Search Results - "Landscape Archaeology"

This well written study on the formation of Roman towns in northern Marche, is crucial for our understanding of the colonisation and rule by Rome of the so-called ager Gallicus, between the conquest in 295 BC and the reign of Augustus. As I have underlined in a recent volume that approaches the sam...

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There are only six cataracts on the Main Nile of which the sixth Nile cataract located ca. 80 km downstream of the confluence of the Blue and White Niles represents the southernmost and smallest of theseries. Despite its close vicinity to Khartoum, this area was the least studied cataract zone along...

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Artistic paintings and drawings as a source for reconstructing the ancient urban environments of present-day towns: the cases of Panormo and Regium Lepidi. The reconstruction of the ancient appearance of present-day cities is particularly complicated. In this project, to understand ancient Panormo...

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Reccopolis is the sole archaeologically-attested Visigothic city foundation in the Iberian Peninsula. Created under King Leovigild in A.D. 576, the city played a notable role in the landscape, persisting as the focal point of the territory through to the 8th century AD. This paper offers an overvie...

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Remote sensing has been a fundamental tool in reconstructing the urban landscape of the abandoned Late Antique city of Classe, near Ravenna (Italy). However, much of Classe urban plan is not yet known, while the vast area north of Ravenna has been generally ignored for the presence of thick alluvia...

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The Pyrenean mountain pastures are most often a community resource, exploited by communities of people in high valleys. Large-scaled, territorial divisions of these mountain summer pastures are essentially defined by the practice during the pasture-ground livestock from pastoral huts. To consider th...

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The aim of this article consists in a presentation and a comparison of filters for the detection of archaeological structures developed through open-source Geographical Information Systems tools applied to the surface of the archaeological site known as Mesas del Esparragal, located in the municipal...

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The integration of field survey data from Eastern Sicily (the Plain of Catania) with legacy data available for the region will expand our knowledge on Mediterranean ancient rural landscapes. With an extent of 430 km2, the area is a perfect case study due to its geographical characteristics and the...

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The imprint left on the landscape by the irrigation network built up over the Middle Ages in the western Mediterranean basin not only bears witness to the new processes of land organisation accompanying the Arab-Islamic conquest, or the spread and qualitative evolution of water technology; it also t...

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In the context of the fruitful collaboration between PAThs, an ERC-funded project, and LAD, the Laboratory for Digital Archaeology at Sapienza University of Rome, an experimental attempt to link between them places being described by the Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature developed into a ro...

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The case study concerns the fortified mediaeval site of Satrianum in Basilicata. Topographical, archaeological and architectural analysis permitted the creation of a spatial database with QGIS: further developments involve the survey of the site and the elaboration of 3D digital models to be georef...

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