KNOWLEDGE, ANALYSIS AND INNOVATIVE METHODS FOR THE STUDY AND THE DISSEMINATION OF ANCIENT URBAN AREAS Proceedings of the KAINUA 2017 International Conference in Honour of Professor Giuseppe Sassatelli’s 70th Birthday (Bologna, 18-21 April 2017), 2017
The interest of archaeological research on the Phlegraean Fields, in the Gulf of Naples, has been... more The interest of archaeological research on the Phlegraean Fields, in the Gulf of Naples, has been often concentrated on different topics: monumental architecture, thermalism, coastal otium villas. However, we are still missing a reasonable reconstruction of the ancient land- scapes of the area with special regard to the peninsula between Baiae and Misenum. The recent PhD project at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has had the task of lling in the gap in local modern archaeology, and shifting the level of analysis from the “site” to the “territory”: the study of individual monuments and surviving archaeological assemblages of the Roman town of Misenum, the main harbour for the Imperial navy, is now a part of the investigation of the urban organization of the municipium. The use of a dynamic and multidisciplinary research strategy has led to the creation of a new archaeological map for the area being investigated.
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Misenum: the harbour and the city. Landscapes in context
Furthermore, geophysical surveys over the area near the military port and the town centre has implemented the data available, contributing, for the very rst time, toward a better and more detailed understanding of the organization of the harbour district, in relation with the political and civic core of Roman Misenum. Thanks to GIS applications it is now possible to launch an analytical examination of the urban fabric within the Misenum peninsula. On one hand, it has been possible to increase the amount of information at our disposal and, on the other hand, to propose a panorama of landscape dynamics for the Misenum territory whose massive amount of archaeological evidence appear to be extremely fragmented by human (modern urbanization) and natural factors (bradyseism).
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studying the settlement dynamics. The case of Bacoli is a good example to show the limits but also the potentialities of archaeological cartography to detect the markers of ancient territorial patterns. I will be presenting some examples where the use of archaeological cartography proved to be profitable toward the analysis of the ancient landscape dynamics. As the case of Bacoli has proved, the correct use of archaeological cartography can detect the signs of past topography within the modern urban pattern, investigating the configuration of the ancient landscape.
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Misenum: the harbour and the city. Landscapes in context
Furthermore, geophysical surveys over the area near the military port and the town centre has implemented the data available, contributing, for the very rst time, toward a better and more detailed understanding of the organization of the harbour district, in relation with the political and civic core of Roman Misenum. Thanks to GIS applications it is now possible to launch an analytical examination of the urban fabric within the Misenum peninsula. On one hand, it has been possible to increase the amount of information at our disposal and, on the other hand, to propose a panorama of landscape dynamics for the Misenum territory whose massive amount of archaeological evidence appear to be extremely fragmented by human (modern urbanization) and natural factors (bradyseism).
studying the settlement dynamics. The case of Bacoli is a good example to show the limits but also the potentialities of archaeological cartography to detect the markers of ancient territorial patterns. I will be presenting some examples where the use of archaeological cartography proved to be profitable toward the analysis of the ancient landscape dynamics. As the case of Bacoli has proved, the correct use of archaeological cartography can detect the signs of past topography within the modern urban pattern, investigating the configuration of the ancient landscape.
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Misenum: the harbour and the city. Landscapes in context
Furthermore, geophysical surveys over the area near the military port and the town centre has implemented the data available, contributing, for the very rst time, toward a better and more detailed understanding of the organization of the harbour district, in relation with the political and civic core of Roman Misenum. Thanks to GIS applications it is now possible to launch an analytical examination of the urban fabric within the Misenum peninsula. On one hand, it has been possible to increase the amount of information at our disposal and, on the other hand, to propose a panorama of landscape dynamics for the Misenum territory whose massive amount of archaeological evidence appear to be extremely fragmented by human (modern urbanization) and natural factors (bradyseism).
Pubblicato in occasione del centenario dell’autonomia amministrativa di Bacoli (1919-2019), il volume raccoglie 12 contributi di studiosi e artisti flegrei su aspetti significativi della storia locale. Un viaggio attraverso le vicende civili, l’arte, l’archeologia, la cultura, gli sport e le tradizioni popolari del territorio bacolese (ISBN 978-88-99821-54-8).
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