Subproject:
C 03 Resources and the Formation of Societies, Settlement Areas and Cultural Identities on the Italian Peninsula in the First Millennium B.C.

Project leadership:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schäfer

Staff:
Dr. Beat Schweizer

Region:
Italian Peninsula

How can monuments, things and images be understood as resources of social and cultural identities? How do these identities change? And to what extent can changes in the political and social conditions of public and sacred spaces such as necropolises, sanctuaries and settlement spaces be discovered?

The subproject ‚Resources and the Formation of Societies, Settlement Areas and Cultural Identities on the Italian Peninsula in the First Millennium B.C.’ investigates these questions and examines things, monuments and images in necropolises, sanctuaries and settlement areas in the regions of the Etruscan cities by the Tyrrhenian Sea together with the ‘Magna Graecia’ with Greek settlements and their associated upstate.
The time frame from the 8th to the 4th century B.C. makes it possible to include the appearance of new actors, such as the Campanians and Lucans from the 5th century B.C. onwards. In the scope of the study, the transition, but also the continuities, of dealing with artifacts and monuments as resources under shifting social and political conditions will be investigated.

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