L’insediamento minore nell’Italia settentrionale: una proposta di metodo di ricerca
(2017) Quaderni Friulani di Archeologia — Vol. 1, n° 27, p. 39-53 (2017)
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- The aim of the present paper is to provide a synthesis of problems and questions about the study of so-called “small towns”, in particular in Roman Cisalpine Gaul, from the end of the Iron Age to Late Antiquity. For a long time a main subject for the Sara Santoro’s researches: focus here will not be to repeat this debate but reflect on the conceptual issues but it will try to make some methodological proposals for taking stock of a practical approach to the problems which arise from this kind of archaeological studies. This methodology was developed in 2000s by the international research groups on “small towns” formed by the University of Parma and the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). The pages that follow will cover the fundamental steps of this method, empirically based, and today theorized following a systematic and prolonged application over time with excellent results. Lists some of the keywords that will be the leitmotif in the paper: ambition to a systematic data collection; univocality in the used terminology; renunciation of prepacked archaeological frameworks, used as interpretative and standardized grids. The category of diversity will characterize the description of an approach based on simple search tools and typological classifications compiled by the direct knowledge, as far as possible, of the territory. In order to draw the guiding principles of these pages, in fact, the personal experience in the study of the territory was a fundamental factor; on the other hand, the theorization of the extra-urban living, which has long been the subject of extensive national and transalpine debate, is essential for the present essai. Based on some stances emerged from the previous bibliography, a useful comparison will be made to better define, at least in our intentions, the specificity of living per vicos in Roman North Italy.
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Cavalieri, M. (2017). L’insediamento minore nell’Italia settentrionale: una proposta di metodo di ricerca. Quaderni Friulani di Archeologia, 1(27), 39-53. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/61771 (Original work published 2017)