swift
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292761032

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The Chora of Metaponto 5 by Elisa Lanza Catti,Keith Swift Pdf

This volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology's series on rural settlements in the countryside (chora) of Metaponto is a study of the fourth-century BC farmhouse known as Fattoria Fabrizio, located in the heart of the surveyed chora in the Venella valley (at Ponte Fabrizio). This simple structure richly illustrates the life of fourth-century BC Metapontine farmers of modest means. Thorough interpretations of the farmhouse structure in its wider historical and socioeconomic contexts are accompanied by comprehensive analyses of the archaeological finds. Among them is detailed evidence for the family cult, a rare archaeological contribution to the study of Greek religion in Magna Grecia. The entire range of local Greek ceramics has been studied, along with a limited number of imports. Together they reveal networks within the chora and trade beyond it, involving indigenous peoples of southern Italy, mainland Greeks, and the wider Mediterranean world. Along with the studies of traditional archaeological finds, archaeobotanical analyses have illuminated the rural economy of the farmhouse and the environment of the adjacent chora. Abundant Archaic pottery also documents an important occupation, during the first great flowering of the chora in the sixth century BC. This study provides an ideal complement to the four volumes of The Chora of Metaponto 3: Archaeological Field Survey—Bradano to Basento and an eloquent example of hundreds of farmhouses of this date identified throughout the chora by their surface remains alone.

Author : Sándor Bökönyi,Erika Gál
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292749924

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The Chora of Metaponto 2 by Sándor Bökönyi,Erika Gál Pdf

From 1974 to the present, the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin has carried out archaeological excavations in the ancient territory (chora) of Metaponto, now located in the modern province of Basilicata on the southern coast of Italy. This wide-ranging investigation, which covers a number of sites and a time period ranging from prehistory to the Roman Empire, has unearthed a wealth of new information about the ancient rural economy in southern Italy. These discoveries will be published in a multi-volume series titled The Chora of Metaponto. This volume on archaeozoology—the study of animal remains from archaeological sites—is the second in the series, following The Chora of Metaponto: The Necropoleis (1998). Archaeozoology at Pantanello and Five Other Sites describes the animal remains found throughout Metaponto and discusses what they reveal about ancient practices of hunting and herding, domestication and importation of new breeds, people's attitudes toward animals, and what animal remains indicate about past environments. A chapter devoted to bird bones, which are a relatively rare find because of their fragility, provides high quality information on the environment and methods of fowling, as well as on the beliefs and symbolism associated with birds. The final chapter covers tools—some simple, others sophisticated and richly decorated—made from animal bones.

Author : Joseph Coleman Carter,Keith Swift
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 1744 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477314258

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The Chora of Metaponto 7 by Joseph Coleman Carter,Keith Swift Pdf

The seventh volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology's series on the rural countryside (chora) of Metaponto is a study of the Greek sanctuary at Pantanello. The site is the first Greek rural sanctuary in southern Italy that has been fully excavated and exhaustively documented. Its evidence—a massive array of distinctive structural remains and 30,000-plus artifacts and ecofacts—offers unparalleled insights into the development of extra-urban cults in Magna Graecia from the seventh to the fourth centuries BC and the initiation rites that took place within the cults. Of particular interest are the analyses of the well-preserved botanical and faunal material, which present the fullest record yet of Greek rural sacrificial offerings, crops, and the natural environment of southern Italy and the Greek world. Excavations from 1974 to 2008 revealed three major phases of the sanctuary, ranging from the Archaic to Early Hellenistic periods. The structures include a natural spring as the earliest locus of the cult, an artificial stream (collecting basin) for the spring's outflow, Archaic and fourth-century BC structures for ritual dining and other cult activities, tantalizing evidence of a Late Archaic Doric temple atop the hill, and a farmhouse and tile factory that postdate the sanctuary's destruction. The extensive catalogs of material and special studies provide an invaluable opportunity to study the development of Greek material culture between the seventh and third centuries BC, with particular emphasis on votive pottery and figurative terracotta plaques.

Author : Erminia Lapadula
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292722569

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The Chora of Metaponto 4 by Erminia Lapadula Pdf

This volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology's series on rural settlements in the countryside (chora) of Metaponto presents the excavation of the Late Roman farmhouse at San Biagio. Located near the site of an earlier Greek sanctuary, this modest but well-appointed structure was an unexpected find from a period generally marked by large landholdings and monumental villas. Description of earlier periods of occupation (Neolithic and Greek) is followed by a detailed discussion of the farmhouse itself and its historical and socioeconomic context. The catalogs and analyses of finds include impressive deposits of coins from the late third and early fourth centuries AD. Use of virtual reality CAD software has yielded a deeper understanding of the architectural structure and its reconstruction. A remarkable feature is the small bath complex, with its examples of window glass. This study reveals the existence of a small but viable rural social and economic entity and alternative to the traditional image of crisis and decline during the Late Imperial period.

Author : Erminia Lapadula
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292728776

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The Chora of Metaponto 4 by Erminia Lapadula Pdf

"Institute of Classical Archaeology, Packard Humanities Institute."

Author : Alastair Small,Carola Small
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803270654

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Archaeology on the Apulian – Lucanian Border by Alastair Small,Carola Small Pdf

The broad valley of the Bradano river and its tributary, the Basentello, separates the Apennine mountains in Lucania from the limestone plateau of the Murge in Apulia in southeast Italy. This book aims to explain how the pattern of settlement and land use changed in the valley over the whole period from the Neolithic to the late medieval.

Author : Catarina Viegas
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789697490

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Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum: Acta 46 by Catarina Viegas Pdf

Acta 46 comprises 64 articles. Out of the 120 scheduled lectures and posters presented at the 31st Congress of the Rei Cretariæ Romanæ Favtores, 61 are included in the present volume, to which three further were added. Given the location of the conference in Romania it seems natural that there is a particular focus on the Balkans and Danube.

Author : Valentí Rull,Encarni Montoya,Thomas Giesecke,Jesse L. Morris
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889456871

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Palynology and Vegetation History by Valentí Rull,Encarni Montoya,Thomas Giesecke,Jesse L. Morris Pdf

This Research Topic commemorates the centenary of the first quantitative pollen diagram by Lennart von Post, the founder of paleoecological palynology. The main aim is to provide a thorough view of the use of palynology in aspects such as the reconstruction of Quaternary vegetation and environmental changes, the role of natural and anthropogenic drivers in the development of the Quaternary vegetation, the shaping of present-day ecological and biogeographical patterns, the potential application of this knowledge in biodiversity conservation and landscape restoration and the development of new methods of pollen analysis and data management. The Research Topic is subdivided into four main conceptual parts, namely (1) modern analog studies; (2) land cover estimates from pollen data; (3) vegetation dynamics reconstructions from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Oceania; and (4) large-scale reviews and meta-analyses. Hopefully, this Research Topic will serve to appraise the state of the art of modern palynology and highlight the usefulness of this discipline in long-term ecological research.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1331867252

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“The” Chora of Metaponto by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robin Osborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350226616

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A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity by Robin Osborne Pdf

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture and fashion. Many of our current attitudes to the world of things are shaped by ideas forged in classical antiquity. We now understand that we do not merely do things to objects, they do things to us. Reinterpreting objects in Greece and Rome casts new light on our understanding of ourselves and turns the ancient world upside down. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, UK. Volume 1 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte

Author : Anna Maria Mercuri,Assunta Florenzano
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039217960

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The Long-Term Perspective of Human Impact on Landscape for Environmental Change and Sustainability by Anna Maria Mercuri,Assunta Florenzano Pdf

The research studies included in this Special Issue highlight the fundamental contribution of the knowledge of environmental history to conscious and efficient environment conservation and management. The long-term perspective of the dynamics that govern the human–climate ecosystem is becoming one of the main focuses of interest in biological and earth system sciences. Multidisciplinary bio-geo-archaeo investigations into the underlying processes of human impact on the landscape are crucial to envisage possible future scenarios of biosphere responses to global warming and biodiversity losses. This Special Issue seeks to engage an interdisciplinary dialog on the dynamic interactions between nature and society, focusing on long-term environmental data as an essential tool for better-informed landscape management decisions to achieve an equilibrium between conservation and sustainable resource exploitation.

Author : Michela Spataro,Alexandra Villing
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782979500

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Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture by Michela Spataro,Alexandra Villing Pdf

The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of pottery production; cooking as socioeconomic practice; and changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural encounters, a range of social economic and technological models are discussed on the basis of insights gained from the study of kitchen pottery production, use and evolution. Much discussion and work in the last decade has focussed on technical and social aspects of coarse ware and in particular kitchen ware. The chapters in this volume contribute to this debate, moving kitchen pottery beyond the Binfordian ‘technomic’ category and embracing a wider view, linking processualism, ceramic-ecology, behavioral schools, and ethnoarchaeology to research on historical developments and cultural transformations covering a broad geographical area of the Mediterranean region and spanning a long chronological sequence.

Author : Goranka Lipovac Vrkljan,Ana Konestra,Anamarija Eterović Borzić
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803273693

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Roman Pottery and Glass Manufactures: Production and Trade in the Adriatic Region and Beyond by Goranka Lipovac Vrkljan,Ana Konestra,Anamarija Eterović Borzić Pdf

32 papers consider issues of pottery production in the wider Adriatic area during Roman times, in particular relation to landscape and communication features, ceramic building materials, as well as general studies on ceramic production, pottery and glass finds.

Author : Giorgos Papantoniou,Demetrios Michaelides,Maria Dikomitou - Eliadou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004384835

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Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas by Giorgos Papantoniou,Demetrios Michaelides,Maria Dikomitou - Eliadou Pdf

Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas is a collective volume presenting newly excavated material, as well as diverse and innovative approaches in the study the iconography, function and technology of ancient terracottas.