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Document Details : Title: Greek Colonists and Indigenious Populations at L'Amastuola, Southern Italy II Author(s): CRIELAARD, Jan Paul , BURGERS, Gert-Jan Journal: BABESCH Volume: 87 Date: 2012 Pages: 69-106 DOI: 10.2143/BAB.87.0.2160693 Abstract : This article represents a second preliminary report on the fieldwork conducted between 2005 and 2010 in and around the Archaic site of L’Amastuola (Apulia) by VU University Amsterdam. The activities included excavations on the site’s south terrace, the use of surface surveys and satellite images to study landscape and settlement patterns around L’Amastuola, and excavations in the necropolis area. The excavations brought to light more evidence to support our thesis of Greek–indigenous cohabitation at the site, as well as some invaluable information about the post-abandonment phase at the site, when a cult of the Dioskouroi was installed, presumably by the Tarentines who were occupying L’Amastuola. A tomb-like cult structure associated with this cult was erased during the early 3rd century BC, possibly in the wake of the Roman conquest of southern Italy. |
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