Dinamiche di occupazione dell'area periurbana e della chora settentrionale e orientale di Poseidonia-Paestum

Abstract

This research carried out under the guidance of Mrs. A. Pontrandolfo, Professor at the Salerno university and Mrs. Rouveret, Professor at the Paris X University. Our main goal is to rebuild the diachronic, dynamical, more articulated and less fragmented picture of types of occupation and transformation of the periurban area and of the northern and eastern chora of Poseidonia-Paestum, between the Sele river, in the north, and the actual town of Roccadaspide, in the east, in the period between the foundation of the Greek polis and the resulting Latin colony. The methodological assumptions at the basis of this study are: the "critical" revision of the known information in bibliography, filed documents, diaries of excavations and reports of the Superintendence officers integrated by study of the paleoenvironmental dynamics, and verifications, formalization and aggragation of data aiming to an historical interpretation. The core of this research is the philological analyses of the materials obtained in different ways: an essential anchorage point and a basis for the interpreting proposals relevant to the dynamics of the occupation of the periurban space and the area in the north and in the east of Poseidonia- Paestum. To the census of the unplublished and the filed information, to their geo-localization - when possible - to the analyses of the materials some further data were added. These data are provided by the methodical surfaces reconnissance which, since 2003, have been involving the territory of Poseidonia-Paestum. The archaeological research has shown that before the monumentalization, the city spaces are clearly defined and their outline is based on their functions and on their usages. The northerly and easterly territory is characterized by meaningful presences which play a fundamental role in relationship with the native elements since the beginning of the IV century BC and which adopt different values and connotations until the Romanization. [edited by Author]