Analisi diacronica del popolamento nel Chianti nel corso del I millennio a.C.

As it is well known, Chianti is famous for its wine, but as territory had unclear borders in antiquity. The re-examination of the published datas and of the surveys that I have made for my master thesis, permits us to reconsider the history of population in the area over the I millennium BC. Chianti appears no more a no man’s land, but a territory in which the nearest proto-urban centres play an important role in the influence of the material culture. On the other side, in the Orientalizing period Chianti shows the presence of a re-elaborated autonomous culture, probably an expression of the aristocratic residences spread from Murlo to Siena and Chianti. Later on, the increase of archaeological evidences in the Hellenistic period, such as farms and hillfort settlements, mark the landscape of Chianti. Furthermore, the presence of inscribed boundary stones (tular spural) and the extension of medieval dioceses allow us to determine a border between the territories of etruscan Fiesole and Arezzo or Chiusi.