Archeologia e Cultura delle aree interne della Provincia Sardinia: l'archeologia come indicatore culturale, economico e insediativo durante la fase di occupazione romana in Sardegna

Abstract

The project aims to a complete analysis of the settlement pattern of Roman Sardinia from the conquer of the Island until the arrival of the Vandals. The sample areas were two rural territories located respectively south-west and north-west from the borders of the inner part of the Island controlled by Sardinian Barbarian people. The second chapter focus on the acculturation and Romanization issues in the international debate while the third concerns an historical presentation of Roman Sardinia and a critical analysis of the economic exploitation theories and positions about Romanisation in the Sardinian academic world. The fourth chapter is the catalogue of the thesis which presents archaeological evidences and a first quantitative analysis. The fourth chapter focuses on a series of digital tools and analytical models concerning the study of settlement patterns, main and secondary road systems and new methodologies about land survey studies. Distributive patterns and interpolation analysis were conducted on the data samples of the Progetto Sub Terris lead by Marco Giuman in the territory of Ortacesus since 2018. The sixth chapter took into account landscape archaology theories and the theme of economic exploitation of the rural areas. In this part of the thesis were analysed two different landscape concerning an agricultural and a pastoral territory in a close connection with rural administration issues. Those analysis focuses mainly on the application of the so-called Von Thunen model and the theory of the Central places. Last but not least, the thesis focuses on the narrative of the different economies and economic systems verified in the study with a perspective of a new synthesis of rural exploitation models of Roman Sardinia. Another aspect was the analysis of Sardinian identity issues in the Roman phase and the verification of Roman influence in the landscape administration with a deepening about cultural elements linked to the human impact on the rural landscapes