Fregellae, 125 BCE: Archaeology of a Conflict Landscape. Fieldwork 2025: Focus on past biodiversity
Project Excavation project at Fregellae (2023-2025) in Lazio, near Ceprano, to investigate a late Republican elite villa. The site was violently destroyed at the end of the 2nd century BC and reoccupied only in the 5th century BC. The aim of Project 2025 is to reconstruct the impact of large-scale conflicts on the relationship between humans and the environment, e.g. landscape transformations and changing settlement patterns.
The contribution of palynology will be essential to provide information on past plant biodiversity to reconstruct environmental changes related to historical events recorded at the site.