Mola dell’Abbadia (Roccasecca dei Volsci)

Settlement (location unprecise) Chronology: MBA 1/2 UTM WGS84 33N: 350378E 4590277N In the seventies, during some mining, an archaeological layer was found and some impasto sherds were collected (Segre & Biddittu 1985). Among them, an horizontal canaliculata handle with flanges (ansa orizzontale canaliculata con margini rilevati), still unpublished, has already…

Tratturo Caniò (Sezze)

Settlement Chronology: from EBA to EIA UTM WGS84 33N: 332514E 4595007N In 1986 and 1987, the former director of the Antiquarium Comunale of Sezze conducted some non stratigraphical probing excavations near the Roman Temple of Juno, in Tratturo Caniò (Zaccheo 1986). The excavations led to the discovery of a layer…

Longara (Sezze)

Settlement Chronology: MBA UTM WGS84 33N: 341153E 4599203N Few ceramic sherds have been found in the sixties, in the northern part of the Suso Valley, in Longara (Zaccheo & Pasquali 1972). They have been dated to MBA (Rosini 1996a).  Some connection can be hypothesized with the Vittorio Vecchi Cave, that…

Grotta Vittorio Vecchi (Sezze)

Necropolis Chronology: EBA, MBA 1/2 UTM WGS84 33N: 340714E 4599838N  The Vittorio Vecchi Cave has been found in 1987 by the speleologists of the Associazione Speleologi Romani and, in 1988 and 1989 has been excavated by the Soprintendenza Archeologica del Lazio (Guidi 1992; Rosini 2007). Ceramic sherds, metal objects and bones…

Geology

[caption id="attachment_603" align="alignleft" width="300"] Tephra sites in the Agro Pontino and Fondi basin. A: higher Pleistocene marine terraces, B: low-lying Agro Pontino Graben, C: Fondi basin[/caption] Dr. Wouter van Gorp have two tasks: firstly, to refine Feiken’s (2014) geological and palaeogeographical reconstruction of the central Pontine graben, expand it to the…

Archaeology

During the fieldwork phase of this project, Dr. Luca Alessandri will revisit, together with his colleagues, as many of the known but poorly documented sites and scatters of the EBA and MBA period in the study area as possible. The goal here is to extract the missing stratigraphic and paleogeographic…

Palaeoecology

[caption id="attachment_613" align="alignleft" width="300"] The Agro Pontino and Fondi basin. A: higher Pleistocene marine terraces, B: low-lying Agro Pontino Graben, C: Fondi basin[/caption] Pollen and macrofossil data will be used to reconstruct the vegetation in the coastal wetlands of south Lazio before and after the Avellino eruption. The aim of…

La Sassa cave

The cave after the 2016 campaign. The test pits are showed. The discovery In February 2014, mr. Gianni Carroccia led a team of speleologists at the entrance of the La Sassa cave. The cave is located few meters from the La Sassa stream, in the municipality of Sonnino. The explorations were carried…