Tesse’s research line argues for a stronger Roman impact in the rural sphere than previously assumed, by pointing out unexpected patterns in early Roman expansion strategies, and developing alternative models for the societal organization of early colonial communities. In Portugal, he coordinates the Frontier Landscape Project, a collaboration with the University of Evora (Prins Bernhard Culture Foundation). Since 2004, he also coordinates the long-term Tappino Area Archaeology Project, including surveys, remote sensing and excavations in ancient Samnium (modern Molise).
In Italy, he coordinates since 2011 a field work project on early Roman colonization in ancient Samnium and Lucania (NWO). His work concentrates on the archaeology of the Central and Western Mediterranean, especially on the rise and impact of Rome on the social and natural landscape of the Italian and Iberian peninsulae. Before that, he worked at the University of Amsterdam, Nijmegen, Glasgow and Oxford. He is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University. Stek is currently Director of Ancient Studies and Vice Director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR). Office address: Via Omero 10/12, 00197 Roma – Italia
Dispersed settlement and colonial expansion in the Roman Republic (c. NWO VENI Project: Colonial rural networks.
Non-urban settlement organization and Roman expansion in the Roman Republic (4th-1st centuries BC)
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NWO Free Competition project: Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization. Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome / Leiden University – Project director This is an Italian story of European resonance, which transforms our understanding of the transition from antiquarianism to archaeology, of the relationship between nation-making and institution-building in the study of the ancient past, and of the reconstruction of classical Greece in the modern world.Home // Tesse Stek // Jeremia Pelgrom // Rogier Kalkers // Anita Casarotto // Jesús García Sánchez // Marleen Termeer // Jitte Waagen // Lisa Götz // Arthur Hamel // Alessia Guidi // Maria Luisa Marchi // Lucia Lecce // Helga Di Giuseppe // Sheila Cherubini // Jan Sevink // Hans Kamermans // Ruud van Otterloo Drawing on antiquarian and archaeological writings, histories and travelogues about Magna Graecia, and recent rewritings of the history and imagining of the South, Italy's Lost Greece sheds new light on well known figures in the history of archaeology while recovering forgotten ones. The unfolding of this process provides a unique insight into three developments: the humanist investment in the ancient past, the evolution of modern Hellenism, and the making of classical archaeology. It was here that the Renaissance first encountered an ancient Greek landscape, and during the "Hellenic turn" of eighteenth-century Europe the temples of Paestum and the painted vases of South Italy played major roles, but since then, Magna Graecia-lying outside the national boundaries of modern Greece, and sharing in the complicated regional dynamic of the Italian Mezzogiorno-has fitted awkwardly into the commonly accepted paradigms of Hellenism. Giovanna Ceserani's evocative and nuanced analysis recovers its significance within the history of classical archaeology. This "Greater Greece," at once Greek and Italian, has continuously been perceived as a region in decline since its archaic golden age, and has long been relegated to the margins of classical studies. Italy's Lost Greece is the untold story of the modern engagement with the ancient Greek settlements of South Italy-an area known since antiquity as Magna Graecia. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.
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