Francesca Fulminante
Biographic Data
| ID | 660508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca Fulminante |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Fulminante |
| SIGNATURE | FULMINANTE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roma Tre University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8592-8876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Origins and features of Early Roman priesthoods
This paper examines three early Roman priesthoods, specifically, the Vestal virgins, the Salii, and the Flamines, through the lens of their visual and symbolic prerogatives, adopting a diachronic perspective based on literary sources, iconographic evidence, and archaeological data. The study highlights the deep historical roots of priestly paraphernalia in pre- and proto-historic funerary contexts, as well as a significant shift in gender dynamic…
Roads and rivers. The importance of regional transportation networks for early urbanization in central Italy (950-500 BC)
Ancient regional routes structured interaction among settlements and shaped the emergence of complex societies. We apply a network framework to central Italy (ca. 1000–500 BC) that compares a terrestrial-only baseline with a dual-mode system adding river routes, using a connectivity metric that reflects resilience (availability of alternative paths) while accounting for cumulative maintenance costs. Rather than simulating traffic, we explore rang…
Grand challenges for the quantitative study of past movement systems in the twenty-first century
Past movement systems represent the material remnants of a past society's socio-political and economic interactions. While qualitative studies have expanded significantly, quantitative approaches have yet to fully leverage computational advances to better understand the formation and development of these movement systems. This special issue contextualises the collected papers within a broader ‘quantitative study of past movement systems’ overview…
Eingegangene Bücher
Salt Production in Central Italy and Social Network Analysis Centrality Measures
In this work, we study salt-production settlement in central Italy with an exploratory application of centrality indexes, common in social network analysis: betweenness centrality, closeness centrality, and degree centrality. These methods are not new, but they have never been applied to this type of site and the results are innovative and illuminating. In fact, the closeness and degree centrality do not yield particularly interesting results. Ho…
Female and Male Archaeologists in Italy from the Unification (1871) to Contemporary Times
Epilogue
This epilogue reflects on five questions raised by the papers in this collection. First, I ask 'what are women's groups'. Second, I consider the centrality of Christianity in women's groups in colonial and contemporary epochs and review debates about how women's agency has been seen in becoming a Christian and in the perduring reality of Christian commitment. Third, I ponder the expansion of agendas from 'welfare to empowerment' and the propositi…
Terrestrial communication networks and political agency in Early Iron Age Central Italy (950–500 BCE)
Transportation networks can be regarded as an epiphenomenon of social interactions and interactions between societies and environments. At the same time, they influence the development of past societies and their complexification (e.g. emergence of urbanism). There is a feedback loop. To better understand emerging Latin and Etruscan urban polities and their interactions we modelled their terrestrial infrastructure networks to explore the underlyi…
Community practices” and “communities of practice” in smelting technology by XRF analysis of Archaic bronze votive figurines in central Italy (6th – 5th centuries BC)
Laura Pfuntner. Urbanism and empire in Roman Sicily. 2019. Austin
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Modelling terrestrial route networks to understand inter-polity interactions (southern Etruria, 950-500 BC)
Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies
Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling tools designed to study complex systems. A complex system consists of separate entities interacting following a set of (often simple) rules that collectively give rise to unexpected patterns featuring vastly different properties than the entities that produced them. In recent years a number of case studies have shown that such approaches have great potenti…
Infant Feeding Practices in Europe and the Mediterranean from Prehistory to the Middle Ages
The duration of the breastfeeding and weaning periods is very much a combination of environmental and cultural elements and the study of those practices in historical populations is most useful because it allows the identification of patterns and trends over a long-term perspective. A number of studies have attempted to write the history of infant feeding in Western civilisations from a historical perspective but progress in stable isotope analys…
The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus
This book focuses on urbanization and state formation in middle Tyrrhenian Italy during the first millennium BC by analyzing settlement organization and territorial patterns in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era. In contrast with the traditional diffusionist view, which holds that the idea of the city was introduced to the West via Greek and Phoenician colonists from the more developed Near East, this book demonstrates i…
Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus
Indigenous political dynamics and identity from a compartive perspective
Opening the Frontier
The frontier between Gubbio (ancient Umbria) and Perugia (ancient Etruria), in the northeast part of the modern region of Umbria, was founded in the late sixth century bc . The frontier endured in different forms, most notably in the late antique and medieval periods, as well as fleetingly in 1944, and is fossilized today in the local government boundaries. Archaeological, documentary and philological evidence are brought together to investigate …
Infant Feeding Practices in Europe and the Mediterranean from Prehistory to the Middle Ages
The duration of the breastfeeding and weaning periods is very much a combination of environmental and cultural elements and the study of those practices in historical populations is most useful because it allows the identification of patterns and trends over a long-term perspective. A number of studies have attempted to write the history of infant feeding in Western civilisations from a historical perspective but progress in stable isotope analys…
Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies
Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling tools designed to study complex systems. A complex system consists of separate entities interacting following a set of (often simple) rules that collectively give rise to unexpected patterns featuring vastly different properties than the entities that produced them. In recent years a number of case studies have shown that such approaches have great potenti…
Modelling terrestrial route networks to understand inter-polity interactions (southern Etruria, 950-500 BC)
Opening the Frontier
The frontier between Gubbio (ancient Umbria) and Perugia (ancient Etruria), in the northeast part of the modern region of Umbria, was founded in the late sixth century bc . The frontier endured in different forms, most notably in the late antique and medieval periods, as well as fleetingly in 1944, and is fossilized today in the local government boundaries. Archaeological, documentary and philological evidence are brought together to investigate …
Salt Production in Central Italy and Social Network Analysis Centrality Measures
In this work, we study salt-production settlement in central Italy with an exploratory application of centrality indexes, common in social network analysis: betweenness centrality, closeness centrality, and degree centrality. These methods are not new, but they have never been applied to this type of site and the results are innovative and illuminating. In fact, the closeness and degree centrality do not yield particularly interesting results. Ho…
Opening the Frontier
The frontier between Gubbio (ancient Umbria) and Perugia (ancient Etruria), in the northeast part of the modern region of Umbria, was founded in the late sixth century bc . The frontier endured in different forms, most notably in the late antique and medieval periods, as well as fleetingly in 1944, and is fossilized today in the local government boundaries. Archaeological, documentary and philological evidence are brought together to investigate …
Indigenous political dynamics and identity from a compartive perspective
The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus
This book focuses on urbanization and state formation in middle Tyrrhenian Italy during the first millennium BC by analyzing settlement organization and territorial patterns in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era. In contrast with the traditional diffusionist view, which holds that the idea of the city was introduced to the West via Greek and Phoenician colonists from the more developed Near East, this book demonstrates i…
Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus
Infant Feeding Practices in Europe and the Mediterranean from Prehistory to the Middle Ages
The duration of the breastfeeding and weaning periods is very much a combination of environmental and cultural elements and the study of those practices in historical populations is most useful because it allows the identification of patterns and trends over a long-term perspective. A number of studies have attempted to write the history of infant feeding in Western civilisations from a historical perspective but progress in stable isotope analys…
Laura Pfuntner. Urbanism and empire in Roman Sicily. 2019. Austin
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Modelling terrestrial route networks to understand inter-polity interactions (southern Etruria, 950-500 BC)
Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies
Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling tools designed to study complex systems. A complex system consists of separate entities interacting following a set of (often simple) rules that collectively give rise to unexpected patterns featuring vastly different properties than the entities that produced them. In recent years a number of case studies have shown that such approaches have great potenti…
Terrestrial communication networks and political agency in Early Iron Age Central Italy (950–500 BCE)
Transportation networks can be regarded as an epiphenomenon of social interactions and interactions between societies and environments. At the same time, they influence the development of past societies and their complexification (e.g. emergence of urbanism). There is a feedback loop. To better understand emerging Latin and Etruscan urban polities and their interactions we modelled their terrestrial infrastructure networks to explore the underlyi…
Community practices” and “communities of practice” in smelting technology by XRF analysis of Archaic bronze votive figurines in central Italy (6th – 5th centuries BC)
Epilogue
This epilogue reflects on five questions raised by the papers in this collection. First, I ask 'what are women's groups'. Second, I consider the centrality of Christianity in women's groups in colonial and contemporary epochs and review debates about how women's agency has been seen in becoming a Christian and in the perduring reality of Christian commitment. Third, I ponder the expansion of agendas from 'welfare to empowerment' and the propositi…
Female and Male Archaeologists in Italy from the Unification (1871) to Contemporary Times
Eingegangene Bücher
Salt Production in Central Italy and Social Network Analysis Centrality Measures
In this work, we study salt-production settlement in central Italy with an exploratory application of centrality indexes, common in social network analysis: betweenness centrality, closeness centrality, and degree centrality. These methods are not new, but they have never been applied to this type of site and the results are innovative and illuminating. In fact, the closeness and degree centrality do not yield particularly interesting results. Ho…
Origins and features of Early Roman priesthoods
This paper examines three early Roman priesthoods, specifically, the Vestal virgins, the Salii, and the Flamines, through the lens of their visual and symbolic prerogatives, adopting a diachronic perspective based on literary sources, iconographic evidence, and archaeological data. The study highlights the deep historical roots of priestly paraphernalia in pre- and proto-historic funerary contexts, as well as a significant shift in gender dynamic…
Roads and rivers. The importance of regional transportation networks for early urbanization in central Italy (950-500 BC)
Ancient regional routes structured interaction among settlements and shaped the emergence of complex societies. We apply a network framework to central Italy (ca. 1000–500 BC) that compares a terrestrial-only baseline with a dual-mode system adding river routes, using a connectivity metric that reflects resilience (availability of alternative paths) while accounting for cumulative maintenance costs. Rather than simulating traffic, we explore rang…
Grand challenges for the quantitative study of past movement systems in the twenty-first century
Past movement systems represent the material remnants of a past society's socio-political and economic interactions. While qualitative studies have expanded significantly, quantitative approaches have yet to fully leverage computational advances to better understand the formation and development of these movement systems. This special issue contextualises the collected papers within a broader ‘quantitative study of past movement systems’ overview…
Archaeology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (5 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)