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This paper will present the results of an experimental GIS, which
was constructed using the results of the research activities carried
out in Pompeii during the past years by the archaeological mission
of the Archaeology Department of University of Venice Ca’ Foscari
(Directorship: Prof. A. Zaccaria Ruggiu). The created GIS demonstrated
to be fully suitable to describe an investigation context such as
the Pompeian one, proving its own capability to collect, manage
and process
the results of different activities, such as surveying, excavating,
recording and analysing finds and wall-structures, accordingly with
the research criteria followed in the larger “Regio VI Project”
(a multi-university research project, co-financed by MIUR, the Italian
Ministry of Scientific Research). The archaeological mission of
University of Venice has been working in Pompeii, in the area of
Regio VI insula 7, since 1996: during these 10 years, the walls
and buildings of the insula have b
een recorded (with particular focus on building techniques and materials),
field sessions of architectural survey and stratigraphic excavation
have been performed, and, finally, laboratories for the analysis
of pottery finds and faunal remains have been established. In order
to organize and manage the recorded data and to best exploit the
possibility of reconstructing and analysing the context, two experimental
GIS have been set. The first, presented here, is an intra-site GIS:
it focuses on archaeological evidence collected during the field
session that took place on June 2004. The symbology or the chromatic
gradation of query results, supports the navigation among the thematic
layers (distinguished by archaeological structures and archaeological
finds) in the GIS platform (ESRI ARCGIS). A specific path has been
developed, with particular interest in the analysis of pottery finds
and their paste/dough (distribution by form, class, typological
dating and dating according to the archaeological contexts). The
other GIS project, still under construction, will focus on the distribution
trends of “ceramica campana”.
contact
Universty of Venice Ca‘ Foscari
Dipartimento di Scienze dell‘Antichità e del Vicino Oriente
traviglia@unive.it
Italy
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