Research into pre-Roman burial grounds in Italy
By: edited by Albert J. Nijboer, Sarah L. Willemsen, Peter A.J. Attema, Jorn F. Seubers
Series: Caeculus. Papers on Mediterranean Archaeology and Greek & Roman Studies -- 8; Caeculus -- 8.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leuven; Paris; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9789042930094
Subjects: Iron age; Excavations (Archaeology); Burial; Tombs; Antiquities
Description: This book results from a specialist workshop held at the University of Groningen in 2011 highlighting new results in the field of funerary archaeology. It contains papers on funerary sites in Italy ranging from Verucchio in Emilia Romagna to Francavilla Marittima in Calabria between the 9th and 4th centuries BC. Four papers deal with the hundreds of Iron Age and Archaic tombs excavated at Crustumerium (Rome). Other papers deal with the necropoleis of Francavilla Marittima, Satricum, Verucchio, Vetulonia and Veii. The volume concludes with an article on the excavation of 3700 medieval and later graves around St. Peter's church in the centre of Berlin offering an example of recent developments in recording and assessing large funerary datasets. Archaeologists working on pre-Roman Italy are indeed frequently confronted with large burial grounds holding hundreds to thousands of graves and having complex excavation and publication histories. These and other challenges of funerary archaeology are conscientiously and creatively addressed by the authors of this volume.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-220).
Table of contents: title: The necropolis of Crustumerium. Preliminary results from an interdisciplinary analysis of two groups of tombs / Barbara Belelli Marchesini and Walter B. Pantano; title: A changing funerary ritual ritual at Crustumerium (ca. 625 BC) / Sarah L. Willemsen; title: "Unwanted children" in the road trench area at Crustumerium / Eero Jarva; title: Biographies of tombs and the metaphorical representations of the crustumini: Remembering the Dead project and the funerary excavations at Cisterna Grande at Crustumerium 2004-2008 / Ulla Rajala; title: Research in Villanovan necropoleis of Verucchio, 9th to 7th century BC / Patrizia von Eles; title: The necropolis of Vetulonia during the Orientalizing period; a research project / Camilla Colombi; title: The Orientalizing necropolis of Macchia della Comunita - Veii: some observations on its development / Sara Neri; title: A new burial ground from Satricum. Preliminary results of the excavations in 2010 / Marijke Gnade; title: The Macchiabate necropolis in Francavilla Marittima (Calabria): some preliminary notes on the recent excavations by the university of Basel / Martin A. Guggisberg; title: Omnia mors aequat and other problems with processing data from a large cemetery / Claudia M. Melisch and Jamie Sewell.