id
	10943
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/10943
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	A method for modeling dispersed settlements: visualizing an early Roman colonial landscape as expected by conventional theory
Creator
	Casarotto, Anita
Date
	2017
Language
	eng
Rights
	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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.
Is Part Of
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/2002
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.19282/ac.28.1.2017.09
Issue
	1
Pages
	147-163
Short title
	A method for modeling dispersed settlements
Uri
	https://www.archcalc.cnr.it/journal/articles/902
Volume
	28
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/DGJPTBII/item-list

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