Nicola Terrenato
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 383390 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicola Terrenato |
| PRENOMES | Nicola |
| SOBRENOME | Terrenato |
| ASSINATURA | TERRENATO N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1053-0094 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 193 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The origins of the Tiber Island in Rome
This paper presents the latest results from a geoarchaeological coring survey of Rome’s central river valley: new evidence demonstrates that the Tiber Island did not exist during the early centuries of human habitation at the site of Rome. Instead, the area was characterised by a low, seasonal bar formation on the riverbed, which would conceivably have aided prehistoric fording activity. The Tiber Island first emerged as a permanent land mass as …
Mitochondrial DNA Evidence for Community Building and Population Dynamics at a Multi-Phase Roman Site (Gabii, Italy, 8th Century BC– 2nd Century AD)
Archaeological work at Gabii in Italy has revealed burials in the settlement area dating to three different time periods: Iron Age, Archaic and Imperial. In this paper, we investigate the genetic characteristics of the people buried at Gabii, integrating mitochondrial DNA evidence with archaeological and historical contexts to address questions about community and population dynamics, such as whether biological lineages persisted through time and…
Natural and anthropic influences on the transformation of the landscape in archaic Rome during the 6th c BCE
Italian Descent in Middle Republican Roman Magistrates
The record for the consular fasti of the Mid-Republic, as one of our more reliable sources for the period, offers valuable insight into who was in power at a crucial time for the transition of Rome from city-state to territorial empire. It has been recognized at least since Münzer that many family names in the lists were not originally from Rome, but instead from other Italian communities. The chapter attempts to take systematic stock of this imp…
Making the Middle Republic
During the fourth and third centuries BCE, Roman expansion into Italy reshaped the peninsula's Archaic societies and prompted new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures. Rural landscapes and urban spaces throughout Latium saw intensified use amidst novel principles of land management, animal husbandry, and architectural design. This book offers fresh perspectives on these transformations by embracing a w…
On the Banks of the Tiber
A geoarchaeological coring survey of the Forum Boarium has shed considerable light on Rome's archaic landscape. We present the first empirical evidence that substantiates ancient and modern assumptions about the existence of a river harbour and ford in early Rome. Prior to the growth of the city, the riverbank — reconstructed as a high ledge at the base of the Capitoline Hill and a low-lying shore north of the Aventine — was particularly advantag…
Central Italian Elite Groups as Aristocratic Houses in the Ninth to Sixth Centuries BCE
This chapter demonstrates the applicability of C. Lévi-Strauss’s “House Society” model for considering the role of kinship in the early moments of state formation and urbanization in Iron Age Latium and Etruria. After a brief theoretical overview of the model, the discussion focuses on two main axioms which are often overlooked in the model’s application to the ancient world: (1) a physical house does not make a social House, and (2) a single Hou…
Chapter 2 Central Italian Elite Groups as Aristocratic Houses in the Ninth to Sixth Centuries BCE
The Early Roman Expansion into Italy
This book presents a radical new interpretation of Roman expansion in Italy during the fourth and third centuries BCE. Nicola Terrenato argues that the process was accomplished by means of a grand bargain that was negotiated between the landed elites of central and southern Italy, while military conquest played a much smaller role than is usually envisaged. Deploying archaeological, epigraphic, and historical evidence, he paints a picture of the …
Previously Unidentified Tuff in the Archaic Temple Podium at Sant'Omobono, Rome and its Broader Implications
This study reports on the discovery that the podium of the archaic temple in the Forum Boarium of Rome was built with a previously unknown tuff, of non-local origin. On the basis of detailed comparative petrographic and geochemical tests, it has been established that the blocks employed to build the earliest temple so far discovered in Rome belonged to a distinctive facies of tufo lionato that had never been characterized before, in contrast to w…
Combining geochemistry and petrography to provenance Lionato and Lapis Albanus tuffs used in Roman temples at Sant’Omobono, Rome, Italy
Tufo Lionato is a volcanic tuff that was used extensively for construction in Rome, Italy, during antiquity and after; at least three varieties can be identified: Anio, Monteverde, and Portuense. The widespread introduction of Tufo Lionato in Roman construction is generally dated to the mid‐second century before the common era (B.C.E.). Another tuff, Lapis Albanus, is held to have been introduced during the third century B.C.E. Due to their simil…
A Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex at Gabii
Excavations at the Latin city of Gabii in 2012–15 conducted by the Gabii Project have uncovered a monumental building complex, hitherto known only very partially from previous excavations in the 1990s. Organized on a series of three artificial terraces that regularized the slope of the volcanic terrain, it measures some 60 m by 35 m, occupying an entire city-block. It is prominently situated at one of the most central locations within the city, o…
Sant'Omobono
The church of Sant’Omobono sits above one of the highest human occupation sequences in the city of Rome. Some 3.5 m of sediment lie between the earliest known Bronze Age occupation lens and the base of the foundations of the early 6th c. B.C. temple, a further 13 m above which lies the floor of the present church, reconstructed in A.D. 1482. The site was sacred to the goddesses Fortuna and Mater Matuta for more than a millennium, before one of th…
Rome in the Bronze Age
Introduction
The archetypal imperial city
Geochemical identification criteria for “peperino” stones employed in ancient Roman buildings
Volaterrae
Volaterrae (modern Volterra) is a major Etruscan and Roman city in northern Tuscany, still in existence after over three thousand years of continuous occupation.
The S. Omobono Sanctuary in Rome
This article presents the preliminary results of a new research and fieldwork project on the site of S. Omobono in the area of the river harbour of Rome. At S. Omobono, a series of excavation campaigns between the 1930s and the 1990s partially exposed a sequence of major cult buildings dating between the 6th century BCE and the 2nd century CE. Important architectural pieces, inscriptions and imported Greek wares found at the site have attracted a…
Roman Republican
The Roman villa is a classic icon of Western culture, and yet villa can be used to cover a multiplicity of ideas, experiences, and places. In the late Republic and early Imperial periods, villas are inseparable from elite lifestyles, providing a prestigious setting for leisurely and intellectual pursuits. But how did these advanced buildings come about? Roman Republican Villas examines key aspects of early villa culture and architecture, with the…
A New Plan for an Ancient Italian City
The city of Gabii was one of the main centers of ancient Latium, yet very little of the settlement is known through archaeology. The site has been the focus of only sporadic exploration, and the available evidence for the urban history and development of the city is extremely fragmentary. New fieldwork has investigated the urban area with magnetometry and core sampling in preparation for a major campaign of new excavations. The results show that …
The innocents and the sceptics
meanwhile begun to make their own changes, in roughly parallel directions, in Greece, Italy and the other Mediterranean lands. Few if any would propose abandoning such studies as the art of the Parthenon, but there is a detectable move to divert more of the collective effort to very different pursuits. Again, this has implied a degree of assimilation to the practices of prehistory. As someone who has devoted his later career to promoting such cha…
The Auditorium site in Rome and the origins of the villa
The archaeology of Roman villas is based on a very rich body of evidence found across the entire Roman world and dating to a very broad chronological spectrum. Yet there are still crucial related issues, such as that concerning the origins of this type of settlement, not to mention the problem of its very homogeneity as a category, that have been debated on the basis of a surprisingly limited amount of factual information. In situations of this k…
Falerii Novi
FALERII NOVI: UNA NUOVA RICOGNIZIONE DELL'AREA MURATA I risultati di una ricognizione dell'intera parte murata della città romana di Falerii Novi vengono presentati insieme a quelli di una piccola area posta al di fuori delle mura. I metodi impiegati consistono in una integrazione di rilevamento topografico, ricognizione a piedi dell'area ed estensivo uso di un gradiometro ‘fluxgate’. I risultati permettono di ricostruire in dettaglio una nuova p…
Tarquinia
Tam Firmum Municipium
The aim of the present paper is to reassess the events connected with the Romanization of the Etruscan metropolis of Volaterrae in the light of recent archaeological findings. The results of the Cecina Valley survey and of other related fieldwork have prompted a full reconsideration of the issue: indeed, they show a very different picture when compared with some of the recent mainstream reconstructions of the making of central Roman Italy; in par…
Roman Republican
The Roman villa is a classic icon of Western culture, and yet villa can be used to cover a multiplicity of ideas, experiences, and places. In the late Republic and early Imperial periods, villas are inseparable from elite lifestyles, providing a prestigious setting for leisurely and intellectual pursuits. But how did these advanced buildings come about? Roman Republican Villas examines key aspects of early villa culture and architecture, with the…
Falerii Novi
FALERII NOVI: UNA NUOVA RICOGNIZIONE DELL'AREA MURATA I risultati di una ricognizione dell'intera parte murata della città romana di Falerii Novi vengono presentati insieme a quelli di una piccola area posta al di fuori delle mura. I metodi impiegati consistono in una integrazione di rilevamento topografico, ricognizione a piedi dell'area ed estensivo uso di un gradiometro ‘fluxgate’. I risultati permettono di ricostruire in dettaglio una nuova p…
The Romanization of Italy
Visibility and Site Recovery in the Cecina Valley Survey, Italy
One of the key issues in survey methodology today is the relationship between surface visibility and the discovery of archaeological sites on the landscape. As part of the Cecina Survey in central Italy, a treatment of visibility, which includes aspects of both geomorphology And ground cover, is developed in order to evaluate the strength of this relationship in quantitative terms. The results at Cecina show a strong positive relationship between…
The Auditorium site in Rome and the origins of the villa
The archaeology of Roman villas is based on a very rich body of evidence found across the entire Roman world and dating to a very broad chronological spectrum. Yet there are still crucial related issues, such as that concerning the origins of this type of settlement, not to mention the problem of its very homogeneity as a category, that have been debated on the basis of a surprisingly limited amount of factual information. In situations of this k…
On the Banks of the Tiber
A geoarchaeological coring survey of the Forum Boarium has shed considerable light on Rome's archaic landscape. We present the first empirical evidence that substantiates ancient and modern assumptions about the existence of a river harbour and ford in early Rome. Prior to the growth of the city, the riverbank — reconstructed as a high ledge at the base of the Capitoline Hill and a low-lying shore north of the Aventine — was particularly advantag…
Sant'Omobono
The church of Sant’Omobono sits above one of the highest human occupation sequences in the city of Rome. Some 3.5 m of sediment lie between the earliest known Bronze Age occupation lens and the base of the foundations of the early 6th c. B.C. temple, a further 13 m above which lies the floor of the present church, reconstructed in A.D. 1482. The site was sacred to the goddesses Fortuna and Mater Matuta for more than a millennium, before one of th…
A New Plan for an Ancient Italian City
The city of Gabii was one of the main centers of ancient Latium, yet very little of the settlement is known through archaeology. The site has been the focus of only sporadic exploration, and the available evidence for the urban history and development of the city is extremely fragmentary. New fieldwork has investigated the urban area with magnetometry and core sampling in preparation for a major campaign of new excavations. The results show that …
The innocents and the sceptics
meanwhile begun to make their own changes, in roughly parallel directions, in Greece, Italy and the other Mediterranean lands. Few if any would propose abandoning such studies as the art of the Parthenon, but there is a detectable move to divert more of the collective effort to very different pursuits. Again, this has implied a degree of assimilation to the practices of prehistory. As someone who has devoted his later career to promoting such cha…
Previously Unidentified Tuff in the Archaic Temple Podium at Sant'Omobono, Rome and its Broader Implications
This study reports on the discovery that the podium of the archaic temple in the Forum Boarium of Rome was built with a previously unknown tuff, of non-local origin. On the basis of detailed comparative petrographic and geochemical tests, it has been established that the blocks employed to build the earliest temple so far discovered in Rome belonged to a distinctive facies of tufo lionato that had never been characterized before, in contrast to w…
Rome in the Bronze Age
The S. Omobono Sanctuary in Rome
This article presents the preliminary results of a new research and fieldwork project on the site of S. Omobono in the area of the river harbour of Rome. At S. Omobono, a series of excavation campaigns between the 1930s and the 1990s partially exposed a sequence of major cult buildings dating between the 6th century BCE and the 2nd century CE. Important architectural pieces, inscriptions and imported Greek wares found at the site have attracted a…
Combining geochemistry and petrography to provenance Lionato and Lapis Albanus tuffs used in Roman temples at Sant’Omobono, Rome, Italy
Tufo Lionato is a volcanic tuff that was used extensively for construction in Rome, Italy, during antiquity and after; at least three varieties can be identified: Anio, Monteverde, and Portuense. The widespread introduction of Tufo Lionato in Roman construction is generally dated to the mid‐second century before the common era (B.C.E.). Another tuff, Lapis Albanus, is held to have been introduced during the third century B.C.E. Due to their simil…
A Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex at Gabii
Excavations at the Latin city of Gabii in 2012–15 conducted by the Gabii Project have uncovered a monumental building complex, hitherto known only very partially from previous excavations in the 1990s. Organized on a series of three artificial terraces that regularized the slope of the volcanic terrain, it measures some 60 m by 35 m, occupying an entire city-block. It is prominently situated at one of the most central locations within the city, o…
Geochemical identification criteria for “peperino” stones employed in ancient Roman buildings
Natural and anthropic influences on the transformation of the landscape in archaic Rome during the 6th c BCE
Field survey methods in Central Italy (Etruria and Umbria)
The existence of regional traditions, in terms of methods and practices, has been an accepted fact in social sciences with a longer history than archaeology. In disciplines like anthropology and archaeology, with their strong emphasis on the description of phenomena that are peculiar to a given regional context, the development of a set of methodologies common to scholars dealing with the same region (a methodological 'local knowledge') has long …
Visibility and Site Recovery in the Cecina Valley Survey, Italy
One of the key issues in survey methodology today is the relationship between surface visibility and the discovery of archaeological sites on the landscape. As part of the Cecina Survey in central Italy, a treatment of visibility, which includes aspects of both geomorphology And ground cover, is developed in order to evaluate the strength of this relationship in quantitative terms. The results at Cecina show a strong positive relationship between…
Field survey methods in Central Italy (Etruria and Umbria)
The existence of regional traditions, in terms of methods and practices, has been an accepted fact in social sciences with a longer history than archaeology. In disciplines like anthropology and archaeology, with their strong emphasis on the description of phenomena that are peculiar to a given regional context, the development of a set of methodologies common to scholars dealing with the same region (a methodological 'local knowledge') has long …
Tam Firmum Municipium
The aim of the present paper is to reassess the events connected with the Romanization of the Etruscan metropolis of Volaterrae in the light of recent archaeological findings. The results of the Cecina Valley survey and of other related fieldwork have prompted a full reconsideration of the issue: indeed, they show a very different picture when compared with some of the recent mainstream reconstructions of the making of central Roman Italy; in par…
The Romanization of Italy
Ideological Biases in the Urban Archaeology of Rome
Falerii Novi
FALERII NOVI: UNA NUOVA RICOGNIZIONE DELL'AREA MURATA I risultati di una ricognizione dell'intera parte murata della città romana di Falerii Novi vengono presentati insieme a quelli di una piccola area posta al di fuori delle mura. I metodi impiegati consistono in una integrazione di rilevamento topografico, ricognizione a piedi dell'area ed estensivo uso di un gradiometro ‘fluxgate’. I risultati permettono di ricostruire in dettaglio una nuova p…
Tarquinia
The Auditorium site in Rome and the origins of the villa
The archaeology of Roman villas is based on a very rich body of evidence found across the entire Roman world and dating to a very broad chronological spectrum. Yet there are still crucial related issues, such as that concerning the origins of this type of settlement, not to mention the problem of its very homogeneity as a category, that have been debated on the basis of a surprisingly limited amount of factual information. In situations of this k…
The innocents and the sceptics
meanwhile begun to make their own changes, in roughly parallel directions, in Greece, Italy and the other Mediterranean lands. Few if any would propose abandoning such studies as the art of the Parthenon, but there is a detectable move to divert more of the collective effort to very different pursuits. Again, this has implied a degree of assimilation to the practices of prehistory. As someone who has devoted his later career to promoting such cha…
A New Plan for an Ancient Italian City
The city of Gabii was one of the main centers of ancient Latium, yet very little of the settlement is known through archaeology. The site has been the focus of only sporadic exploration, and the available evidence for the urban history and development of the city is extremely fragmentary. New fieldwork has investigated the urban area with magnetometry and core sampling in preparation for a major campaign of new excavations. The results show that …
Roman Republican
The Roman villa is a classic icon of Western culture, and yet villa can be used to cover a multiplicity of ideas, experiences, and places. In the late Republic and early Imperial periods, villas are inseparable from elite lifestyles, providing a prestigious setting for leisurely and intellectual pursuits. But how did these advanced buildings come about? Roman Republican Villas examines key aspects of early villa culture and architecture, with the…
Volaterrae
Volaterrae (modern Volterra) is a major Etruscan and Roman city in northern Tuscany, still in existence after over three thousand years of continuous occupation.
The S. Omobono Sanctuary in Rome
This article presents the preliminary results of a new research and fieldwork project on the site of S. Omobono in the area of the river harbour of Rome. At S. Omobono, a series of excavation campaigns between the 1930s and the 1990s partially exposed a sequence of major cult buildings dating between the 6th century BCE and the 2nd century CE. Important architectural pieces, inscriptions and imported Greek wares found at the site have attracted a…
Introduction
The archetypal imperial city
Geochemical identification criteria for “peperino” stones employed in ancient Roman buildings
Sant'Omobono
The church of Sant’Omobono sits above one of the highest human occupation sequences in the city of Rome. Some 3.5 m of sediment lie between the earliest known Bronze Age occupation lens and the base of the foundations of the early 6th c. B.C. temple, a further 13 m above which lies the floor of the present church, reconstructed in A.D. 1482. The site was sacred to the goddesses Fortuna and Mater Matuta for more than a millennium, before one of th…
Rome in the Bronze Age
Combining geochemistry and petrography to provenance Lionato and Lapis Albanus tuffs used in Roman temples at Sant’Omobono, Rome, Italy
Tufo Lionato is a volcanic tuff that was used extensively for construction in Rome, Italy, during antiquity and after; at least three varieties can be identified: Anio, Monteverde, and Portuense. The widespread introduction of Tufo Lionato in Roman construction is generally dated to the mid‐second century before the common era (B.C.E.). Another tuff, Lapis Albanus, is held to have been introduced during the third century B.C.E. Due to their simil…
A Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex at Gabii
Excavations at the Latin city of Gabii in 2012–15 conducted by the Gabii Project have uncovered a monumental building complex, hitherto known only very partially from previous excavations in the 1990s. Organized on a series of three artificial terraces that regularized the slope of the volcanic terrain, it measures some 60 m by 35 m, occupying an entire city-block. It is prominently situated at one of the most central locations within the city, o…
The Early Roman Expansion into Italy
This book presents a radical new interpretation of Roman expansion in Italy during the fourth and third centuries BCE. Nicola Terrenato argues that the process was accomplished by means of a grand bargain that was negotiated between the landed elites of central and southern Italy, while military conquest played a much smaller role than is usually envisaged. Deploying archaeological, epigraphic, and historical evidence, he paints a picture of the …
Previously Unidentified Tuff in the Archaic Temple Podium at Sant'Omobono, Rome and its Broader Implications
This study reports on the discovery that the podium of the archaic temple in the Forum Boarium of Rome was built with a previously unknown tuff, of non-local origin. On the basis of detailed comparative petrographic and geochemical tests, it has been established that the blocks employed to build the earliest temple so far discovered in Rome belonged to a distinctive facies of tufo lionato that had never been characterized before, in contrast to w…
Central Italian Elite Groups as Aristocratic Houses in the Ninth to Sixth Centuries BCE
This chapter demonstrates the applicability of C. Lévi-Strauss’s “House Society” model for considering the role of kinship in the early moments of state formation and urbanization in Iron Age Latium and Etruria. After a brief theoretical overview of the model, the discussion focuses on two main axioms which are often overlooked in the model’s application to the ancient world: (1) a physical house does not make a social House, and (2) a single Hou…
Chapter 2 Central Italian Elite Groups as Aristocratic Houses in the Ninth to Sixth Centuries BCE
On the Banks of the Tiber
A geoarchaeological coring survey of the Forum Boarium has shed considerable light on Rome's archaic landscape. We present the first empirical evidence that substantiates ancient and modern assumptions about the existence of a river harbour and ford in early Rome. Prior to the growth of the city, the riverbank — reconstructed as a high ledge at the base of the Capitoline Hill and a low-lying shore north of the Aventine — was particularly advantag…
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