Antiquity August 2023 Editorial

Journal of Field Archaeology, 2021

Excavations carried out at the Latin city of Gabii between 2012 and 2018 have contributed new data to a number of debates around the emergence, lived experience, maintenance, decline, and resilience of cities. Gabii's urban trajectories demonstrate both seemingly familiar forms of urbanism and, on closer study, many locally circumscribed elements. Specifically, the Gabii Project excavations have uncovered an early Iron Age (8th-5th centuries B.C.) hut complex that has provided evidence for architecture, funerary rites, and quotidian activities during the initial polynuclear settlement at urbanizing Gabii. A unique monumental complex constructed in the 3rd century B.C. has been identified and is interpreted as a public structure potentially used for ritual activities; the study of this complex raises questions about the creation and reception of markers of civic identity. Excavation data has further characterized the reorganizations that took place during the first centuries a.d., when Gabii's settled area contracted. Rather than unidirectional decline, evidence for industrial activities increases, and elite investments in the city persist, especially in the mixeduse elite domestic and agricultural complex. These results provide detailed evidence for how ancient cities developed and transformed in the face of shifting local and regional conditions, especially smaller urban centers (Gabii) at the periphery of mega-urban centers (Rome).

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In the proposed contribution, this issue is examined through the experience gained by the authors on the socalled Naumachie, one of the greatest archaeological remains in the historical center of Taormina (Italy). The original plant of this building dates back to the Greek, but it is mainly a massive Roman building 120 meters long and 7 high, which has taken over time the value of urban lot on which an incessant building activity has developed until today. The ancient structure, probably used as a cistern for water supply during the Roman period, actually acts as the foundations for more recent high-rise buildings. This has caused deep degradation processes of materials and, actually, partially denies the use, causing management problems between public and private sectors. The intervention on Naumachie, for these reasons, requires design choices aimed not only to preserve the artifact, but also looking for a new balance with the urban context. The conservation planning may act as a first step in a broader process, within which to recover archaeological meanings from a perspective of urban regeneration.

CSERNI, founder of the first museum of Alba Iulia and father of urban archaeology in Transylvania died, he was one of the most well-known personalities of the discipline in the Danubian region. Due to his titanic work, the Roman archaeological heritage of Alba Iulia became well known in Europe and was cited by the most prominent scholars of the continent. Besides his important contribution to the evolution of local museology, urban archaeology , and ancient history, he was one of the first public archaeologists in the region, writing hundreds of works for the greater public. Since his death, both the Roman and mediaeval archaeological heritage of Alba Iulia increased significantly and faced political, ideological, legal, and theoretical changes. In this article the author will present the dynamics of urban archaeology in Alba Iulia, establishing the main periods and reflecting on the relevant ideological and theoretical changes of the last one hundred years of research, also highlighting some perspectives of future studies.

Journal of Field Archaeology

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In/Visible Towns Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in Urban Areas, Proceedings of Vienna 15th International Congress Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (Vienna, 15-17 2010), Wien , 2011

In the frame of the three last decades of experience in Italian urban archaeology, we are working to reconsiderate the dynamics of growth/development/fall of urban sites in south Italy, in particular in the region of Basilicata. The history of ancient towns in this area has been characterized by a low number of urban settlement in ancient greek and roman period, in which we are able to recognize the topographical transformation through late antiquity until the middle age, due to archaeological investigations. The majority of ancient towns has been abandoned, and the new towns were located just close to the old ones, so we can talk about "archaeology of towns", but a very particular situation is represented by the town of Matera, one of the most famous rupestrian settlement of the Mediterranean basin, mentioned in the UNESCO World Heritage List. This is a "archaeology in town" case of study in which we are applying a multidisciplinary approach to reconstruct the history of this particular case of urban settlement. The use of data coming from stratigraphic excavations, archives, written sources, maps and ancient cartography, archaeobotanical and anthropological studies, geoarchaeology is focused to realize an archaeological and historical Map as a tool for the local bodies, the scholars and the public and to give contents for a project dedicated to the realization of the virtual museum of the town.

Fondare e Ri-fondare. Parma, Reggio e Modena lungo la via Emilia romana. Founding and Refounding. Parma, Reggio and Modena along the Roman via Aemilia, Atti del Convegno (Parma 11-12 dicembre 2017), a cura di A. Morigi, C. Quintelli, Il Poligrafo, Padova 2018, 2018

Archeologia e Calcolatori, 2017

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