From documents to the ground. The early medieval landscape of Comacchio
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/475Keywords:
Geoarchaeology, Landscape, Historical Cartography, Aerial Photography, LagoonAbstract
Starting from the results of the archaeological excavations lead by the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice between 2006 and 2010, this paper offers a reconstruction of the landscape of Comacchio in the early middle ages (7th-10th Century). The emporium of Comacchio was founded in a lagoon area not far from important tributaries of the Po river. The research was based on traditional topographic methods (study of historical cartography and place names, analysis of aerial photography); it also turned to geoarcheology in order to investigate the site of St. Maria in Padovetere.
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