Walking through the sacred funerary landscape of Narce again

This contribution presents the results of the new spatial analysis conducted at Narce (Italy) in the ancient Ager Faliscus, especially at the burial site of La Petrina, in order to contextualise the funerary rituals which took place in the cemetery within its distinctive landscape. The spatial analysis of the necropolis proposed here combines different methodologies, which have characterised studies on Early Iron Age Italy (late 10th to late 8th century BC), and demonstrates the potential of moving beyond the borders of the various methods of the traditional schools. In particular, it presents in detail the natural landscape of the area, the description of the discovery of the site and the recent transformations of the landscape. After a brief description of the funerary rituals of the earliest phases obtained by the combination of methodologies applied (field survey, open typology, seriation, study of the combination of sets and spatial distribution of gender and social status markers), following a funerary road identified in 1894, this chapter then moves to a discussion of the sacred funerary landscape and the spatial articulation of the different groups of burials and their identities.