Saturday, February 28, 2009

Gabii Project at the 8th Roman Archaeology Conference (RAC)

Marcello Mogetta will present a paper at the upcoming 8th Roman Archaeology Conference (RAC) that is being hosted by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, April 3-5, 2009. M. Mogetta's paper, in a session on current approaches to the study of urbanism in first millennium BCE Italy is entitled, ""Grid Cities": Latin Planned Urbanism and Roman Colonial Layouts".

Gabii Project at the 6th 'Convegno Lazio e Sabina'

Results of the 2007 and 2008 field campaigns at Gabii will be presented at the 6th 'Convegno Lazio e Sabina' this week in Rome, Italy. The three day conference is being hosted by the École française de Rome, the British School at Rome, and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani; the conference runs March 4 through March 6, 2009.

The Gabii Project's paper, which will be presented by Nicola Terrenato, is "Urbanistica ortogonale a Gabii: risultati delle nuove prospezioni geofisiche e prospettive per il futuro" (co-authored by J. A. Becker, A. Gallone, and S. Kay).