La transumanza tra Etruria costiera e Umbria appenninica. Ricerca delle tracce di consuetudini e rituali archetipi lungo le antiche rotte armentizie

In the context of the studies promoted for the two thousandth anniversary of the birth of the Emperor Vespasian in a small vicus of internal Sabina, crossroads of very popular transhumance routes, has returned to the attention of archaeological scholars the crucial economic, social and political importance of the itinerant breeding, according to seasonal rhytms, in particular between the Apennine ridge and the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian coasts, even over long distances. The contribution aims to investigate the dynamics and methods of this practice in the sector immediately further North of the Sabina, between coastal Etruria (in particular the place of the characteristic Maremma), home of winter grazing, and the Apennine Umbria, place of summer grazing. Rereading and contextualizing again, from an historical and topographical point of view, this very important economic activity and consequently reevaluate the relationships between the two population, often sanctioned by community cults, through guide fossils and archaeological evidence, has allowed us to restore the right historical value to a process that, although pre-political, it determined the growth of a sort of service centers along its routes, especially in the exchange and market hubs, urban centers which, not by chance, became very important cities with Roman urbanism