Resumen de De la surveillance des mers à l’exploitation des terres: Le long chemin de Rome aux côtes dalmates (IVe s. av. n.è.-IIIe s. de n.è.)
Audrey Bertrand, Emmanuel Botte, Kristina Jelinčić
This paper combines two approaches and two scales of analysis. The first, historical and conducted on the scale of a vast Italo-Adriatic space, aims at reexamining the chronology of relations between Rome and Dalmatia from the second half of the 4th century BC onwards and the political context in which they were born. It reveals the early political interest of Rome in the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea as well as the various forms of the presence in these regions of people from Italy. The second, archaeological and centered on the island of Brač, analyses, through the example of an olive and wine-growing villa, the chronology and the modalities of the exploitation of the territories conquered by Rome, thus revealing the possible fragility of the first traces of the Roman presence. The investigation invites us to rethink the too rigid chronological succession between the military conquest of the territories and their political-administrative organisation on the one hand, and the appearance of multiform economic activities developed by people from Rome and Italy on the other.
