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Excavating the Roman peasant II: excavations at Case Nuove, Cinigiano (GR)1
Emanuele Vaccaro, Mariaelena Ghisleni, Antonia Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, Cam Grey, Kim Bowes, Michael MacKinnon, Anna Maria Mercuri, Alessandra Pecci, Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros, Eleonora Rattigheri, Rossella Rinaldi
Journal: Papers of the British School at Rome / Volume 81 / October 2013
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 September 2013, pp. 129-179
Print publication: October 2013
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This report details the survey, excavations and materials analysis carried out at Case Nuove (GR) in Tuscany, a site identified by surface survey as a possible rural house, but which excavation and materials analysis suggest was a small-scale agro-processing point of late Republican date. Through accompanying analysis of pollen and land-use data, the article considers the problems this type of site — the stand-alone agro-processing point — presents for interpretations of the Roman landscape.

EXCAVATING THE ROMAN PEASANT I: EXCAVATIONS AT PIEVINA (GR)1
Mariaelena Ghisleni, Emanuele Vaccaro, Kim Bowes, Antonia Arnoldus, Michael MacKinnon, Flavia Marani
Journal: Papers of the British School at Rome / Volume 79 / November 2011
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2011, pp. 95-145
Print publication: November 2011
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Begun in 2009, the Roman Peasant Project was designed to excavate the smallest sites found in field survey and to analyse the diet, economies, land use and landscapes of the Roman peasant. The Project's excavations at the site of Pievina are presented here, and suggest a more complex image of Roman peasant life in the late Republic and late antiquity than current assumptions would anticipate, including surplus production, a high degree of monetization and ties to urban markets.