The Potenza Valley Survey: Towards an Explanation of the Settlement Patterns through the Combined Use of GIS and Different Survey Techniques

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Geert Julien Joanna Verhoeven, Frank Vermeulen
BAR international series 1227, Magistrat der Stadt Wien – Refereat Kulturelles Erbe – Stadtarchäologie Wien, [Enter the past]. The E-way into the Four Dimensions of Cultural Heritage. CAA 2003. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Proceedings of the 31st Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 2003, vol. 1227, Archaeopress, Oxford, 2004, pp. 312-316

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Verhoeven, G. J. J., & Vermeulen, F. (2004). The Potenza Valley Survey: Towards an Explanation of the Settlement Patterns through the Combined Use of GIS and Different Survey Techniques. In M. der Stadt Wien – Refereat Kulturelles Erbe – Stadtarchäologie Wien (Ed.), [Enter the past]. The E-way into the Four Dimensions of Cultural Heritage. CAA 2003. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Proceedings of the 31st Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 2003 (Vol. 1227, pp. 312–316). Oxford: Archaeopress.

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Verhoeven, Geert Julien Joanna, and Frank Vermeulen. “The Potenza Valley Survey: Towards an Explanation of the Settlement Patterns through the Combined Use of GIS and Different Survey Techniques.” In [Enter the Past]. The E-Way into the Four Dimensions of Cultural Heritage. CAA 2003. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Proceedings of the 31st Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 2003, edited by Magistrat der Stadt Wien – Refereat Kulturelles Erbe – Stadtarchäologie Wien, 1227:312–316. BAR international series 1227. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004.

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Verhoeven, Geert Julien Joanna, and Frank Vermeulen. “The Potenza Valley Survey: Towards an Explanation of the Settlement Patterns through the Combined Use of GIS and Different Survey Techniques.” [Enter the Past]. The E-Way into the Four Dimensions of Cultural Heritage. CAA 2003. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Proceedings of the 31st Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 2003, edited by Magistrat der Stadt Wien – Refereat Kulturelles Erbe – Stadtarchäologie Wien, vol. 1227, Archaeopress, 2004, pp. 312–16.

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@inproceedings{verhoeven2004a,
  title = {The Potenza Valley Survey: Towards an Explanation of the Settlement Patterns through the Combined Use of GIS and Different Survey Techniques},
  year = {2004},
  address = {Oxford},
  pages = {312-316},
  publisher = {Archaeopress},
  series = {BAR international series 1227},
  volume = {1227},
  author = {Verhoeven, Geert Julien Joanna and Vermeulen, Frank},
  editor = {der Stadt Wien – Refereat Kulturelles Erbe – Stadtarchäologie Wien, Magistrat},
  booktitle = {[Enter the past]. The E-way into the Four Dimensions of Cultural Heritage. CAA 2003. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Proceedings of the 31st Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 2003}
}

Abstract
In 2000, Ghent University started an international geoarchaeological survey project in the valley of the Potenza River, which links the Apennine hills to the Adriatic coastline of Central Italy (Marche region). Under the direction of Prof. Frank Vermeulen, the Departments of Archaeology and Geography aim to measure the evolution of social complexity within this valley and evaluate the phenomena of acculturation, in time as well as in space. In addition to systematic fieldwalking and geomorphological research, aerial photography is also undertaken in an exhaustive way. The implementation of the data achieved by these survey techniques into a GIS will be outlined, as well as the difficulties of attaining this in an accurate way. Besides this function of GIS as a spatial data management and visualising tool, it also offers possibilities in analysing settlement patterns, as some results of locational analysis will make clear. Furthermore, the results of spatial analysis will permit incorporation into the archaeological heritage management of the region in the near future.