Resources and the formation of societies, settlement areas and cultural identities of the Italian peninsula in the 1st millennium BC (C03)

• Subject Area: Classical, Roman, Christian and Islamic Archaeology
• Term: since 2013
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 215859406

The project uses the concept of resource as the basis for the formation and transformation of social groups in order to analyse the social and cultural identities of two settlement areas of the Italian peninsula of the 1st millennium B.C. in a way that is fundamentally new for the fields of research. Cultural contexts of the spaces of the Etruscan cities on the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Greek cities on the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas will be considered comparatively. The focus is on identity-building practices with monuments and objects in ritual or sacred contexts, but in social spaces of lower scale than those of the usual supposedly homogeneous state or ethnic units.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1070: Resource Cultures. Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Relation to Resources
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Thomas Schäfer