Hidden Landscapes of Mediterranean Europe: Cultural and methodological biases in pre- and protohistoric landscape studies; Proceedings of the international meeting Siena, Italy, May 25-27, 2007

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9781407309033.p 265.pdf Pages from 9781407309033.t Pages from 9781407309033.t-2 Pages from 9781407309033.t-3 Pages from 9781407309033.t-4 Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Preface Introduction Problems of chronology and function in survey assemblages: the 1999 Hidden Landscape debate reviewed Hidden Landscapes: METHODS AND METHODOLOGY 1. Making sense of a hidden Sicilian landscape: geoarchaeological and GIS investigations of field-survey data 2. CALEROS: an erosion-deposition model for landscape archaeology 3. A prehistoric hidden landscape in an alluvial plain: investigations in the Florentine area 4. Intensive survey and protohistoric settlement in the middle Guadiana basin (Badajoz, Spain) 5. From space to place or from site to landscape? Mind the gap 6. Magnetic susceptibility prospection in northern Calabria 7. Integrating digital aerial photogrammetry and geophysical prospection in the Gargano fint mining landscape (south-eastern Italy) 8. Grotta del Romito (Cosenza): latest Pleistocene landscape Hidden Landscapes: MOUNTAINS AND UPLANDS 9. The Visible Landscape: inferring Mesolithic settlement dynamics from multifaceted evidence in the south-eastern Alps 10. Toward an understanding of archaeological visibility: the case of the Trentino (Southern Alps) 11. Buried landscapes and cultural landscapes of the mountainous areas of Lombardy in pre- and protohistory 12. The Southern French Alps Landscape Project:an archaeological and palynological study of high-altitude settlement areas in the Southern French Alps 13. Fire making water on the Ligurian Apennines 14. Shepherds of a coastal range: the archaeological potential of the Velebit mountain range (eastern Adriatic) 15. A hidden prehistoric landscape in the Region of Madrid (Spain): the significance of the mountains during the 3rd millennium BC 16. Mountains and shore: sites and communication routes of Copper Age western Liguria 17. Ritual use of a mountain landscape: Iron Age sites in the lower Valle Sabbia (Brescia – Italy) 18. A journey through ‘hidden’ or forgotten landscapes in the northern Veneto. Patterns and biases in material culture and research methods 19. Two hidden landscapes in central Portugal: Rego da Murta (Alvaiázere) and Ocreza (Mação) Hidden Landscapes: SEDIMENTARY BASINS 20. Landscape development of the coastal plains of Rome and Grosseto between 20,000 and 3,000 years ago 21. 20,000 Years of landscape evolution at Ca’Tron (Venice, Italy): palaeoenvironment, archaeology, virtual reality webgis 22. A hidden Neolithic landscape in Apulia (southern Italy) 23. Early farming landscapes in the Friuli plain (NE Italy) 24. Remote sensing analysis in the Florentine plain: investigating wetland contexts by comparing QuickBird images and multitemporal aerial photographs 25. Soil use from the Late Chalcolithic to the Early Middle Bronze Age in the central Po plain (northern Italy): new data from buried soils 26. Micromorphology and mineralogy of the SEV core (Santarém, Portugal): evolution from a transitional to a continental sedimentary environment during the Holocene 27. Deposits and prehistoric occupation of Ribeira Ponte da Pedra (Central Portugal) 28. The rediscovery of a 5000-year-old landscape: a copper-age village on the shores of ancient lake Maccarese (Fiumicino, Rome) 29. A hidden perilacustrine settlement: a village and its fields during the Middle Bronze Age 30. A reconstruction of geomorphological and environmental transformations and the peopling of the territory south-east of Rome during recent prehistory 31. Palaeo-environmental observations on the ancient Holocene of the Florentine area Hidden Landscapes: DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS 32. Fossil Landscapes in the Fiora Valley. Settlement development of prehistoric and late prehistoric communities read through GIS and Remote Sensing 33. A hidden urban landscape: Populonia between survey and excavations 34. ‘Background noise’ and landscape exploitation in the Late Iron Age Andalusian countryside 35. The region of Marghine-Planargia in Sardinia (Italy): digital terrain modelling and spatial analysis in archaeology using GIS software. Hidden landscapes from the Late Neolithic to the Early Iron Age