From Safin to Roman: Cultural Change and Hybridization in Central Adriatic Italy

Contents

INTRODUCTION

Defining the Central Appenines             

Hellenization and Romanization: problems of interpretation and Hybridization            

Aims and methodologies of the research          

THE LAND

Chapter 1. Historical Geography

Reading the ancient topography through the sources.

The infrastructure of ancient communications: road-network, tratturi and ports           

Chapter 2. The Region: Geology and Landscape

Plates 1 – 32

THE MID-ADRIATIC APENNINES BETWEEN THE 6TH AND THE 4TH CENTURIES BC

Chapter 3. Ethnographic and Cultural Background between the 6th and 4th centuries BC

From the Safin to the Sabelli    

The political situation  

Language and script of Archaic Abruzzo             

The Sabellians between the mid 5th and the mid 4th centuries BC      

Trade and external contacts    

Plates 33 - 64

Chapter 4. Settlement Structure

Territorial organisation

Hillforts              

Villages              

Sanctuaries                    

Chapter 5. Funerary Practices

Cemeteries      

Funerary sculpture

Conclusions. The mid-Adriatic Apennines in the Archaic and Classical periods

Plates 65 – 96

THE CONVENTIONAL PERIOD OF ‘ROMANIZATION’

Chapter 6. The General Historical Background according to the Sources

Chapter 7. Society and Economy

The social context        

Rural settlement and local production

Coins and currency      

Plates 97 - 128

Chapter 8. Settlement Structure

Territorrial organization               

Hillforts              

Sanctuaries     

Villages, vici and pagi   

Colonies            

Municipia and praefecturae     

Chapter 9. Art and Architecture

Public and private architecture              

Terracotta votive offerings         

Votive bronze statuettes            

Cemeteries and funerary equipment   

Sculpture and portraits               

Plates 129 - 160

PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS

ABBREVIATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDICES

Appendix 1. Geoarcheologia, cambiamenti climatici e paesaggi archeologici in Abruzzo: un punto della situazione – Silvano Agostini

Appendix 2. Un aggiornamento sulle strutture abitative in Abruzzo – Vincenzo d’Ercole e Oliva Menozzi

Appendix 3. A diachronic overview of the S. Maria Cardetola necropolis in Crecchio (CH) (seasons 2015-2020, 2022) – Luca Cherstich

Appendix 4. Archeologia funeraria in Abruzzo: un aggiornamento – Vincenzo d’Ercole

Appendix 5. Preliminary data from the investigations in the municipality of San Giovanni Lipioni (CH): the archaeological areas of Colle Vernone and Il Monte – Eugenio Di Valerio

Appendix 6. Economia e organizzazione territoriale tra IV sec. a.C. e I d.C.: il ruolo dei ‘centri minori’ in area Centro-Adriatica e Appenninica – Maria Cristina Mancini e Oliva Menozzi

About the Author

Oliva Menozzi began her studies at Chieti University and completed her doctorate at Oxford in 2001. She has been Researcher and Lecturer in Classical Archaeology and Archaeology of Greek Colonization at the University G.d’Annunzio of Chieti‑Pescara (Italy) since 2002 and is now Associate Professor. She has been Director of the CAAM‑Centre of the Athenaeum for Archaeometry and Microanalysis since 2015 and of the Master STARch (Sciences and Technologies for Archaeology at risk) since 2019.