On this page you will find an overview of the publications on Crustumerium by project members as well as a more general bibliography on the site. For now, links are only provided for the Key Project Publications. If you are in search of a specific article, please feel free to contact us.
Key Project Publications
Other Project Publications
Attema, P.A.J., Bronkhorst, A.J. & Noorda, N.P. 2017, “Een multifunctioneel 3D-model: interdisciplinair onderzoek naar een opgeworpen heuvel te Crustumerium, Italië”, Paleo-Aktueel, vol. 28, pp. 33-39.
Attema, P.A.J., Bronkhorst, A.J., Noorda, N.P., Van Hoesel, F. & Svetachov, P. 2017, “Interdisciplinair 3D-onderzoek naar een protohistorische heuvel te Crustumerium (Rome, Italië), Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie, vol. 57, p. 54.
Belelli Marchesini, B. & di Gennaro, F. 2011, “Qualche osservazione sulla componente femminile della comunità laziale di Crustumerium (IX-V sec. a.C.)”, Medicina nei secoli arte e scienza, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 315-345.
Belelli Marchesini, B. & Pantano, W.B. 2014, “The necropolis of Crustumerium. The preliminary results from the interdisciplinary analysis of two groups of tombs” in Research into pre-Roman burial grounds in Italy, Caeculus 8, (eds.) A.J. Nijboer, S.L. Willemsen, P.A.J. Attema & J.F. Seubers, pp. 1-33.
Belelli Marchesini, B. 2006, “Tomba 34. Località Sasso Bianco” in Roma. Memorie dal sottosuolo. Ritrovamenti archeologici 1980/2006, (ed.) M.A. Tomei, pp. 223-227.
Bronkhorst, A.J. 2023, “In de voetsporen van Peter Paul Mackey en Thomas Ashby: op zoek naar de verdwenen steden van Latium (Italië), Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie, vol. 68, pp. 25-33.
Bronkhorst, A.J. & Seubers, J.F. 2015, “Tussen legacy en legacy data: de erfenis van een verloren landschap rondom Crustumerium (Noord-Latium, Italië), Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie, vol. 53, pp. 29-35.
Bronkhorst, A.J. & Seubers, J.F. 2019, “La Torretta della Bufalotta: stille getuige van een verdwenen landschap”, Paleo-Aktueel, vol. 30, pp. 31-38.
di Gennaro, F. & Belelli Marchesini, B. 2014, “Crustumerium (Roma, Prov. di Roma) – Scavi del Museo Pigorini nella necropoli”, Notiziario di Preistoria e Protostoria, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 37-39.
di Gennaro, F., Amoroso, A., Belelli Marchesini, B. & Ceccarelli, L. 2017, “Il territorio laziale a nord dell’Aniene nell’età di Tarquinio il Superbo” in The age of Tarquinius Superbus: Central Italy in the late 6th century. Proceedings of the conference ‘The age of Tarquinius Superbus, A Paradigm Shift?’, Rome, 7-9 November 2013, (eds.) P.S. Lulof & C.J. Smith, pp. 205-214.
di Gennaro, F., Filippini, P., Malizia, A., Ceccarelli, A., Cecchetti, A., Attema, P.A.J., Belelli Marchesini, B. & Seubers, J.F. 2015, “La sistematizzazione dei dati del III (già IV) Municipio. Prospettive di ricerca e sviluppo” in Il SITAR nella Rete della ricerca italiana. Verso la conoscenza archeologica condivisa. Atti del III Convegno (Roma, 23-24 maggio 2013), Archeologia e Calcolatori, supplemento 7, (eds.) M. Serlorenzi & G. Leoni, pp. 297-309.
Giuliani, M.R., Rapinesi, I.A., Ferro, D., Attema, P.A.J. & di Gennaro, F. 2014, “Micrometric-scale investigations on a headdress of the Orientalizing period from Tomb 232 – Monte Del Bufalo, Crustumerium (Rome)” in ‘Tiarae’, diadems and headdresses in the Ancient Mediterranean cultures: Symbolism and technology, (eds.) C. Alfaro Giner, J. Ortiz García & M. Antón Peset,pp. 41-49.
Nijboer, A.J. & Attema, P.A.J. 2010, “Cultural characteristics of the ancient community living at Crustumerium and the excavations of the Groningen Institute of Archaeology at the Monte Del Bufalo Necropolis”, International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Meeting between cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean (Rome, 22-26 September 2008), Bollettino di archeologia online, special volume, pp. 23-38.
Trienen, T.H.W. & Attema, P.A.J. 2018, “Cropmarks in het Tiberdal: onderzoek naar gebruik en bewoning van de Tibervallei nabij Crustumerium in de Romeinse tijd”, Paleo-Aktueel, vol. 29, pp. 35-42.
Books
Crustumerium
Ricerche internazionali in un centro latino. Archaeology and identity of a Latin settlement near Rome
P.A.J. Attema, F. di Gennaro & E. Jarva (eds.) | 2013
The present volume is the first to appear in the series Corollaria Crustumina that aims at publishing doctoral theses, conference proceedings and specialist studies on the Latin settlement of Crustumerium near Rome. It is dedicated to a conference entitled “In Search of the Identity of Crustumerium” that was held on the 5th of March, 2008, in Rome. Although the collection of papers presented in this volume appears almost five years after the conference, the editors are of the opinion that publishing the extended papers in book form is nonetheless worthwhile as the papers demarcate a specific phase in the archaeological investigations of Crustumerium.
Into the light
A study of the changing burial customs at Crustumerium in the 7th and 6th centuries BC
S.L. Willemsen | 2014
This PhD thesis sheds light on the obscure funerary record in Central Italy during the 7th and 6th century BC, to which only a small number of graves has been ascribed because these tombs generally contained very few or no grave gifts. However, recent excavations near Crustumerium have yielded a fairly large number of tombs dating to this period. The study of the Crustumerian funerary archive has revealed several remarkable changes in the funerary rituals after the end of the 7th century BC.
Crustumerium. Death and afterlife at the gates of Rome
Companion to the exhibition in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket of Copenhagen
P.A.J. Attema, J.F. Seubers, S.L. Willemsen, A.J. Bronkhorst, P. Filippini, B. Belelli Marchesini, A. Malizia & A.M. Nielsen (eds.) | 2016
Conceived as a companion to the 2016 exhibition “Crustumerium, Death and Afterlife at the Gates of Rome” in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket of Copenhagen, this book tells the multi-faceted story of an ancient Latin settlement located at only a few kilometers from Rome on the basis of years of painstaking interdisciplinary archaeological research. Following a historical and landscape archaeological introduction, the spotlight is on Crustumerium’s exceptional funerary record that is being meticulously excavated and safeguarded for the future by an international team of field archaeologists and restorers, allowing the reader an exceptional insight in the long journey from discovery in the field to showcase in the museum.
Early states, territories and settlements in protohistoric Central Italy
Proceedings of a specialist conference at the Groningen Institute of Archaeology of the University of Groningen, 2013
P.A.J. Attema, J.F. Seubers & S.L. Willemsen (eds.) | 2016
This volume is the second of the series Corollaria Crustumina aimed at the publication of conference proceedings, doctoral theses and specialist studies concerning the Latin settlement of Crustumerium (Rome) and Italian protohistory. It contains multidisciplinary papers of an international group of archaeologists discussing new fieldwork data and theories of broad relevance to Italian archaeology and with specific relevance to the study of Crustumerium’s settlement, cemeteries and material culture in light of the site’s cultural identity.
Scratching through the surface
Revisiting the archaeology of city and country in Crustumerium and north Latium Vetus between 850 and 300 BC
J.F. Seubers | 2020
This volume is the third in the series Corollaria Crustumina aimed at the publication of conference proceedings, doctoral theses and specialist studies concerning the Latin settlement of Crustumerium (Rome) and its place in central Italian protohistory. It contains the dissertation that Jorn Seubers wrote and defended at the University of Groningen as part of the project “The People and the State. Material culture, social structure and political centralisation in central Italy (800-450 BC)”. This detailed study of Crustumerium’s urban and rural settlement dynamics, for which the author assembled all data from previous work while adding new landscape archaeological studies and sophisticated territorial and data analyses, elaborates a new scenario on the relation between the urban core and its countryside.
The People and the State
Material culture, social structure, and political centralisation in Central Italy (800-450 BC) from the perspective of ancient Crustumerium (Rome, Italy)
P.A.J. Attema & A.J. Bronkhorst (eds.) | 2020
This volume is the fourth in the series Corollaria Crustumina and deals with the results of the project The People and the State, Material culture, social structure, and political centralisation in Central Italy (800-450 BC). This project of the Groningen Institute of Archaeology, carried out between 2010 and 2015 in close collaboration with the Archaeological Service of Rome, deals with the changing socio-political situation at ancient Crustumerium resulting from Rome’s rise to power.
The volume brings together data from the domains of geology, geoarchaeology, urban and rural settlement archaeology, funerary archaeology, material culture studies as well as osteological and isotope analyses. On the basis of these data, a relationship is established between changes in material culture on the one hand and developments in social structure and political centralisation in Central Italy on the other in the period between 850 and 450 BC.
General Bibliography
Amoroso, A. 1998, “Crustumerium”, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma, vol. 99, pp. 303-306.
Amoroso, A. 2002, “Nuovi dati per la conoscenza dell’antico centro di Crustumerium”, Archeologia Classica, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 287-329.
Amoroso, A. 2010, “Crustumerium: characteristics of a frontier settlement”, International Congress of Classical Archaeology. Meetings between cultures in the ancient Mediterranean (Rome, 22-26 September 2008), Bollettino di archeologia online, special volume, pp. 1-11.
Amoroso, A. 2012, “Caratteri degli insediamenti del Latium Vetus settentrionale”, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma, vol. 113, pp. 193-214.
Amoroso, A. & Barbina, P. 2003, “L’istituzione delle tribù Claudia e Clustumina nel Latium Vetus. Un esempio di gestione del territorio da parte di Roma nel V secolo a.C.”, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma, vol. 104, pp. 19-36.
Capanna, M.C. & Carafa, P. 2019, “I paesaggi rurali tra il suburbio di Roma e il Latium Vetus” in Alle pendici dei Colli Albani. Dinamiche insediative e cultura materiale ai confini con Roma, (eds.) A.L. Fischetti & P.A.J. Attema, pp. 15-27.
Carafa, P. 2000, “Una nuova analisi archeologica per il settore settentrionale del Suburbio di Roma”, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma, vol. 101, pp. 185-196.
Carafa, P. 2017, “«Latinorum sibi maxime gentem conciliabat» (Livio I 49,8). Trasformazione dei paesaggi di Roma e del Lazio dal Regno del Superbo all’inizio della repubblica” in The age of Tarquinius Superbus: Central Italy in the late 6th century. Proceedings of the conference ‘The age of Tarquinius Superbus, A Paradigm Shift?’, Rome, 7-9 November 2013, (eds.) P.S. Lulof & C.J. Smith, pp. 57-70.
Carafa, P. & Capanna, M.C. 2009, “Il progetto «Archeologia del Suburbio di Roma» per la ricostruzione dei paesaggi agrari antichi” in Suburbium II. Il suburbio di Roma dalla fine dell’età monarchica alla nascita del sisteme delle ville (V-II secolo a.C.), (eds.) V. Jolivet, C. Pavolini, M.A. Tomei & R. Volpe, pp. 27-39.
Carandini, A. 2009, “I paesaggi del suburbio” in Suburbium II. Il suburbio di Roma dalla fine dell’età monarchica alla nascita del sisteme delle ville (V-II secolo a.C.), (eds.) V. Jolivet, C. Pavolini, M.A. Tomei & R. Volpe, pp. 295-310.
Carandini, A., Carafa, P. & Capanna, M.C. 2007, “Il progetto ‘Archeologia del Suburbio per la ricostruzione dei paesaggi agrari antichi’. Impostazione e metodologia della ricerca” in Il territorio tra la via Salaria, l’Aniene, il Tevere e la via “Salaria vetus”: Municipio II, (ed.) C. Cupitò, pp. 13-25.
De Puma, R.D. 2010, “Crustumerium and Etruria”, Meetings of Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean, XVII International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Bollettino di Archeologia online, pp. 96-101.
De Puma, R.D. 2012, “Rapporti tra Crustumerium e l’Etruria. La ceramica”, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma, vol. 113, pp. 279-284.
DeNiro, M.J. 1985, “Postmortem preservation and alteration of in vivo bone collagen isotope ratios in relation to palaeodietary reconstruction”, Nature, vol. 317, pp. 806-809.
di Gennaro, F. 1988, “Primi risultati degli scavi nella necropoli di Crustumerium. Tre complessi funerari della fase IVA”, Archeologia Laziale, vol. 9, Quaderni del Centro di studio per l’archeologia etrusco-italica 16, pp. 113-123.
di Gennaro, F. (ed.) 1999, Itinerario di visita a Crustumerium, S&M Studio, Rome.
di Gennaro, F. 1999, “Roma, località Marcigliana o Monte Del Bufalo” in Acquisizioni e donazioni – Archeologia e arte orientale (1996-1998), (eds.) L. Nista & R. Ciarla, pp. 50-57.
di Gennaro, F. 2003, “Una raffigurazione schematica a tutto tondo di edificio protostorico da Crustumerium” in Dalla capanna alla casa. I primi abitanti di Veio (catalogo della mostra, Formello 13 dicembre 2003-1 marzo 2004), (ed.) I. van Kampen, pp. 33-37.
di Gennaro, F. 2006, “Tra Roma e la Sabina. Il territorio di Fidenae e Crustumerium prima e dopo la conquista romana” in Roma. Memorie dal sottosuolo. Ritrovamenti archeologici 1980/2006, (ed.) M.A. Tomei, pp. 215-219.
di Gennaro, F. 2006, “Crustumerium e la sua necropoli” in Roma. Memorie dal sottosuolo. Ritrovamenti archeologici 1980/2006, (ed.) M.A. Tomei, pp. 222-223.
di Gennaro, F. 2006, “Le olle a coppette e la ceramica di impasto a superficie rossa dipinta in bianco” in Roma. Memorie dal sottosuolo. Ritrovamenti archeologici 1980/2006, (ed.) M.A. Tomei, p. 228.
di Gennaro, F. 2006, “Fidenae e la sua necropoli” in Roma. Memorie dal sottosuolo. Ritrovamenti archeologici 1980/2006, (ed.) M.A. Tomei, pp. 230-231.
di Gennaro, F. 2007, “Le tombe a loculo di età orientalizzante di Crustumerium” in Tusculum. Storia, archeologia, cultura e arte di Tuscolo e del Tuscolano (Atti del primo incontro di studi, 27-28 maggio e 3 giugno 2000), (eds.) F. Arietti & A. Pasqualini, pp. 163-176.
di Gennaro, F. 2009, “From Crustumerium. Preventing looting by exchanging loans for preservation of cultural patrimony” in New perspectives on Etruria and early Rome. In honour of Richard de Puma, (eds.) S. Bell & H. Nagy, pp. 119-133.
di Gennaro, F., Amoroso, A. & Togninelli, P. 2007, “Crustumerium e Fidenae tra Etruria e Colli Albani” in Tusculum. Storia, Archeologia, Cultura e Arte di Tusculo e del Tuscolano (Atti del primo incontro di studi, 27-28 maggio e 3 giugno 2000), (eds.) F. Arietti & A. Pasqualini, pp. 135-162.
di Gennaro, F. & Belelli Marchesini, B. 2012, “Scavi 1987-2011 nel sepolcreto crustumino di Monte Del Bufalo”, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma, vol. 113, pp. 229-243.
di Gennaro, F., Schiappelli, A. & Amoroso, A. 2004, “Un confronto tra gli organismi protostatali delle due sponde del Tevere. Le prime fasi di Vei e di Crustumerio” in Bridging the Tiber. Approaches to regional archaeology in the Middle Tiber Valley, (ed.) H. Patterson, pp. 147-177.
di Gennaro, F., Togninelli, P. & De Puma, R. 2006, “Crustumerium e l’Etruria”, Etruscan Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 45-62.
Jarva, E. 2014, ““Unwanted children” in the road trench area at Crustumerium” in Research into pre-Roman burial grounds in Italy, Caeculus 8, (eds.) A.J. Nijboer, S.L. Willemsen, P.A.J. Attema & J.F. Seubers, pp. 51-62.
Paolini, L. 1990, “Crustumerium (circ. IV) – Scavi nella necropoli”, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 467-471.
Quilici, L. & Quilici Gigli, S. 1980, Crustumerium, Latium Vetus III, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome.
Rajala, U. 2014, “Biographies of tombs and the metaphorical representations of the crustumini: Remembering the Dead project and the funerary excavations at Cisterna Grande at Crustumerium 2004–2008” in Research into pre-Roman burial grounds in Italy, Caeculus 8, (eds.) A.J. Nijboer, S.L. Willemsen, P.A.J. Attema & J.F. Seubers, pp. 63-81.
Teegen, W.-R., Cordie, R. & Rieckhoff, S. 2012, “Gli scavi dell’Università di Lipsia a Cisterna Grande e Monte Del Bufalo, Crustumerium (Roma)”, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma,vol. 113, pp. 245-250.
Togninelli, P. 2009, “Per la ricostruzione di un sistema metrologico per liquidi attestato da alcune produzioni artigianali di Crustumerium” in Ceramica, abitati, territorio nella bassa valle del Tevere e Latium Vetus (VIII-VI secolo a.C.), (ed.) M. Rendeli, pp. 211-214.
Tuppi, J. 2014, “Approaching road-cuttings as instruments of early urbanization in Central Tyrrhenian Italy”, Papers of the British School at Rome,vol. 82, pp. 41-72.
Tuppi, J. 2015, Carving territories. Road cuttings as part of early socio-political and urban development in Central Tyrrhenian Italy with special reference to Crustumerium, Juvenes Print, Oulu.
Tuppi, J., Amoroso, A., di Gennaro, F. & Jarva, E. 2012, “Ramping up and digging down: the 7th century B.C. earthworks at Crustumerium (Lazio, Italy)”, Journal of Ancient Topography, vol. 22, pp. 7-30.