Meet and greet: Squares in Secondary Agglomerations of the Northwestern Roman Provinces - Resubmission

见面和问候：西北罗马省次要聚集地的广场 - 重新提交

• 批准号: 469373000
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Eckhard Deschler-Erb
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Fachgebiet Archäoinformatik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/469373000?language=en
• 关键词: Meet; greet; Squares; Secondary; Agglomerations

The proposed bi-national research project is dedicated to public squares within the smaller centres of the Rhine provinces and Raetia. While fora in large towns are comparatively well studied, their equivalents in so-called secondary agglomerations are relatively little understood. Small-town settlements contain squares that would have served a number of comparable functions. However, any attempt to attribute the term “forum” to these squares reveals a research deficit, which this project aims to address by adopting an interdisciplinary approach that combines methods from archaeology, computational archaeology, archaeological sciences and ancient history. This approach aims to thoroughly investigate the use, functions and defining characteristics of squares in the north-western provinces and neighbouring regions from a multi-scalar perspective. The Archaeology of the Roman provinces will look into and define the architectural and chronological characteristics of squares in secondary agglomerations and will attempt to illuminate their multiple functions (administrative, ritual, commercial) in comparison to the fora of the cities. An evaluation of architectural and chronological specifications will enable integrative case studies of significant key sites. In this manner, indicators of any kind of self-administration of those polities can also be identified. Adopting although the Ancient History perspective the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces will furthermore examine textual evidence on the role and importance of open public spaces in secondary agglomerations as well as the integration of these settlements into wider socio-cultural processes within their provinces. Such evidence will eventually help determine the degree to which political events are reflected in the transformation of the squares and settlements under examination. Computational methods (Archaeoinformatics) will be used to study socio-symbolic aspects of the squares, especially those pertaining to visibility and movement in space. Furthermore, they will explore human interactions at a regional scale that could offer further insights into the economic and administrative functions of squares in secondary agglomerations. Finally, archaeozoological and geoarchaeological investigations by the project partner in Basel promise to shed new light into the changing uses and functions of squares. The former could enhance our knowledge about the everyday life of past people via the examination of food waste and remains of ritual performance. Furthermore, the majority of barely consolidated public squares display a significant accumulation of environmental influences, so that micromorphological analysis can specify the biography of those sites. The project will use an integrative approach to examine squares in secondary agglomerations as expressions of distinct polities and identify their evident characteristics at multiple scales.

拟议的两国研究项目致力于莱茵河省和雷蒂亚省较小中心内的公共广场。虽然大城市中的论坛得到了比较好的研究，但它们在所谓的二级聚集体中的等同物却相对较少。小城镇居民点包含的广场本来可以发挥一些类似的功能。然而，任何将“广场”一词归于这些广场的尝试都揭示了研究的不足，本项目旨在通过采用跨学科的方法来解决这一问题，该方法结合了考古学，计算考古学，考古学和古代历史的方法。该方法旨在从多尺度的角度深入研究西北各省及周边地区广场的用途、功能和定义特征。罗马行省考古学将研究和定义次级聚集区广场的建筑和年代特征，并试图阐明其与城市论坛相比的多种功能（行政，仪式，商业）。对建筑和年代规格的评估将使重要的关键地点的综合案例研究成为可能。通过这种方式，也可以确定这些政体任何种类的自我管理的指标。通过虽然古代历史的角度来看，罗马省份的考古学将进一步研究文本证据的作用和重要性，开放的公共空间在二级聚集，以及这些定居点融入更广泛的社会文化进程在他们的省份。这些证据最终将有助于确定政治事件在多大程度上反映在所研究的广场和定居点的转变中。将使用计算方法（地理信息学）研究广场的社会象征方面，特别是与空间可见性和运动有关的方面。此外，他们还将探索区域范围内的人类互动，从而进一步了解次级聚集区广场的经济和行政功能。最后，项目合作伙伴在巴塞尔进行的动物考古和地质考古调查有望为广场不断变化的用途和功能提供新的线索。前者可以通过对食物浪费和仪式表演遗迹的检查来增加我们对过去人们日常生活的了解。此外，大多数几乎没有巩固的公共广场显示出显着的环境影响的积累，因此，微形态分析可以指定这些网站的传记。该项目将使用综合方法来研究次级聚集体中的广场作为不同政治的表达，并在多个尺度上确定其明显的特征。