Papers by Michele Matteazzi
Archeologia Veneta, 2022
This paper offers, from a topographic perspective, some remarks regarding the road system and the... more This paper offers, from a topographic perspective, some remarks regarding the road system and the boundary between the Roman municipia of Tridentum and Feltria. At a territorial level, the targeted area extends from Piave Valley to Tesino plateau and lower Valsugana Valley: a district which, since ancient times, has played a natural role as a borderland between Trento and Feltre territories, and that, starting from the middle of the 1st cent. AD, was affected by the passage of an important road built by emperor Claudius as a connection between Venetia and Raetia and named after him via Claudia Augusta.
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Open Archaeology, Jan 26, 2017
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This paper deals with the application of Geographical Information Systems to landscape archaeolog... more This paper deals with the application of Geographical Information Systems to landscape archaeological studies and, in particular, with researches that follow an archaeomorphological approach. The study outlines the analytical potential especially for studying ancient land divisions. The case study presented here, drawn from a Phd project, is specifically dealing with the contribution that such Systems can bring to the archaeomorphological study of a wide stretch of the alluvial plain extended to the south of the city of Padua, with the Venice Lagoon to the east and the Euganei Hills to the west (Fig. 1): in this area, the analysis of landscape features highlights the traces of ancient territorial structures organized by orthogonal axes. We think they could be recognised as land divisions carried out during Roman times.
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Landscape 3: una sintesi di elementi diacronici Uomo e ambiente nel mondo antico: un equilibrio possibile?, 2023
The study is aimed at the analysis of the routes that characterized the Alpine sector known as Tr... more The study is aimed at the analysis of the routes that characterized the Alpine sector known as Tridentinae Alpes during Roman times, trying to highlight the role played by the urban center of Tridentum as an important junction within the road network connecting the opposite sides of the Alps; in particular, Decima Regio Italiae with the neighboring provinces of Raetia and Noricum. The attention is particularly focused on the geomorphological features of the Alpine territory and their relationship
with the ancient routes, with the will to detect economic and social reasons and technical skills that both implied and determined design, construction, and evolution of the road network
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Fold&r, 2023
The Doss Penede is a limestone hill facing the northern shore of Lake Garda and overlooking the l... more The Doss Penede is a limestone hill facing the northern shore of Lake Garda and overlooking the lower valley of the Sarca river and the terrace of Nago, a natural connection, through the Loppio valley, with the middle valley of the Adige river. Ex-cavation at the Doss Penede began in 2019 through a fruitful collaboration between the Township of Nago-Torbole, the Ar-chaeological Heritage Office of the Superintendency of the Autonomous Province of Trento and the Department of Humani-ties of the University of Trento.
Archaeological work highlighted a long-lasting intermittent settlement sequence characterised by three main phases of oc-cupation: the Recent Bronze Age, the Second Iron Age and the Roman period (from the later 1st century BC to the early 4th century AD). On the basis of the data collected in the first four years of excavation, this paper aims to provide an overall picture of the topographical and architectural changes occurred at the site in the two best documented macro-periods – the Second Iron Age and the early and middle Roman Imperial Age – situating them in the broader pre-Alpine and central-eastern Alpine framework. A further aspect that will be investigated concerns the settlement continuity/discontinuity be-tween the latest occupation phase of the Second Iron Age and the reconfiguration and monumentalization process related to the Romanization of the High Garda in the late 1st century BC, when this area was aggregated to the urban center of Bri-xia/Brescia.
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Itinera, 2023
This paper examines the technical aspects of road building in Roman times. After reviewing the av... more This paper examines the technical aspects of road building in Roman times. After reviewing the available classical written sources dealing with the topic, archaeological data are considered. The reference sample is the road network developed by the Romans in northern Italy, a territory largely
corresponding to the Republican province of Gallia Cisalpina. The main technical solutions adopted by the Romans in building roads are identifed and discussed, for both urban and rural contexts. The impact of geomorphology upon building techniques is highlighted for different environmental contexts. Finally, developments in building techniques from Republican to Late Roman times are discussed.
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Session 11-12, Single Contributions– Poster Sessions. Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World, vol. 56, 2023
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Sessions 2 – 3, Single Contributions. Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World 53, 2022
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This paper deals with the application of Geographical Information Systems to landscape archaeolog... more This paper deals with the application of Geographical Information Systems to landscape archaeological studies and, in particular, with researches that follow an archaeomorphological approach. The study outlines the analytical potential especially for studying ancient land divisions. The case study presented here, drawn from a Phd project, is specifically dealing with the contribution that such Systems can bring to the archaeomorphological study of a wide stretch of the alluvial plain extended to the south of the city of Padua, with the Venice Lagoon to the east and the Euganei Hills to the west (Fig. 1): in this area, the analysis of landscape features highlights the traces of ancient territorial structures organized by orthogonal axes. We think they could be recognised as land divisions carried out during Roman times
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Begun in 2019, the excavation project at the pre-Roman and Roman hilltop-site at the Doss Penede ... more Begun in 2019, the excavation project at the pre-Roman and Roman hilltop-site at the Doss Penede (Nago, TN) in the High Lake Garda is the result of a fruitful collaboration among the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento, the Superintendency for Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous Province of Trento and the Township of Nago-Torbole. The site has been known since the early 1990s when its outstanding buildings attracted local interest. However, no stratigraphic investigation has been promoted until 2019, when the site was chosen as the first case-study of a wider project aimed at analysing patterns of change occurred at settlements, economy and the cultural landscape between the second Iron Age and the late Roman period in the area of the High Garda Lake and the Sarca valley. The first excavation season, whose results are presented and discussed in this paper, uncovered a well-planned hilltop site characterised by a system of parallel large terrace-walls linked by monumental staircases and butted by buildings of various functions. Occupied uninterruptedly between the second Iron Age and the 3rd-4th centuries AD, the site likely experienced a process of monumentalisation in the early Roman period. The Doss Penede is a quintessential example of the resilience of pre-roman hilltop sites at the time of Romanisation of Cisalpine Gaul.
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Il libro, frutto degli studi dell'autore effettuati durante il suo PhD in Archeologia e p... more Il libro, frutto degli studi dell'autore effettuati durante il suo PhD in Archeologia e perfezionati negli anni successivi, presenta un'indagine a carattere territoriale di un tratto della bassa pianura veneta che si estende a sud della città di Padova, tra i Colli Euganei e il bacino meridionale della Laguna di Venezia. L'interesse è principalmente rivolto alla ricostruzione del paesaggio di epoca romana, analizzato attraverso una metodologia fondamentalmente basata sui principi teorici dell' Archeologia del Paesaggio e sviluppata secondo un approccio di tipo archeomorfologico. Dopo averne definito i caratteri essenziali (sia naturali sia antropici), vengono considerati e analizzati i diversi cambi avvenuti nella sua strutturazione durante il periodo di dominazione romana, compreso tra l'arrivo degli stessi Romani all'inizio del II sec. a.C. e il VI sec. d.C., ovvero quando la guerra greco-gotica (535-553) e la calata dei Longobardi (568) posero fine ad ogni velleità di dominio da parte dell'Impero Romano d'Oriente. This book, originally based on the author's PhD research and revised in the years following, presents a regional study focusing on a stretch of low Venetian plain south of the city of Padua, between the Euganei Hills and the southern basin of the Venetian Lagoon. The primary goal of this research is the reconstruction of the Roman landscape, which is analysed through a methodology based on the theoretical precepts of Landscape Archaeology and developed following an archaeomorphological approach. After its essential features (both natural and anthropic) have been defined, changes and transformations in its structure are evaluated, as they occurred during the period of Roman domination, between their arrival at the beginning of the 2nd c. BC and the 6th c. AD; that is, the point at which the Gothic war (535-553) and the arrival of the Lombards (568) put an end to any desire for domination of the region on the part of the Eastern Roman Empire. https://www.barpublishing.com/il-paesaggio-trasformato.html
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Open Archaeology, 2017
This paper deals with the analysis of the ancient road network around the city of Padua, attempts... more This paper deals with the analysis of the ancient road network around the city of Padua, attempts to reconstruct its morphology and to define its genesis and development between the second Iron Age and Late Antiquity (6th/5th cent. BC to 6th cent. AD). The study follows a methodological approach that today we define as „archaeomorphological“, first proposed by E. Vion in the late 1980s. By applying this methodology to the Paduan territory, it was possible to identify a series of routes of probable ancient origin radially converging toward the center of Roman Patavium, and linking it to other urban centers in the region and to the minor centers located within its ager. The presence of Iron Age settlements along the path of many of these routes suggests that the development of such a road network likely begins in pre-Roman times, which also highlights the ancient strategic importance of Padua and its territory as a fundamental junction between the center and the North-East of the Ital...
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Multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary research in Landscape Archaeology, 2016
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Archeologia Veneta, 2021
The paper proposes some considerations about the Roman road network once characterized the territ... more The paper proposes some considerations about the Roman road network once characterized the territory to the North-West of Vicenza, seen here as natural link (both physical and cultural) between lowlands and highlands. Therefore, through a methodological work out that follows an archaeomorphological approach, we will try to identify and reconstruct the ancient road network that defined this stretch of high plain, constituting an important communication system to and from the Roman town of Vicetia (Vicenza) as well as the backbone around which the current rural landscape was shaped over time.
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with the ancient routes, with the will to detect economic and social reasons and technical skills that both implied and determined design, construction, and evolution of the road network
Archaeological work highlighted a long-lasting intermittent settlement sequence characterised by three main phases of oc-cupation: the Recent Bronze Age, the Second Iron Age and the Roman period (from the later 1st century BC to the early 4th century AD). On the basis of the data collected in the first four years of excavation, this paper aims to provide an overall picture of the topographical and architectural changes occurred at the site in the two best documented macro-periods – the Second Iron Age and the early and middle Roman Imperial Age – situating them in the broader pre-Alpine and central-eastern Alpine framework. A further aspect that will be investigated concerns the settlement continuity/discontinuity be-tween the latest occupation phase of the Second Iron Age and the reconfiguration and monumentalization process related to the Romanization of the High Garda in the late 1st century BC, when this area was aggregated to the urban center of Bri-xia/Brescia.
corresponding to the Republican province of Gallia Cisalpina. The main technical solutions adopted by the Romans in building roads are identifed and discussed, for both urban and rural contexts. The impact of geomorphology upon building techniques is highlighted for different environmental contexts. Finally, developments in building techniques from Republican to Late Roman times are discussed.
with the ancient routes, with the will to detect economic and social reasons and technical skills that both implied and determined design, construction, and evolution of the road network
Archaeological work highlighted a long-lasting intermittent settlement sequence characterised by three main phases of oc-cupation: the Recent Bronze Age, the Second Iron Age and the Roman period (from the later 1st century BC to the early 4th century AD). On the basis of the data collected in the first four years of excavation, this paper aims to provide an overall picture of the topographical and architectural changes occurred at the site in the two best documented macro-periods – the Second Iron Age and the early and middle Roman Imperial Age – situating them in the broader pre-Alpine and central-eastern Alpine framework. A further aspect that will be investigated concerns the settlement continuity/discontinuity be-tween the latest occupation phase of the Second Iron Age and the reconfiguration and monumentalization process related to the Romanization of the High Garda in the late 1st century BC, when this area was aggregated to the urban center of Bri-xia/Brescia.
corresponding to the Republican province of Gallia Cisalpina. The main technical solutions adopted by the Romans in building roads are identifed and discussed, for both urban and rural contexts. The impact of geomorphology upon building techniques is highlighted for different environmental contexts. Finally, developments in building techniques from Republican to Late Roman times are discussed.
presence which seems to have found a special pole of attraction in the area of the present-day city of Rovereto, likely heir to a Roman vicus established where Vallarsa and Adige valleys meet and, above all, to the Lombard civitas of Lagaris, by which the valley got its name. With
this paper we therefore want to propose an integrated reading of the contemporary landscape, trying to detect the traces referable to its most ancient structuring and to understand its evolution over time. Starting from the landscape as we perceive it today, and through a diachronic reading of both anthropic and natural features that define its current appearance, we try to identify the different actions that over time, between Late Iron Age and Lombard period, were responsible for its definition. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the current road network, the axes of which constitute the anthropic morphology that most strongly affects the landscape shaping.
held in Catania (23rd-26th May 2013)
This book, originally based on the author's PhD research and revised in the years following, presents a regional study focusing on a stretch of low Venetian plain south of the city of Padua, between the Euganei Hills and the southern basin of the Venetian Lagoon. The primary goal of this research is the reconstruction of the Roman landscape, which is analysed through a methodology based on the theoretical precepts of Landscape Archaeology and developed following an archaeomorphological approach. After its essential features (both natural and anthropic) have been defined, changes and transformations in its structure are evaluated, as they occurred during the period of Roman domination, between their arrival at the beginning of the 2nd c. BC and the 6th c. AD; that is, the point at which the Gothic war (535-553) and the arrival of the Lombards (568) put an end to any desire for domination of the region on the part of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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La terza edizione di Landscape vuole tentare di declinare questa tematica nell'antichità, cercando di comprendere il livello di consapevolezza ecologica delle società antiche ed evidenziando quali sono state le scelte politiche ed economiche attuate tenendo in considerazione la componente ambientale.
Il convegno, organizzato in collaborazione con l'Università di Bologna e la Consulta di Topografia Antica, si terrà tra il 5 ed il 6 maggio 2022 a Bologna e Ravenna.