A landscape that reads like a history book, the one of the Potenza River valley in Marche (Italy)... more A landscape that reads like a history book, the one of the Potenza River valley in Marche (Italy), a major communication corridor between the Apennines and the Adriatic since Antiquity. Thanks in particular to the recent non-invasive investigations and intensive surveys conducted by Ghent University, there is today an extraordinary amount of information that, coupled with the results from previous and more traditional archaeological investigations, exemplify the impact of Romanization on these territories and of cultural interaction between Romans, Picenes and other populations who lived in the area. This book, written for a wider public by a group of researchers working in the region, provides an excellent status quaestionis about town and countryside during the Roman occupation of this well studied valley in central Adriatic Italy. It provides context and background information for an archaeological exhibition held First in Rome and later in Porto Recanati and Ghent. Particular attention is paid to the coastal town of Potentia, a colony founded at the beginning of the 2nd century BC which, thanks to its crucial position between the valley and the sea, was essential for the formation of this ancient Roman landscape.
A landscape that reads like a history book, the one of the Potenza River valley in Marche (Italy)... more A landscape that reads like a history book, the one of the Potenza River valley in Marche (Italy), a major communication corridor between the Apennines and the Adriatic since Antiquity. Thanks in particular to the recent non-invasive investigations and intensive surveys conducted by Ghent University, there is today an extraordinary amount of information that, coupled with the results from previous and more traditional archaeological investigations, exemplify the impact of Romanization on these territories and of cultural interaction between Romans, Picenes and other populations who lived in the area. This book, written for a wider public by a group of researchers working in the region, provides an excellent status quaestionis about town and countryside during the Roman occupation of this well studied valley in central Adriatic Italy. It provides context and background information for an archaeological exhibition held First in Rome and later in Porto Recanati and Ghent. Particular attention is paid to the coastal town of Potentia, a colony founded at the beginning of the 2nd century BC which, thanks to its crucial position between the valley and the sea, was essential for the formation of this ancient Roman landscape.
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