Description
The Potenza valley (MC) occupies the central sector of today's Marche and represented for a long time, from the Roman age to the fully medieval one, a border area, acquiring its own characteristics and representing a vital and long-lived settlement corridor. The historical-documentary data, recognized here in all its potential, and the archaeological one offer a diachronic reading of the landscape of the middle and upper valley, which begins in late antiquity and ends with the last centuries of the Middle Ages, fed by a constant seam between the written and the constructed. In fact, the territory examined preserves valuable survivals and, although there are still few opportunities for archaeological-stratigraphic investigation associated with them and oriented to the medieval period, this text presents itself as a first and essential step for a multidisciplinary historical reading of this district, with due references to the regional and national context.
In collaboration with SAMI, Società degli Archeologi Medievisti Italiani
