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Urban Landscape Survey in Italy and the Mediterranean (Hardcover, New)
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Urban Landscape Survey in Italy and the Mediterranean (Hardcover, New)
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Field survey has been making a major contribution to our
understanding of the rural landscapes of the Mediterranean for
nearly forty years. During that time the techniques used to map
ancient settlement patterns have grown in sophistication from being
a process of simply identifying sites in the landscape, to one
which provided nuanced understandings of their layouts,
chronologies and contexts. This has led to a revolution in how
archaeologists approach urban sites, with survey techniques being
used increasingly often to generate a plan of a town site prior to
excavation as a way of ensuring that the excavation can be used to
address site-specific questions in a way that had not been possible
before. Most recently, research has begun to reveal the advantages
of integrating a range of different non-destructive techniques on
urban sites. In combination with exciting new computer-based means
of data visualization, all of this work means that it is now
possible to virtually reconstruct a buried town within a relatively
short space of time, as opposed to the old and destructive
excavation-centered approach that could take generations.
Unsurprisingly these advances are starting to make a very important
understanding to urbanism in general and the Roman Empire in
particular. Urban Landscape Survey in Italy and the Mediterranean
builds upon all these new developments and is one of the first
publications to focus exclusively upon the contribution of survey
techniques to our understanding of ancient towns. It addresses
methodology led enquiry into the nature of urban settlements
primarily in Italy, but also in Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Portugal
and Spain. The twenty-two papers from leading specialists in the
field focus on two underlying themes. The first deals with the
characterization of urban sites and draws upon a wide range of case
studies. These range from key protohistoric centres in central and
south Italy, to towns that epitomise the contradictions of cultural
change under Rome, such as Paestum, Aquinum and Sagalassos, to
Roman centres such as Teano, Suasa and Ammaia. The second theme is
inter-urban relationships, looking in particular at wider urbanized
landscapes in Italy. The fascinating selection of recent and
on-going projects presented here significantly moves the limits of
our current knowledge about ancient towns.
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