Marianna Emilia Sofia Negro

My research examines the processes which led to the so-called Romanisation of the territory inhabited by the Umbrians, which corresponds to the Upper Tiber Valley in central Italy (6^th  to 2^nd  Century BC). The aim is to evaluate how an already existing organisation might have influenced the development of the Roman organisation through the analysis of some material culture (votive figurines) and especially the landscape, using unpublished available data as well as scattered publications of different sites on the territory.

Other research interests include the representation of archaeology and the construction of narratives in museums. This is particularly concerning “Romanisation” and  the representation of the institutionalised dichotomies between Iron Age and Roman cultures. In this matter I am interested in the post-colonial impact on the representation of Roman and Iron Age material culture and the decolonisation of ancient history.