Iron Age Mediterranean Interaction
A production perspective from Monte Iato
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Andrea Roppa
Address:
University of Padova
Via 8 Febbraio 2 - 35122 Padova
University / Research Institution:
University of Padova
Funded by / Approval date:
Supporting Talent in ReSearch@University of Padova – STARS Grants / 2018
Start:
2018
End:
2021
Project collaborations:
Prof. Lara Maritan and Dr. Marta Tenconi (Department of Geosciences, University of Padova)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erich Kistler, MMag. Dr. Birgit Öhlinger (University of Innsbruck)
Abstract:
The project aims to explore the ways in which the community living in the settlement of Monte Iato in western Sicily renegotiated their communal identities and traditional productive activities in the context of an increased Mediterranean connectivity that during the Iron Age brought this indigenous site into contact with wider trade, cultural and productive networks of a trans- and pan-Mediterranean nature, particularly between the 7th and 5th centuries BC.