A method for modeling dispersed settlements: visualizing an early Roman colonial landscape as expected by conventional theory
- Title
- A method for modeling dispersed settlements: visualizing an early Roman colonial landscape as expected by conventional theory
- Creator(s)
- Casarotto, Anita
- Date
- 2017
- Is Part Of
-
Archeologia e Calcolatori
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 147-163
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- Short Title
- A method for modeling dispersed settlements
- Abstract
- This paper proposes a GIS quantitative method for simulating dispersed distribution of sites in a landscape. A certain number of sites might have escaped archaeological detection due to the adverse surface visibility conditions experienced during field survey (the so-called missing sites). As regards early Roman colonial landscapes of central-southern Italy, these surface visibility factors were traditionally seen to be so dramatic as to have allegedly hampered the detection of the conventionally expected dispersed and densely-settled colonial farm landscape. In this paper the regional and site-oriented field survey conducted in Venosa (Basilicata, Italy) is used as a case-study to simulate a large amount of hypothetical early colonial sites. The aim of this theoretical exercise is to show how the rural dispersed settlement pattern expected by the conventional theory could appear on a map, and to visually highlight the divergence between survey data and conventional spatial expectancies.
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