ROMEINSE KOLONISATIE TEN ZUIDEN VAN ROME (2): DE ALBANO SURVEY

Samenvatting

September 1995 saw the second survey in the author's research programme 'Roman coloni­sation south of Rome, a comparative survey of three early romanized landscapes'. This time, the Pontine Region Project investigated the landscape around the ancient city of Lanuvium, present-day Lanuvio, in the Alban Hills near Rome. Unlike the area around ancient Setia, which the 1994 survey showed to have been largely colonized ex novo starting in the 4th c. BC, the landscape around Lanuvio produced evidence of continuity in settlement and land­use from the late Iron Age onwards. With re­gard to Lanuvio it is probably more apt to speak in terms of the romanization of the land­scape than of colonization. This article is a pre­liminary report on the results.