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- Title
The east bank of the Tiber below the Island: two recent advances in the study of early Rome.
- Authors
Ammerman, Albert J.
- Abstract
Two recent discoveries on the east bank of the Tiber are of major significance to the study of early Rome: the discovery that the sixth-century BC riverbank was in a different position to the modern bank, and the finding of a Late Bronze Age site deeply buried adjacent to Sant'Omobono church, the latter reported by Brock and Terrenato (<xref>2016</xref>). This article reconsiders the Sant'Ombono data in an environmental context, questioning both the previous interpretation of site usage and the provenience of the dating evidence. This reappraisal is placed within a recently developed research theme, namely the transformation of the landscape of early Rome into a cityscape, which involved large-scale encroachment on the east bank.
- Subjects
ROMAN history; BRONZE Age; CHURCH buildings; ENVIRONMENTAL archaeology; RIPARIAN areas; ENCROACHMENTS (Real property); BUILDINGS &; the environment
- Publication
Antiquity, 2018, Vol 92, Issue 362, p398
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15184/aqy.2017.211