Books by Paul Pasieka
Das Buch kann im open access unter folgender Adresse heruntergeladen werden: https://doi.org/10.3... more Das Buch kann im open access unter folgender Adresse heruntergeladen werden: https://doi.org/10.34780/6i6h-9q66
Edited Volumes by Paul Pasieka
Beiträge zur Geschichte der Archäologie und der Altertumswissenschaften, 2021
Tagung der Fototheken des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Rom und der Bibliotheca Hertziana –... more Tagung der Fototheken des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Rom und der Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, 22.–24. März 2017
Zu den Wesensmerkmalen der Fotografie gehört die Vielfalt ihrer Erscheinungsformen. Als flexibles Medium ist sie anpassungsfähig an neue historische, kulturelle oder ästhetische Gegebenheiten. Fotografien begegnen als materielle Artefakte, etwa als belichtete Metallplatte oder als Vergrößerung auf Fotopapier ebenso wie als immaterielle Projektion oder Digitalaufnahme. Besonders in der Frühzeit herrschte ein unvergleichlicher Variantenreichtum an Aufnahmetechniken und Reproduktionsverfahren, die sich entsprechend der jeweiligen Verwendungsabsichten spezifizierten und ausdifferenzierten.
Der Tagungsband widmet sich disziplinenübergreifend der Beziehung zwischen der Faktizität von Fotografien im Sinne ihrer individuellen, dinglichen Verfasstheit und ihren Präsentations- und Gebrauchskontexten von der zweiten Hälfte des 19. bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Papers by Paul Pasieka
For a long time, Etruscan cities, their physical appearance, diachronic evolution and cultural an... more For a long time, Etruscan cities, their physical appearance, diachronic evolution and cultural and social figurations have largely been neglected in archaeological research. Only in recent years has this begun to change thanks to the systematic application of new methodological approaches. By using a combination of non-invasive, geophysical prospections and targeted excavations at neuralgic points, the Vulci Cityscape project aims to examine the cityscape of Vulci and its transformation over the longue durée. Geophysical surveys conducted in 2020 on 22.5 ha north of the so-called decumanus resulted in a new and more complete plan of this part of the city, identifying different functional areas, differentiating street systems and revealing the complex historical palimpsest of the urban structure. Among the functional areas, a new sacred district to the west of the tempio grande, including a new monumental, late Archaic temple stands out. Not only do the results improve our knowledge of the urban layout of Vulci, but they also shed new light on Etruscan urbanism in general.
L'attività della famiglia Campanari, che per anni ha lasciato traccia nel paesaggio archeologico ... more L'attività della famiglia Campanari, che per anni ha lasciato traccia nel paesaggio archeologico vulcente, aveva principalmente, anche se non esclusivamente, interessi commerciali. La conseguente dispersione dei reperti e le dinamiche di mercato che regolavano le operazioni di vendita sono spesso difficili da tracciare a causa della scarsa documentazione. Sulla base dei cataloghi delle aste della famiglia Campanari, svoltesi a Londra tra il 1837 e il 1841, verranno analizzate le pratiche antiquarie e commerciali che legavano la famiglia di Tuscania a collezionisti europei e alla rete del mercato d'arte ottocentesco, in particolare anglosassone. Si ottiene così una buona panoramica riguardo alle caratteristiche degli oggetti commerciati e soprattutto ai protagonisti degli acquisti, in riferimento anche alle loro preferenze, alla classe sociale e agli svariati interessi che li animavano. Vulci, Etruria, mercato antiquario, Londra, archeologia classica, aste, Campanari The activity of the Campanari family, which left its mark on the archaeological landscape of Vulci for years, had mainly, though not exclusively, commercial interests. The dispersion of materials and the market dynamics governing sales are often difficult to trace due to the scarcity of documentation. On the basis of the catalogues of the auctions, which the Campanari family held in London between 1837 and 1841, the antiquarian and commercial practices that linked the family from Tuscania to European collectors and the network of the 19 th-century art market, particularly the Anglo-Saxon one, will be discussed. In this way, a rich panorama is obtained not only of the characteristics of the objects traded, but above all of the protagonists of the purchases, their preferences, social class and the various interests that animated them.
Wiener Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte online (WBAGon) 4, 2022
The full paper can be found here: https://doi.org/10.25365/wbagon-2022-4-10
The Etruscan sepulc... more The full paper can be found here: https://doi.org/10.25365/wbagon-2022-4-10
The Etruscan sepulchral culture is characterized by its pronounced temporality, which includes the sometimes very long occupancy periods or ritual uses of graves as well as the deliberate references to the past on various levels and with differing qualities. Both topics were repeatedly the subject of archaeological research. However, another practice has
remained largely unnoticed, namely the re-use of older tombs for new burials after a longer hiatus. In my paper, I’d like to present a first summary of the practice of re-use of older tombs in Etruria concentrating on the early hellenistic re-use of tumuli in Cortona, Chiusi, and
Vetulonia. Of particular interest in this context is how the older burials and their grave goods were dealt with. What role did the older burials and the memory of them play? This refers more generally to the way the past and memory are engaged with. In particular, the association of new burials
with older, visually prominent ones raises the question of broader socio-historical ramifications. These references to the past will be analysed with the concept of resilience and understood as a factor in coping with exogenous and endogenous crises. The tumuli constitute a landscape of memory. Re-occupations can thus be understood as part of memorial
discourses of distinction and conscious identity constructions.
D. Van Limbergen - A. Hoffelinck - D. Taelman (eds.), Reframing the Roman Economy. New Perspectives on Habitual Economic Practices (Cham 2022) 331–370, 2022
In recent decades, archaeological data used as economic proxies have played an increasingly impor... more In recent decades, archaeological data used as economic proxies have played an increasingly important role in reconstructing the economy of antiquity, as they promise to be serial and quantifiable, thus answering crucial questions about its scale, performance and structure. Nevertheless, the use of (economic) proxies, which are polyvalent and ambiguous, as analytical tools is a highly under-theorized problem that still awaits fundamental methodological debate. In this paper I will reflect on three characteristics of (economical) proxies. Their epistemological range, representativity and scalarity. Taking into consideration these methodological challenges, I would like to propose a comparative, polythetical approach on a regional level, which uses a bundle of different proxies to reconstruct not only productive but economic landscapes more holistically. In a meta-study of 16 published surveys, carried out between 1970 and 2011 and covering more than 2000 km2, and a systematic review of the archaeological literature, I tried to reconstruct the structure and performance of the rural economy of Imperial south Etruria. A bundle of different proxies (mills, presses, water reservoirs, harbours, metalworking) points to the multidimensional entanglement of networks of various reach and a regional economic specialization.
Antike Welt 53, 2, 2022
Lange Zeit war die etruskische Metropole Vulci vor allem aufgrund ihres nahezu unerschöpflichen V... more Lange Zeit war die etruskische Metropole Vulci vor allem aufgrund ihres nahezu unerschöpflichen Vorrats figürlicher Vasen bekannt, die sich in fast jeder Antikensammlung finden. Neue Forschungen haben sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Stadt ganzheitlicher zu untersuchen. Ein neuer Plan des nördlichen Stadtareals und eine erste Grabungskampagne an einem bislang unbekannten monumentalen, spätarchaischen Tempel beginnen unser Bild Vulcis grundlegend zu verändern.
Hitherto unpublished reports of the excavations by the Società Vincenzo Campanari – Governo Ponti... more Hitherto unpublished reports of the excavations by the Società Vincenzo Campanari – Governo Pontificio at Vulci found at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome provide an important contribution to the better understanding of the early excavations at Vulci, their temporal and spatial progress, the dissemination of the finds, and the mechanisms of the art market in the late 1830s. The reports – signed by Domenico Campanari and addressed to Karl Josias von Bunsen – span the entire second excavation season between November 9th 1835 and May 28th 1836 both on the plateau of the Etrusco-Roman city and in the necropolis. We have been able to identify a group of 37 objects in various European and non-European museums and collections and connect them with the excavations of the Campanaris in Vulci. It was thus possible outline the lively network of antiquarians, scholars and collectors within which the Campanaris operated and for whom scientific and commercial interests appeared complementary.
D. Douskos – A. Farnoux – I. Tzachili (Hrsg.), Therasia II. Historicizing Prehistory. The historical and epistemological context of the archaeological discovery on Therasia in 1866 (Athen 2019) 381–410., 2019
The article seeks to reconstruct the circumstances that led the photographer
Baron Paul des Grang... more The article seeks to reconstruct the circumstances that led the photographer
Baron Paul des Granges to take photographs of the volcanic
eruption on Santorini and of the prehistoric excavations on Therasia,
in December 1866. This concrete case study was moreover the starting
point of an attempt to shed more light on the epistemic processes of
knowledge transfer by means of photographs in their various dispositive
constellations. It was thus shown that the photographs of Paul des Granges
circulated in at least two scholarly exchange networks. The scientific
actors in these networks were able to make use of these photographs in
their publications, and to refer to their personal inspection of the visual
information conveyed by the photographs as a substitute to personal
autopsy of the archaeological evidence, thereby protecting the validity
of their own argumentation. In addition to elaborate setting up of the
final depiction, publishing the photographs of the finds of Therasia required
further visual transformation, as the photos had to be converted
into copper engraving for reproduction in print. In order to guarantee
authenticity and scientific reliability, the now transformed visual information
had at the same time to be linguistically secured, thereby paving
the way to profound epistemic reshuffling of scientific communication.
Friends of the Non-catholic Cemetery in Rome Newsletter Nr. 45,4, 2018
Römische Mitteilungen, 2017
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Zu den Wesensmerkmalen der Fotografie gehört die Vielfalt ihrer Erscheinungsformen. Als flexibles Medium ist sie anpassungsfähig an neue historische, kulturelle oder ästhetische Gegebenheiten. Fotografien begegnen als materielle Artefakte, etwa als belichtete Metallplatte oder als Vergrößerung auf Fotopapier ebenso wie als immaterielle Projektion oder Digitalaufnahme. Besonders in der Frühzeit herrschte ein unvergleichlicher Variantenreichtum an Aufnahmetechniken und Reproduktionsverfahren, die sich entsprechend der jeweiligen Verwendungsabsichten spezifizierten und ausdifferenzierten.
Der Tagungsband widmet sich disziplinenübergreifend der Beziehung zwischen der Faktizität von Fotografien im Sinne ihrer individuellen, dinglichen Verfasstheit und ihren Präsentations- und Gebrauchskontexten von der zweiten Hälfte des 19. bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Papers by Paul Pasieka
The Etruscan sepulchral culture is characterized by its pronounced temporality, which includes the sometimes very long occupancy periods or ritual uses of graves as well as the deliberate references to the past on various levels and with differing qualities. Both topics were repeatedly the subject of archaeological research. However, another practice has
remained largely unnoticed, namely the re-use of older tombs for new burials after a longer hiatus. In my paper, I’d like to present a first summary of the practice of re-use of older tombs in Etruria concentrating on the early hellenistic re-use of tumuli in Cortona, Chiusi, and
Vetulonia. Of particular interest in this context is how the older burials and their grave goods were dealt with. What role did the older burials and the memory of them play? This refers more generally to the way the past and memory are engaged with. In particular, the association of new burials
with older, visually prominent ones raises the question of broader socio-historical ramifications. These references to the past will be analysed with the concept of resilience and understood as a factor in coping with exogenous and endogenous crises. The tumuli constitute a landscape of memory. Re-occupations can thus be understood as part of memorial
discourses of distinction and conscious identity constructions.
Baron Paul des Granges to take photographs of the volcanic
eruption on Santorini and of the prehistoric excavations on Therasia,
in December 1866. This concrete case study was moreover the starting
point of an attempt to shed more light on the epistemic processes of
knowledge transfer by means of photographs in their various dispositive
constellations. It was thus shown that the photographs of Paul des Granges
circulated in at least two scholarly exchange networks. The scientific
actors in these networks were able to make use of these photographs in
their publications, and to refer to their personal inspection of the visual
information conveyed by the photographs as a substitute to personal
autopsy of the archaeological evidence, thereby protecting the validity
of their own argumentation. In addition to elaborate setting up of the
final depiction, publishing the photographs of the finds of Therasia required
further visual transformation, as the photos had to be converted
into copper engraving for reproduction in print. In order to guarantee
authenticity and scientific reliability, the now transformed visual information
had at the same time to be linguistically secured, thereby paving
the way to profound epistemic reshuffling of scientific communication.
Book Reviews by Paul Pasieka
Zu den Wesensmerkmalen der Fotografie gehört die Vielfalt ihrer Erscheinungsformen. Als flexibles Medium ist sie anpassungsfähig an neue historische, kulturelle oder ästhetische Gegebenheiten. Fotografien begegnen als materielle Artefakte, etwa als belichtete Metallplatte oder als Vergrößerung auf Fotopapier ebenso wie als immaterielle Projektion oder Digitalaufnahme. Besonders in der Frühzeit herrschte ein unvergleichlicher Variantenreichtum an Aufnahmetechniken und Reproduktionsverfahren, die sich entsprechend der jeweiligen Verwendungsabsichten spezifizierten und ausdifferenzierten.
Der Tagungsband widmet sich disziplinenübergreifend der Beziehung zwischen der Faktizität von Fotografien im Sinne ihrer individuellen, dinglichen Verfasstheit und ihren Präsentations- und Gebrauchskontexten von der zweiten Hälfte des 19. bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts.
The Etruscan sepulchral culture is characterized by its pronounced temporality, which includes the sometimes very long occupancy periods or ritual uses of graves as well as the deliberate references to the past on various levels and with differing qualities. Both topics were repeatedly the subject of archaeological research. However, another practice has
remained largely unnoticed, namely the re-use of older tombs for new burials after a longer hiatus. In my paper, I’d like to present a first summary of the practice of re-use of older tombs in Etruria concentrating on the early hellenistic re-use of tumuli in Cortona, Chiusi, and
Vetulonia. Of particular interest in this context is how the older burials and their grave goods were dealt with. What role did the older burials and the memory of them play? This refers more generally to the way the past and memory are engaged with. In particular, the association of new burials
with older, visually prominent ones raises the question of broader socio-historical ramifications. These references to the past will be analysed with the concept of resilience and understood as a factor in coping with exogenous and endogenous crises. The tumuli constitute a landscape of memory. Re-occupations can thus be understood as part of memorial
discourses of distinction and conscious identity constructions.
Baron Paul des Granges to take photographs of the volcanic
eruption on Santorini and of the prehistoric excavations on Therasia,
in December 1866. This concrete case study was moreover the starting
point of an attempt to shed more light on the epistemic processes of
knowledge transfer by means of photographs in their various dispositive
constellations. It was thus shown that the photographs of Paul des Granges
circulated in at least two scholarly exchange networks. The scientific
actors in these networks were able to make use of these photographs in
their publications, and to refer to their personal inspection of the visual
information conveyed by the photographs as a substitute to personal
autopsy of the archaeological evidence, thereby protecting the validity
of their own argumentation. In addition to elaborate setting up of the
final depiction, publishing the photographs of the finds of Therasia required
further visual transformation, as the photos had to be converted
into copper engraving for reproduction in print. In order to guarantee
authenticity and scientific reliability, the now transformed visual information
had at the same time to be linguistically secured, thereby paving
the way to profound epistemic reshuffling of scientific communication.
Per la fase orientalizzante, contiamo frammenti di lastre decorate a guilloche white-on-red confrontabili, tra gli altri, con esemplari da Acquarossa e Caere. Agli inizi dell’età arcaica si inquadrano le sime con teorie di grifoni e cervi, che presentano somiglianze con lastre soprattutto da Poggio Buco, ma anche da Veio; rispetto a queste hanno, tuttavia, dimensioni considerevolmente maggiori e monumentali. Tra i nuovi ritrovamenti si contano, inoltre, frammenti di sime a lingue, simili a esemplari da Tuscania e Acquarossa (570/560 a.C.) e diversi frammenti di lastre con teorie di guerrieri che ben si allineano a tipi noti da Tuscania, Poggio Buco e Acquarossa (570-550 a.C.).
Per la prima volta è possibile disporre di un consistente ensemble di terrecotte architettoniche vulcenti da contesti scavati stratigraficamente che abbracciano senza soluzione di continuità l’intero VI secolo a.C. Le terrecotte, messe in relazione a tegole, coppi e frammenti di pittura parietale dal riempimento del tempio, consentono di far luce su edifici di diverse dimensioni e cronologia presenti in area urbana prima del nuovo tempio. In particolare, le sime con teorie di grifoni e cervi, proprio per le loro particolari dimensioni, sembrano riferirsi a edifici pubblici. I nuovi ritrovamenti ampliano notevolmente e integrano il corpus delle terrecotte architettoniche di Vulci e permetto una più approfondita conoscenza della coroplastica vulcente in un’importante fase di sviluppo urbano e delle influenze in Etruria Meridionale.
Séance 3 / Sessione 3
École Française de Rome – Piazza Navona
22/04/2022
has been known for a long time in Etruscan funerary archaeology, although it has not yet been treated systematically. However, another
practice has remained largely unnoticed, namely the re-use of older tombs: Tombs that have not been used for several generations, are re-visited and used anew for funerals. However, this re-use of graves is very rare in Etruria (central Italy). It occurred both in a limited time span (during the 4th and 3rd century BC and in the 1st centuries BC / AD), and in a limited spatial area (in the regions Cortona, Perugia, Volterra, Tuscania, Cerveteri). Furthermore, this practice is most commonly often, but not exclusively, related to
outstanding, individual tombs.
In my paper, I’d like to present a first summary of this practice of re-use of older tombs in Etruria, and associated practices known from the archaeological record. I will then place it in the wider context of memory, memorial cultures, and ways of coping with loss and death in Hellenistic and Imperial Etruria. A number of questions and aspects shall be given particular consideration, e.g.: How were the older burials dealt with? What roles did grave care and the memory of the deceased play, and why does the practice of reuse appear only at specific periods? Could the association with older graves, and thus with the past, have contributed to strengthen both individual and collective resilience, for instance in the face of loss but also of social change in general? Another central question is the relationship between newly buried and the old grave-owners, and in particular whether they belonged to the same family or kinship group.
Aus wirtschaftsgeographischer Sicht zerfällt Südetrurien in zwei Großbereiche, die v.a. durch ihre unterschiedlichen fluvialen Systeme charakterisiert sind: Ein Küstenabschnitt mit einer Reihe kleinerer und mittlerer Flüsse wie Bruna, Ombrone, Marta oder Osa, die alle zum Meer entwässern und ein ausgedehntes, östliches Hinterland mit dem Tiber und seinem System weitverzweigter Zubringer, der vor dem Meer erst die Metropole Rom durchfließt. Diese beiden Flusssysteme werden hier als unterschiedliche Wirtschafts- und Kommunikationsräume aufgefasst, deren ökonomische und infrastrukturelle Entwicklung vergleichend vom 1. Jh. v. bis zum 3. Jh. n. Chr. betrachtet werden. Im Mittelpunkt steht die infrastrukturelle Erschließung – u. a. Häfen, Anlegestellen, Lagerhäusern – aus archäologischer Perspektive und die Frage, wie die Verkehrswege und ökonomischen Mikroregionen durch diese Erschließung zu größeren wirtschaftlichen Kommunikationsräumen zusammengeschlossen und ökonomische Hierarchieebenen miteinander verbunden werden.
From our collaborative project “Resilience Factors”, in which archaeologists, psychologists and life scientists were involved, we would like to trace the uses and conceptualisations of resilience in their “travellings” in a case study “Etruscan Identities and Resilience in Republican and Early Imperial Italy”. As part of this project Paul Pasieka investigated the resilience of the Etruscan elites of the 4th and 3rd century BCE and the 1st century CE in this sub-project. The aim of the investigation was to identify resilience factors that allowed the elites to be resilient in the face of Roman conquest and occupation and the accompanying transformations. In the process, the understanding of what resilience and resilience factors mean was transformed several times in order to be connectable to both psychological and archaeological research methodologies. The understanding of resilience shifted both on the scales from individual to collective resilience, and from present to reconstructed, past phenomena. These transformations change resilience from an observational perspective to a category of analysis, further to empirical phenomena and back to concept. At the same time, translations take place between the respective disciplines and languages. Reflecting on these transformations helped us to enable, though not necessarily facilitate, interdisciplinary communication.
Der Vortrag soll einen Einblick in das 2019 initiierte Forschungsprojekt zur Cityscape Vulcis geben, das es sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, mit einer Kombination aus non-invasiven geophysikalischen Prospektionen und gezielten Grabungsschnitten an neuralgischen Punkten das Stadtbild Vulcis und seine Veränderung in der longue durée in den Blick zu nehmen.
Zunächst wurde 2020 der gesamte Bereich nördlich des sog. decumanus geomagnetisch prospektiert und im Anschluss ein neuer Stadtplan für dieses Areal erstellt, der bisherige Vorstellungen zur Cityscape Vulcis grundlegend revidiert. Dabei wurde u. a. ein neuer monumentaler Tempel identifiziert, der im Sommer 2021 durch eine erste Ausgrabungskampagne stratigraphisch eingeordnet werden konnte.
Diese neuen Ergebnisse sollen zu unserem bisherigen Kenntnisstand zu anderen etruskischen Städten ins Verhältnis gesetzt werden, um so einen neuen Zugang zur etruskischen Urbanistik zu gewinnen.
kaiserzeitliche Etrurien soll deshalb beispielhaft aus der Perspektive der Resilienz in den Blick genommen und es soll gefragt werden, welche Rolle Vergangenheitskonstruktionen und Memorialkulturen und daran anschließende Identitätskonstruktionen als Resilienzfaktoren bei
der Bewältigung exogenen (Eroberung, Bürgerkrieg) und endogenen (gesellschaftlicher Wandel, demographische Verschiebungen) Stresses spielten.
Ciclo di conferenze delle fototeche del Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Roma e della Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte Roma
organisiert von /organizzato da Tatjana Bartsch (BH), Ralf Bockmann (DAI), Paul Pasieka (DAI), Johannes Röll (BH)
Dienstag, 22. Oktober 2019, Beginn: 18 Uhr c.t.
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