Marsala's Hinterland: The Evolution of Roman Settlement in Western Sicily

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dc.contributor.advisorC B. Rose
dc.contributor.authorAvery, Emerson
dc.date2023-05-17T15:50:48.000
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-22T16:40:11Z
dc.date.available2015-11-16T00:00:00Z
dc.date.copyright2016-11-29T00:00:00-08:00
dc.date.issued2015-01-01
dc.date.submitted2016-11-29T13:00:08-08:00
dc.description.abstractThis thesis comprises a study of the evolution of human settlement in the hinterland of Marsala, in western Sicily, during the island's period of Roman control. The years between the third century BCE–eighth century CE were a period of frequent and significant change. Paradoxically, they are also a period during which Sicily is comparatively little known. A variety of factors have conspired to minimize scholarly attention on Roman Sicily, and as such, the ways in which the island responded to events in the wider Roman Mediterranean. Among the aims of the Marsala Hinterland Survey—an archaeological survey project active between 2007–2010—was to redress this imbalance. On the basis of ceramic materials collected during surface survey, and analyzed using Geographical Information Systems software, I reconstruct the history of settlement in the area of the survey's activity. This history, I go on to demonstrate, is characterized by an impressive degree of continuity, both in respect of the location and distribution of settlement. I locate the reasons for this continuity, and the moments of its occasional rupture, in the changing relationship between native Sicilian and Roman interests, especially as they relate to the production and shipment of grain throughout the Roman empire.
dc.description.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
dc.format.extent364 p.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/28421
dc.languageen
dc.legacy.articleid3380
dc.legacy.fulltexturlhttps://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3380&context=edissertations&unstamped=1
dc.provenanceReceived from ProQuest
dc.rightsEmerson Avery
dc.source.issue1594
dc.source.journalPublicly Accessible Penn Dissertations
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subject.otherArchaeological survey
dc.subject.otherGIS
dc.subject.otherLongue durée
dc.subject.otherRoman ceramics
dc.subject.otherSettlement history
dc.subject.otherSicily
dc.subject.otherAncient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity
dc.subject.otherHistory of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
dc.titleMarsala's Hinterland: The Evolution of Roman Settlement in Western Sicily
dc.typeDissertation/Thesis
digcom.date.embargo2015-11-16T00:00:00-08:00
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digcom.identifier.submissionpathedissertations/1594
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upenn.graduate.groupArt & Archaeology of Mediterranean World
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