Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Dr Alessandro Launaro

Dr Alessandro Launaro is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, a Research Fellow of Darwin College, and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Classics. 

Contacts
Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA

Email: al506@cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223 748492

Current research interests

The archaeology and history of Roman Italy; landscape archaeology; Roman economy and demography.

Current projects

• 2012-15 – Conquerors to Emperors. The impact of the Roman Empire on Italy
• 2010-12 – Roman Colonial Landscapes: Interamna Lirenas and its territory through Antiquity (jointly directed with Martin Millett) – www.classics.cam.ac.uk/rcl/

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

1.     (2011). Peasants and Slaves. The Rural Population of Roman Italy (200 BC to AD 100). Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge.

Articles/Chapters

2.     (in preparation) Free and slave in the ‘villa economy’ of Roman Italy (200 BC to AD 100).

3.     (in preparation) The nature of the villa economy. In P. Erdkamp, K. Verboven and A. Zuiderhoek (eds.), Land and Natural Resources in the Roman World. Oxford.

4.     (in preparation) (with G.R. Bellini, S. Hay, N. Leone and M. Millett) Town and countryside: Interamna Lirenas through Antiquity (400 BC to AD 700).

5.     (forthcoming) The economic impact of Flavian rule. In A. Zissos (eds.), Blackwell’s Companion to the Flavian Age. Oxford.

6.     (forthcoming) (with G.R. Bellini and M.J. Millett). Roman colonial landscapes: Interamna Lirenas and its territory through Antiquity. In J. Pelgrom and T. Stek (eds.), Roman Republican Colonisation: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ancient History.

7.     (forthcoming) Survey archaeology in the Roman world (history, approach, methodology). In Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology. Berlin.

8.     (2012) Why, what and how to compare: site trends and population dynamics in Roman Italy (200 BC - AD 100). In P. Attema and G. Schörner (eds.), Comparative Issues in the Archaeology of the Roman Rural Landscape: Site Classification between Survey, Excavation and Historical Categories. JRA Supplementary Series. Portsmouth. 117-32.

9.     (2011) Investing in the countryside: villas and farms, landowners and tenants (200 BC to 100 AD). In FACTA – A Journal of Roman Material Culture Studies 5: 129-43.

10.  (2009) (with M. Pasquinucci). Researching ‘on the margins’: landscape archaeology in the Polcevera Valley. In I. Holm and K. Stene (eds.), Liminal Landscapes. Beyond the Concepts of 'Marginality' and 'Periphery'. Oslo Arkeologiske Serie 11. Oslo. 183-201.

11.  (2009) La Val Polcevera dalla seconda Età del Ferro alla fine dell’Evo Antico. In Rivista di Studi Liguri 72/73: 5-34.

12.  (2007) Landscape and population of the Roman countryside (II c. BC – I c. AD). In A. Cimdina and J. Osmond (eds.), Power and Culture. Identity, Ideology and Representation. Pisa. 1-12.

13.  (2007) I «castellari» di Sestri Ponente e Monte Carlo. In R. De Marinis and G. Spadea (eds.), Ancora su i Liguri. Genoa. 79-81.

14.  (2006) (with M. Pasquinucci). Landscape Archaeology in Pisa and the ‘POPULUS’ Project: paying attention and being selective. In S. Bigliazzi and S. Wood (eds.), Collaboration in the Arts  from Middle Ages to the Present. London. 191-98.

15.  (2004) Concerning landscape. In Agri Centuriati 1: 31-41.

16.  (2004) Experienced landscapes through intentional sources. In B. Croxford et al. (eds.), TRAC 2003. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference. Oxford. 111-22.

Fieldwork reports

17.  (in preparation) (with S. Hay, N. Leone and M.J. Millett). Interamna Lirenas e il suo territorio. Indagini archeologiche non invasive 2011. In G. Ghini and Z. Mari (eds.), Lazio e Sabina 9. Rome.

18.  (forthcoming) (with G.R. Bellini, S. Hay, N. Leone and M.J. Millett). Interamna Lirenas (Research Report 2011). In Papers of the British School at Rome.

19.  2012 (with S. Hay, N. Leone and M.J. Millett). Interamna Lirenas e il suo territorio. Indagini archeologiche non invasive 2010. In G. Ghini and Z. Mari (eds.), Lazio e Sabina 8. Rome. 295-301

20.  (2007) (with M. Pasquinucci, S. Menchelli, P. Sangriso, S. Genovesi and F. Pucci). Vada Volaterrana: scavi e ricerche 2006. In Quaderno del Laboratorio Universitario Volterrano 10: 131-40.

21.  (2006) (with M. Pasquinucci, S. Menchelli, N. Leone, G. Picchi and P. Sangriso). Vada Volaterrana: scavi e ricerche 2005. In Quaderno del Laboratorio Universitario Volterrano 9: 27-34.

22.  (2005) (with M. Pasquinucci, S. Menchelli, I. Monacci, G. Picchi and P. Sangriso). Vada Volaterrana: scavi e ricerche 2004. In Quaderno del Laboratorio Universitario Volterrano 8: 217-25.

Reviews

23.  (in preparation) Review of Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers by L. de Ligt, In Classical Review.

24.  (forthcoming) Review of Regional Pathways to Complexity. Settlement and Land-use Dynamics in Early Italy from the Bronze Age to the Republican Period, edited by P.A.J. Attema, G.J. Burger and P.M. Van Leusen. In European Journal of Archaeology 16.1.

25.  (forthcoming) Review of Settlement, Urbanization, and Population, edited by A. Bowman and A. Wilson. In Classical Review 63.1.

26.  (forthcoming) Review of Quantifying the Roman economy: methods and problems, edited by A. Bowman and A. Wilson. In Hermathena 190.

27.  (forthcoming) Review of The Italians on the Land: Changing Perspectives on Republican Italy then and now, edited by A. Keaveney and L. Earnshaw-Brown. In Journal of Roman Studies 102.

28.  (2011) Review of Public Land in the Roman Republic: a Social and Economic History of Ager Publicus in Italy, 396-89 BC by S.T. Roselaar. In Journal of Roman Studies 101: 240-1.

29.  (2009) Cronaca del convegno ‘Tecnologia marittima nell’economia antica: navi e navigazione’ (Rome, 16-17 giugno 2009). In Bollettino di Studi Latini 39.2: 670-72.

30.  (2009) Review of Archaeology and Landscape in Central Italy, edited by G. Lock e A. Faustoferri. In The Holocene 19.6: 983.

31.  (2008) I sistemi monetari dei greci e dei romani: un dibattito in corso. In Rivista di Storia Economica 24.3: 387-95. [extended review of The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and the Romans, edited by W.V. Harris].