id Url Resource template Resource class Title Creator Subject Description Publisher Contributor Date Type Format Identifier Language Relation Coverage Rights Alternative Title Abstract Date Created Date Issued Date Modified Medium Is Replaced By Replaces Requires Is Part Of Has Part Is Referenced By References Spatial Coverage Temporal Coverage Access Rights Bibliographic Citation License Rights Holder Cited by Cites Editor List of editors Status Doi Identifier Isbn Issn Issue Number of pages Number of volumes Pages Short title Uri Volume Name Surname Homepage Funded by Account Member Status Tag Number Current Location Is Shown At Is Shown By Europeana Rights Europeana Type Part of Is supported by Is supplied by Latitude Longitude Lat/long Has format Operating systems In series 10159 https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/10159 Academic Article bibo:AcademicArticle GIS mapping of the archaeological sites in the Molise region (Italy) Valente, Ettore | Cozzolino, Marilena 2019 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The Molise Region, on the Adriatic coast of southern Italy, experienced human presence since prehistoric times. Site distribution is not homogeneous throughout the region and a comprehensive census of all known archaeological sites has never been performed. In this paper, we present the results of a three-year project for the GIS mapping and database creation for all the known archaeological sites of the Molise Region. As a result, 3111 archaeological sites have been mapped, stored in a GIS database and then analysed through Spatial Analyst tools. Most of the mapped sites have been classified as area of archaeological finds (57.1% of the total sites), followed by settlements (12.9%) and buildings (9.8%). Site distribution is mainly clustered along the Biferno river valley, in the central and in the south-western sectors of the Molise Region. The largest human occupation of the region occurred during the Samnite and Roman ages. Archaeological sites are also located at different elevation a.s.l., with a general increasing trend of site elevation through time. This GIS database is, up to now, the most complete census of archaeological sites in the study area, thus representing a powerful tool to promote the archaeological heritage of the Molise Region and to address urban planning. https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/2002 https://doi.org/10.19282/ac.30.2019.21 367-385 https://www.archcalc.cnr.it/journal/articles/1056 30 https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/UAZJ9PL5/item-list