Colonization and Identity in Republican Italy

Between Land and Sky—A Study of the Orientation of Roman Centuriations in Italy

“…Furthermore, towns and centuriations may not necessarily be contemporary, but the latter could be post-dated according to the necessities and circumstances of colonization. Ultimately, the pre-Roman origins of various urban centres [28] and, possibly, of some of the land divisions should be borne in mind [27]. However, the comparison of the two permits a better understanding of the colonial settlement organization as a whole and its impact on the wider environmental and local society.…”

“…Grom., De limitibus constituendis, p. 181, ed. Lachmann), this point (the locus gromae) should be the centre of the grid or of the town if present, and supposedly the central point of territorial systematization, but it cannot be assumed that all centuriations were contemporary to the corresponding colonies; they could be later developments, a possibility which has been suggested at least for the earliest Latin colonies [27,28]. Furthermore, in towns that had more than one centuriated system, these usually had different orientations and not all of them encompassed the urban area.…”

Emerging Empires and Opportunistic Land-Use Legacies: Testing a New Model on Rome's Conquest and Colonization Through Archaeological Survey Data in the Territories of Cosa and Tarraco

“…The initial organization of the settlements in Venusia during the colonial period was more sustainable than previously assumed, as it complemented, rather than replaced, the existing territorial organization by adaptively filling the relatively scarcely-settled portions and inheriting other portions of the already-structured rural landscape, including some villages. While it is impossible, using survey ceramic evidence, to imply a direct link between the new settlements of the Republican period and an influx of Roman colonists (Dores Cruz, 2011), it is possible to formulate hypothetical scenarios for the observed settlement distribution by assuming that the settlements during the 4 Salmon, 1969;White, 1970;Brown, 1980;Rathbone, 1981;Settis, 1984;Celuzza and Regoli, 1982;Carandini et al, 2002: 108-10;Járrega Domínguez, 2010;Ejarque et al, 2022. Compare the criticism of this view in Keay, 2001Keay, , 2013Terrenato, 2001Terrenato, , 2007De Cazanove, 2005;Bradley, 2006;van Dommelen and Terrenato, 2007; Pelgrom 2018; Grau Mira, 2022. ANITA CASAROTTO 4 colonial period were inhabited by Roman colonists (these colonial groups were also diverse, having various ethnical and geographical origins; see Bradley, 2006).…”

Engagements in and beyond Rome in the 5th c. BCE: architectural remains as evidence for action across geo-temporal boundaries

“…The subjects of 1) Mediterranean connectivity, 2) multiple and mutable connections and entanglements in archaeological remains, and 3) this situation in the Italic peninsula all have vast bibliographies. Some examples from each that are especially relevant here include 1) Braudel 1972;Sherratt and Sherratt 1993;Horden and Purcell 2000;Morris 2003;Horden and Purcell 2006;Kousoulis and Magliveras 2007;Malkin et al 2007;van Dommelen and Knapp 2010;Gruen 2011;Malkin 2011;Broodbank 2013;Lichtenberger and von Rüden 2015;Hodos 2020;2) Thomas 1991;Dietler 1998;Gosden and Knowles 2001;van Dommelen 2002;Gosden 2004;van Dommelen 2005;Hodos 2006;Hales and Hodos 2010;Hodder 2011;Hodder 2012;Stockhammer 2012;Stockhammer 2013;Feldman 2015;3) Herring and Lomas 2000;Macnamara and Ridgway 2000;Bradley 2006;Stek 2010;Isayev 2017;Terrenato 2019;Padilla Peralta 2020, and Engagements in and beyond Rome in the 5th c. BCE for the ways in which individuals and communitiestypically many, simultaneouslyengaged with one another, affecting events in multiple places along numerous historical paths at differing scales. 11 In what follows, I address one kind of evidence for such multilayered, multivalent connectivity and action from the midst of the period in question (especially ca.…”