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During the nineteenth century, antiquarians such as William Gell
and George Dennis visited the ancient city of Veii, some 15 km
north of Rome, and noted the rapid destruction of its archaeology.
The city continued under to be under threat, and in the 1950s was
the subject of ground-breaking survey and excavation by John
Ward-Perkins. However, the results of his fieldwork were never
published fully. Knowledge and understanding of material culture
(especially pottery, votive objects and architectural terracottas)
has increased dramatically over the past fifty years, so allowing
the authors to reveal the full potential of the data. This
publication reaffirms many of Ward-Perkins s original insights, and
contextualizes his research within the new discoveries of the past
fifty years; whilst an important contribution to our knowledge, it
is also a spur to further work.
Few river valleys can claim the historical importance of the Tiber,
and an understanding of the river and its valley is key to an
understanding of Rome and its place in the ancient world. When Rome
was in its ascendancy, the Tiber became a vital route for
communication and trade, but when Rome went into decline, the Tiber
became a buffer-zone between Rome and Byzantium. This ebb and flow,
with the associated reorganisation of social, political and
economic life are themes central to any study of Roman
civilisation. The 19 papers published in this volume were first
presented at two workshops at the British School at Rome, in 1997
and '98. These workshops came about as part of the Tiber Valley
Project, which aims to examine the changing landscapes on both
sides of the valley from 1000 BC to AD 1300. English and Italian
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The Changing Landscapes of Rome's Northern Hinterland presents a
new regional history of the middle Tiber valley as a lens through
which to view the emergence and transformation of the city of Rome
from 1000 BC to AD 1000. Setting the ancient city within the
context of its immediate territory, the authors reveal the diverse
and enduring links between the metropolis and its hinterland. At
the heart of the volume is a detailed consideration of the results
of a complete restudy of the pioneering South Etruria Survey (c.
1955-1970), one of the earliest and most influential Mediterranean
landscape projects. Between 1998 and 2002, an international team
based at the British School at Rome conducted a comprehensive
restudy of the material and documentary archive generated by the
South Etruria Survey. The results were supplemented with a number
of other published and unpublished sources of archaeological
evidence to create a database of around 5000 sites across southern
Etruria and the Sabina Tiberina, extending in date from the Bronze
Age, through the Etruscan/Sabine, Republican and imperial periods,
to the middle ages. Analysis and discussion of these data have
appeared in a series of interim articles published over the past
two decades; the present volume offers a final synthesis of the
project results. The chapters include the first detailed assessment
of the field methods of the South Etruria Survey, an extended
discussion of the use of archaeological legacy data, and new
insights into the social and economic connectivities between Rome
and the communities of its northern hinterland across two
millennia. The volume as a whole demonstrates how the
archaeological evidence generated by landscape surveys can be used
to rewrite narrative histories, even those based on cities as
familiar as ancient Rome. Includes contributions by Martin Millett,
Simon Keay and Christopher Smith, and a preface by Andrew
Wallace-Hadrill.
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