Enrico Giorgi, Stefano Medas, Giacomo Sigismondo, Federica Carbotti, "Navigare il paesaggio. Portualità, ambiente e gestione del territorio a Butrinto in età romana"
Paper presentation during the international conference "Approcci interdisciplinari allo sfruttamento delle risorse degli ambienti lagunari in epoca romana"
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Date:
27 OCTOBER-28 OCTOBER 2025 -
Event location: Aula Prodi, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà Università di Bologna, Piazza S. Giovanni in Monte, 2, Bologna
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Abstract
The Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, will host the two-day International conference “Interdisciplinary approaches to the exploitation of lagoonal environments in the Roman period” on the 27th and 28th of October 2025. The conference is being organizedfollowing a two-year project ‘Coastal lagoons and their hidden cultural heritage: the exploitation of lagoonal environments in Roman Italy’. It is designed to discuss the preliminary results of this project as well as to invite participants who are currently researching similar topics further afield to share their research.
The project in question has investigated both the exploitation of coastal lagoons and the associated villas and/or settlements therein, with a particular focus on the Roman period and the Venetian lagoon. This was the result of a collaboration between the universities of Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna (Prof. Annalisa Marzano) and Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, (Prof. Daniela Cottica). The research was financed by the EU and the Italian Ministry of University and Research under the funding scheme PRIN-PNRR 2022 (project P2022WLSJN). The conference will focus on the relation between villas in aquatic environments and their related economic activities, with a particular emphasis on lagoonal environments. Indeed, evidence for cultivation and exploitation of natural resources, place ancient villas at the heart of these rich and productive natural environments. The conference is intended to highlight the diversity of archaeological evidence and the interdisciplinary methodologies required to investigate these transitional zones and ever altering environments.
Topics:
1. Archaeology of resources exploitation of Lagoon sites in the Northern Adriatic
2. Lagoons and resource exploitation in the Roman Empire
3. Roman villas in aquatic environments and the exploitation of marine and lacustrine resources
4. Lagoons and salt production in the Roman and pre-Roman World
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