Meaningful Places: Intertwined Identity and Environment in Archaic Rome

这个项目将调查在公元前6世纪罗马作为一个地方和一个社区出现时，人和环境是如何相互塑造的。它将结合考古资料、古环境证据和地形数据，通过一个理论框架，即人和地形一起进化，研究罗马三个前城市地区以及古代定居者对它们的物理改造。随后，通过考察这些修改在共和晚期文学中的回忆，它将询问为什么以及如何在几个世纪后罗马人再次确认他们与他们古老的景观的联系，以理解人与环境的相互联系在现代城市身份中的中心地位。

This project will investigate how people and environments shaped each other as Rome emerged as a place and acommunity in the sixth century BCE. It will integrate archaeological material, paleoenvironmental evidence andtopographical data through a theoretical framework of 'ontopology', which asserts that people and landscapes evolvetogether, to study three Roman pre-urban areas and their physical modifications by archaic settlers. Subsequently,through examining these modifications' recollections in the late-republican literature, it will interrogate why and howthe Romans reaffirmed their connection to their archaic landscape centuries later, to understand the centrality ofhuman-environment interconnectedness in modern urban identities.