Intra-regionaal vergelijkend onderzoek: surveys in de Pontijnse moerassen (Italië) (original) (raw)

2007

Abstract

"The article (in Dutch) describes a PhD project that builds on previous landscape archaeological research by GIA in the Pontine Region (Lazio, central Italy). Within the project, the settlement history of the three main landscape units of the Pontine Region (the coastal area, the mountainous inland area and the intermediate plain) are studied for the period 500-0 BC. Whereas in the coastal and mountainous area surveys had already been performed, the lower plain had not been studied in much detail. The plain is notorious for its bad drainage conditions; it is also known as the palude pontine, the Pontine marshes. It has been subject to drainage works during the reign of Mussolini in the 1930ies, but according to historical sources also in Roman times. Other indications for Roman occupation are traces of a Roman land division scheme, the Via Appia and the road stations along it as well as several small rural sites. For a selected part of the plain fieldwork has recently started; a first step was the creation of a digital elevation model of the landscape prior to drainage works in the 1930ies that resembles the ancient landscape better than the actual landscape. Next, systematic surveys were started. These surveys have so far not yielded much evidence for occupation in the plain, but they did map several previously unknown sites along the Via Appia and on the edge of the coastal terraces and the plain. Further surveys will have to prove whether these finds represent an early Roman system of settlement along the edges of an agriculturally exploited plain."

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