Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-nmvwc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-25T12:42:05.016Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Surveying the territory of Firmum Picenum south of Ancona - SIMONETTA MENCHELLI, PAESAGGI PICENI E ROMANI NELLE MARCHE MERIDIONALI: L'AGER FIRMANUS DALL'ETÀ TARDO-REPUBBLICANA ALLA CONQUISTA LONGOBARDA (Instrumentum 3; Pisa University Press 2012). Pp. 208, figs. 132, tables 5. ISBN 9788867410330. EUR. 24.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

Tymon de Haas
Tymon de Haas*
Affiliation:
University of Groningen, t.c.a.de.haas@rug.nl
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Reviews
Information
Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 27 , 2014 , pp. 626 - 629
Copyright
Copyright © Journal of Roman Archaeology L.L.C. 2014

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 For the Forma Italiae Project and recent developments within it, see http://www.formitaliae.it. On Italian landscape archaeology and the topographic tradition more generally, see Cambi, F. and Terrenato, N., Introduzione alla archeologia dei paesaggi (Rome 1994)Google Scholar; Quilici, L. and Gigli, S. Quilici, Introduzione alla topografia antica (Bologna 2004)Google Scholar.

2 Potter, T. W., The changing landscape of South Etruria (London 1979)Google Scholar. One project in the processual tradition was the Agro Pontino Project. As one of the first such, it applied a strict stratified sampling approach: see Voorrips, B. and Kamermans, H., The Agro Pontino Survey Project: methods and preliminary results (Amsterdam 1991)Google Scholar.

3 Alcock, S. and Cherry, J., Side-by-side survey. Comparative regional studies in the Mediterranean world (Oxford 2004)Google Scholar; Witcher, R., “Broken pots and meaningless dots? Surveying the rural landscapes of Roman Italy,” PBSR 74 (2006) 39–72 Google Scholar. For a (as yet rare) example of supra-regional comparative research, see Launaro, A., Peasants and slaves. The rural population of Roman Italy (200 BC to AD 100) (Cambridge 2011)Google Scholar.

4 Cf. Tol, G., A fragmented history. A methodological and artefactual approach to the study of ancient settlement in the territories of Satricum and Antium (Groningen 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 This interpretation would actually imply that they derive from in situ remains and could thus arguably be seen as sites.

6 Locally produced amphoras include wine-containers of Graeco-Italic, Lamboglia 2, Dressel 6A, Dressel 2-4, and a flat-bottomed type, and olive-oil containers of Dressel 6B type.

7 The earlier phases of occupation are evidently in the course of publication by L. Ciucarelli, another member of the team.