Begun in 2009, the Philosophiana Project focuses on the urban-style settlement and mansio of Sofiana and on its environs in central Sicily, at only six aerial kilometers from the Villa del Casale at Piazza Armerina, one of the richest and most famous late Roman villa of the western Mediterranean (Vaccaro and La Torre 2015). The project, currently directed by the Universities of Messina and Trento, uses the case study of Sofiana to investigate settlement and economy of the interior of Sicily, which in Late Antiquity became of strategic importance for the grain supply of Rome. The crucial role of inland Sicily as the main wheat supplier of Rome continued in the early medieval period, when the Church owned large land estates in this region. Through the application of an interdisciplinary approach the project tackles the reconstruction of settlement and economic patterns in the long period between the early imperial and the Middle Byzantine period (1st century BC-9th century AD) and aims to investigate the impact of local economic strategies on the cultural landscape (Bowes et al. 2011; Vaccaro 2013, 2017). ... The integration of a wide-range of archaeological and bioarchaeological approaches to the study of Philosophiana and its hinterland is allowing us to move away from a traditional site-centered analysis towards a more in-depth understanding of the interrelations between local communities and the cultural landscape.

Cultural landscape and local economy in central Sicily: Philosophiana between the Roman and Middle Byzantine periods / Vaccaro, Emanuele; Mackinnon, Michael; Mercuri, Anna Maria. - (2018), pp. 26-29. (Intervento presentato al convegno 14th Conference of Environmental Archaeology tenutosi a Modena nel 26-28 Febbraio 2018).

Cultural landscape and local economy in central Sicily: Philosophiana between the Roman and Middle Byzantine periods

Anna Maria Mercuri
2018

Abstract

Begun in 2009, the Philosophiana Project focuses on the urban-style settlement and mansio of Sofiana and on its environs in central Sicily, at only six aerial kilometers from the Villa del Casale at Piazza Armerina, one of the richest and most famous late Roman villa of the western Mediterranean (Vaccaro and La Torre 2015). The project, currently directed by the Universities of Messina and Trento, uses the case study of Sofiana to investigate settlement and economy of the interior of Sicily, which in Late Antiquity became of strategic importance for the grain supply of Rome. The crucial role of inland Sicily as the main wheat supplier of Rome continued in the early medieval period, when the Church owned large land estates in this region. Through the application of an interdisciplinary approach the project tackles the reconstruction of settlement and economic patterns in the long period between the early imperial and the Middle Byzantine period (1st century BC-9th century AD) and aims to investigate the impact of local economic strategies on the cultural landscape (Bowes et al. 2011; Vaccaro 2013, 2017). ... The integration of a wide-range of archaeological and bioarchaeological approaches to the study of Philosophiana and its hinterland is allowing us to move away from a traditional site-centered analysis towards a more in-depth understanding of the interrelations between local communities and the cultural landscape.
2018
14th Conference of Environmental Archaeology
Modena
26-28 Febbraio 2018
Vaccaro, Emanuele; Mackinnon, Michael; Mercuri, Anna Maria
Cultural landscape and local economy in central Sicily: Philosophiana between the Roman and Middle Byzantine periods / Vaccaro, Emanuele; Mackinnon, Michael; Mercuri, Anna Maria. - (2018), pp. 26-29. (Intervento presentato al convegno 14th Conference of Environmental Archaeology tenutosi a Modena nel 26-28 Febbraio 2018).
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