2020/01/01 by Enrico Giorgi, Giuseppe Lepore, Anna Gamberini +9 · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Classical Antiquity Studies #History #Archaeology #Geography #Anthropology #Ancient history #Sociology
paper · doi:10.11588/propylaeum.553
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The territories of the Adriatic and the Ionian area were separated \nfrom each other both from a political and a cultural point of view. \nBecause of this circumstance, they represent a suitable area for the \nstudy of commercial and cultural exchange. This meeting of cultures \ngenerated mutual influences and cultural osmosis in various \nways and at different times, and was linked to different historical \nand geographical contexts, which nevertheless sometimes generated \nsimilar results. Recent archaeological research allows us to \nassume that sanctuaries and sacred places are suitable contexts in \nwhich these phenomena can be analysed, as they were places in \nwhich large amounts of people gathered and centres of cultural mediation \nthat were involved in economic and political interests. \nThe contributions collected in this book consider these issues from \ndifferent points of view and include studies on historiography, material \nculture and numismatics. The case studies of the northern \nAdriatic area are located on the western shore, and in particular in \nthe area of the ager Gallicus and of Picenum, with a particular focus \non the period that precedes and witnesses the structuring of the \nRoman domination of this territory (3rd / 2nd century BC). The case \nstudies in the southern Adriatic and Ionian area focus on Apulia and \nthe area of Illyria and Epirus between the Archaic era and the beginning \nof the Roman age (4th to 1st century BC).