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The Benedictine monks chose this place for several reasons, including the fact it was well off the beaten track. History generally ignored it, despite its verdant hills and fields, and no doubt the monks were satisfied with their choice. Even up to the 1980s no one thought to examine it much, let alone excavate it. This report goes far beyond merely describing the dig which eventually opened up in and around this Italian monastery. Well illustrated and richly detailed, the essays here address the ways of the upper Volturno Valley, the field surveys, the Samnite cemetery and vicus, excavations into the underlying Roman and Samnite bases, the rise of the twelfth-century monastery, nearby related excavations, and the meanings of the artifacts. Several of the last essays describe how daily life in this small, obscure place proceeded for hundreds of years. Distributed in North American by The David Brown Book Company. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
