Start Date
13-11-2023 3:45 PM
End Date
13-11-2023 5:00 PM
Access Type
Open Access
Abstract
The ‘Villa of the Antonines’ Project is an ongoing, long-term historical and archaeological interdisciplinary research effort and focuses on a largely neglected site that was for over a century one of the most important residences of the Roman imperial Antonine dynasty, located 18 miles southeast of Rome. Despite its historical importance, it is continuously exposed to human and natural risks. This paper will discuss the challenges faced by the research team at the site, such as climate change, environmental degradation and human damage and how these issues are monitored and studied in search of viable and sustainable solutions.
Biography
Deborah Chatr Aryamontri is an Associate Professor and doctoral faculty at Montclair State University. She is a Roman field archaeologist with extensive archaeological field experience and she is the co-director, with Prof. Timothy Renner, of the 'Villa of the Antonines' Project in Italy. Her research interests include Roman landscape archaeology and urban planning, practice and issues related to the management, safeguarding and promotion of Cultural Heritage.
Greg Pope is a Professor and doctoral faculty in Earth and Environmental Studies at Montclair State University. His research interests integrate earth science with human dimensions and include deterioration of stone in monuments and architecture; historic and prehistoric human impacts on the environment; and soil and weathering processes in the environment and he is part of the ‘Villa of the Antonines’ research team since 2013.
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Environmental issues, conservation challenges, and sustainable solutions at the Villa of the Antonines
The ‘Villa of the Antonines’ Project is an ongoing, long-term historical and archaeological interdisciplinary research effort and focuses on a largely neglected site that was for over a century one of the most important residences of the Roman imperial Antonine dynasty, located 18 miles southeast of Rome. Despite its historical importance, it is continuously exposed to human and natural risks. This paper will discuss the challenges faced by the research team at the site, such as climate change, environmental degradation and human damage and how these issues are monitored and studied in search of viable and sustainable solutions.