Sustainability, 2022

This paper discusses two kinds of research implemented to federate different disciplines and knowledge in support of archaeological research and the protection of the tangible and intangible heritage of ancient Tarquinia. The first part of the work examines the results obtained from the archaeological analysis, the concrete implications on the sustainability of ancient cultural landscapes and their possible transmission over time as an expression of the culture of a community. The second part of the work presents the reading and analysis of the ancient landscape and sites through chrono-stratigraphy, especially regarding two case studies in Tarquinia: the 'monumental complex' and the Ara della Regina sanctuary. The work focuses on the intangible aspects of the landscape as a result of archaeological research in the archaeoastronomical field. The orientation of the sacred structures and landscapes is presented herein regarding Etruria and the two case studies. The results shed light on the city's perception by the population, identifying it as an entity that held and sheltered every aspect of the community's life. The preliminary results of this study have made it possible to recognise aspects of significant historical and cultural value, which are the heterogeneous expression of a solid identity to be safeguarded and developed in a sustainable way.

Oxford Art Online

2018

The Centro di Ricerca Coordinata “Progetto Tarquinia” of the Università degli Studi di Milano is a LERU (League of European Research Universities) exemplary interdisciplinary research project that involves groups from the Università Statale di Milano (Archaeology, Information and Communication Technologies, Geoarchaeology, Palaeoanthropology), the Politecnico di Milano (Architecture and Topography) and bridges the gap between soft and hard sciences. This project stems from the “Progetto Tarquinia” conceived by Maria Bonghi Jovino in 1982. During the last ten years, our integrated system of tools and services, supported by ICTs (ArchMatrix), through which multidisciplinary domain experts can examine all the typologies of data of a given culture, has made it possible to concentrate on the links between data-sources focusing on the recurrence of association rates within different aspects of material evidence and phenomena. The fields of application of our methodology in the domain of a...

During the excavation season 2014, in so called 'Monumental Complex', part of Etruscan Tarquinia, 1 a bronze fibula of the middle La Tène scheme was uncovered (Bagnasco-Gianni et al. in press, fibula was identified during the uncovering of the superficial layer in sector H–M). The occurrence of this artefact of the 'Latenian' character opened the question of other possible indicators reflecting the Celtic presence in other sorts of material culture, known from the sites in Tarquinian territory or in its vicinity. Considering that the presence of Celtic tribes in many parts of Italian peninsula is attested by numerous sites ascribed to Celts and also by various examples of their perception in Hellenistic Italian art, it seems logical that such indications could exist also in Tarquinian territory.

in Ancient Italy Images of Gods, Monsters and Heroes Proceedings of the International Conference held in Rome (Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Royal Netherlands Institute) and Syracuse (Museo Archeologico Regionale ‘Paolo Orsi’), October 21-25, 2009, Oxford and Oakville 2011, pp. 222-225.

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Cultural decline as a result of the Roman conquest is usually invoked to explain the gradual disappearance of Tarquinian tomb paintings during the third century BC. By contrast, this paper argues that, first, the late tomb paintings of Tarquinia markedly differed from their predecessors by decorating individual burials (fragmentation), as opposed to entire chamber tombs, which should be seen as a culturally meaningful development in the iconographic approach towards representing the deceased; and that, second, the disappearance of this time-honoured type of monument be seen as part of wider changes in the ways in which Tarquinian and other Etruscan elites chose to materialize their ideologies during the cultural and political realignments of the period of the Roman conquest.

Recull d’una sèrie de treballs introductoris i de paisatge: el plantejament i precedents, una completa introducció històrica a Tàrraco i el seu territori, el paisatge, les centuriacions i el marc natural. En aquest últim punt s’incideix sobre la geologia, estudis pol·línics i arqueobotànics i sobre la fauna, a partir de restes recuperades a les vil·les dels Antigons (Reus) i la Llosa (Cambrils).