Perspectives on the analysis of the settlement system in medio-Adriatic Italy between the late sixth-fifth and fourth centuries BC: the case study of the Cesano and Misa river valleys

This paper is meant to be a first attempt to undertake a renewed research line focused on the systematic analysis of funerary, sacred and inhabited areas in the medio-Adriatic territories between the late sixth to fifth and the fourth centuries BC (Fig. 1). The aim is to highlight the changes in the settlement system and the control strategies of the territories before and after the historical events during the first decades of the fourth century BC, when according to Livy (V 35, 3), Celtic nomen of Senones occupied part of the territory of current Romagna and Marche along the western Adriatic coast.