Author: A. Natali

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The article examines the archaeological traces of sieges in Middle and Late Republican period in Italy, a field of study that has not received the same attention in Italy as it has in Spain. Siege’s markers consist of weapons, deposits of projectiles, restructurings, obliteration layers, emergency fortifications and anomalous burials, documented by contexts datable between the 4th and 1st century BC. Such evidence is mainly attributed to the Punic Wars (Hannibalic Wars), the Social War (91-88 BC), the Servile War of Spartacus (73-70 BC) or the subsequent civil wars.