Italy, Calabria, Abruzzo (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gary Shaffer.

In the past two decades there has been increasing archaeological research which explicitly investigates how cultural elements may be learned by individuals in new generations. This paper, a revision of a presentation at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, explores an example of such cultural transmission in central and southern Italy: the passing on of architectural knowledge through agricultural practice. It documents from archaeological finds and historical...