A Long Walk from Town: Early 19th Century Landuse in the Territory of Bova

Author(s): Paula Kay Lazrus

Year: 2018

Summary

In the early 1800s the majority of Bova's citizens live in their hilltop town while holding small plots of land in multiple locations, some quite a distance from the town itself. Archival records from notaries, diaries, and cadastral holdings paint a picture of an independent community of low income citizens plying their trades and rather detached from the larger economic systems around them. Despite the abundance of natural resources available in the landscape, the community was not fully integrated into the larger economic system of the region, other areas of the Italian peninsula, or the larger Mediterranean world. This poster explores the relationship between an individuals multiple landholdings and where within the landscape this land was located.

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A Long Walk from Town: Early 19th Century Landuse in the Territory of Bova. Paula Kay Lazrus. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444385)

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Spatial Coverage

min long: -10.151; min lat: 29.459 ; max long: 42.847; max lat: 47.99 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 18772