The Verona district (Veneto, NE Italy) in the 3rd-1st century BC: Cenomanic Gauls and Roman power

Monti, Dario;Caruso, Enrico;Rizzetto, Giampaolo
(2025) Living in a World of Change: New Perspectives on Cultural Exchange and Transfer in the Hellenistic Mediterranean — ISBN: [978-3-7520-0785-5], published

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  • Monti, DarioUCLouvain
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  • Caruso, Enrico
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  • Rizzetto, Giampaolo
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This paper discusses phenomena of culture formation and culture change in the Verona district (Veneto, NE Italy) between the 4th-1st cent. B.C. on the basis of material culture, ancient written sources, anthropological investigations, and isotopic studies. Research focuses on the Cenomani, suggested by the ancient written sources to have been Gaulish invaders of the Lombardy and Veneto regions in the 4th-3rd cent. B.C. and then, together with the Veneti – the inhabitants of the Veneto region, as allies of Rome. The analysis of the interaction between the Cenomani, Veneti and Rome allows us to discern two different paths of cultural change in the case-study area, directly/indirectly influenced by Rome, that led to the deconstruction of the previous Cenomanic socio-political structure and identity. On the one hand, south of Verona, where the Cenomani seem to have settled at least from the 3rd cent. B.C., the introduction of a distinctively Roman economy seems to have gradually led to the emergence of subaltern Cenomanic classes which took the place of the warrior elite. On the other hand, at Verona, the increasing Roman presence and influence probably led to the collapse of at least part of the local Gaulish elite in favour of the Romans. The Augustan period marks the end of the Cenomanic identity in the case-study area.
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Monti, D., Caruso, E., & Rizzetto, G. (2025). The Verona district (Veneto, NE Italy) in the 3rd-1st century BC: Cenomanic Gauls and Roman power. In Francesca Diosono – Dominik Maschek (ed.), Living in a World of Change: New Perspectives on Cultural Exchange and Transfer in the Hellenistic Mediterranean. Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.29091/9783752002928/005