Francesca Fulminante
Dr. Francesca Fulminante, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol, UK and Adjunct Professor, University Roma Tre, Italy. Educated in Italy, she gained her BA and Master degrees in Rome at La Sapienza and her PhD from Cambridge. She had several post-docs and teaching positions at excellent institutions across Europe, including a Marie Curie at the University of Roma Tre in Italy. She contributed to major excavations at key sites of Mediterranean Archaeology (Forum Romanum, Pompei, Veii, Crustumerium and Perugia). Her research to date has focused on urbanization in the Mediterranean during the 1st Millennium BC with a particular interest on central Italy. Her work investigates the development of complex societies in Rome and the surrounding regions both as macro- economic and socio-political processes (e.g. social stratification, settlement organization and craft community practices) but also in their relation to intimate and personal habits such as mother-child relationship and infant feeding practices. One of her projects is studying community practices, analysing archaic metal votive objects in central Italy with XRF. By combining advanced technological and scientific methodologies with traditional approaches her main stream of research explores the connections between cultural and political environments and child-rearing practices in central Italy (1000 BC – 100 AD). The third avenue of her research explores connectivity and transportation networks by the mean of Network Science Approach at the centre and the periphery of the Roman Empire to propose a new interacting model of urbanization.
Supervisors: Tamar Hodos, Alessandro Guidi, and Simon Stoddart
Address: Via Ostiense, 234 - 00146 Roma
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Supervisors: Tamar Hodos, Alessandro Guidi, and Simon Stoddart
Address: Via Ostiense, 234 - 00146 Roma
P.za della Repubblica, 10 - 00185 Roma
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economía romana. Otros son la primera muestra del desarrollo de los nuevos enfoques surgidos del proyecto ERC Advanced Grant Production and Distribution of Food during the Roman Empire: Economic and Political Dynamics (EPNet) (ERC-2013-ADG 340828).
Hasta ahora, la aplicación de métodos formales, nacidos fuera del ámbito de la investigación histórica, está poco desarrollada dentro de nuestra especialidad. La “ominosa cuestión” de los estudios de Historia Antigua es la falta de datos. Los modelos interpretativos de la economía antigua han partido siempre de análisis deductivos, que dependen siempre del grado de conocimientos del investigador y de sus apriorismos. A lo largo de estos años hemos conseguido reunir una gran cantidad de datos, muchos de los cuales pueden ser presentados como datos seriales gracias a la información obtenida en el Monte Testaccio.
Es ésta una circunstancia, la abundancia de datos y el poder ordenar
cronológicamente muchos de ellos, es lo que permite los nuevos enfoques propuestos. En última instancia se trata de confrontar los modelos y explicaciones hasta ahora ofrecidas dentro del ámbito
histórico, con modelos formales nacidos dentro del ámbito de las ciencias matemáticas y en el ámbito de las ciencias de redes.
Además, estamos haciendo migrar nuestra base de datos CEIPAC, ya puesta en Internet en 1995, a un sistema ontológico de bases de datos, en el que, gracias a un sistema de metadatos, podamos interrelacionar diversas bases de datos que amplien nuestros conocimientos y la capacidad de relacionar multiples aspectos de la investigación.
Dado que los trabajos presentados proceden de ámbitos científicos en los que los sistemas de citación son diversos, se han respetado los sistemas propuestos por cada uno de los autores.
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Networks represent a broad umbrella for a number of approaches to the study of interaction, having acquired considerable importance in recent times. They are a powerful metaphor for understanding social interaction even when not explored through formal methods. Among the latter, two main types of approaches stand out: quantitative spatial modelling and social network analyses. The former refers to notions of geographic space as intended by a variety of disciplines including Landscape Archaeology and Geography, e.g. through GIS-based approaches; the latter relates to the analysis of social relations and their patterning with an emphasis on topology rather than physical space.
In this workshop, invited speakers will discuss and highlight the potential for integrating these research directions, with an aim to identify common grounds for developing new interdisciplinary insights. In particular, presentations will address the following points:
-Conceptualisation of space, through the use of networks, both as a rigorous methodology and as a broader metaphor of human activity
-Applications of Social Network Analysis
-Examples of the use of geographic networks
economía romana. Otros son la primera muestra del desarrollo de los nuevos enfoques surgidos del proyecto ERC Advanced Grant Production and Distribution of Food during the Roman Empire: Economic and Political Dynamics (EPNet) (ERC-2013-ADG 340828).
Hasta ahora, la aplicación de métodos formales, nacidos fuera del ámbito de la investigación histórica, está poco desarrollada dentro de nuestra especialidad. La “ominosa cuestión” de los estudios de Historia Antigua es la falta de datos. Los modelos interpretativos de la economía antigua han partido siempre de análisis deductivos, que dependen siempre del grado de conocimientos del investigador y de sus apriorismos. A lo largo de estos años hemos conseguido reunir una gran cantidad de datos, muchos de los cuales pueden ser presentados como datos seriales gracias a la información obtenida en el Monte Testaccio.
Es ésta una circunstancia, la abundancia de datos y el poder ordenar
cronológicamente muchos de ellos, es lo que permite los nuevos enfoques propuestos. En última instancia se trata de confrontar los modelos y explicaciones hasta ahora ofrecidas dentro del ámbito
histórico, con modelos formales nacidos dentro del ámbito de las ciencias matemáticas y en el ámbito de las ciencias de redes.
Además, estamos haciendo migrar nuestra base de datos CEIPAC, ya puesta en Internet en 1995, a un sistema ontológico de bases de datos, en el que, gracias a un sistema de metadatos, podamos interrelacionar diversas bases de datos que amplien nuestros conocimientos y la capacidad de relacionar multiples aspectos de la investigación.
Dado que los trabajos presentados proceden de ámbitos científicos en los que los sistemas de citación son diversos, se han respetado los sistemas propuestos por cada uno de los autores.
and
https://www.facebook.com/events/1068539153234390/
Networks represent a broad umbrella for a number of approaches to the study of interaction, having acquired considerable importance in recent times. They are a powerful metaphor for understanding social interaction even when not explored through formal methods. Among the latter, two main types of approaches stand out: quantitative spatial modelling and social network analyses. The former refers to notions of geographic space as intended by a variety of disciplines including Landscape Archaeology and Geography, e.g. through GIS-based approaches; the latter relates to the analysis of social relations and their patterning with an emphasis on topology rather than physical space.
In this workshop, invited speakers will discuss and highlight the potential for integrating these research directions, with an aim to identify common grounds for developing new interdisciplinary insights. In particular, presentations will address the following points:
-Conceptualisation of space, through the use of networks, both as a rigorous methodology and as a broader metaphor of human activity
-Applications of Social Network Analysis
-Examples of the use of geographic networks
emerging power in Italy during the first millennium BC, and finally the
heart of an empire that sprawled throughout the Mediterranean and
much of Europe until the 5th century CE is well known. Its rise is often
presented as inevitable and unstoppable. Yet the factors that contrib-
uted to Rome’s rise to power are not well understood. Why Rome and
not Veii? In this book, Francesca Fulminante offers a fresh approach
to this question through the use of a range of methods. Adopting
quantitative analyses and a novel network perspective, she focuses on
transportation systems in Etruria and Latium Italy in ca. 1000–500 BC.
Fulminante reveals the multiple factors that contributed to the emer-
gence and dominance of Rome within these regional networks, and
their critical role in the rise of the city and, ultimately, Roman
imperialism.
On the basis that an infant and child tomb is itself an archaeological entity, whose analysis cuts across disciplines - mainly archaeology, bio-archaeology and anthropology, but also philology, ancient literature, gender studies, pedagogy, medical humanities and digital humanities - and in order to promote an interdisciplinary approach, the conference at Trinity College Dublin involves scholars from international institutions, experienced in interdisciplinary methods, in order to create a network specifically focused on the analysis of childhood in ancient societies. The role of this network is to function as an interdisciplinary incubator, offering a platform for dialogue between disciplines around infant and child burials.
We have invited scholars working on the archaeology of Italy from the Early Iron Age through the Archaic Period (c. 1000–500 BC) to present the results of their recent researches on the topic of infant and child burials.
We envision that this platform can be a model for other archaeological studies in the future as well as ideal for developing a new methodological approach to the excavation of infant and child tombs, following best practices in archaeology.
Publication plan
The prestigious series of Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology (SIMA) has already agreed to publish the proceedings of the conference.
For further information please email Jacopo Tabolli ([email protected]) or Hazel Dodge ([email protected]).