The Tiber Valley Project: the Tiber and Rome through two millennia

In 1997 a new collaborative research project was initiated by the British School at Rome. This project draws on a variety of sources of archaeological information to explore the regional impact of the City of Rome throughout the period from 1000 sc to AD 1300. The project provides a common collaborative research framework which brings together a range of archaeologists and historians working in various institutions. In this paper those involved in different aspects of this new project outline their work and its overall objectives.
Introduction An understanding of the development of settlement in the Tiber valley is central to any understanding of Rome, its place in the ancient world and the development of European [...]