Open AccessLandscapes of the Prehistoric Veneto, Italy. A Plurality of Local Identities Reflected in Cult and Landscape Perception
Author(s) -
Sarah De Nardi
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
papers from the institute of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2041-9015
pISSN - 0965-9315
DOI - 10.5334/pia.301
Subject(s) - prehistory , human settlement , cult , archaeology , geography , landscape archaeology , identity (music) , anthropology , ethnic group , settlement (finance) , perception , ethnology , cultural landscape , space (punctuation) , history , sociology , ancient history , landscape design , aesthetics , art , civil engineering , neuroscience , biology , world wide web , computer science , engineering , payment , linguistics , philosophy
This paper explores issues concerning local identity, landscape awareness and social space within the Veneto region in northeast Italy in late prehistory (c. 8th century BC to Romanisation in the 2nd century BC). The theory underpinning this paper and the author’s research owes much to human geography, in endeavouring to ‘rediscover’ a ‘sense of place’ in landscape archaeology, drawing upon data from votive deposits, cemeteries and settlements in the Veneto region. In the search for place-specific significance, this paper will bring to the fore the nonuniform development and local variations in the material culture of the ‘Veneti’, traditionally identified as a single homogeneous ethnic and social unit, and suggest ways to avoid risky generalisations