Theme:
5. All Roads Lead to Rome: Multiscalar Interactions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Multiscalar Methods for Studying Ancient Landscape Developments and Settlement Dynamics in the Classical World between Archaeology and Heritage Management
Content:
This session invites papers aimed at reconstructing changing urban/rural landscapes and settlement patterns of the ancient Mediterranean. The focus is on layered contexts tackled from a multiscalar, diachronic perspective in archaeology or cultural heritage management. We especially welcome contributions that deal with territorial reconstruction and evolution based on field survey data using GIS spatial analysis and remote sensing for land use, population and socio-economic mapping and modeling. Also important to this session are the ways of integrating data and analyses into today's society as cultural heritage.
The palimpsest concept is used to define the urban or rural landscape, and explain its complex layered structure. The Mediterranean is one of the most archaeological data-dense landscapes, which allows for comparative studies of multiscalar interactions between regions, cities, settlement patterns, buildings and objects. Based on mapped legacy and new data, various methodological approaches are applied to reconstruct the temporal and spatial evolution of the landscape and its historical narratives. Landscapes are both contexts and systems of contexts. This allows for analysis at different scales to reconstruct and narrate stories, but also changing landscapes in modern spatial planning. The session theme will be the methods of mapping and analyzing old and new data in stratified landscapes to produce 1. scientific research that investigates, at different scales, the urban and rural landscapes of the ancient Classical World and 2. heritage maps for policy makers that support territorial monitoring of cultural resources in sustainable spatial planning. Particular attention will be given to the relationship between the heritage stories of places and monuments and their historical, archaeological, topographical, social, cultural, ecological and natural contexts.
To sum up, this session is for papers dealing with:
- the use of territorial analysis for socio-economic reconstructions
- the ways of integrating ancient changing landscapes into today's society, as cultural heritage.
Keywords:
changing landscapes, legacy datamapped legacy and new data, survey GIS WebGIS, layered context, historical narratives, cultural heritage
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
mattia ippoliti (Italy) 1
Co-organisers:
Anita Casarotto (Italy) 2,3
Mar Zamora (Spain) 4
Affiliations:
1. Sapienza Università di Roma
2. University of Groningen
3. Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome
4. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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