Alexandra Chavarria Arnau

University of Padova | UNIPD · Department of Cultural Heritage: Archaeology and History of Art, Cinema and Music DBC

Los testimonios arqueológicos más antiguos relativos a la cristianización en Occidente se manifiestan en el culto funerario, en particular en los formularios de las inscripciones y en monumentos, como los sarcófagos o las pinturas de las catacumbas, que reproducen temas, símbolos o fórmulas cristianas relacionadas con la muerte y el más allá. A est...

After a decade of intense debate on the chronology of the so-called Visigothic churches in Spain the divergent opinions have made little progress owing to the lack of reliable chronologies and the limits of a very stylistic approach. This article aims to present an analysis of the social and economic conditions of the seventh century (particularly...

Catalogue of the exhibition of the same name held in Cordoba between 16 December 2022 and 15 March 2023. In addition to the description of the more than 200 iconic pieces on display, many of which are unpublished, the catalogue contains 32 papers relating to the birth of Christian culture, mainly iconography and architecture, and the impact that th...

In this paper some integrated teaching experiences conducted at the University of Padua and particularly one of the courses in the Archaeology area are presented here, in order to show numerous benefits that this kind of learning method can offer: flexibility, time and cost efficiency, more convenience for working students or those with other commi...

Radiocarbon dating of the carbonate binder of historical mortars is a strategic research topic not lacking in complexities. The critical step is the separation of anthropogenic CaCO3-binder from other carbonate sources that could severely affect the resulting dates. Here we present a complete procedure for the processing and characterization of dif...

The aim of the collaborative platform WikiCARE, born in 2010, is the cataloging of European churches between the 4th and the 10th centuries and the creation of a scientific community with shared research interests centered on the study of the churches. In this contribution we will first retrace the constitutive phases of the project and its purpose...

The extension of meanings and values relating to the concept of landscape, which has occurred in recent decades, has had multiple consequences: on the epistemology of the disciplines that deal with landscapes (from geography, to history, to archaeology, to natural sciences); on protection, no longer linked to individual monuments, but enforced thro...

The addition of temper in the pottery manufacturing process is attested since Prehistoric Times and is still a production choice adopted in the ceramic industry. When the temper is composed of minerals and rocks which outcrop in regions distant from each other, new questions about the production technology arise. Such situations can be explained by...

CARE_Italia (Corpus Architetturae Religiosae Europeae) è un progetto di ricerca nato nel 2001 e ancora oggi attivo grazie alla partecipazione di un ampio gruppo di studiosi di tutta Italia, che raccoglie e rende pubblicamente fruibile attraverso pubblicazioni cartacee ed una piattaforma digitale di pubblico accesso, la completa schedatura delle chi...

In this paper we reflect on four important issues for the relationship between archaeology and society in the post-COVID-19 era: resources, social commitment, our digital presence in communities, and normative legal frameworks. We propose a shared program, having long advocated a participatory archaeology which analyses past and more sustainable ci...

Relying on epigraphic and textual documentation, this paper attempts to quantify the cost and the necessary time for the construction of a particular church. These data are important for understanding what percentage of surplus and, therefore, what economic effort had been allocated to this type of operation, which was the work of an individual or,...

To understand what happened to the late Roman villas and what the changes in their structure and function mean it is probably necessary to broaden our perspective. This contribution will analyse, without wishing to be exhaustive, the villas in relation to various types of properties and their evolution, with the aim of progressing in understanding...

L’archeologia postclassica propone una ricerca diacronica, sistemica e interdisciplinare dei vari elementi di una storia complessa che per molti aspetti si estende a prima e dopo il medioevo, in un lungo periodo storico che si colloca tra due globalizzazioni: quella mediterranea-europea realizzata dall'Impero romano e l’attuale, planetaria. Il volu...

In order to understand why Roman villas were abandoned during the late Roman period in southern Gaul and in most of the Mediterranean area, this chapter takes a broader perspective. Rather than focusing exclusively on the architectural elements of villas, it seeks a more comprehensive assessment of how late-Roman rural territories and properties we...

Archeological excavations beside the Baptistery of the Dome of Padua (north-eastern Italy) unearthed anthropic deposits formed between the seventh- and tenth-century ad. These were analyzed using soil micromorphology, soil chemical analyses (especially aimed at the definition of organic matter properties and dynamics), and GC/MS analyses of fecal b...

In order to radiocarbon (14C) date a building, several components of the mortar could be used, such as the mortar binder, the lime lumps, the charcoal particles and shell fragments eventually present among the aggregates. In particular, the mortar binder requires a purification treatment in order to separate it from other sources of carbon, which c...

This paper proposes a particular way of developing archaeological research for and with local communities, using methods that overcome the legislative Italian restrictions to democratic research. It describes the theoretical and methodological grounds and its meaning for reconstructing the history of local communities, which is the final focus of o...

Sulla scorta delle precedenti esperienze nella piana di Riva (Brogiolo 2013) e Tenno (Brogiolo 2014), Drena (Brogiolo, Sarabia 2015), Bolognano e Massone (Chavarría, Causarano 2016-2017), l’obiettivo del progettodi ricerca partecipatadi Nago-Torbole è stato oltre che di studio scientifico di un territorio, quello di coinvolgere la communità locale...

For the last 10 years more than 80 researchers in Italy have been working on the CARE project (Corpus Architecturae Religiosae Europeae) with the aim of creating the catalogue of early medieval churches in Italy. One innovative aspect of the project is undoubtedly its intensely collaborative nature, which is intrinsically linked to the way in which...

Over the past decade, there has emerged a mass of new archaeological and environmental data on late antique rural settlement, resulting from excavations and surveys, as well as new methods of analysis. This paper highlights key examples of archaeological evidence for settlement and land use in well-investigated regions of the West Mediterranean, wh...

A pesar de tratarse de los edificios de la antigüedad postclassica que mejor se conservan en el Mediterráneo, se conoce todavía poco sobre el funcionamiento y significado de las iglesias tardoantiguas. La bibliografía científica está plagada de imprecisiones en relación al nombre de los distintos ambientes que constituían las iglesias, a las funcio...

Preliminary results of the first excavation campaigns at the site of Saint Lawrence in Banjol on the island of Rab are presented. These excavations revealed the remains of two consecutive churches, a large Late Antique and a smaller medieval one. An in situ grave and a secondary skeletal mass burial were also discovered. Finds of stone sculptural d...

Internet technologies offer a broad set of opportunities for archaeologists to share infor-mation and to involve the public in multiple ways in order to build historical narratives to-gether. During the last decade, the Medieval Archaeological Research Group at the Uni-versity of Padua conducted a research about medieval architectures and historica...

New protocol for purification of mortar binfers is presented

This paper outlines some key transformations in rural society and settlement patterns in the 4th to 7th c. western Mediterranean, as revealed by archaeological evidence. An overview of discernible trends and current debates about their socio-political contexts is illustrated with examples of well-investigated sites. From this data, two contrasting...

Análisis de las características, evolución y transformaciones de las uillae situadas en el territorium de Tarraco durante la antigüedad tardía.

About the use of cathedrals as burials places during the Early Middle Ages using archaeological sources from northern Italy

The present text analyses the latest phases of the Olmeda villa in relation with other sites (disperse settlements and cemeteries), in order to understand how the property functioned and what happened when the villa was abandoned after the fifth century.

The present research project aims at illustrating the joint goal of the University of Milano and Padova’s anthropological working groups, i.e. to develop a preliminary paleopathological perspective of the early Middle Age in northern Italy, which is particularly interesting since it is a transition period where new foreign populations arrive. As re...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es, a partir del ejemplo de Roma y de otras ciudades (particularmente de Italia) describir las características y el significado de los complejos suburbanos cristianos tardoantiguos y poner en evidencia su similitud con los existentes en la Peninsula ibérica para demostrar que en Hispania, como por otra parte en la i...

Il progetto ARMEP (Architetture residenziali medievali di Padova) si è proposto l'obiettivo di censire e studiare, nel centro storico di Padova all'interno delle mura comunali, l'intero patrimonio architettonico databile tra XI e XIV secolo 1 . A partire da alcune analisi esaustive (rilievi e documentazione fotografica dei prospetti; analisi strati...

Reflections on the characteristics and owners of late roman villae in the northern Meseta

Presentazione, 1. Lo scavo e la sequenza della chiesa di S.Pietro diLimone sul Garda, ALEXANDRA CHAVARRÍA ARNAU 2. La scultura altomedievale, MONICA IBSEN 3. Ceramica grezza, SILVIA NUVOLARI 4. Ceramica rivestita, SILVIA NUVOLARI 5. I materiali metallici, FRANCESCA BALLESTRIN, ELISA POSSENTI 6. Il materiale vitreo, ALESSANDRA MARCANTE 7. Le mo...

This text studies the countryside in western Europe during the late antique period (V. – VII centuries), analyzing on one hand the late antique villas and on the other the evolution of other types of settlements such as villages or hilltop sites. The transformations of material culture and architecture will be studied through archaeological data, w...

La villa romana di Kaštelina (isola di Rab). Indagini archeologiche 2005-2007 1. L'isola di Rab: cenni geografici e storici L'isola di Rab-Arbe (Croazia) fa parte delle cosiddette isole Quarnerine Orienta-li o Inferiori, assieme all'isola di Pag, e ha un superficie di 90,8 km 2. L'isola ha molte delle caratteristiche ambientali dell'ambito carsico:...