Gabriele Cifani
Gabriele CIFANI, born in Rome in 1970, received a M.A. in Literature (1993), Ph.D. in Archaeology (2000) and Postgraduate Specialisation (2001) at the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
He is full professor of Etruscology and archaeology of pre-roman Italy at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".
He was recipient of research fellowships at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2001-2002), Freie Universität Berlin (2003; 2005; 2022), University of Columbia (2004), University of Cambridge (2005-2007), École normale supérieure, Paris (2018-2020).
He is author of 3 monographs, 2 edited volumes and about 100 papers.
Among his main research interests are the archaeology of early Rome, the archaeology of Libya, Mediterranean landscape archaeology and the history of ancient economies.
He is full professor of Etruscology and archaeology of pre-roman Italy at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".
He was recipient of research fellowships at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2001-2002), Freie Universität Berlin (2003; 2005; 2022), University of Columbia (2004), University of Cambridge (2005-2007), École normale supérieure, Paris (2018-2020).
He is author of 3 monographs, 2 edited volumes and about 100 papers.
Among his main research interests are the archaeology of early Rome, the archaeology of Libya, Mediterranean landscape archaeology and the history of ancient economies.
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Contributors examine and contextualise contrasting definitions of ethnicity and identity as implicit in two perspectives, one from the classical tradition and another from the prehistoric and anthropological tradition.
They look at the role of textual sources in reconstructing ethnicity and introduce fresh and innovative archaeological data in reconstructing ethnicity, either from fieldwork or from new combinations of old data.
Finally, in contrast to many traditional approaches to ethnicity, they examine the relative and interacting role of natural and cultural features in the landscape in the construction of ethnicity.
The volume is headed by the contribution of Andrea Carandini whose work challenges the conceptions of many in the combination of text and archaeology. He begins by examining the mythology surrounding the founding of Rome, taking into consideration the recent archaeological evidence from the Palatine and the Forum. Here primacy is given to construction of place and mythological descent. Anthony Snodgrass, Robin Osborne, Tim Cornell and Christopher Smith offer replies to his arguments.
Overall, the nineteen papers presented here show that a modern interdisciplinary and international archaeology that combines material data and textual evidence - critically - can provide a powerful lesson for the full understanding of the ideologies of ancient and modern societies. 336p, 120 illus (Oxbow Books, 2011).
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: contextualising ethnicity (Gabriele Cifani and Simon Stoddart)
2. Urban landscapes and ethnic identity of Early Rome (Andrea Carandini)
Comments (T. Cornell, C. Smith, A. Snodgrass and R. Osborne)
3. Landscape, ethnicity, and the Greek polis (Robin Osborne)
4. The discovery of Carian Melia and the archaic Panionion in the Mycale (Hans Lohmann)
5. Multi-ethnicity and population movement in Ancient Greece (John Bintliff)
6. Hybrid forms of identity (Greek/native Italic) on the border between Taranto and the Messapians (Gert-Jan Burgers)
7. Before the Samnites: Molise in the eighth and sixth century BC (Alessandro Naso)
8. Ethnicity, identity and state formation in the Latin Landscape. Problems and Approaches (Francesca Fulminante)
9. Ethnicity and identity of the Latins. Evidence from the sanctuaries between the sixth and the fourth centuries BC (Letizia Ceccarelli)
10. Political landscapes and local identities in Archaic central Italy – Interpreting the material from Nepi (VT, Lazio) and Cisterna Grande (Crustumerium, RM, Lazio) (Ulla Rajala)
11. Landscapes and ethnic frontiers in the middle Tiber valley (Gabriele Cifani)
12. The Grotte di Castro project: defining a boundary of identity (Gabriele Cifani, Letizia Ceccarelli and Simon Stoddart)
13. Between text, body and context: expressing Umbrian identity in the landscape (Simon Stoddart)
14. Space, boundaries and the representation of identity in the ancient Veneto (Kathryn Lomas)
15. Identities, Frontiers and Landscapes in the Guadalquivir Valley (Eighth century BC- fourth century BC) (Arturo Ruiz and Manuel Molinos)
16. Landscape and Ethnic Identities in the Iberian Early States: The example of the Eastern Iberian Peninsula (Ignacio Grau Mira)
17. The politics of identity: ethnicity and the economy of power in Iron Age northern Iberia (Alfredo González-ruibal)
18. Changing identities in a changing landscape: social dynamics from a colonial situation in early Iron Age Iberia (Jaime Vives-ferrándiz)
19. Endnote: Situating Ethnicity (Simon Stoddart and Skylar Neil)"
Negli ultimi anni si è sviluppato in ambito internazionale un ampio interesse sui processi formativi di una cultura e dell’identità etnica; sotto questo punto di vista l’area falisca costituisce un eccellente caso di studio, dovuto alla complessa storia di un territorio a confine tra Etruschi e Romani e alla ricca documentazione archeologica disponibile.
I contributi di Marta BELLOMI, Enrico BENELLI, Maria Cristina BIELLA, Claudia CARLUCCI, Gabriele CIFANI Maria Anna DE LUCIA, Massimiliano DI FAZIO, Laura Maria MICHETTI, Letizia CECCARELLI, Daniele Federico MARAS, Francesco NAPOLITANO, Paolo POCCETTI, E Simon STODDART, ribadiscono l’importanza degli eventi storici e delle manifestazioni culturali del territorio falisco in epoca, il cui interesse travalica l’orizzonte locale, per inserirsi nel più ampio quadro della complessa storia dell’Italia preromana.
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Papers by Gabriele Cifani
traces of frescoes and an opus sectile floor, dating back to the Antonine period, are reviewed and discussed.
Among the materials found in the filling of the structure are also the fragments of at least two Egyptian statues datable between the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. as well as a nucleus of about 12 small bronzes of various deities, possibly connected to a single bronze workshop
related to: Caecilius Silvanus (2nd century AD), as a gift inscription on the base of one of them suggests.
UNA NUOVA ISCRIZIONE LATINA ARCAICA E ALTRI FRAMMENTI EPIGRAFICI
DA ROMA, VIA DELLE IDROVORE DELLA MAGLIANA (MUNICIPIO XI), in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 228 (2023) 273–280.
Although it fails to consider many important contexts of the early Iron Age and the Archaic Period, the exhibition is worthy of note for its presentation of new data from the Late and Final Bronze Ages to the Orientalizing phase. These include Italo-Mycenaen pottery from
the Capitolium, which reveals stable contacts with Aegean cultural areas.
The urbanisation of this area took place from the Early Iron Age onwards and it had a deep impact on the landscape.
Between the 8th and the 6th century BC, the coastal freshwater lakes at the mouth of the Tiber were transformed into marshy lagoons.
Then in the 6th century BC there is massive evidence of drainage and of the !lling of the valley bottoms inside the city of Rome.
From the second half of the 6th century BC in the suburbs of Rome and Veii, there is increasing evidence of underground drainageways, which can be interpreted in the framework of the social and economic evolution of this period.
Recent historiographic approaches corroborate the idea of broad cultural interaction and social mobility across the mediterranean Basin
from the Bronze age onwards.
Within such a framework, this paper focuses on some recent archaeological discoveries in Latium Vetus which shed new light on the longue durée of cultural mediterranean hybridization.