Search results for "Archaeological Survey"
showing 10 items of 24 documents
Archaeological Survey in Italy between Ancient Topography and Landscape Archaeology
2017
Si riesamina il dibattito, talvolta conflittuale, che negli ultimi decenni ha contrapposto i fautori dell’archeologia dei paesaggi di derivazione anglosassone dai sostenitori della tradizione italiana della topografia antica. Si rileva come alcuni dei presupposti metodologici della topografia antica non erano in contraddizione con le istanze portate avanti dagli archeologi del paesaggio, pur riconoscendosi che topografia antica e archeologia del paesaggio si basano su premesse e approcci differenti e che quest’ultima ha contribuito decisamente alla innovazione metodologica sul campo e al riconoscimento che il paesaggio attuale è il risultato della stratificazione delle attività umane nel co…
Massa Fundorum. E' possibile rintracciarla sul terreno?
2018
The work, starting from the studies on the late ancient massa fundorum, examines the possibility of tracing the organization of this kind of estate on the ground. Two cases of study are dealt with, the first in the territory of Himera and the second in the territory of Palma di Montechiaro (AG), where systematic archaeological surveys have been conducted.
Social Lives of Monumental Walls: Hunting along the Upper Tigris
2021
On the left bank of the Tigris in northern Iraq, in an area today partially flooded by the Mosul Dam reservoir, lies an enigmatic monumental enclosure known in the literature as the “Tigris Wall.” Before its partial submersion under the waters of the modern lake, the large L-shaped embankment, about 4 × 4 km long, enclosed an area of ca. 1600 ha, overlooking the Tigris and its alluvial plain. By means of a holistic strategy that includes different levels of analysis (remote sensing, pedestrian and UAV photogrammetric surveys, excavation, and settlement pattern analysis), this paper addresses the structure, its context, and its environment. Relying on the results of this multi-disciplinary a…
Drowned Landscapes: The Rediscovered Archaeological Heritage of the Mosul Dam Reservoir
2023
Like natural catastrophes or armed conflicts, resource extraction projects herald the alteration or destruction of natural and cultural landscapes alike. Dam construction is a major threat to cultural heritage in Western Asian archaeology. One event may result in obliterating hundreds of sites, most of which never reappear or do so only sporadically following cyclical water fluctuation. Destruction of sites remains ongoing, necessitating constant assessment of damage and the establishment of strategies of documentation and maintenance. This paper proposes a new paradigm for future safeguarding and, more widely, a new tool for managing contiguous terrestrial and lacustrine cultural zones. It…
Archaeology of Uplands on a Mediterranean Island. The Madonie Mountain Range In Sicily
2019
The book presents an archaeological research conducted within the Highlands of Sicily. Results of the archaeological survey in the Madonie mountain range, in northern Sicily, supported by a chronological and cultural grid, drawn by the excavation of Vallone Inferno, deal with complex and fascinating problems of uplands and mountainous landscape. Settlement patterns, between the Late Pleistocene and the Medieval era, are investigated through the support of spatial analyses. A diversified use of the mountain is currently attested by this research, according to the different prehistoric and historical times. This work is innovative for the Mediterranean area, where there are no similar example…
Mura Pregne: una revisione dei dati archeologici e una ricostruzione virtuale del sito
2018
One of the most interesting long-term settlements in Sicily is Mura Pregne (Palermo). The site (400 m a.s.l.) is located on the northern coast of Sicily, between the last northwestern outcrops of the Madonie and the isolated relief of Monte San Calogero, in a close-up position on the Torto river valley. The earliest phases of the settlement are scarcely known and difcult to assess in their actual consistency, because a quarry has distorted the original appearance of the site. In the absence of new excavations, the purpose of this contribution is to offer a topographic description of the diferent areas, together with new archaeological considerations, based on feld survey and aerial photo an…
LiDAR-derived DTM for historical landscape evaluation: the case study of the “Harvesting Memories” project (Castro Valley and Mt. Barraù, Corleone – …
2016
The project “Harvesting Memories” is focused on the analysis of the long-term transformation of the cultural landscape in a rural area of Central-Western Sicily (Castro Valley and Mt. Barraù, Corleone – Palermo). In order to quickly outline the history of the territory with an acceptable precision, our survey aimed at covering and sampling as much surface as possible, according to time and human resources available. To reach this goal, in the research design we opted for qualitative surveys. The choice of the fields to be surveyed was based on GIS analysis — our predictive model took in consideration slope, water sources and presence of points with high visibility in the landscape —, that h…
The Countryside in Sicily under the Roman Empire: Archaeological Survey and Methodological Approach, Settlements and Resources
2019
Si illustra lo stato delle attuali conoscenze archeologiche relative al paesaggio rurale di età romana della Sicilia, attraverso i risultati delle prospezioni archeologiche e di analoghe ricerche effettuate a partire dagli anni '80 del secolo scorso. In alcuni territori (come Himera, Gela, Agrigento, Alesa, e in altre aree interne) queste ricerche hanno prodotto informazioni nuove che aiutano a comprendere le differenti dinamiche storiche che caratterizzano varie aree dell'isola. The object of this report is to describe the current knowledge about the Roman landscape of Sicily, and the results connected to the archaeological surveys and other similar researches carried out from the eighties…
Il progetto "Cignana" (Sicilia centro-meridionale). Prime considerazioni sulle dinamiche territoriali dalla preistoria al tardoantico
2012
A tre anni dall'inizio del progetto di prospezione archeologica a carattere intensivo e sistematico condotto nel comprensorio di Cignana (circa 20 km ad Est di Agrigento), si illustrano i risultati preliminari della ricerca. Di particolare interesse è la fitta trama di insediamenti nei quali si rinviene solo industria litica in selce, cui si affiancano i numerosi frequentati nell'età del Bronzo; significative le attestazioni di età arcaica e classica e delle ceramiche della facies di S. Angelo Muxaro-Polizzello.
A hypothesis for the redevelopment of the Archaeological Park of Agrigento
2023
The project here presented is developed at the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo. It is an in-progress research project that combines two fields of knowledge: architectural design and architectural survey. These two branches are combined in a functional redevelopment project of the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, one of the largest and extraordinary archaeological parks in the Mediterranean area. This interdisciplinary research is driven by three fundamental strategic actions: “survey”, “design” and “representation”. The intervention has four fundamental goals. The first goal is the survey - performed with laser scanning and photogrammetric techniques - of the gymn…