Thursday,
March 14, 2013 at 6pm in the John B. Davis
Lecture Hall in the Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center at Macalester College
Adriatic islands played an important role in ancient
navigation and economy. The centrality of the Adriatic Sea for travel and
exchange between the Mediterranean and European societies conditioned the life
and economy of the islanders. The islands’ landscape and seascape and the
nature of settlements were dynamic and responded to changing historical
scenarios.
The island of St. Clement, with its agricultural land, deep
bays with good anchorage, and resources for salt production and stone
quarrying, has been inhabited since prehistoric times. Geophysical survey and
excavation conducted on a Roman villa in Soline Bay since 2007 have shown the
evidence of multi-period occupation, from the Hellenistic period to Late
Antiquity. With the perspective of island archaeology and interdisciplinary
approach, our international team studies the island’s society in the context of
maritime culture and patterns of regional and long-distance connectivity. Our
project is contributing to the preservation of Croatian cultural and
archaeological heritage and to the local community development.
Note: parking is available/allowed in Macalester lots
Note: parking is available/allowed in Macalester lots
About the speaker:
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Dr. Vanca Schrunk is senior adjunct faculty in the
Department of History, at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul. Her research interests include social
and economic aspects of Roman maritime villas, Roman pottery, island and
coastal archaeology, cultural and historical landscapes, and archaeology and
tourism. She has published numerous articles and has co-authored or co-edited
several books. The two more recent publications, co-authored with her sister/colleague,
are: “The Brioni Archipelago: Functional Identity of a Historical Landscape,”
with Vlasta Begovic, in Landscapes,
Identities and Development, eds. Z. Roca, P. Claval and J. Agnew (Ashgate
2011) 137-149; and “Maritime Villas on the
Eastern Adriatic Coast (Roman Histria and Dalmatia),” with V. Begovic, in The
Roman Empire and Beyond: Archaeological and Historical Research on the Romans
and Native Cultures in Central Europe, eds. Eric De Sena and Halina
Dobrzanska, BAR International Series 2236. (Oxford 2011). 3-21.
A no-host dinner with the speaker will follow the lecture at Pad Thai Grand, 1681 Grand Avenue, St. Paul
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