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Galetti P. (ed.) Una terra antica. Paesaggi e insediamenti nella Romania dei secoli V-XI, 2021
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Tagliani M., Canciani V., & Tommasi F., (eds.) HUMANITIES IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM: Approaches, Contamination, and Perspectives., 2020
The paper aims to show the results of the archaeobotanical analysis of some of the samples collec... more The paper aims to show the results of the archaeobotanical analysis of some of the samples collected during the 2017/2018 excavation campaigns of the castrum of Zagonara (13th-15th centuries, Ravenna, Italy), and to highlight the importance of synthesizing information from different meth-odological approaches in order to better understand the human-environment dynamics characterising a rural territory. To date, the excavation campaigns (2017-ongoing) have already uncovered the presence of several buried ar-chaeological structures (i.e. a church, dated to the 11th century, with its own cemetery, several functional areas, such as hearths and trash dumps, and part of the ancient ditch surrounding the castle). From these layers, several archae-obotanical samples have been collected, floated and sieved. The study of these samples has shed light on the human-environment relationship regarding this specific site, the vegetative potentialities of the territory and the dynamics of exploitation of plants by the community. Cereals are in general well represent-ed in the samples, followed by Apiaceae and several genera of nuisance weeds typical of wet environments.
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Medieval Settlement Research, 2018
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In this paper we aim to present different data collected since 2002 during several research projects carried out by the Bologna University and focused on the rural and urban landscapes of the city of Ravenna (Northern Italy), the capital of the Western Roman Empire since A.D. 402. The main purpose is to analyze the transformations of an urban/rural complex network through different kinds of data and methods. The areas investigated are the lowlands of Ravenna, in the southeastern part of the Po Valley, between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic coast; this part of the Italian Peninsula has been characterized by intense geomorphological transformations in the past. The chronological range taken into consideration is short but significant: from the Roman period to the modern era. There are four main topics selected, analyzed with different types of sources: land use and land cover, evolution of rural settlement patterns, urban identity and its significance through history and palaeoenviron- mental transformations. One of the aims of the project will be to enlighten limits and potentials of using different kind of sources in the areas of interest: - Land use and land cover from XVI to XXI centuries will be investigated using historical cartography (e.g. using Pontifical Cadaster); - The evolution of the rural settlement patterns will be discussed looking at the data collected by two landscape archaeological projects, the “Decimano project” (2002-2006) and the “Bassa Romandiola project” (2009-2018); - Urban identity is well known in historical studies based on the written sources, but a different interpretation could be reached just analyzing historical evidence in relation to a wider network, including rural landscapes, geographic context and natural environment; - The palaeoenvironmental transformations will be studied through geoarchaeological and palaeobotanical approaches (e.g. coring and macro- and microplant remains analysis). The final aim of this project is to define a comprehensive management and interpretation method for different kinds of raw data. A multiscale approach will allow the use of those information to achieve a single framework for the evolution of a complex network, namely a capital city and its hinterland during the last two millennia.
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The territory north-west of Ravenna is categorized as an alluvial plain characterized, since the ... more The territory north-west of Ravenna is categorized as an alluvial plain characterized, since the Roman period, by an intense history of land reclamation, due to the nature of the soils and the natural tendency of the rivers to overflow and create marshlands.
The present research aims to reconstruct the methods of Land Use and their impact on the Land Cover (and vice-versa) of the lower Ravenna plain during the Middle Ages, more precisely from the 9th to the 15th centuries. The chronological arch has been chosen because the written sources are more numerous and eloquent in these centuries. From an ecological and geomorphological point of view, this time span will allow to follow the processes of land reclamation of two areas of the Po Valley that started after the climate worsening of the 5th and 8th centuries.
The first part of the research project proposes to study the archival documentation published and, if necessary (e.g. extensive information gaps), even unpublished. The documentary typologies that will be analysed are almost entirely represented by private contracts (livelli, enfiteusi, donations, etc.) and historical cartography.
The archaeological sources that will be examined come mainly from the field artifact surveys and excavations carried out in these regions during the past years. At the same time the areas for archaeobotanical sampling will be selected by crossing the data obtained from the written and cartographic sources and the observations elaborated following the fields surveys.
The sampling will also include the macro plant remains collected in previous excavation campaigns on the territory, in order not to lose crucial data for the research. The laboratory activity will be finalized to the microscopic analysis for the recognition of the taxa and their counting, in order to create diagrams that allow to follow the qualitative and quantitative development of the elements of the flora in each level of the deposit.
The macro- and micro-plant remains analysis are tool for the examination and interpretation of human-induced changes in past land-cover. The reconstruction approach that will be used is the Multiple Scenario Approach, designed to generate multiple ecologically distinct reconstructions of past vegetation in the form of maps, using datasets coming from multiple sources (pollen, archaeobotany, geomorphology, written sources, etc.), forming multiple hypotheses about the past landscape.
The preliminary results on the archaeobotanical samples collected during the 2017 excavation campaign at the castrum of Zagonara (Lugo, Italy), have confirmed what already shown by the written sources, that is the strong presence of an heterogeneous agricultural economy, with crops intermixed with wetlands.
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by Davide Gangale Risoleo, Ippolita Raimondo, Paolo Liverani, Greta Balzanelli, Antonio Campus, Germana Sorrentino, Valentina Limina, Michele Abballe, Silvia Berrica, Roberto Busonera, Marco Cavalazzi, Celeste Fiorotto, Paola Guacci, Lorenza La Rosa, federica matteoni, Riccardo Montalbano, Rosanna Montanaro, Diego Romero Vera, Eugenio Tamburrino, Magda Vuono, Grazia Savino, Salvatore Basile, and LANDSCAPE UNA SINTESI DI ELEMENTI DIACRONICI
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Situated between the current course of the rivers Sillaro and Lamone, the Bassa Romagna is an all... more Situated between the current course of the rivers Sillaro and Lamone, the Bassa Romagna is an alluvial plain characterized, since the Roman period, by an intense history of land reclamation, due to the nature of the soils and the natural tendency of the rivers to overflow and create marshlands. The documentary record provides copious information not only about the fundi (i.e. cadastral units) and plebes (i.e. rural churches with baptismal and burial functions), but also about the presence of rivers, woodlands, marshes, types of cultivation and more. As the first step of my PhD research (2018-2022), I categorized and filed in an Access database all these information and subsequently mapped them in a GIS platform with the aim of producing thematic maps, querying the spatial data on the basis of qualitative information. Furthermore, the concepts of ‘matrices’ and ‘patches’ from the discipline of Landscape Ecology were applied to the heat maps, returning the image of a territory widely cultivated, an heterogeneous agricultural economy, with crops intermixed with forests and wetlands. The second step will involve the integration of these data with the study of macro plant-remains (seeds and charcoal) and pollen samples, coming from excavation sites and core drillings.
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Presentazione delle ricerche relative al sito archeologico del Castello di Zagonara effettuate ne... more Presentazione delle ricerche relative al sito archeologico del Castello di Zagonara effettuate nel corso dell'anno 2019, tra scavi e ricerche di laboratorio. Introdurranno la serata l'Assessore Anna Giulia Gallegati, Giovanni Valentinotti del Comitato per i Beni Culturali di Lugo e il Prof. Leardo Mascanzoni; interverranno gli archeologi dell'UNIBO Marco Cavalazzi, Celeste Fiorotto, Laura Nalin e Martina Vozzo.
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Tour virtuale dello Scavo del Castello di Zagonara (Ravenna), campagna dell’anno 2018, indagato d... more Tour virtuale dello Scavo del Castello di Zagonara (Ravenna), campagna dell’anno 2018, indagato dal Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà dell’Università di Bologna a partire dal 2017 . Il castello venne fondato dal Comune di Faenza agli inizi del XIII secolo ai margini settentrionali del distretto cittadino . Naviga nello scavo del Castello, campagna 2018, al seguente link: http://bit.ly/Zagonara360°
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In this paper we aim to present different data collected since 2002 during several research projects carried out by the Bologna University and focused on the rural and urban landscapes of the city of Ravenna (Northern Italy), the capital of the Western Roman Empire since A.D. 402. The main purpose is to analyze the transformations of an urban/rural complex network through different kinds of data and methods. The areas investigated are the lowlands of Ravenna, in the southeastern part of the Po Valley, between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic coast; this part of the Italian Peninsula has been characterized by intense geomorphological transformations in the past. The chronological range taken into consideration is short but significant: from the Roman period to the modern era. There are four main topics selected, analyzed with different types of sources: land use and land cover, evolution of rural settlement patterns, urban identity and its significance through history and palaeoenviron- mental transformations. One of the aims of the project will be to enlighten limits and potentials of using different kind of sources in the areas of interest: - Land use and land cover from XVI to XXI centuries will be investigated using historical cartography (e.g. using Pontifical Cadaster); - The evolution of the rural settlement patterns will be discussed looking at the data collected by two landscape archaeological projects, the “Decimano project” (2002-2006) and the “Bassa Romandiola project” (2009-2018); - Urban identity is well known in historical studies based on the written sources, but a different interpretation could be reached just analyzing historical evidence in relation to a wider network, including rural landscapes, geographic context and natural environment; - The palaeoenvironmental transformations will be studied through geoarchaeological and palaeobotanical approaches (e.g. coring and macro- and microplant remains analysis). The final aim of this project is to define a comprehensive management and interpretation method for different kinds of raw data. A multiscale approach will allow the use of those information to achieve a single framework for the evolution of a complex network, namely a capital city and its hinterland during the last two millennia.
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The present research aims to reconstruct the methods of Land Use and their impact on the Land Cover (and vice-versa) of the lower Ravenna plain during the Middle Ages, more precisely from the 9th to the 15th centuries. The chronological arch has been chosen because the written sources are more numerous and eloquent in these centuries. From an ecological and geomorphological point of view, this time span will allow to follow the processes of land reclamation of two areas of the Po Valley that started after the climate worsening of the 5th and 8th centuries.
The first part of the research project proposes to study the archival documentation published and, if necessary (e.g. extensive information gaps), even unpublished. The documentary typologies that will be analysed are almost entirely represented by private contracts (livelli, enfiteusi, donations, etc.) and historical cartography.
The archaeological sources that will be examined come mainly from the field artifact surveys and excavations carried out in these regions during the past years. At the same time the areas for archaeobotanical sampling will be selected by crossing the data obtained from the written and cartographic sources and the observations elaborated following the fields surveys.
The sampling will also include the macro plant remains collected in previous excavation campaigns on the territory, in order not to lose crucial data for the research. The laboratory activity will be finalized to the microscopic analysis for the recognition of the taxa and their counting, in order to create diagrams that allow to follow the qualitative and quantitative development of the elements of the flora in each level of the deposit.
The macro- and micro-plant remains analysis are tool for the examination and interpretation of human-induced changes in past land-cover. The reconstruction approach that will be used is the Multiple Scenario Approach, designed to generate multiple ecologically distinct reconstructions of past vegetation in the form of maps, using datasets coming from multiple sources (pollen, archaeobotany, geomorphology, written sources, etc.), forming multiple hypotheses about the past landscape.
The preliminary results on the archaeobotanical samples collected during the 2017 excavation campaign at the castrum of Zagonara (Lugo, Italy), have confirmed what already shown by the written sources, that is the strong presence of an heterogeneous agricultural economy, with crops intermixed with wetlands.
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In this paper we aim to present different data collected since 2002 during several research projects carried out by the Bologna University and focused on the rural and urban landscapes of the city of Ravenna (Northern Italy), the capital of the Western Roman Empire since A.D. 402. The main purpose is to analyze the transformations of an urban/rural complex network through different kinds of data and methods. The areas investigated are the lowlands of Ravenna, in the southeastern part of the Po Valley, between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic coast; this part of the Italian Peninsula has been characterized by intense geomorphological transformations in the past. The chronological range taken into consideration is short but significant: from the Roman period to the modern era. There are four main topics selected, analyzed with different types of sources: land use and land cover, evolution of rural settlement patterns, urban identity and its significance through history and palaeoenviron- mental transformations. One of the aims of the project will be to enlighten limits and potentials of using different kind of sources in the areas of interest: - Land use and land cover from XVI to XXI centuries will be investigated using historical cartography (e.g. using Pontifical Cadaster); - The evolution of the rural settlement patterns will be discussed looking at the data collected by two landscape archaeological projects, the “Decimano project” (2002-2006) and the “Bassa Romandiola project” (2009-2018); - Urban identity is well known in historical studies based on the written sources, but a different interpretation could be reached just analyzing historical evidence in relation to a wider network, including rural landscapes, geographic context and natural environment; - The palaeoenvironmental transformations will be studied through geoarchaeological and palaeobotanical approaches (e.g. coring and macro- and microplant remains analysis). The final aim of this project is to define a comprehensive management and interpretation method for different kinds of raw data. A multiscale approach will allow the use of those information to achieve a single framework for the evolution of a complex network, namely a capital city and its hinterland during the last two millennia.
The present research aims to reconstruct the methods of Land Use and their impact on the Land Cover (and vice-versa) of the lower Ravenna plain during the Middle Ages, more precisely from the 9th to the 15th centuries. The chronological arch has been chosen because the written sources are more numerous and eloquent in these centuries. From an ecological and geomorphological point of view, this time span will allow to follow the processes of land reclamation of two areas of the Po Valley that started after the climate worsening of the 5th and 8th centuries.
The first part of the research project proposes to study the archival documentation published and, if necessary (e.g. extensive information gaps), even unpublished. The documentary typologies that will be analysed are almost entirely represented by private contracts (livelli, enfiteusi, donations, etc.) and historical cartography.
The archaeological sources that will be examined come mainly from the field artifact surveys and excavations carried out in these regions during the past years. At the same time the areas for archaeobotanical sampling will be selected by crossing the data obtained from the written and cartographic sources and the observations elaborated following the fields surveys.
The sampling will also include the macro plant remains collected in previous excavation campaigns on the territory, in order not to lose crucial data for the research. The laboratory activity will be finalized to the microscopic analysis for the recognition of the taxa and their counting, in order to create diagrams that allow to follow the qualitative and quantitative development of the elements of the flora in each level of the deposit.
The macro- and micro-plant remains analysis are tool for the examination and interpretation of human-induced changes in past land-cover. The reconstruction approach that will be used is the Multiple Scenario Approach, designed to generate multiple ecologically distinct reconstructions of past vegetation in the form of maps, using datasets coming from multiple sources (pollen, archaeobotany, geomorphology, written sources, etc.), forming multiple hypotheses about the past landscape.
The preliminary results on the archaeobotanical samples collected during the 2017 excavation campaign at the castrum of Zagonara (Lugo, Italy), have confirmed what already shown by the written sources, that is the strong presence of an heterogeneous agricultural economy, with crops intermixed with wetlands.