Within this region historical sources place a geographical locality known as the Ager Picentinus, and the history of the area is centred on Picentia. There is little documentary evidence for the ‘colony’ of Picentia that has been contextualised in an historical process of extensive insight in which, the colonial phenomenon, dated only on a deductive basis to 268 BC, is no more than the result of an urban strategy that already occurred in the first half of the fourth century BC. The sources related that Picentia was destroyed after the Social War by Sulla; such destruction has also been found in excavations in the settlement area.3 With regard to later phases, both written sources and archaeological evidence are rather fragmentary. This would suggest that the territory of Picentia, in various ways that are yet to be defined, was part of a larger territorial and administrative area, in which the colonies of Paestum and Salernum played central roles at different times. In this context it is fundamental to focus on the events connected to the use and exploitation of the ager publicus populi Romani launched in the whole of Campania at the end of the third century BC, culminating in the numerous political/military and juridical changes that took place up until the formation of municipia, at the beginning of the first century BC. Although the evolution of the agrarian landscape in the valley of Pontecagnano may seem very complex, the objective of this article is to provide an overview of the nature of the agricultural organisation and the forms of settlement and continuity in associated landscapes, in particular, those dating between the mid-Republican and the Imperial periods.

Aspetti e problemi delle trasformazioni agrarie nella piana di Pontecagnano (Salerno): una prima riflessione

SANTORIELLO, Alfonso;
2006-01-01

Abstract

Within this region historical sources place a geographical locality known as the Ager Picentinus, and the history of the area is centred on Picentia. There is little documentary evidence for the ‘colony’ of Picentia that has been contextualised in an historical process of extensive insight in which, the colonial phenomenon, dated only on a deductive basis to 268 BC, is no more than the result of an urban strategy that already occurred in the first half of the fourth century BC. The sources related that Picentia was destroyed after the Social War by Sulla; such destruction has also been found in excavations in the settlement area.3 With regard to later phases, both written sources and archaeological evidence are rather fragmentary. This would suggest that the territory of Picentia, in various ways that are yet to be defined, was part of a larger territorial and administrative area, in which the colonies of Paestum and Salernum played central roles at different times. In this context it is fundamental to focus on the events connected to the use and exploitation of the ager publicus populi Romani launched in the whole of Campania at the end of the third century BC, culminating in the numerous political/military and juridical changes that took place up until the formation of municipia, at the beginning of the first century BC. Although the evolution of the agrarian landscape in the valley of Pontecagnano may seem very complex, the objective of this article is to provide an overview of the nature of the agricultural organisation and the forms of settlement and continuity in associated landscapes, in particular, those dating between the mid-Republican and the Imperial periods.
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