Journal Article

THE FALERII NOVI PROJECT: THE 2022 SEASON

Kay, Stephen, Fochetti, Beatrice, Vermeulen, Frank, Bernard, Seth, Andrews, Margaret, Ceccarelli, Letizia, Dodd, Emlyn

2023

Overview

The summer of 2022 saw the continuation of a multi-year fieldwork programme initiated in 2021 at the site of Falerii Novi, in the Middle Tiber Valley. A four-week campaign built upon the results of the previous season (Bernard et al., 2022), as well as long-standing exploration of the site by means of non-invasive methodologies (Keay et al., 2000; Verdonck et al., 2020). The ‘Falerii Novi Project’ (FNP) explores the development of this substantial urban site over the longue durée from its Republican origins through Imperial and late antique transformations and the reoccupation in the medieval period. The FNP is driven by socio-economic historical questions and by a desire to evaluate urban changes within their broader regional landscape (Andrews et al., 2023). The campaign from 30 May to 24 June 2022 consisted of stratigraphic excavation in three locations within the intramural area. This work represented a multi-institutional collaboration between the British School at Rome, Harvard University and the University of Toronto, along with researchers from Ghent University and the University of Florence, under the authorization of the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Provincia di Viterbo e per l'Etruria Meridionale.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: 4th century / 6th century / Administrator Surveys / ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK REPORTS / Archaeology / Coins / Excavation / Historic artifacts / Medieval History / Medieval period / Roads & highways / Roman civilization / Stratigraphy