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SUMMARY:The Sabines of the Apennines before the Roman conquest: settlement
  patterns\, culture and society of a mountain community. - Dario Monti\, U
 CLouvain
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CONTACT:Marianna Negro
DESCRIPTION:Among the various ancient Italic peoples of central Italy befo
 re the Roman conquest\, the Sabines appear to have played a central role. 
 Historical sources report that they were the ancestors of several Italic p
 eoples and recount episodes of their mythical expansion from the mountaino
 us heart of the Apennines to the flatter areas of the Tiber. This particul
 ar territorial division\, which led them to settle in a belt from the Tibe
 r valley to the peaks of the Apennines\, is also an element of great archa
 eological interest. It allows us to assess the different settlement strate
 gies and social and cultural development paths of communities that shared 
 many common characteristics and were considered\, at least from an externa
 l perspective\, culturally bounded.\n\nThis talk will focus specifically o
 n the characteristics of the innermost 'face' of these communities between
  the Early Iron Age and the Roman conquest (290 BC)\, using as a case stud
 y the area which\, according to the ancient sources\, constituted the nort
 hern frontier of the Sabine world. An area between the modern regions of L
 atium\, Umbria and Marche\, which in the later Roman period largely overla
 pped with the municipium of Nursia (Norcia). The ongoing research in this 
 area and its preliminary but promising results are then presented. Thanks 
 to them\, it is now possible to gain new insights into the life of this mo
 untain community.
LOCATION:McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room
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