KERN EN PERIFERIE IN HET RPC-PROJECT (1); DE DOGANELLA DI NINFA-SURVEY IN DE PONTIJNSE REGIO (MIDDEN -ITALIË)

Samenvatting

In the summer of 1997 the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA) and the Free University of Amsterdam (AIVU) Started a comparative study of centralization, early urbanization and coloni­zation processes in three coastal areas in central and southern Italy. The project's title is 'Regional Pathways to Complexity' and points to the very different trajectories of indigenous Italic societies towards the complex state organisation of the Roman period. Its subtitle 'Landscape and settle­ment dynamics in early Italy' refers to its metho­dology, derived from landscape and environ­mental archaeology. Fieldwork, including ar­chaeological surveys, forms a component o f the research strategy. This contribution reports on the Doganella di Ninfa survey in the Pontine Re­gion.