Testing settlement models in the early Roman colonial landscapes of Venusia (291 B.C.), Cosa (273 B.C.) and Aesernia (263 B.C.)
| Autor: | Tesse D. Stek, Anita Casarotto, Jeremia Pelgrom |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
Archeology legacy data 060102 archaeology Legacy data field-survey Roman colonization Hellenistic period 06 humanities and the arts GIS Colonialism 01 natural sciences Archaeology Field (geography) settlement organization Roman colonization field-survey legacy data settlement organization density and pattern analysis GIS Geography density and pattern analysis Human settlement Survey data collection 0601 history and archaeology Settlement (litigation) Rural settlement 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Field Archaeology Journal of Field Archaeology, 41(5), 568-586 |
| ISSN: | 2042-4582 0093-4690 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00934690.2016.1211474 |
| Popis: | This paper examines settlement density and settlement patterns in the Roman colonial territories of Venusia, Cosa and Aesernia, located in three different landscapes of central southern Italy (modern Basilicata, Tuscany and Molise). Using a series of GIS tools, we conducted a comparative analysis of the density and spatial distribution of sites dating to the Hellenistic period (ca. 350–50 b.c.). We used the legacy settlement data collected by previous large-scale, intensive, site-oriented field surveys to test the validity of two competing rural settlement models of early Roman colonization: the conventional model of neatly organized settlements regularly dispersed across the landscape and the recently proposed theory that colonists adopted a polynuclear settlement strategy. After calculating the extent to which the archaeological datasets conform to the regular or polynuclear model, we conclude that only a very small portion of the colonized areas actually meets traditional expectations regarding the organization of early colonial settlements. Our analyses show that the legacy survey data is more consistent with the polynuclear settlement theory, but the data also reveals some completely unexpected patterns, suggesting that early Roman colonial landscapes were more diverse than previously thought. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|