A century of prehistory and landscape studies at the British School at Rome

Potter, Ted; Stoddart, Simon

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“…The high intensity of field archaeological investigation (e.g., excavations, surveys) in a relatively dry arable landscape makes central Italy an excellent case study for assessing demographic trends (Barker, 1988;Potter and Stoddart, 2001;Stoddart, 2007), and the first millennium BC which forms the focus of this study has a consistency of recovery only exceeded by the Roman period. For many years, these projects have remained separate datasets.…”

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Patterns of Etruscan Urbanism

Stoddart

Palmisano²,

Redhouse

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Front. Digit. Humanit.

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This paper examines the patterns of Etruscan urbanism by the innovative use of newly available rural data, employing rank size, and indices of centralization. The detailed case study looks at the development of urbanism of pre-Roman Etruria where both robust and delicate urbanism were present alongside one another. To achieve this end, the paper will draw on the complementary features of two recent articles-Redhouse and Stoddart (2011) and Palmisano et al. (2018)-to provide a synthesis that both examines the large places and the supporting rural settlement. The territorial boundaries of the major urban places were predicted by the XTENT model in the first article. The cumulative numbers of rural settlement (and other proxies of population) over time were examined in the second article. This paper will look at the regional variation in landscape organization within the predicted territorial boundaries of the major robust centres and the more delicate transitory centres, as well as the buffer zones in between. At least three phases of boundary development can be examined, equivalent broadly to the Iron Age, Orientalizing/Archaic and Post Archaic periods, seeking to match these with the correspondingly dated rural settlement. The results will be critically examined in terms of broader knowledge of the economic and political development from current fieldwork in Etruria. The ethnographic analysis of Kopytoff (1989) will also be applied to assess the application of the internal African frontier to the central Italian context. In this way, the quantitative will be matched with the qualitative to provide a deeper understanding of urban development in an under-assessed example within the Mediterranean world.

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Patterns of Etruscan Urbanism

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Redhouse

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“…8-10. 26 Projects included Barker's work in the Biferno Valley, see Barker, 1995 and Tuscania (forthcoming); for a fuller account of BSR work see Potter and Stoddart, 2001. the feasibility of establishing a common series of research goals and standards in Mediterranean landscape archaeology so as to advance the study of the ancient demography of the region on a broad comparative front;' (Barker andMattingly (eds) 1999-2000: I p.iv). This gave rise to the EU funded POPULUS project, led by Graeme Barker and David Mattingly, with Riccardo Francovich, Marinella Pasquinucci, John Bintliff and Philippe Leveau (Barker andMattingly (eds) 1999-2000).…”

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“…Ward-Perkins never escaped the BSR, and never wrote the great book. It was Tim Potter who wrote the synthesis (Potter, 1979). Back in the mid-1950s, Ward-Perkins, it is clear, was hugely pleased to have the support of Oxford, writing to Lepper that 'it will be the first time in the School's history that we shall have been able to plan ahead with assurance, and we shall owe a huge debt to those who have made it possible', and again to Tom Brown, Lepper's successor as chairman of the Craven committee, 'Quite apart from such scientific value as the results may have, our students, both resident and visiting, are getting a great deal out of it, and it is giving a completely new dimension to the School's work.'…”

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J.B. Ward-Perkins, the BSR and the Landscape Tradition in Post-War Italian Archaeology

Smith¹

2017

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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Nothing has so characterized the British School at Rome's approach, from its inception, as the commitment to landscape archaeology in one form or another. This paper discusses the origins of this commitment in the work of Thomas Ashby, but focuses on the major contribution of J.B. Ward-Perkins and the South Etruria Survey. This survey is set in the context both of intellectual developments in landscape archaeology, and the specific circumstances of the BSR, and its Director, after the Second World War. The article traces the impact of this work on subsequent landscape archaeology.

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Survey Archaeology in the Roman World

Launaro

2020

Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology

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A century of prehistory and landscape studies at the British School at Rome

Cited by 25 publications

References 82 publications

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Patterns of Etruscan Urbanism

J.B. Ward-Perkins, the BSR and the Landscape Tradition in Post-War Italian Archaeology

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