Beyond the city walls: the landscapes of Aquileia' (henceforth, BCW) is an ongoing landscape archaeology project directed by the author and focused on the study of the suburban and peripheral spaces of ancient Aquileia (Italy) from Romanisation to late antiquity. In broad terms, this long-term project aims to contribute to a relatively recent debate on the nature of suburban and periurban spaces in the Roman world, which seeks to define the settlement organisation and institutional configuration of the edges of Roman cities. These spaces, which hold key insight into the nature of the society that produced them, are dynamic occupation zones on the fringes of a city that are neither fully urban nor fully rural in character. They are intrinsically connected with the city they depend on and physically bonded to it; they also adjoin, however, the rural space and, as such, they act as an interface between the urban and the rural zone. Hence, their definition remains somewhat subtle.
Beyond the City Walls: Surveying the Periphery of Aquileia (Italy)
TRAVIGLIA, Arianna
2015-01-01
Abstract
Beyond the city walls: the landscapes of Aquileia' (henceforth, BCW) is an ongoing landscape archaeology project directed by the author and focused on the study of the suburban and peripheral spaces of ancient Aquileia (Italy) from Romanisation to late antiquity. In broad terms, this long-term project aims to contribute to a relatively recent debate on the nature of suburban and periurban spaces in the Roman world, which seeks to define the settlement organisation and institutional configuration of the edges of Roman cities. These spaces, which hold key insight into the nature of the society that produced them, are dynamic occupation zones on the fringes of a city that are neither fully urban nor fully rural in character. They are intrinsically connected with the city they depend on and physically bonded to it; they also adjoin, however, the rural space and, as such, they act as an interface between the urban and the rural zone. Hence, their definition remains somewhat subtle.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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