Claterna: nuove prospettive di ricerca sulla città romana

Claterna is a Roman city, that stretches over 18 hectares straddling the Via Emilia between Bologna and Imola cities. It is located at the crossroads of the Via Emilia, the Quaderna torrent and a trans-Apennine Road, identified as Flaminia minor. Since the prehistoric age, the area shows evidence of stable anthropic presence. The human occupation continues until the growth of the Roman city that takes place around the second century BC. The roman city reaches a territorial extension included between Idice and Sillaro rivers at the time of becoming municipal status in the first century. Since the percentage of excavated urban territory is still limited, most of the knowledge about Claterna derives mainly from surface research and aerial photographs. Therefore, the area offers both to academics and students a privileged field of research to be investigated at multiple levels. With this purpose the Superintendency of Bologna wishes to start a new cycle of studies on the area, setting the ground both for methodological experimentation and innovation. These shall focus on the practice of protection and conservation of the archaeological heritage with a proactive and inclusive perspective, with the enforcement of the principles of the Faro Convention.