Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization
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Anita Casarotto Leiden University – PhD researcher
Funding: NWO Free Competition subproject: Settlement ecologies: location preference and land-use in colonial and non-colonial landscapes [Link]
E-mail address: [email protected] Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 1267 Office address: Van Steenis Building – Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC Leiden – The Netherlands (Room B1.12) Website: Personal page Leiden University
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Anita Casarotto obtained a Bachelor degree in Archaeology and a Master degree (cum laude) in Archaeological Sciences at the University of Padova, Italy. She participated in numerous archaeological field surveys and excavations in Italy (in the regions of Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige, Calabria, Molise and Basilicata). To expand her knowledge and acquire further qualified professional skills in the field of cultural resource management, she was selected and attended an Italian Specialization School in Archaeological Heritage for post-graduate students (Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici, University of Padova, diploma received cum laude). For her Specialization School thesis, Anita carried out research as an Erasmus exchange student at the departmental unit of Computer Applications in Archaeology of the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University (the Netherlands). Shortly after completing this School, she was appointed at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University as a PhD student (Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology) in the NWO-funded project LERC – Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization. Her PhD thesis is titled ‘Spatial patterns in landscape archaeology. A GIS procedure to study settlement organization in early Roman colonial territories’ (supervisors and co-promotores Dr. Tesse D. Stek and Dr. Jeremia Pelgrom; promotor Prof. Peter Akkermans). The aim of her PhD is to develop a GIS research procedure for the use of (legacy) survey data in settlement pattern analysis. Specifically, she focuses on site-based datasets collected by survey projects in central-southern Italy to investigate settlement strategies, location preferences and land use patterns in the early Roman colonial period (3rd century BC). During her PhD, Anita has been involved in the archaeological survey project in Venosa (Basilicata, Italy) organized by LERC, she presented her research in several national and international conferences and was research fellow within the LERC project at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR). Her interests include settlement pattern analysis, field survey methodologies, legacy data, site formation processes, geoarchaeology, digital methods, GIS and landscape archaeology.
Jeremia Pelgrom The Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) – Co-direction from KNIR
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Non-urban settlement organization and Roman expansion in the Roman Republic (4th-1st centuries BC)
Tesse Stek Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome / Leiden University – Project director
Funding: NWO Free Competition project: Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization. Non-urban settlement organization and Roman expansion in the Roman Republic (4th-1st centuries BC) [Link] NWO VENI Project: Colonial rural networks. Dispersed settlement and colonial expansion in the Roman Republic (c. 4th -1st centuries BC) [Link]
E-mail address: [email protected] Telephone number: +39 06 326962 29 Office address: Via Omero 10/12, 00197 Roma – Italia Website: Personal page Leiden University
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Rogier Kalkers
Leiden University – Project assistant
Funding: NWO Free Competition project: Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization. Non-urban settlement organization and Roman expansion in the Roman Republic (4th-1st centuries BC) [Link]
E-mail address: [email protected] Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 6091 Office address: Van Steenis Building – Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC Leiden – The Netherlands (Room B1.12) Website: Personal page Leiden University
About: Rogier Kalkers
Rogier Kalkers has studied Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam and at the Roma Tre University, and did his Masters in Landscape Archaeology at the VU University in Amsterdam. In his thesis, he explored the effects of different research traditions on the conceptualization of archaeological landscapes on the basis of a case study in Molise, Central/Southern Italy. Rogier has participated in a large number of fieldwork projects in Lazio, Etruria, Sicily, Greece and the Netherlands and is a long-term collaborator in the various Dutch field survey and excavation campaigns in Molise (CLP Aesernia surveys // SLP surveys // San Giovanni in Galdo – Colle Rimontato excavations // Terra Incognita Project – Rotello / Larino Project). Within the Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization project he is responsible for the management and analysis of field and find data, the organisation and execution of fieldwork campaigns, and managing the project’s data repository.
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Tesse D. Stek is currently Director of Ancient Studies and Vice Director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR). He is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University. Before that, he worked at the University of Amsterdam, Nijmegen, Glasgow and Oxford. His work concentrates on the archaeology of the Central and Western Mediterranean, especially on the rise and impact of Rome on the social and natural landscape of the Italian and Iberian peninsulae. In Italy, he coordinates since 2011 a field work project on early Roman colonization in ancient Samnium and Lucania (NWO). Since 2004, he also coordinates the long-term Tappino Area Archaeology Project, including surveys, remote sensing and excavations in ancient Samnium (modern Molise). In Portugal, he coordinates the Frontier Landscape Project, a collaboration with the University of Evora (Prins Bernhard Culture Foundation). Tesse’s research line argues for a stronger Roman impact in the rural sphere than previously assumed, by pointing out unexpected patterns in early Roman expansion strategies, and developing alternative models for the societal organization of early colonial communities. Conversely, he reassesses the evidence for non-urbanised polities in the Apennines to better understand their functioning in antiquity. He is also interested in developing a comparative perspective of the archaeological correlates of empires in the Old World (see B.S.During, T.D. Stek, The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes, Cambridge 2018).
Jesús García Sánchez Leiden University – Post-doctoral researcher
Funding: NWO Free Competition project: Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization. Non-urban settlement organization and Roman expansion in the Roman Republic (4th-1st centuries BC) [Link]
E-mail address: [email protected] Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2392 Office address: Van Steenis Building – Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC Leiden – The Netherlands (Room B1.12) Website: Personal page Leiden University
