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Land-use and landscape: geoarcheological approaches to understanding Etrusco-Campanian sites in south Italy

Alfonso Santoriello (Dipartimento di Beni Culturali - Università di Salerno (Italy))
Amedeo Rossi (Dipartimento di Beni Culturali - Università di Salerno)
Francesco Scelza (Dipartimento di Beni Culturali - Università di Salerno)

Abstract

The landscape is the product of historical interaction between human activities and the environmental context. In this field, the evaluation of significant links between multiple approaches is essential. It needs, not only on a theoretical level, to dispose of one or more instruments aimed at the integration of material data and documents about the resources and the role of a territory. The reference to a context of reciprocity states that past cultures cannot be fully assessed if we do not study their relationships with the natural environment. Research in Etrusco-Campanian sites provided archaeological, environmental and historical data, integrated in a GIS platform. The set of documents and the analytical procedures describe conceptual landscapes, from which come out in diachronic terms the main mechanisms of peopling. Geoarchaeological survey has enhanced the understanding of environmental issues and settlement processes.