Urban networks in Latium
Abstract
Rome’s hinterland, Latium, has long been a focus of research. It offers a remarkably rich set of information, archaeological, epigraphical, and literary, and especially for the period 200 bc to ad 200. We can see a densely settled countryside with a scatter of urbanized settlements, and we can trace links between them and repetitive cultural behaviours. This paper presents the potential of a new database, combining three major surveys, and relates this first to the model of the globalized countryside, and then argues for the relevance of actor-network theory and assemblage theory. The intention is to encourage a renewed collaborative effort to understand ‘urbanity’ at a regional level, in central Italy and elsewhere.
Citation
Smith , C J 2020 , ' Urban networks in Latium ' , Journal of Urban Archaeology , vol. 1 , pp. 85-97 . https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.120911
Publication
Journal of Urban Archaeology
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2736-2426Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © the Author 2020. This is an open access article made available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International License.
Description
Funding: Danish National Research Foundation under the grant DNRF 119).Collections
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