Research Projects
Accordia is associated
with a number of major research projects. Some, such as
the excavations at Gravina
and the
Alto-Medio Polesine -Basso Veronese Project, are now complete
and published or in preparation; others are still in progress.
Accordia
also has two ongoing major research projects, both based at the
Institute of Archaeology at UCL but organised in association with
Accordia.
Literacy in Early Italy
is funded by the AHRC and comprises two three-year projects, one of
which is took place in 2003-5, while the other ran from 2005-2008.
The first project,
Developmental Literacy in Early Italy, examines the role of incipient literacy in the formation of urban
societies, and in the emergence of cultural identities in three areas of
ancient Italy where local communities developed in contact with the
Etruscans, the Western Greeks and the Romans. The three areas are
Northwest Italy, Southeast Italy, and Northwest Italy. In association
with this project, the 2003–04 series of Accordia seminars was based on
the theme of
The Establishment of Literacy in State Societies. The Ancient
Mediterranean. A further seminar series, on the theme of
Language, literacy and identity in the Ancient Mediterranean, took
place in semester 2, 2005, and a third, on New Approaches to the
Etruscans, took place from 2006-7.
The Tavoliere-Gargano prehistory project
is funded by the British Academy, the Institute of Archaeology, UCL and
the National University of Ireland, Galway, and aims to investigate the
relationships between the Tavoliere plain and the Gargano promontory in
southeast Italy from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.
Radiocarbon Dating and Italian Prehistory
In the current
issue of
Accordia Research Papers
Robin Skeates publishes a
fifth supplementary list of new radiocarbon dates to augment the
complete date-list for Italian prehistory which appeared in
Radiocarbon dating and Italian prehistory
(Accordia Specialist Studies on Italy 3, Archaeological Monographs of
the British School at Rome 8, 1994). Here we renew our appeal to
colleagues working in Italy and Malta to inform Dr Skeates of any new
dates for inclusion in the future supplementary lists, which will
continue to be published in future issues of
ARP.
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