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Gesellschaft und Familie bei Etruskern und Italikern. Akten des 18.Treffens der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Etrusker & Italiker (Wien, Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 6.–7.März 2020), Wiener Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte online (WBAGon) 4, 2022
The article is based on a completed PhD research on the architecture and ritual places of the ind... more The article is based on a completed PhD research on the architecture and ritual places of the
indigenous communities in Sicily from the 9th to 6th centuries BC. The aim was to examine the
internal social processes and communication strategies of the indigenous communities. In the
6th century, these communities found themselves in a phase of change towards a (proto-)urban
society.
This paper will focus on a specific topic of the broader research: To what extent can we
reconstruct the social structure of indigenous communities by analyzing their residential
buildings, settlement structures, and ritual places?
In a first step, I will give a brief outline of the prevailing residential architecture, settlement
forms, and burial customs from the 9th to 6th centuries BC in Sicily. This is followed by a
diachronic analysis based on selected examples of the ritual places with regard to topography,
architecture, and archaeological record. The areas where evidence of ritual activities can be
archaeologically identified are addressed as ritual sites. The term refers to the areas within
the indigenous settlements where rituals have taken place, without, however, placing them in
a religious context beforehand. In archaeological findings, rituals can be generally identified
as recurring and thus recognizable patterns that refer to formalized and repetitive complexes
of action. In a final step, the presented findings are related to each other and analyzed with
regard to the overriding question.
V. Ruppiene (ed.), Stone and Splendor. Interior decorations in late-antique palaces and villas, 2021
Starting from 286 for about one hundred years Trier enjoyed a period of prosperity by becoming an... more Starting from 286 for about one hundred years Trier enjoyed a period of prosperity by becoming an imperial residence in the Western part of the Roman Empire. In this paper various remnants of late imperial architecture are presented and their dimensions, location and connection within the ancient city network are discussed. During this time, the existing public buildings in the metropolis were restored, expanded or reconstructed. Taking them into account will shed light on structural modifications and re-use of buildings, streets and places within the ancient city by becoming an imperial residence.
Funde und Ausgrabungen im Bezirk Trier, 2018
Funde und Ausgrabungen im Bezirk Trier, 2017
Nero. Kaiser - Künstler - Tyrann, 2016
Books by Maria C . D'Onza
https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/19801/ The dissertation deals with the continuity and cha... more https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/19801/
The dissertation deals with the continuity and change in the architecture of places of worship and ritual practices in indigenous settlements in Sicily in the period from the 9th to the 6th century BC. The study deals with contact and exchange relationships with the Greeks, development of a group identity and ethnicity. From the previous theoretical approaches to culturation, an independent explanatory model was developed and related to a differentiated, diachronic and micro-regional view of the previously known evidence of ritual action spaces in indigenous settlement contexts. The resulting analysis of the findings made it possible to work out time- and region-specific, multiple factors of cultural interference. The embedding of the testimonies of ritual acts in the indigenous settlement structure and a diachronic approach clearly showed that, on closer inspection of the material legacies in the indigenous environment of Sicily, alleged acculturation or hybridization phenomena turn out to be conscious practices of appropriating new ways and means in intergroup communication processes.
Im Fokus stehen die internen Kommunikations- und Aushandlungsstrategien der indigenen Gemeinschaften, die sich im 6. Jh. in einer Umbruchsphase hin zu einer proto-städtischen Gesellschaft befanden. Für 29 Ortschaften werden deren Ritualorte nach Topographie, bauliche Ausgestaltung und Ritualpraxis anhand der dokumentierten Befunde analysiert und in einer diachronen sowie kategoriebasierten Schau interpretiert.
Die Genese und die architektonischen Transformationen von Ritualorten sowie Veränderungen in den materiellen Hinterlassenschaften sind auf die Entstehung neuer Ritualkomplexe und Veränderungen von Ritualpraktiken zurückzuführen. Diese wiederum sind Ausdruck sozialer Kommunikations- und Aushandlungsprozesse.
Eine systematische Untersuchung von Veränderungen im Ritualverhalten anhand der materiellen Kultur und Architektur erlaubt Rückschlüsse auf die sozialen Strategien und Prozesse der jeweiligen Gemeinschaften.
Begleitschrift zur Wanderausstellung, 2019
Gesellschaft und Familie bei Etruskern und Italikern. Akten des 18.Treffens der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Etrusker & Italiker (Wien, Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 6.–7.März 2020), Wiener Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte online (WBAGon) 4, 2022
The article is based on a completed PhD research on the architecture and ritual places of the ind... more The article is based on a completed PhD research on the architecture and ritual places of the
indigenous communities in Sicily from the 9th to 6th centuries BC. The aim was to examine the
internal social processes and communication strategies of the indigenous communities. In the
6th century, these communities found themselves in a phase of change towards a (proto-)urban
society.
This paper will focus on a specific topic of the broader research: To what extent can we
reconstruct the social structure of indigenous communities by analyzing their residential
buildings, settlement structures, and ritual places?
In a first step, I will give a brief outline of the prevailing residential architecture, settlement
forms, and burial customs from the 9th to 6th centuries BC in Sicily. This is followed by a
diachronic analysis based on selected examples of the ritual places with regard to topography,
architecture, and archaeological record. The areas where evidence of ritual activities can be
archaeologically identified are addressed as ritual sites. The term refers to the areas within
the indigenous settlements where rituals have taken place, without, however, placing them in
a religious context beforehand. In archaeological findings, rituals can be generally identified
as recurring and thus recognizable patterns that refer to formalized and repetitive complexes
of action. In a final step, the presented findings are related to each other and analyzed with
regard to the overriding question.
V. Ruppiene (ed.), Stone and Splendor. Interior decorations in late-antique palaces and villas, 2021
Starting from 286 for about one hundred years Trier enjoyed a period of prosperity by becoming an... more Starting from 286 for about one hundred years Trier enjoyed a period of prosperity by becoming an imperial residence in the Western part of the Roman Empire. In this paper various remnants of late imperial architecture are presented and their dimensions, location and connection within the ancient city network are discussed. During this time, the existing public buildings in the metropolis were restored, expanded or reconstructed. Taking them into account will shed light on structural modifications and re-use of buildings, streets and places within the ancient city by becoming an imperial residence.
Funde und Ausgrabungen im Bezirk Trier, 2018
Funde und Ausgrabungen im Bezirk Trier, 2017
Nero. Kaiser - Künstler - Tyrann, 2016
https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/19801/ The dissertation deals with the continuity and cha... more https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/19801/
The dissertation deals with the continuity and change in the architecture of places of worship and ritual practices in indigenous settlements in Sicily in the period from the 9th to the 6th century BC. The study deals with contact and exchange relationships with the Greeks, development of a group identity and ethnicity. From the previous theoretical approaches to culturation, an independent explanatory model was developed and related to a differentiated, diachronic and micro-regional view of the previously known evidence of ritual action spaces in indigenous settlement contexts. The resulting analysis of the findings made it possible to work out time- and region-specific, multiple factors of cultural interference. The embedding of the testimonies of ritual acts in the indigenous settlement structure and a diachronic approach clearly showed that, on closer inspection of the material legacies in the indigenous environment of Sicily, alleged acculturation or hybridization phenomena turn out to be conscious practices of appropriating new ways and means in intergroup communication processes.
Im Fokus stehen die internen Kommunikations- und Aushandlungsstrategien der indigenen Gemeinschaften, die sich im 6. Jh. in einer Umbruchsphase hin zu einer proto-städtischen Gesellschaft befanden. Für 29 Ortschaften werden deren Ritualorte nach Topographie, bauliche Ausgestaltung und Ritualpraxis anhand der dokumentierten Befunde analysiert und in einer diachronen sowie kategoriebasierten Schau interpretiert.
Die Genese und die architektonischen Transformationen von Ritualorten sowie Veränderungen in den materiellen Hinterlassenschaften sind auf die Entstehung neuer Ritualkomplexe und Veränderungen von Ritualpraktiken zurückzuführen. Diese wiederum sind Ausdruck sozialer Kommunikations- und Aushandlungsprozesse.
Eine systematische Untersuchung von Veränderungen im Ritualverhalten anhand der materiellen Kultur und Architektur erlaubt Rückschlüsse auf die sozialen Strategien und Prozesse der jeweiligen Gemeinschaften.
Begleitschrift zur Wanderausstellung, 2019