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Overview on the Phoenician Tophet of Motya (TP, Sicily)

La Necropoli dell'antica Cirene cinge in ogni direzione l'abitato dell'odierna Shahat e si estende ordinata e incommensurabile per un raggio di circa 2 km, con più di 1400 tombe monumentali che riempiono i terrazzamenti degli uidian. Questa città dei morti racconta la storia di Cirene e dell'interazione tra l'elemento locale e la presenza greco-romana, ponendosi a testimonianza di una complessa cultura funeraria evolutasi per oltre un millennio.

This paper deals with a geophysical experimental activity carried out in the Maxentius Complex, an archaeological site located in Rome, Italy. The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of GPR for the structural detailing of buried roman baths structures. As a result, GPR allowed to confirm the literature-based information, i.e. to precisely locate the tanks of the thermal area. Their presence was already known through previous excavation then buried and no more visible.

This paper deals with a geophysical experimental activity carried out in the Maxentius Complex, an archaeological site located in Rome, Italy. The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of GPR for the structural detailing of buried roman baths structures. As a result, GPR allowed to confirm the literature-based information, i.e. to precisely locate the tanks of the thermal area. Their presence was already known through previous excavation then buried and no more visible.

Inspired by the surveys carried out by the ‘Società Storica Civitavecchiese’ at La Ficoncella, in the territory of Civitavecchia, in 2016 the ‘Soprintendenza ai beni culturali’ involved in the research the Universities of Bologna and Rome Sapienza. In 2017, thanks to the contribution of the Municipality of Civitavecchia, archaeological investigations started, under the direction of the University of Bologna with the collaboration of the University of Roma Sapienza and the support of local institutions and associations.

On the basis of recent archaeological evidence unearthed in the course of systematic excavations by the Cencelle (Tarquinia, Viterbo), Northen Latium, this paper attempts to pull together different strings of ceramic data in order to bridge the era between Early Middle Ages and Modern Ages (mid night century to seventeenth century AD). An attempt has been made to examine rigorously the stratigraphy and its contents to the known ceramic in context. Some different pottery types are presented, both kitchenwares and tablewares.

Il volume raccogli gli atti dell'omonimo convegno, dedicato all'esame del tratto laziale della via Aurelia, soprattutto in età post-classica. Una serie di contributi definisce la vitalità del sistema stradale e l'articolazione del popolamento con esso connesso

Il contributo prende in esame i luoghi della preparazione die pasti nella città medievale di Cencelle, le ceramiche e gli attrezzi metallici connessi con l'alimentazione, i dati paleobotanici, archeozzologici ed antropologici funzionali alla ricostruzione delle risorse di approvvigionamento, alle pratiche alimentari, alle modalità culinarie, allo stato di salute degli abitanti della città.

The Medieval period in Europe was a time of unprecedented social complexity and significant social and political
change that had an impact on human diets. The present study aims to use stable isotope analysis from bone
proteins to explore the diets of humans (n=76) and fauna (n=5) from the Medieval town of Leopoli-Cencelle
(VT, Italy). The town was occupied between the 9th–15th centuries CE, however, the analysed remains date to
the Late Medieval period (12th–15th centuries CE). Historical sources provide some information about the inhabitants