Lo sviluppo dell'allevamento in Emilia-Romagna Aspetti economici e implicazioni sociali nella gestione della risorsa animale durante l'età del Bronzo

The debate about the development of Bronze Age cultures in the Emilia-Romagna region (Italy) is leading to a renewed attention for Romagna. Research has focused on the area between the Panaro River and the Adriatic Sea, corresponding to present-day Romagna and southeastern Emilia provinces. It was a strategic area, an actual socio-economic crossroads between terramare culture and the Grotta Nuova cultures of central Italy. This doctoral research led to the reconstruction of the management and exploitation systems of animal resources in Emilia-Romagna during the Bronze Age, with a particular focus on the definition of the environmental carrying capacity of the different regions and on their exploitation methods for a rationalization of farming practices. The processing chains of primary and secondary products have been studied in detail, in order to define the character of local paleoeconomies within the evolution of the Romagna during Bronze Age. The research is based on the complete zooarchaeological study of 13 sites recently investigated, located in the provinces of Bologna, Ferrara, Ravenna, Forlàƒ¬ / Cesena and Rimini, and on the comprehensive reappraisal of the archaeological evidence produced by previous studies. Analyses have not been limited to the identification of the different species, but have aimed to the identification and the evaluation of complex parameters, in order to reconstruct the killing strategies and the techniques of exploitation and slaughtering of the different animal groups. The research allowed the evaluation of the impact of herds and flocks on the local environments and the economic and ecological impact of a more systematic and rational farming, for both the spatial organization of the settlements and for the consequence on the management of agricultural and environmental resources.