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2019
The Workshop Military Presences in Northern Italy in Roman Time / Presenze militari in Italia settentrionale in epoca romana (PMIT2018-2019) will bring together experts and young scholars who deal with Roman military studies. The various disciplinary approaches adopted in the study of the Roman military themes, starting from different complementary areas of research (history, archaeology and epigraphy) will be presented and discussed during the Workshop. Military Studies are a field of research that has been receiving more attention in recent years, through a re-evaluation of the role of the army as a fundamental and unavoidable component of ancient societies, in particular the Roman one, whose importance can be appreciated in the various spheres of political, economic, social and cultural life. The refinement of investigation methods in the archaeological field, the use of computer systems, the possibility of a wider range of comparisons offer today new elements and data that allow us to deepen our historical knowledge. The meeting will be dedicated specifically to northern Italy but there will also be some comparisons with other neighbouring realities.
Archaeological analyses of Rome’s expansion in the Mediterranean and the creation of the provinces have traditionally highlighted a pattern of increased levels of urbanism and monumentality, the spread of Latin epigraphy and Roman law as a consequence of the settlement of Italic population and the integration into the Empire. Leaving aside pioneering publications by James (2012a, 2012b) or Roymans and Fernández-Götz (2015) on the archaeology of mass violence, Classical Archaeologists have often overlooked the fact that the first settlements and the earliest contact communities were not located in Roman towns, but in military establishments. Our interpretations of important military campaigns, battles, and sieges often rely heavily on the information provided by the ancient Roman sources. Yet new excavation and survey projects conducted in deceptively ‘well-known’ sites are both revolutionizing our understanding of the social processes involved in the creation of the empire and raising a series of questions: How does the most recent archaeological evidence complement, contradict or modify prevalent ideas about the internal structure and organization of Roman camps, the supply to the Roman army, or the role of frontiers in the empire? How did castrametation evolve from the earliest republican camps documented archaeologically in the western provinces (Numantia, Alésia), to imperial military enclaves (German-Raetian limes, Vindolanda)? What is the best way to incorporate in our current archaeo-logical interpretations different types of evidence provided by the ancient sources or, in some cases, 90-year old excavations of iconic sites? In Europe, the LIMES congress serves as a platform for the presentation of new findings in the archaeology of the Roman army, but occasions to discuss recent developments in this field or, more broadly, in the western part of the Roman empire occur rarely in North America. We are bringing to the AIA a group of European and North American archaeologists with long-term engagement in important fieldwork projects to present new or in some cases even still unpublished materials. Our hope is to advance novel interpretations on the development of Roman camps and their internal layouts, the living conditions of the soldiers and the supply from Rome, the role of provincial population in the army and the creation of frontiers, based on new data available thanks to techniques of remote sensing (ALS and geophysical surveys, LiDAR-based site plans) and archaeological fieldwork conducted in the last ten years in important Roman military camps in Hispania, Gallia, Germania, and Britannia.
This volume is dedicated to the study of the field-fortifications on the Finestre and Fattières hills located in Piedmont on the Italian Occidental Alps; being the unique easily passable transit between the Chisone valley and the fortress of Susa, they had a special strategic meaning and importance. The first part of the book focuses on the historical documentary study of the fortification existence phases from the first half of the XVII century up to 1799 and on the change from French dominion to the House of Savoy control. The second part pertains to the archeological researches carried out between 2007 and 2012 on the sites where the remains of the field-buildings are still evident. Great attention is dedicated to territorial recognition added to the intensified study of the most important defensive components. The essay is supplied with archeological remarks and photographic material. They aim at presenting the real extension of the whole defensive system as well as the still visible consistency of the archeological remains Review by Giambattista Garbarino in "Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte", 30, 2015, p. 426 : Per diversi secoli, dal tardo Medioevo fino all'inizio del XVIII secolo, il confine tra i domini sabaudi - a nord, in valle di Susa - e le terre delfinali dell'Outre-Monts, appartenenti al Regno di Francia, correva lungo la dorsale del monte Orsiera. Il varco principale tra le due vallate è il colle delle Finestre (2.176 m s.l.m.), cui offre una più impervia alternativa il vicino colle di Fattières (2.510 m s.l.m.), su una stretta cresta sotto il vertice del monte Pintas, posto a controllo del primo. A presidio di entrambi i valichi, dagli ultimi anni del XVI secolo andarono formandosi, sia per iniziativa francese sia sabauda, sistemi fortificati campali, spesso passati dall'una all’altra mano. Con la pace di Utrecht (1713) e la cessione dell'alta valle Chisone ai Savoia, il confine di Stato si allontanò da questo settore, che tuttavia non diminuì affatto la sua funzione strategica. È anzi al periodo successivo a questa data - in particolare, all'epoca della guerra di successione austriaca (1744-1746) - che risalgono gli interventi di ricostruzione delle fortificazioni, testimoniate dai resti attualmente visibili ai confini comunali di Usseaux, Meana di Susa e Gravere. La monografia presenta gli esiti – solo in minima parte anticipati sul numero 28 (2013) di questi Quaderni - di un accuratissimo studio documentario affiancato da successive campagne di scrupolose indagini archeologiche di superficie (adottando in particolare il metodo della ricognizione non sistematica, ma anche attraverso ridotti saggi stratigrafici), che hanno comportato la schedatura, il rilievo e la documentazione fotografica di tutte le evidenze delle opere fortificatorie superstiti.
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