LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY ALONG LIMES TRANSALUTANUS
<p>The project addresses the historical monuments comprised in the longest Roman ‘linear defence’ structure present on the Romanian territory.<br />Despite it being the longest, this historic structure is the least protected and the least known in its technical details. Was indeed Limes...
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| author | Eugen S. Teodor Magdalena Stefan |
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| description | <p>The project addresses the historical monuments comprised in the longest Roman ‘linear defence’ structure present on the Romanian territory.<br />Despite it being the longest, this historic structure is the least protected and the least known in its technical details. Was indeed Limes Transalutanus an incomplete limes (lacking civilian settlements, for example), an odd construction (a vallum without fossa), an early-alarm line rather than a proper defensive line? Taking on these historical and archaeological challenges, the team attempts to develop an investigation technology applicable to large scale archaeological landscapes - a full evaluation chain, involving aerial survey, surface survey, geophysical investigation, multispectral images analysis, statistic evaluation and archaeological diggings. This technological chain will be systematically applied on the whole length of the objective, that is, on a 155 km distance. The attempt to find answers to issues related to the earth works’ functionality, layout, structure, chronology and relation with adjacent sites will be grounded on exploring the relations of the monument with the surrounding environment, by focussing on finding methods to reconstruct the features of the ancient landscapes, like systematic drilling, palynological tests and toponymical studies.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-06449f3a58794c41afa55daaec592e1e2023-07-15T08:42:07ZengMega Publishing HouseJournal of Ancient History and Archaeology2360-266X2014-09-011310.14795/j.v1i3.6840LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY ALONG LIMES TRANSALUTANUSEugen S. Teodor0Magdalena Stefan1Romanian National History Museum, BucharestInstitute of Archaeology ‘V. Pârvan’, Bucharest<p>The project addresses the historical monuments comprised in the longest Roman ‘linear defence’ structure present on the Romanian territory.<br />Despite it being the longest, this historic structure is the least protected and the least known in its technical details. Was indeed Limes Transalutanus an incomplete limes (lacking civilian settlements, for example), an odd construction (a vallum without fossa), an early-alarm line rather than a proper defensive line? Taking on these historical and archaeological challenges, the team attempts to develop an investigation technology applicable to large scale archaeological landscapes - a full evaluation chain, involving aerial survey, surface survey, geophysical investigation, multispectral images analysis, statistic evaluation and archaeological diggings. This technological chain will be systematically applied on the whole length of the objective, that is, on a 155 km distance. The attempt to find answers to issues related to the earth works’ functionality, layout, structure, chronology and relation with adjacent sites will be grounded on exploring the relations of the monument with the surrounding environment, by focussing on finding methods to reconstruct the features of the ancient landscapes, like systematic drilling, palynological tests and toponymical studies.</p>https://jaha.org.ro/index.php/JAHA/article/view/68 |
| spellingShingle | Eugen S. Teodor Magdalena Stefan LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY ALONG LIMES TRANSALUTANUS Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology |
| title | LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY ALONG LIMES TRANSALUTANUS |
| title_full | LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY ALONG LIMES TRANSALUTANUS |
| title_fullStr | LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY ALONG LIMES TRANSALUTANUS |
| title_full_unstemmed | LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY ALONG LIMES TRANSALUTANUS |
| title_short | LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY ALONG LIMES TRANSALUTANUS |
| title_sort | landscape archaeology along limes transalutanus |
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