Venceslava Karousková-Soper – The Castellieri of Venezia Giulia – 1983

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cm. 29,5 x 20,5, pp. 360, brossura, lievi tracce d’uso, firma di appartenenza, sottolineature a penna e qualche segno di evidenziatore, per il resto in buone condizioni.

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PREFACE

The first three years of my research were funded by the King’s College External Studentship, and I received funds for fieldwork from King’s, from the British School at Rome, the H. M. Chadwick Fund, the Worts Travelling Scholars Fund, and the Anthony Wilkin Fund. Memorial Scholarship in 1979-80. I held the Ellaina Macnamara.

I am deeply grateful, above all, to Professor Paola Cassola-Guida of the Istituto di Archaeologia of the University of Trieste, and to Filippo Cassola, the Director of the Istituto di Storia Antica, for all their help with making contacts with local archaeologists and getting to see material from excavations, as well as for allowing me to use the libraries of both Institutes. I also thank Paola for taking me to some of the castellieri of the Friulian plain.

I am greatly indebted to my supervisor, Dr. John Alexander, for his constant help and invaluable advice during my research. I am most grateful to Dr. Gino Bandelli and his wife Cristina, both of the Instituto di Storia Antica at Trieste, for taking me to many of the castellieri of the Triestine region (which I later returned to several times), including Škocjan (S. Canziano) and Sočerb (S. Servolo) in Yugoslavia. Above all, I thank them for their kind hospitality.

Thanks to Dr. Laura Ruaro-Loseri, the Director of the Museo Civico di Storia ed Arte di Trieste, I was able to see the pottery from Marchesetti’s old excavations kept there, and to read all the early publications (19th and early 20th century) on the prehistory of the region of Venezia Giulia in the Museum library. I was able to see the pottery from the recent excavations in the stores of the Sopritendenza sull’Antichità e Gallerie di Trieste, thanks to its Director, Dr. Franca Scotti. Dr. Fabio Forti of the Istituto di Geologia at Trieste, the foremost Italian expert on karst studies, gave me much advice and help on the problems of the karst landscape, admitted me to the Institute library, and enabled me to study the collections of the Societă Alpina delle Giulie, which contain material from the local caves and various amateur excavations.

I am very thankful to Dr. Ugo Furlani of the Museo Provinciale di Gorizia for allowing me to study material from his recent excavations in the Gorizian region, and for taking me to all its castellieri. Much gratitude goes to Dr. Kristina Mihovilič of the Arheološki Muzej Istre at Pula for material in the Museum, in discussing with me the problems of later prehistory of Istria, and for taking me to the castellieri of Vrčin and Makadanj. I am also grateful to Dr. Matej Zupancic of the Museum of Koper for showing me the material from the castellieri of northern Istria.

I am deeply grateful to Dr. Alfredo Riefel, the palaeonthologist of the Museo Civico di Storis Naturale di Trieste, for all the information and off-prints of his articles on the prehistoric faunal remains of the region. I am indebted for the information relating to the chronology of pottery from the castellieri, and to the later prehistory of the region in general, to Professor Giorgio Stacul, the excavator of Slivia I, to Dr. Marina Moretti, Dr. Serena Vitri and Mr. Giuliano Righi, Mr. Giusto Almerigogna, Dr. Franco Crevatin, Dr. Ileana Chirasai, and Colonel Abramo Schmid. I also thank Dr. Drago Svoljšak, the Director of the Museum of Nova Gorica, for giving me a guided tour of the settlement at Most na Soči (Santa Lucia), which he is excavating. Thanks also to Dr. Neva Trampuž-Orel and to Dr. Božidar Slapšak, of the Museum and the University of Ljubljana respectively, for having sent me various offprints.

I was privileged to discuss the problems of the castellieri with Mr. Dante Cannarella, the author of several books on the region, who has carried out many excavations in the castellieri and many caves. Mrs. Lidia Lonza, the widow of Dr. Benedetto Lonza, showed me the collections of material from her husband’s many years of excavations around Trieste and in Istria. His lifetime associate, Mr. Manlio Per

acca, has taken me to many castellieri in Istria. His profound knowledge of the topography, water-sources, economic aspects, and ethnography of Istria have been invaluable.

Many grateful thanks also to the Professor of Botany at the University of Trieste, Livio Poldini, for the information about the local vegetation and its history. The Professor of climatology, Silvio Polli, has also given me valuable advice, particularly about the local changes in the height of sea level. Thanks to Professors E. Bonetti and A. Cucagna I was able to use the libraries of both the Institutes of Geography at Trieste. Dr. M.P. Pagnini gave me information about the problem of water-supply in the karst. I am very grateful to Dr. John Bintliff of the University of Bradford, for his detailed advice on the environmental approaches to archaeology, as well as to Dr. Graeme Barker of the University of Sheffield.

I am extremely grateful to my husband Alan Soper for having typed the text, and to Mr. Nicholas Ody for having edited and processed it on the computer. Many thanks also to Dr. Priscilla Roberts, for having typed two chapters of the first draft. Most grateful thanks to Mr. Paul Curtis for advice about photography, for having processed most of my photographs, and for some of the pottery drawings.

Concerning the place names that appear in the text, I used those under which the sites are known best. Sometimes the Slovene form is given first, with the Italian one following in brackets, sometimes vice-versa. A part of western Slovenia, including Istria, which is today in Yugoslavia, was in Italy before World War II. Many of the sites in that area are still better known to archaeologists in their Italian form, although in Yugoslavia the new Slovene form is officially used. In such cases, I gave the Italian form in brackets, following the official one. In cases where the Italian form is much better known, e.g., Santa Lucia, I used that, sometimes giving the Slovene form in brackets.