Session: #468

Theme & Session Format

Theme:
7. Archaeology of Sustainability through World Crises, Climate Change and War
Session format:
Regular session

Title & Content

Title:
The relationship between rural settlements and the territory during the Roman period and Late Antiquity.
Content:
For some years now, studies on the rural world of the Roman and Late Antique periods have ceased to focus exclusively on the built parts of the sites and have also begun to investigate the environment in which they were located. The results provide significant data to investigate a relationship that must be understood as bidirectional: on the one hand, the environment, with its specificities, conditioned many of the economic strategies of the rural establishments, such as, for example, the way the land was cut, and organised, or the suitability for certain activities, while, on the other hand, the intense pressure they exerted on the environment had a direct impact on the configuration and transformation of the landscape.
Issues to be discussed and analysed are multiple: models and types of settlement (villae, vici, figlinae, nundinae, and other lesser rural settlements), structuring and management of rural areas, adaptation and enviromental impact, commercial and productive strategies, economic dynamics, infrastructure, relation between town and rural world and many others. The review and sharing of these and other points will allow us to draw a clearer picture of the rural world of ancient times and to verify the differences and similarities that exist between very different territories and contexts.
Keywords:
villae, Rural world, landscape, rural settlement, land sources
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:

Organisers

Main organiser:
Marc Bouzas Sabater (Spain) 1
Co-organisers:
Joan Frigola (Spain) 2
Jacopo Turchetto (Italy) 3
Affiliations:
1. Universitat de Girona
2. Museu Arqueològic de Banyoles
3. Università di Padova