The challenge of protection in urban areas. Archaeology in the historic center of Tarquinia

Authors

  • Beatrice Casocavallo Ministero della Cultura, Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Provincia di Viterbo e per l’Etruria meridionale

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4454/ostraka.v32.722

Keywords:

Tarquinia, Corneto, medieval archaeology, urban archaeology, Middle Ages

Abstract

The contribution traces the work done together with Maria Cataldi in the difficult work of protecting a historic center like that of Tarquinia. The work carried out for 30 years by Mariolina as official archaeologist responsible for Tarquinia
has seen me involved, in the last 20 years in the research and protection of emergencies in the historic center of the city. Some important interventions have highlighted what is still hidden in the subsoil. The effort is understand
as much as possible from all the investigations, with all the problems that the protection in an urban center must also deal with what is the life of the center itself.

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Published

2023-12-01

Issue

Vol. 32 (2023)

Section

Proceedings

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