Tanja van Loon
Project title of current PhD research:
Defining the Ritual, Analyzing Society. The social significance of material culture in pre-Roman cult places of central Italy (950 – 400 BC).
Abstract:
Sanctuaries in protohistoric Latium vetus, south of Rome, are known for their large accumulations of votive gifts. In the earliest phase of Latial society these sanctuaries occur near natural phenomena, such as caves, springs and mountain tops. One of the earliest protohistoric sanctuaries in Latium vetus can be found in a small, spring fed lake, called Laghetto del Monsignore, located near present-day Campoverde in the vicinity (at a distance of 4km) of the ancient settlement Satricum. Around 11.400 objects from this sanctuary, consisting mostly of pottery, metal objects and bone material form the primary data for a PhD research into the relationship between ritual behaviour at (natural) cult places and social change in Latial society. Three fundamental issues are raised, these relate to:
1.the study and interpretation of persistence and change in the ritual practiced at Laghetto del Monsignore
2.contextualization of the cult place in its regional context
3.inferences on the relationship between changes in cult practices and socio- political change in contemporary Latial society
Supervisors: Prof. dr. P.A.J. Attema
Address: Poststraat 6
9712 ER Groningen
The Netherlands
Defining the Ritual, Analyzing Society. The social significance of material culture in pre-Roman cult places of central Italy (950 – 400 BC).
Abstract:
Sanctuaries in protohistoric Latium vetus, south of Rome, are known for their large accumulations of votive gifts. In the earliest phase of Latial society these sanctuaries occur near natural phenomena, such as caves, springs and mountain tops. One of the earliest protohistoric sanctuaries in Latium vetus can be found in a small, spring fed lake, called Laghetto del Monsignore, located near present-day Campoverde in the vicinity (at a distance of 4km) of the ancient settlement Satricum. Around 11.400 objects from this sanctuary, consisting mostly of pottery, metal objects and bone material form the primary data for a PhD research into the relationship between ritual behaviour at (natural) cult places and social change in Latial society. Three fundamental issues are raised, these relate to:
1.the study and interpretation of persistence and change in the ritual practiced at Laghetto del Monsignore
2.contextualization of the cult place in its regional context
3.inferences on the relationship between changes in cult practices and socio- political change in contemporary Latial society
Supervisors: Prof. dr. P.A.J. Attema
Address: Poststraat 6
9712 ER Groningen
The Netherlands
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in the coastal part of the Pontine Region near the present-day town of Nettuno. Data derive from three different
sources: 1. the mapping and sampling of sections exposed by marine erosion along the coastal stretch between Nettuno
and the Roman villa at Torre Astura; 2. the study of a local museum collection, containing mainly stray materials collected
in the same area; and 3. GIA surveys carried out in the inland part of the municipality of Nettuno and along the lower
streambed
of the Astura river. The ceramics of some coastal sites clearly exhibit industrial characteristics and these sites
may possibly be associated with salt extraction. As such, they fit into a wider pattern of similar sites found throughout
coastal Tyrrhenian central Italy. The ceramic data is less clear for the more inland parts of the study area, where protohistoric
sites are predominantly characterized by thin scatters of mainly undiagnostic pottery.
Rome, Villa Giulia, June, 18-21, 2014
Organized by: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Etruria Meridionale (Roma); Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo antico (Roma); Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Madrid)
in the coastal part of the Pontine Region near the present-day town of Nettuno. Data derive from three different
sources: 1. the mapping and sampling of sections exposed by marine erosion along the coastal stretch between Nettuno
and the Roman villa at Torre Astura; 2. the study of a local museum collection, containing mainly stray materials collected
in the same area; and 3. GIA surveys carried out in the inland part of the municipality of Nettuno and along the lower
streambed
of the Astura river. The ceramics of some coastal sites clearly exhibit industrial characteristics and these sites
may possibly be associated with salt extraction. As such, they fit into a wider pattern of similar sites found throughout
coastal Tyrrhenian central Italy. The ceramic data is less clear for the more inland parts of the study area, where protohistoric
sites are predominantly characterized by thin scatters of mainly undiagnostic pottery.
Rome, Villa Giulia, June, 18-21, 2014
Organized by: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Etruria Meridionale (Roma); Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo antico (Roma); Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Madrid)