Search results for "Archaeological Survey"
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Cinquant’anni di ricerche e prospezioni nella chora imerese. Bilanci e prospettive
2018
The aim of this paper is to make a critical review of the archaeological research (excavation and survey) in the hinterland of Himera, from the beginning of the last century to the present time. The research is focused on: identifying the geographical and morphological characters, and the resources of the territory in Antiquity; analysing the distribution of the settlements from the Greek to the Medioeval times, both connected to the resources and to the various aspects of the landscape. Finally, the modern and contemporary activities, such as the agricultural use of the territory.
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.
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…
Selinunt, Sizilien. Forschungen in Selinunt, Teil 1. Ein neues Modell für die Stadt Selinunt. Die Feldarbeiten des Jahres 2021
2022
Since 2021, the German Research Foundation has been funding a new interdisciplinary field project to investigate the urban fabric of the Greek colony of Selinous in a spatially comprehensive and diachronic perspective. The project aims at extending the existing model of the ideal Greek city by considering also the historically conditioned fractures in the urban development and the multiple transformations of the living space between the 7th and 3rd century BCE. This is to be pursued by large scale archaeological, geophysical and geoarchaeological prospections, small excavations in selected areas and the thorough study of the finds and archaeobiological remains. This is a report about the fi…
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…
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…
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…
Alesa Arconidea: dal “paesaggio mediterraneo” alle dinamiche storiche e culturali del territorio
2014
This paper describes the results of a landscape archaeological research, focused on the ancient territory of Alesa, city of Hellenistic and Roman period located near the North coast of Sicily. The aim of the research is to analyze the problems of settlement and rural population of Alesa hinterland, and also to detect human activities and to perceive settlement strategies and resource exploitation tactics by the local communities in a long-term perspective (from prehistory to late-roman/early byzantine periods). The archaeological survey, based on an intensive archaeological exploration (the sampled area is wide about 20 Kmq), has allowed both the reconstruction of rural settlement of Alesa …
Contatti culturali, identità e popolamento nel territorio imerese
2016
Il lavoro prende in considerazione il problema dei rapporti tra coloni greci e comunità indigene nel territorio di Himera, sulla base dei risultati della prospezione archeologica condotta per tre decenni nelle valli dei fiumi Imera settentrionale, Torto e S. Leonardo. Vengono esaminati gli elementi di cultura materiale che permettono di definire i modi dell'interazione culturale tra coloni e indigeni, nonché di ricostruire i paesaggi politici, socio-economici e il paesaggio del sacro nelle diverse aree indagate e nei diversi comprensori. La ricerca infatti permette di delineare, oltre alle usuali organizzazioni insediative e agricole della chora politiké e della éremos chora, anche articola…
Il «Progetto Cignana» (Naro-Palma di Montechiaro, Sicilia). Carta archeologica e metodologie GIS per la ricostruzione delle dinamiche territoriali da…
2014
The aim of the Cignana Project (Agrigento, Sicily) is to analyse the geographic context of a villa of imperial age, where a systematic archaeological survey has carried out since 2007, in order to detect the ancient settlements from prehistoric to medieval times. The archaeological data are analyzed by GIS methodologies (3D, supply basins, shortest path analysis), to understand intervisibility and interrelationship between sites of different rank, and finally to try and find out the resources available during the different periods.