Maria Beatriz Borba Florenzano

• Symposion on the Archaeology of Sicily, AO.R

• Abstract

  In the years that we have been working in Labeca (Laboratory of Studies on the ancient city - MAE / USP) the valorization of the archaeological document allowed us to perceive its potential in the process of characterization of the ancient Greek city. It is worth mentioning that the systematic study of the distribution of archaeological remains in the configuration of the Greek hinterland…

  Territorial occupation and establishment of frontiers: cultural contact in Greek Mediterranean (IX -III a.C.), AP.R

• Abstract

  This volume grows out of an interest to present what Labeca (Laboratory for the study of the Ancient city -Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the University of Sao Paulo - Brazil) has been up to in the last years. Some of the papers here presented were delivered during a very successful three - day conference at our University in June 2013; others were delivered during the Seminars pro…

  KHORION - XOPION city and territory in Ancient Greece, PUB.LVR.BR

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• Abstract

  It is intended to investigate the development of the Greek identity and its colonies that the present project is presented, in order to explore how the forms of contact between Greeks on the Aegean coast and people of the Black Sea region influenced the development of identities expressed in the monetary coinage, in the period corresponding to the Archaic and Classic periods, between the …

  Identity and monetary mint in the Black Sea: the case of Sinope, BP.MS

• Abstract

  "The coming of the Greeks" brings to discussion the events related to the arrive of the Greek speakers in the Aegean. When, why and how these events taken place form the archaeological, linguistic and genetic question about the Indo-European origins and its infiltration route in Eurasia. The linguistic identity of past people studied by means of its archaeological remains is a topic that …

  A Brazilian Classical Archaeology: the coming of the Greeks in the Aegean and the comparative study of the origins of Indo-Europeans and Tupis, BP.DR

• Abstract

  The reuse of ancient building material or decorative architectural elements (Spolia), in buildings of later periods, widespread in the Mediterranean region, occurs also in Sicily. Currently, such practice has not been sufficiently studied in all its aspects but only in a selective way for few monuments of Norman age. This research project aims at studying the overall reuse of spolia in Si…

  The reuse of spolia in Ancient Sicily, BP.PD

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• Abstract

  Ever since the late-nineteenth century, ethnic labels given to prehistoric people by the pioneers of archaeology have framed the discussion over perceptions of cultural identity. In a historiographically informed perspective, it is important to evaluate what are the relations of continuity and rupture that have been perceived in the ascription of collective identity. What are the criteria…

  Bringing up things out of date: re-assessing mobility in a comparative analysis of Mediterranean and Amazonian archaeology, BE.EP.DR

• Abstract

  The project arises from the need to compare the practise of the reuse of spolia in Sicily with another contest in the Mediterranean area. Although the reuse is a very spread practise in many regions, it has its peculiarities depending on the environment and the chronological period. For this reasons the comparison whit loci similes is unavoidable. The research on Sicily, in fact, has cons…

  The reuse of spolia in Athens: analysis of the practice during the Byzantine period, BE.EP.PD

• Abstract

  This project is a part of our PhD Program Research: "Interaction Networks between Greeks and non Greeks: the Phrouria of the Greek Sicily's Hinterland". The purpose of this inquiry is to investigate the forms, functions and continuity of fruition of centers that had been focal points of contact between Greeks and non-Greeks in the border territories of the Chora and the world of Sikania: …

  A landscape study in the territory of the south-central Sicily and the case study of Purtedda du Tauro (Caltanissetta, Sicily), BE.EP.DD

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