The environmental context, agricultural potential and location choices of Roman Villae in Italy

意大利罗马别墅的环境背景、农业潜力和选址

• 批准号: 2886513
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2886513
• 关键词: environmental; context; agricultural; potential; location

Between the late republican and the early imperial periods, villae emerged in the Italian countryside. In an exciting multi-disciplinary study sitting across classics, archaeology and geography, the environmental variables of villas' surrounding landscape will be analysed through: (i) a Geographic Information System (GIS) to obtain agricultural potential maps of the studied areas, (ii) available archaeobotanical data from Italian luxury villas, and (iii) local/regional environmental reconstructions from lake records. The results will help to understand to which extent agricultural productivity could have influenced villas' location and function. In line with RHUL's Living Sustainably Catalyst, the outcomes will enhance our understanding of Roman Italy's agricultural landscape and explore questions of deforestation, overexploitation and human impact on nature, as well as the potential vulnerabilities of a complex society to climate-induced environmental change in the Late Roman period. This provides critical historical context for current concerns over land use, ecological impact and ultimately our own society's vulnerability.

在共和晚期和帝国早期之间，别墅出现在意大利乡村。在一项跨古典学、考古学和地理学的令人兴奋的多学科研究中，别墅周围景观的环境变量将通过以下方式进行分析：（i）地理信息系统（GIS）以获得研究区域的农业潜力地图，（ii）来自意大利豪华别墅的可用考古植物学数据，以及（iii）根据湖泊记录重建当地/区域环境。研究结果将有助于了解农业生产力在多大程度上影响别墅的位置和功能。根据 RHUL 的可持续生活催化剂，研究结果将增强我们对罗马意大利农业景观的了解，并探讨森林砍伐、过度开发和人类对自然影响的问题，以及罗马晚期复杂社会对气候引起的环境变化的潜在脆弱性。这为当前对土地利用、生态影响以及最终我们社会的脆弱性的担忧提供了重要的历史背景。