SALOTTO ETRUSCO

07 novembre 2023 – Ore 18.00
per prenotazioni eventi@isvroma.org

Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni
“Tarquinia project in progress”

The ‘Tarquinia Project’ of the University of Milan carries out and develops archaeological research on the Pianoro della Civita, where the ancient city of Tarquinia was located. The project was created by Maria Bonghi Jovino over forty years ago and is now directed by Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni.
The interdisciplinary nature of the project encouraged the creation of the Coordinated Research Centre (CRC) ‘Progetto Tarquinia’, in which six Departments of the University of Milan, the Milan Polytechnic and foreign universities participate. The CRC investigation encompasses archaeology and historical topography, physical anthropology, chemistry, earth sciences and zooarchaeology with the aim to study the vital cultural and historical dimensions of the ancient city. With Science@Tarquinia, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, the Project focuses on the ecosystem of ancient Tarquinia, applying geoarchaeology, absolute dating, isotopic and aDNA analyses to investigate site formation processes, environmental resources, agricultural techniques, the origin and diet of humans and animals, and climate change.
The common objective is reconstructing the lost profile of Tarquinia from inside its multifaceted different categories of evidence and develop innovative systems for researching, teaching, and disseminating the results. This is relevant in the framework of the UNESCO site (listed since 2004) of the Necropolis of the Painted Tombs, ‘the city of the dead’, in its relationship to the buffer zone represented by the ‘city of the living’ on the Civita Plateau.

Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni, Full Professor of Etruscology at the University of Milan.
Professor Bagnasco Gianni is director of the ‘Tarquinia Project’ since 2004, a project started in 1982 by Professor Maria Bonghi Jovino.