Untersuchungen zur ländlichen Besiedlung im nördlichen Hinterland Noricums

Abstract on the prospective lecture at the 18th "Österreichischer Archäologietag" at the University of Graz in 2021 (postponed from 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic): The scientific analysis of the rural settlement in the northeastern hinterland of the Roman province of Noricum and the rural regions of the late antique Roman province Ufernoricum can be considered as ambivalent.
While for the northwestern hinterland extensive and ongoing studies of Roman rural settlements allow to draw an increasingly representative picture of the ancient archaeological landscape, published archaeological data is limited for the north-eastern section: investigations used to focus on military and urban centers such as the auxiliary fort Mautern / Favianis or the municipality St. Pölten / Aelium Cetium mainly, while the rural hinterland itself receives little attention in that area. In order to deal with this situation a new PhD-project at the Department of Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna wants to process, analyze, and present the existing archaeological data on the hinterland of North Noricum in a precisely defined study area, following a landscape archaeological approach.