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Chapter 5 illustrates the results of a decade of intensive research in two blocks of the Italian countryside chosen for their natural and cultural characteristics and the availability of information from previous studies. The first involves a valley landscape in Southern Tuscany between the Etrusco-Roman city of Rusellae and the medieval town of Grosseto; here, a sample transect was selected for intensive geophysical prospection, field-walking survey and most recently small-scale excavation with the aim of identifying landscape transformations from the Iron Age to medieval times. The second study targeted the now-rural plateau that once hosted the ancient city of Veii, the largest and most powerful Etruscan city of its time, rivalling the growing power of Rome a mere 15 km away to the south.
On one matter there is universal agreement: the appearance of practically every square metre in the Mediterranean today, save a few remote fastnesses, has been altered, directly or indirectly, by the past activity of people
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The first research project was established by Prof. A. Carandini under the title ‘Ager Cosanus-Valle dell’Albegna’ (Carandini and Cambi 2002). The same period saw the start of work by the late Prof. R. Francovich, surveying Grosseto, Scarlino and the area of the Colline Metallifere (Francovich 1985). In more recent decades, archaeological mapping and field surveying has been continued, particularly by the author (Campana et al. 2005; Campana and Piro 2009), but also by Bianchi et al. (2014), Citter and Arnoldus (2007) and Vaccaro (2012).
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Campana, S.R. (2018). Peopling ‘Empty’ Mediterranean Landscapes. In: Mapping the Archaeological Continuum. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89572-7_5
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