Fields, Farms and Colonists: Intensive Field Survey and Early Roman Colonization in the Pontine Region, Central Italy, Volume 1In this study, the author addresses two important issues in Roman archaeology. On the basis of a comparison of intensive field surveys in different parts of the Pontine region, central Italy, it is argued that detailed site and off-site collection strategies have much to offer in understanding site chronology and land use patterns. Setting the field survey data in a wider geographical and historical context, the author also explores the context and impact of the foundation of Roman colonies and rural tribes on rural settlement systems, as such contributing to current debates on the nature of early Roman colonization. |
Contents
Table 2 1 An overview of the colonization events in the Pontine | 17 |
1 | 24 |
5 Summary statistics of the artefacts recovered in | 43 |
3 Additions to the artefact classification Table 2 4 Functional classification of the artefacts Table 2 5 Criteria used in the functional interpretation of si... | 80 |
15 Distribution of late RepublicanImperial tile and mid | 93 |
proposed functional interpretation | 101 |
32 Model of the potentially available land around | 104 |
16 Fragmentation of artefacts measured as the average | 131 |
150 | 208 |
pottery ratios | 229 |
Chapter 8 | 268 |
18 Assemblage variability darker shades represent higher | 273 |
220 | 283 |
19 Roman sites discovered during the gridded surveys | 312 |
20 Size estimates of the sites | 323 |
240 | 328 |
2 Site characteristics and functional interpretation Table 3 3 Chronological evidence from fabrics and fine wares Table 3 4 Periodization of the sites P... | 132 |
the analysis of sites | 139 |
2 Characteristics of the potentially available land | 150 |
Chapter 7 | 171 |
Introduction | 333 |
21 Maximum artefact density estimates | 432 |
Common terms and phrases
1st century 3rd century 4th century 5YR 6/6 reddish 6/6 reddish yellow amphora Antium Appia Archaic period artefact density assemblages Astura valley Attema augite black gloss Brandizzi Vittucci brown H Caracupa Valvisciolo chapter Cinfonare area Circeii Coarelli Coarse ware brown Coarse ware orange colony convex lip Depurated ware early Imperial fabrics farms field survey Flaring wall footslopes fragment Coarse ware Gnade grey H gridded survey Haas Holocene impasto Imperial period jar Coarse ware land landscape Late Pleistocene older Lazio Lepine margins Lepine Mountains Leusen Livy lower plain marine terraces Medium ments mid Republican period non-intensive Norba off-site distributions Olcese Pleistocene older dunes polygonal masonry Pontine region Pontinia post-depositional pottery Quilici Gigli reddish brown Rim fragment Roma Roman colonization rural settlement samples Satricum Setia sherds slopes Straight rim thickened survey area Tbase Terracina tion Trim tuff tuff hills Twall Valvisciolo via Appia Volsci Volscian votive deposit yellow H